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Three of history's four women Supreme Court Justices have now performed same-sex weddings

Justice Elena Kagan has joined Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the list of US Supreme Court Justices who have performed same-sex weddings:

Justice Kagan Performs Her First Same-Sex Wedding [AP]

Meanwhile, Justice Antonin Scalia is still saying his "Hail Marys" for inadvertently pushing his link sausages to close together at a weekend breakfast.

GLAAD: Questions we'd like reporters to ask at the Values Voter Summit

Questions we'd like reporters to ask at the Values Voter Summit [GLAAD]

HA! Robert Oscar Lopez mentions me in truly bizarre amicus brief to 5th Circuit

Actually, I don't often write to anyone and claim anything about anti-equality activist Robert Oscar Lopez and his odd approaches to reasonable discourse. Instead I just show his own verbatim and sourced words (with most of the links pointing back to his very own site, in fact) and let people judge for themselves, which I will do again right now:

Facts

-- Claims the LGBT rights movement has "become an engine of world-historical evil": "When you see a movement as unprincipled and ruthless as the...

Gay man realizes he shouldn't have entered an opposite-sex union—so no same-sex marriage for anyone?!

A woman by the name of Janna Darnelle was married to a gay man. That gay man sought a divorce after he realized he could no longer live a lie. For whatever reason (she glosses over it), a judge then awarded primary custody of their two children to the husband.

Now Ms. Darnelle is using that personal tale to condemn marriage equality writ large. In her telling, legalized same-sex marriage is the catalyst for what happened to her. And in Ms. Darnelle's view, her gay husband should have just stif...

Your daily 'Gay Gestapo' moment with the American Family Association's senior analyst

Bryan Fischer is one of the biggest fans of co-opting Nazi imagery (the word "gestapo" gets its root from the German secret state police that helped carry out "The Final Solution") and misapplying it to modern proponents of basic civil rights for LGBT people. Here's his weekend demand:

[American Family Association issues analyst Bryan Fischer]

Sure. Because you've seen all of those videos where happily married lesbians demand evangelical Christians convert or die, right?

Of course the truth is t...

Scott Lively equates accurately noting his public record with inciting murder

Anti-LGBT activists do and say all kinds of truly shitty and deeply dangerous things as they work to dehumanize, delegitimize, and deny rights to certain citizens. They do this. By choice. Most of them for a paycheck.

But then, when those actual LGBT humans who are actually harmed by their work simply say, "Hey, look at these people and their campaigns against us," these very same people who work to hurt us turn around and claim they are the victims simply because their opponents (i.e. their t...

Audio: Mark Regnerus doesn't think marriage equality has 'a lot of gas left'

Mark Regnerus, a man whose widely discredited "research" actively drained a bit a gas from the anti-equality movement, is now in the business of making predictions. According to the burgeoning conservative pundit, the fight against "real marriage" is running out of gas:

Well I can hear that his movement is not in danger of running out of hot air.

But wishful thinking there, Mark. When your movement runs on organic truth, you don't need crude matter. And frankly, pal, you're the last person who...

Friday: NOM president shares the bill with 'ex-gay' activists

Below is a snippet from the schedule of the so-called Stand For Family conference, which will be held in Provo, Utah, this Friday. From this scheduled, we learn that at around noon, Brian Brown, the man who claims that his agenda is focused on policy work limited to the issue of marriage will regale the crowd with the "strategy" for his side to regain ground. And then, in the immediately following block, a crew of "ex-gay" activists will set back that same movement (and the gathered activists...

Today in 'um, yeah, obviously': Stunt marriages not confined to opposite-sex partnerships

For the life of me I don't understand why I'm supposed to be annoyed with the two straight men in New Zealand who are apparently planning to enter into a same-sex union in order to win a radio contest. I mean, I think it's a very bizarre choice. And yes, there is an undercurrent of homophobia, considering it's being portrayed as an "extreme" stunt kind of thing. But for the most part, I'm just kind of like, "whatever." People are of their own free will, and if these straight men want to make...

Video: Brian Brown's fellow panelist gives insight into Moscow panel's extreme views on homosexuality, marriage

At last week's "Large Family and the Future of Humanity" conference in Moscow, Russia, National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown was joined on a panel by John-Henry Westen, the Canadian editor of the very anti-gay website LifeSiteNews:

John-Henry Westen, co-founder of lifesitenews.com, recalled how there are serious consequences in going against God's plan for sexuality, the worst of which is the spiritual damage. Among other measures, the session deserves to be mentioned that o...