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A North Carolina pastor’s horrific anti-gay tirade is making the blogosphere rounds.
A North Carolina pastor’s horrific anti-gay tirade is making the blogosphere rounds.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul used to publish a libertarian newsletter in the ’80s and ’90s. They were not, shall we say, sane. From those newsletters, here are some racist/homophobic/anti-semitic musings on everything from AIDS to Hate Whitey Day (aka Martin Luther King Jr. Day). Paul says he didn’t write any of the following quotes, but they all appeared under his name. Yiiiiiikes.
Gawker’s Matt Cherette has put together this compilation of the ridiculously homophobic things Patti Stanger, aka The Millionaire Matchmaker, said to Andy Cohen last night on Watch What Happens Live. This is a person whose job is to help people find love. Aparrently that can’t happen for the gays because they’re too slutty or something. I don’t even know. (via gawker.com)
…and women…allegedly. You know, I always hoped his 30 Rock character was just an exaggeration of his personality but alas, it appears not. UPDATE: Tracy Morgan issues formal apology. View List ›
A map by Mother Jones illustrating which states, in defiance of the Supreme Court’s Lawrence v. Texas ruling, still have anti-sodomy laws on the books. Way to go Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas! They form what is known as “Teh Buttsecks Belt.” View Image ›
Exodus International, a Christian ministry that specializes in helping people “leave homosexuality” to become “former homosexuals,” has an iPhone application available for download in Apple’s App Store. Ugh. There’s an app for that. No word yet from Apple on why this doesn’t violate their ban on apps that “contain hateful/violent/offensive content.” View List ›
Kansas City preacher Lou Engle breaks into tongues at a Los Angeles Christian conference. Engle supports Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill, has advised Sarah Palin and is a scat man (as in improv singing, not the thing that’s antithetical to his support of the Ugandan legislation). View List ›
TechCrunch accidentally posted a homophobic image this morning that read, “why twitter is not lame. (or for fags),” alongside a post defending other Twitter posts. Even though it was changed in a few seconds, it still lingered in feed readers all morning, offending a number of TechCrunch readers, who wondered, “WTF?!” View Image ›