TagsTagsDemocrats failed to get enough votes to break the GOP filibuster in the Senate, and the National Defense Authorization Act which would have repealed "Don't Ask Don't Tell" will not move forward to the debate stage. The right has another objection to the bill: the DREAM Act, which would provide a ...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has changed his opinion on allowing gays to serve openly in the military, and said today that he favors repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ “In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed,” ...
Scott Lively is one of the religious right evangelists identified by the New York Times as an enabler of Uganda’s insane death penalty law for homosexuals. Here’s a video posted by Box Turtle Bulletin with a closer look at Scott Lively’s “philosophy,” and what he described as a “nuclear bomb against ...
Uganda, Anti-Gay, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Religious Right, social conservatism, Hate Speech, Scott Lively
Here’s the disgusting religious right story of the day, as the New York Times reports on a visit by three US evangelical leaders to Uganda that helped trigger the full scale persecution of homosexuals: After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays. KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical ...
Uganda, Anti-Gay, Homosexuality, civil rights, Religious Right, social conservatism, Hate Speech
When gay and lesbian Palestinians want to be safe, they know where to go: Gay Palestinian gets OK to live with Israeli lover. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has granted a Palestinian a rare residency permit after the man, who is gay, said his sexuality put his life in danger in ...
LGF, Palestinians, West Bank, Homosexuality, Islam, Media Bias
In the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia, engaging in the kinds of acts we see in zombie’s latest photo essay will get you beaten nearly to death in public. TWO men in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to 7000 lashes each after being convicted of sodomy and have received ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, Shari'a, Homosexuality
It’s like an episode of “The Village People Gone Wild,” only with guns and suicide bomb vests: Allegations fly in Fatah-Hamas conflict. The Hamas-Fatah power struggle has descended into the gutter over the past few days, with both parties trading allegations about the involvement of their members in homosexual relations ...
Iranian thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today at Columbia University, “We don’t have homosexuals in Iran like you do in this country,” to jeers from Columbia students. Here’s a video documentary in three parts from Canada’s CBC, on the Iranian gay scene and the appalling, barbaric treatment to which they are routinely ...
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Columbia University, Homosexuality, Gay
“When a crow flies over Kandahar, he only flaps one wing. With the other wing he covers his tail.” Slate V - The Taliban’s Secret Photos. %%VIDEO=%% (Hat tip: meMarc.)