No wonder Michelle Bachman is scared. Exactly how many people live in committed gay relationships has always been a matter of opinion, and hers was as good as yours. But official record-keeping will no longer turn a blind eye on gay households.

But there is no other reasonable explanation.

Facing a potentially brand-killing boycott of Rockstar Energy Drink by key sectors of its target demos — nightclubbing young gays and their non-gay, socially liberal cohorts — CEO Russ Weiner and his mother, CFO Janet Weiner — issued a statement last week in which they sought to distance themselves from the unabashedly homophobic views [...]

U.S. Capitol Building under construction in 1858
The House of Representatives voted 399 to 1 yesterday for a resolution expressing gratitude to the slaves who built the United States Capitol Building, which said, in part:
Whereas enslaved African-Americans provided labor essential to the construction of the United States Capitol;
…Whereas enslaved African-Americans performed the backbreaking work of quarrying [...]

In yesterday’s Miami Herald, columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. weighs in on the “gay exorcism” scandal with wicked sarcasm:
To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.:
Perhaps you wouldn’t mind telling me what a ”homosexual demon” looks like.
I will confess that until last week, I had no idea demons even had sexual orientations. Or, for that matter, sex. [...]

Here’s the CNN story:
The boy writhes uncontrollably on the floor, but the church members remain calm, if increasingly loud. They’re trying to drive a “demon” out of him.
“You homosexual demon, get up on outta here!” they say. “You demon, loose yourself!” “You sex demon … you snake!”
The shouts, the convulsions, the references to homosexual spirits [...]

In the video above, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviews former DNC Chair Howard Dean — who, as governor of Vermont, was also the first governor to legalize civil unions — about the homophobic language used by the Obama Justice Department last Thursday in its brief in support of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Hateful formulations in the [...]

Rockstar boycotters appeared at the 2009 Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade dressed in “V” masks
As if events* around the boycott against Rockstar Energy Drink weren’t surreal enough, a protest group’s appearance in the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade yesterday took the oddness of the campaign up a notch.
Dressed in black and masked as “V,” [...]

After milking every ounce of publicity out of the hoopla around not firing Miss California, Carrie Prejean, last month for lying about having posed for nude photos, making bigoted remarks and consorting with the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay hate group, Donald Trump reversed himself and terminated Prejean today.
“To me she was the sweetest [...]

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In a dramatic move just hours after author/activist Wayne Besen, founder of Truth Wins Out (TWO), posted a round-up of growing dissent among gay writers and activist arising from Pres. Obama’s lack of progress and even backtracking on gay issues, a decorated Air Force [...]