09/09/2008
News: Alan Cumming, Taxis, Esquire, Booker Prize, Sarah Palin
While Palin was mayor, Wasilla billed victims for their rape kits.
Taxi service for gays to launch in St. Petersburg, Russia?
Pete Wentz: I once almost put a bullet through my head.
Gay softball team disqualified from world series for having too many straight players: "D2, a team from San Francisco, beat the Atlanta Mudcats in the series to qualify for the A Division championship game against the Los Angeles Vipers. But the Mudcats filed a protest, alleging that six of D2âs players were straight. North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAA) rules state a team in the series may have no more than two straight players on its squad."
Some guy relieved himself next to David Beckham and confirmed previous reports from Posh.
Marc Jacobs closes New York show in a skirt.
Barbra Streisand to sing for Obama: "Streisand will perform at a $2,500-per-person reception and concert fund-raiser at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, with upwards of 700 people expected to attend. Among the co-hosts of the event are DreamWorks partners Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, as well as political consultant Andy Spahn. It's being organized with Obama's Southern California finance team."
UK Booker Prize shortlist announced: Aravind Adiga The White Tiger: A Novel
Kevin and Scotty pics from the new season of Brothers and Sisters.
"No on 8" office opens in SF's Castro: "Activists have already been working for months to build up a grassroots operation to defeat the anti-gay constitutional amendment, but now they will have a spacious centrally-located office to organize. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Assemblyman Mark Leno, Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums worked up the crowd with reminders of this historic struggle--and how a defeat by the radical right would be a huge setback for the LGBT community."
Esquire celebrates 75th anniversary with E-ink cover.
Alan Cumming becoming U.S. citizen to vote for Obama.
Living strong: Lance Armstrong to come out of retirement for Tour de France?
UFC fighter Evan Tanner found dead after walk into desert.
WSJ's Kirchik claims GOP is kissing gay-bashing goodbye: "...it was refreshing to see that gays were not part of the agenda this year. Indeed, the only speaker to make mention of them was the former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee, and he did so only tangentially, stating that Mr. McCain "doesn't want to change the very definition of marriage from what it has always meant throughout recorded human history." (The same, of course, could be said of the supposedly gay-friendly Barack Obama, who also opposes marriage equality for gay couples). The absence of antigay rhetoric has much to do with Mr. McCain; he is comfortable around gay people, and his old-fashioned sense of honor proscribes against making them pariahs for political gain."
Katy Perry-hating church hit with 'God loves gays' vandalism.
McGreevey's partner Mark O'Donnell offers to pay for daughter Jacqueline's school: "O'Donnell's offer was disclosed in a letter filed Friday in Union County Family Court by McGreevey lawyer Stephen Haller, who called it 'an incredibly generous gesture.'"
Gay porn killers to be tried together...
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Everything you've posted, troll!
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Sep 9, 2008 6:45:32 PM
Nobama = James Kurchik
The WSJ might as well just give their column inches to the trolls here...
Posted by: potted palms | Sep 9, 2008 7:00:00 PM
David, can you offer a specific example of how my two posts indicate that I am an ex-gay? I can see that you're passionate about this issue, but I still don't understand your reasoning.
Posted by: Newsweek | Sep 9, 2008 7:16:57 PM
About the no on 8. Here is an email that my 'loving' cousin sent to me. The mormons are sending it around to stir the pot further:
EMAIL:
Dear friends and family,
My friend had Sacrament this past Sunday focus on Amendment 8 in California. (the gay marriage issue) Their stake president asked the members of their stake to come up with $38,000 to support this amendment and this is non-tithing, non-contribution money. They are also to donate 4weekends per family to call, and go door-to door in their community passing out info and collecting signatures and educating their neighbors about this amendment. This is an excerpt from her letter about their Sacrament meeting:
"One of the Sacrament speakers is an LDS judge in the area and his statistics were mind blowing. For example, in Boston, MA (where gay marriages are now legal,) the Catholic Charities have closed their doors because the state has required them to allow adoptions to same sex couples, and they refused. They are a large and worthwhile charity with great power in the state and they were overruled. A Methodist church has lost their tax
exempt status because the minister refused to perform a marriage of a same sex couple (they were not of his congregation). A physician who refused to do fertility treatments on a same sex couple because of religious reasons was sued, lost and the state is requiring him to treat everyone as equals. Our schools will be required to teach, starting in kindergarten, that marriages make up many different combinations. The consequences are
horrible.???
Directly tied into ALL of this is our right to continue to go to the Temple. If Gay Marriage is supported by the government, then those who are same-sex married, who are "LDS" and legally recognized as married by the government, can sue to be married in the temple. It is my opinion that the church will not bend on this issue, and our rights to go to the temple will be in jeopardy. AND goodbye to those religious tax-deductions. Tithing, fast offerings, etc. We will lose our tax-exemption status if the government legally forces the church to support same-sex marriage." These effects are far-reaching! I hope no one is upset by this email, I would not want to offend anyone, but I believe this issue is not a political issue at all, but a moral issue that affects all of society. The Proclamation on the family clearly gives a warning voice on this matter.
I pray that this issue on the ballots will overturn the gay marriages occuring right now in that state, and help prevent other states from adopting this stance. I believe that it is important to support and defend traditional marriage, home and family. Another friend says that her relatives in Sweden are even watching what goes on in California. The whole world is watching to see what happens.
Posted by: donoso | Sep 9, 2008 8:25:39 PM
Newsweek, you're an idiot for not getting what David's saying.
And the spin regarding the rape kit is silly. Regardless of state law, Wasilla paid for rape kits before Palin came along. Then she became mayor, turned a balanced budget into a massive deficit building roads people didn't need, and needed to make a few budget cuts. Rape kits evidently weren't too important to her.
Sounds like GOP standard operating procedure to me...
Posted by: Dan | Sep 9, 2008 11:52:33 PM
Hi Dan. Sorry, I have a learning disability. I would appreciate it if you would give me a straightforward explanation of David's reasoning.
Posted by: Newsweek | Sep 10, 2008 3:20:04 AM