Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Russian Court Authorizes Closure Of LGBT Teen Support Group's Site
A lawyer for Deti-404 (Children-404), Maria Kozlovskaya told RFE/RL that the group had been preparing for a court hearing on the issue on April 6.
But when the activists arrived in court on April 6, she said, they were told that a decision had already been made on March 25 to include the group's page on the social network VKontakte on a list of banned websites.
Kozlovskaya says it is very likely that the page will be blocked.
Deti-404 was found by journalist Yelena Klimova in the Ural Mountains city of Nizhny Tagil.
The number "404" refers to the "page not found" error code in Internet searches.
Klimova has criticized Russia's 2013 law against spreading gay "propaganda" among minors, saying that authorities fail to provide support to LGBT teenagers in a country where homophobia is widespread.
Ted Cruz Vows To Strip Federal Courts' Authority To Rule On Gay Marriage
Texas Senator Ted Cruz vowed last week
that he would push Congress to strip federal courts of jurisdiction
on the issue of marriage if the Supreme Court strikes down state bans
on gay marriage.
Cruz made the pledge during his first
visit to Iowa as a presidential candidate, according to The Dallas
Morning News.
“Cruz wants Congress to strip federal
courts of jurisdiction over the issue, a rarely invoked legislative
tool, if the high court legalizes gay marriage,” the outlet
reported.
MSNBC called it a “fringe idea.”
“'Court-stripping' – or
'jurisdiction-stripping,' as some call it – is a fringe idea that
doesn't come up often, largely because it's just too bizarre for most
policymakers to even consider,” Steve
Benen wrote. “The idea isn't complicated: under this scheme,
Congress would pass a federal law effectively telling the courts,
'We've identified a part of the law that judges are no longer allowed
to consider.”
“The fact that Ted Cruz, a
presidential hopeful, would even endorse such an idea speaks to just
how radical a senator he is.”
During his appearance at Morningside
College in Sioux City, Cruz also called for prayer in support of such
bans.
“The first thing, and I think the
most important thing, every one of us can do is pray. Lift up in
prayer,” he said.
The nation's highest court will hear
arguments in a case challenging bans in four states later this month,
with a ruling expected in June.
I know I can't be the only person who thinks Ted Cruz is nothing more than a huckster, a con artist.
He is completely devoid of any kind of religious conviction or any sense of real morality; only the most base of the religious right are stupid enough to believe in this twat.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Why I Love Jon Stewart
What if gay couples, who are deciding to get married, go to these bakeries, florist and pizza makers, buy from them without saying it's for a gay wedding, then taking pics and vids of said products with who supplied them and send copies to said bigots (and thanking them publicly for doing so) showing how their services were actually used, thus condemning them to eternal hell fire for participating in a gay wedding.
Pat Robertson: being gay is unnatural because no one gets pregnant that way
‘If you show me one couple that conceived a child through … through anal intercourse — just show me one in all the world, and I will say, “I agree with you and you are right.” Show me one,’ Robertson said in a response to a viewer who had asked how married same-sex couples could identify as Christians if they read the Bible.
‘There are 8 billion people, 7 billion, show me one time when a child was conceived by that kind of sexual activity. It is unnatural, I’m sorry.’
Robertson also accused ‘the gays’ of being part of a left wing conspiracy to end Christian values in the United States.
‘Political correctness is trying to do away with Biblical values,’ Robertson said.
‘The gays want to control everything. This is part of the left wing agenda to do away with Christian values and to substitute for Christian values the … progressive concepts of morality.’
We can’t show Pat a person who was conceived via anal sex but we could point him in the direction of billions of birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians (which humans eventually evolved from) who’s bodies only have the one opening for reproduction and excretion, called a ‘cloaca,’ who technically were all conceived via anal sex.
I think Pat might be onto something, I'm fairly certain it's because we aren't fucking enough.
Then again..Gawd just told me that there was at least one anal birth....I think he works as a televangelist...
Look Who's In Boner Magazine This Month
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Monday, April 6, 2015
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter Call For LGBT Protections Nationwide
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter
are among the more than 100 tech companies calling on state
legislators to adopt LGBT protections.
The statement, initially released last
week, calls on states to adds sexual orientation and gender identity
as protected classes to their civil rights laws.
Last week, governors in Arkansas and
Indiana signed revised versions of so-called religious freedom bills
after business leaders and gay rights advocates voiced opposition to
the measures. Critics said that the laws' broad language might be
used by businesses to refuse service to gay men and lesbians.
“In more than twenty states,
legislatures are considering legislation that could empower
individuals or businesses to discriminate against LGBT people by
denying them service if it they felt it violated their religious
beliefs,” the
statement reads in part.
“To ensure no one faces
discrimination and ensure everyone preserves their right to live out
their faith, we call on all legislatures to add sexual orientation
and gender identity as protected classes to their civil rights laws
and to explicitly forbid discrimination or denial of services to
anyone.”
Chad Griffin, president of the Human
Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBT rights advocate,
applauded the move.
“The unified message from these
business leaders is clear: Pass LGBT non-discrimination protections
and pass them now,” said
Griffin. “Until legislators finally step up to the plate and
take action, this issue is not going to go away. It’s time for
elected officials to listen to the overwhelming voice of fair-minded
Americans demanding equality for their LGBT loved ones, friends, and
neighbors. No American should risk losing their job, be denied
housing, or refused service simply because of who they are or whom
they love.”
More than 100 tech leaders signed on to
the statement, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Santorum: Should Printers Be Forced to Make ‘God Hates Fags’ Signs for Westboro?
Even a brain dead moron could see the false equivalency in your analogy Rick, a wedding cake is exactly that, a cake...there are no messages written on them, they promote nothing other than future potential dental loss and the person making the cake is doing exactly that, making a cake not a religious statement... nor are they participating in a religious ceremony.
However, trying too get someone to print hate speech is exactly that, hate speech.
It's troubling to me, that Christians don't seem *moral* enough to grasp the difference.
I have a suggestion though, why not try reading your Bibles instead of bludgeoning people with them?
Imagine the possibilities of Christians actually being more Christ like?
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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