Day: October 31, 2013

Virginia Lt. Governor Candidate EW Jackson Confronted with Past Anti-Gay Remarks: VIDEO

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Virginia Lt. Governor candidate EW Jackson is confronted by a WJLA anchor on his past comments about gays, specifically that gay people are “perverted” and “frankly very sick.”

Jackson told the reporter that he could “absolutely” reconcile the “notion of respect” for all constituents with his past statements and that frankly, he’s offended by the notion that he can’t teach the Bible and serve the state in elected office.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…

via Towleroad News #gay http://www.towleroad.com/2013/10/jacksonrem.html

Cloture To Be Filed On ENDA

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Geidner has more at Buzzfeed:

Reid is likely to file a cloture petition on the bill this evening, a Democratic leadership aide told BuzzFeed Thursday, which would set a vote on the motion to proceed on debate of ENDA for Monday evening. If the motion to proceed, which requires 60 votes, is agreed to, the Senate would debate and eventually vote on the bill. The vote would be the first Senate vote on the legislation since 1996 and the first vote ever on the legislation with both sexual orientation and gender identity protections. Advocates say that they have clear support from 59 senators, including all 55 Democrats in the Senate and four Republicans, with a handful of other Republican senators as potential yes votes.

I’ll spare you today’s email from Eugene!

via Joe. My. God. http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/10/cloture-to-be-filed-on-enda.html

News: Rob Ford, Germany, Invader, Jake Gyllenhaal, Taiwan

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RoadDeep-fried Twinkie burger makes debut at Philadelphia restaurant.

RoadForbes: Vladimir Putin unseats Barack Obama as world’s most powerful person.

InvaderRoadAs Banksy departs, Invader arrives.

RoadPHOTO: Matt Lauer dressed as Pamela Anderson from Baywatch for Halloween.

RoadGermany becomes the second country, after Australia, to allow parents to leave gender blank on a child’s birth certificate: “The European Union cited so-called intersex people in June for the first time in its antidiscrimination guidelines. A month later, Australia adopted guidelines saying people filling out any official forms should be able to choose male, female or ‘X.'”

RoadGod Made You Beautiful, according to Beyoncé.

RoadA plane crashed at the Nashville Airport and nobody noticed for hours. “The single-engine Cessna registered to the Windsor Flying Club in Ontario, Canada, evidently crashed sometime after 3 a.m. local time, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. But it wasn’t noticed until well after sunrise when another plane taxiing for take-off saw an engine cover on the edge of runway 2C — the middle of three parallel runways.”

RoadAdam Lambert performs “Marry the Night” on Glee.

JudgmentRoadAccording to Charisma magazine, Judgment Day is approaching because Sandra Day O’Connor married a gay couple at the Supreme Court.

RoadJake Gyllenhaal on his worst audition: “I remember auditioning for The Lord of the Rings [the role of Frodo] and going in and not being told that I needed a British accent. I really do remember Peter Jackson saying to me, ‘You know that you have to do this in a British accent?’ We heard back it was literally one of the worst auditions.”

RoadMarriage equality bill introduced in Taiwan: ” On October 25, Taiwan’s 112-member legislature referred a ‘marriage equality’ bill of revisions to the Civil Code introduced by 23 lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party to the Judicial Affairs Committee for review and possible first reading. “

RoadThere’s still magic happening in the last gay bar in Pasadena.

FordRoadThe Rob Ford crack tape is real and the police have it.

RoadVirginia Lt. Governor candidate EW Jackson blatantly lies when questioned about anti-gay rhetoric: “During an interview with WUSA, he denied ever having said that gay people are ‘sick’ or that God will stop blessing the military over gay rights. He said that such direct quotes are ‘absolutely, categorically not true.'”

TRoadom DeLay: “God created this nation and God created the Constitution.”

RoadLambda Legal wins rehearing for gay Jamaican immigrant: “We are pleased that our brief helped the BIA overturn the Immigration Judge’s ruling, which relied on stereotyped assumptions about the process of coming out and was unjust,” Lambda Legal Senior Staff Attorney Thomas W. Ude, Jr. said. “Given the well-documented and high level of violence that LGB people face in Jamaica, a decision that fails to acknowledge this complexity virtually guarantees that LGB immigrants will be sent to very dangerous conditions. With this decision, Anthony can now go back before the Immigration Judge, to whom he has already submitted voluminous evidence that in Jamaica he would face torture for being gay. He is one step closer – a big step – to getting the protection that he needs.”

via Towleroad News #gay http://www.towleroad.com/2013/10/news-20.html

Afternoon View – Palm Springs

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Flying into Palm Springs you see endless beige deserts and rolling barren mountains. Then, quite suddenly, the landscape is punctuated by randomly connected squares and rectangles of bright green. Somewhat like this view from my hotel room. It’s hot here! And not just because I ran into a couple of dozen bears at the airport.

via Joe. My. God. http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/10/afternoon-view-palm-springs.html

Quote Of The Day – Orson Scott Card

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“I’ve had no criticism. I’ve had savage, lying, deceptive personal attacks, but no actual criticism because they’ve never addressed any of my actual ideas. Character assassination seems to be the only political method that is in use today, and I don’t play that game, and you can’t defend against it. All you can do is try to offer ideas, and for those who want to listen to ideas, great. For those who simply want to punish you for not falling in line with their dogmas, there’s really not much you can do about it.” – Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card, whining to the Deseret News, which is owned by the Mormon Church.

NOTE: Among Card’s “actual ideas” is his prediction that President Obama is going to unleash “an army of urban thugs” on America.  And his plan for Christians to violently overthrow the federal government rather than submit to same-sex marriage.

via Joe. My. God. http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/10/quote-of-day-orson-scott-card.html