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It’s baby monkey feeding time somewhere.
TELL ME HE IS NOT ADORABLE!
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And so the ‘marriage equality will kill Obama with black voters’ line may have died.
Washington Post (emphasis mine):
Public opinion continues to shift in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which also finds initial signs that President Obama’s support for the idea may have changed a few minds.
Overall, 53 percent of Americans say gay marriage should be legal, hitting a high mark in support while showing a dramatic turnaround from just six years ago, when just 36 percent thought it should be legal. Thirty-nine percent, a new low, say gay marriage should be illegal.
The poll also finds that 59 percent of African Americans say they support same-sex marriage, up from an average of 41 percent in polls leading up to Obama’s announcement of his new position on the matter. Though statistically significant, it is a tentative result because of the relatively small sample of black voters in the poll.
Still, if you take a random handful of people and get a statistically significant number, it would really seem to mean something. Even if it’s off by a few points, that’s still pretty high.
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Look at Anderson’s face! Priceless.
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overconfidence-and-a-screwdriver:
The soldier triumphs…. for now.
i am going to cry
he’s too perfect
it’s not fair
m-most precious……….
Oh my god! I wish that were MY son! ;_;
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Here it is. You may now return to your glass case of emotion.
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Anti-gay Virginia Republican both hateful and wrong.
ThinkProgress:
Earlier this week, the Virginia House of Delegates rejected Tracy Thorne-Begland, a former Navy pilot and top Virginia prosecutor, for a seat on Virginia’s lowest ranking trial court because, in the words of Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA), Thorne-Begland’s gay “lifestyle is exactly contrary to” his obligation to uphold the state constitution. On CNN this morning, Marshall doubled-down on this view, explaining that he blocked Thorne-Begland because the judicial candidate had the audacity to serve his country while gay:
MARSHALL: [Thorne-Begland] had to misstate his background in order to be received into the military in the late 1980s. There was a specific question, “are you a homosexual?” He had to say no. He took an oath of office which he had to defy… . Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks never took an oath of office that they broke. Sodomy is not a civil right. It’s not the same as the Civil Rights Movement. You have to look at the past, and, in fact, look, in late 2011 he was critical of the, you know, Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell. He criticized our attorney general simply for explaining what the law of Virginia is with respect to certain protected classes.
Here’s the thing, Marshall’s not right about that civil right thing — at all. As Ian Millhiser points out, “‘Sodomy,” as Marshall so quaintly puts it, is a civil right. That was the holding of Lawrence v. Texas, which established that consenting adults have a right to be free from government interference in their ‘private sexual conduct.’”
And is he saying that, had MLK or Rosa Parks broken with an oath of office, it would make them unfit for the bench? Really?
As is so often the case, some rightwing hater has to rationalize himself out of the hole he’s dug for himself. And, as is just as often the case, he’s failing very, very badly.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46d0i0uz51qfengno1_500.jpg)
Anti-gay Virginia Republican both hateful and wrong.
Earlier this week, the Virginia House of Delegates rejected Tracy Thorne-Begland, a former Navy pilot and top Virginia prosecutor, for a seat on Virginia’s lowest ranking trial court because, in the words of Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA), Thorne-Begland’s gay “lifestyle is exactly contrary to” his obligation to uphold the state constitution. On CNN this morning, Marshall doubled-down on this view, explaining that he blocked Thorne-Begland because the judicial candidate had the audacity to serve his country while gay:
MARSHALL: [Thorne-Begland] had to misstate his background in order to be received into the military in the late 1980s. There was a specific question, “are you a homosexual?” He had to say no. He took an oath of office which he had to defy… . Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks never took an oath of office that they broke. Sodomy is not a civil right. It’s not the same as the Civil Rights Movement. You have to look at the past, and, in fact, look, in late 2011 he was critical of the, you know, Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell. He criticized our attorney general simply for explaining what the law of Virginia is with respect to certain protected classes.
Here’s the thing, Marshall’s not right about that civil right thing — at all. As Ian Millhiser points out, “‘Sodomy,” as Marshall so quaintly puts it, is a civil right. That was the holding of Lawrence v. Texas, which established that consenting adults have a right to be free from government interference in their ‘private sexual conduct.’”
And is he saying that, had MLK or Rosa Parks broken with an oath of office, it would make them unfit for the bench? Really?
As is so often the case, some rightwing hater has to rationalize himself out of the hole he’s dug for himself. And, as is just as often the case, he’s failing very, very badly.
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A "men’s rights" group endorses the Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act →
Surprise, they’re misogynistic. According to this group, the Republican alternative of VAWA protects the “true victims” of domestic violence — heterosexual men.
Are you fucking kidding me?
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In Mississippi, a return to the good old days of coat hanger abortions.
Last month, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a law requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges in a local hospital. Mississippi has one clinic left, where, because of the state’s anti-abortion climate, they commute to work from Alabama. It’s no secret that Mississippi Republicans, in particular, are delighted by the prospect that they might put the state’s one and only clinic out of business.
Mississippi State Representative Bubba Carpenter, speaking to the Alcorn County GOP on Thursday, said as much:
“We have literally stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi. Three blocks from the Capitol sits the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. A bill was drafted. It said, if you would perform an abortion in the state of Mississippi, you must be a certified OB/GYN and you must have admitting privileges to a hospital. Anybody here in the medical field knows how hard it is to get admitting privileges to a hospital…
“It’s going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all — but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to— Roe vs. Wade. So we’ve done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They’re like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can’t afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger.’ That’s what we’ve heard over and over and over.
“But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere, and that’s what we’ve decided to do. This became law and the governor signed it, and I think for one time, we were first in the nation in the state of Mississippi.”
Conway contacted Rep. Bubba and he failed to clarify. In fact, he really didn’t seem to give a damn. “That was what a lot of our critics on the House floor said during the debate,” he said. “That was just some language that some of the African-Americans used.”
“A few white Democrats also spoke out about the old ‘home remedies,’ he remembered, but in the end the measure passed with support from several Democrats,” Conway reports.
In other words, Bubba’s defense here is “I wouldn’t have had to be so dismissive of women’s safety if some bleeding hearts hadn’t brought it up.”
If the GOP’s going to deny they’re waging a War on Women, they’re going to have to do one helluva lot better job of hiding it that Bubba here.
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PA Teacher Videotapes, Humiliates Gay Student Who Took Trans Date To Prom →
We didn’t have the best prom experience—mainly because we took a girl and not the guy we were crushing on. But gay teen Jared Swank of Hanover, PA, had his prom memories tarnished after the fact, when he learned a teacher who videotaped him and his date played the clip for the amusement of her science class.
Swank, who brought a trans girl to prom, had originally allowed the unnamed educator to record them at the dance. But he says he had no idea she was going to show it to other students. “I come to school Monday and that’s when I heard about everything that happened. And it made me really upset. I don’t think it was right.” He tells Eyewitness News he feels “exploited.”
On Thursday, Swank’s mother, Dawn Mendygral, went before the school board and demanded to know why this teacher broadcast the video of Jason and his date, especially since he has been bullied at the school for years. “I don’t know what her intention was, but I know I’m not understanding why she would take it to school and play it in the classroom,” said Mendygral.
Hanover Area School Board President John Pericci said the district considers itself inclusive and welcoming, and confirmed the teacher’s actions are being investigated. A meeting is scheduled for Tuesday between Mendygral and school officials.
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