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:Eric Ethington (Author) | June 28, 2010
Montana – The recently approved GOP Platform of the state includes statements seeking to criminalize any homosexual sex act, both male and female. They also are seeking to imprison anyone who approves a marriage license for a same sex couple. If you really want to, see the ass-hats full platform here. Thank goodness a platform doesn’t [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 28, 2010
West Virginia – Timothy Michael Mazza, 37, was sitting on his back porch with his partner when 3 police officers arrived to question him about a bogus incident with his neighbors. After answering their questions, Tim tried to go inside but found himself on the ground being kicked while the officers yelled gay slurs. [As [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 28, 2010
Tennessee – A woman who married her partner in Washington DC had her drivers licence taken back from her. The DMV issued Traci Turpin a new licence after she changed her last name to her partner’s, but when they found out they were a same sex couple, they used Highway Patrol to force her to give it [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 28, 2010
CA – The AFA is going to have a shit-fit about this. The Supreme Court today upheld a decision by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law to refuse to recognize or fund a Christian school club which required it’s members to sign a statement saying that both “unrepentant homosexuality” and supporting homos is [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 25, 2010
Whew! From kids getting beat up in school to Obama talking to a room full of homos to the Military pushing people to out each other it’s been a hell of a week! Check out the links below to make sure you didn’t miss anything! Monday, June 21st Recently Out High School Student Faces Death [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 25, 2010
Canada – A landlord who found out two men living in one of his apartments were a couple decided that the best plan of action wwas to tear up their lease and evict them immediately. Otherwise, he said, “god would kill him.” Speaking in his own defence in a Yellowknife boardroom, property owner Will Goertzen [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 25, 2010
David Donahue was young, just 19 when he joined the military. As a closeted man in the 80′s, he did his best to ensure that no one found out about his sexual orientation…. until fellow crew mate Rodney Henshaw came along. In the summer of 1986, DADT was still several years away and the rule [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 25, 2010
Nevada – Sharron Angle (R), the Teabagger favorite running for US Senate, has been revealed as the worst bigot to run for the Senate this year. She previously ran newspaper articles labeling homos as “Sodomites” who are “child-molesting, HIV-carrying, Hell-bound freaks.” TPM has found clips of the newspaper inserts, which approvingly cites an 1814 legal [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 25, 2010
Dominican Republic – A local Catholic Priest is angry and wants to burn a 1 year old mural painted in the church. Why? Because some of the people in it look totally gay! The painting named “Allegory of the Virgin of Carmen,” was concluded 12 years ago by Dominican artist Roberto Flores. The artwork adorns [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 24, 2010
Maine – The National Organization For Marriage (NOM) has been fighting tooth and nail since their “Yes On 1″ campaign last year which successfully repealed the new legislative-enacted same sex marriage law. They’re trying to prevent the state from being able to look at their books and see who’s funding them. Now the Campaign Finance [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.