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Lawmakers Cheer As Ugandan President Declares ‘War With The Homosexual Lobby’

After admonishing the Parliament of his own nation late last year for “repeatedly” breaking the law by passing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill without the required quorum, and strongly suggesting he would not sign it, the President of Uganda announced at his national party retreat last week that he will sign the bill.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill mandates jail sentences — including life in prison — for those accused of having sex with members of their own gender, and for those who know LGBT people but do not report them to authorities. Jail is also mandated for those who support LGBT civil rights and the LGBT community.

Watch this video as the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, tells the lawmakers of his party he will sign the bill. Watch as he announces, “We shall have a war with the homosexual lobby, in the world, backed by these people and you.”

Watch as the stand, applaud, and cheer.

Gay Russians Brutally Attacked on Camera

A new video from activist organization Human Rights Watch provides a terrifying look into just how bad anti-LGBT violence has become in Russia. 

Using clips from videos posted to Russian social networks that proudly document the violent assaults against people perceived to be LGBT, the Human Rights Watch video gives a brutal and all too real face to the hostility fostered by Russia's state-sanctioned homophobia. The video includes clips showing members of the Neo-Nazi vigilante group "Occupy Pedophilia," which claims to protect children by luring gay men with false offers of dates online, then humiliates and often brutalizes the young men captured, forcing them to "confess" to their homosexuality or pedophilia on-camera. 

Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy receives ‘Champion of Justice and Equality’ award

The Urban League of Greater Atlanta, an organization focused on the economic empowerment of African-Americans, has presented Chick-fi-A President and CEO Dan Cathy with its annual Community Empowerment Award.

The award, presented Saturday at its Equality Opportunity Day Dinner, honors Cathy and the Chick-fil-A Foundation for their “significant financial contributions that support programs that empower communities,” despite the foundation’s long history of donating millions of dollars to anti-gay organizations.

This year’s theme was “Celebrating Champions of Justice and Equality.”

Cathy made national headlines last year when, in an interview with the Baptist Press, said his company backed “the biblical definition of a family,” and in a follow-up statement said that same-sex marriage is “inviting God’s judgment on our nation.”

And earlier this year, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a portion of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Cathy tweeted (and quickly deleted) the comment, “Sad day for our nation; founding fathers would be ashamed of our generation to abandon wisdom of the ages.”

The Urban League issued a statement last week defending Cathy’s award, closing with: “Please be assured that the Urban League of Greater Atlanta supports and works for equal rights for all people, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or physical ability. This includes the recent Employment Non-Discrimination Act that was passed out of the U.S. Senate this week.”

The League says its focus is to empower people to “achieve their highest human potential and civil rights.”

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE'S POLITICAL ADVOCACY ARM ENDED 2012 WITH A $2.7 MILLION DEFICIT

The Human Rights Campaign had filed a complaint with the IRS to compel the National Organization for Marriage to publicly release financial documents related to its political advocacy spending in 2012.

With the reports now published and viewable on their site as a result of the complaint, it appears NOM may have been hiding the information because of the revelation that the organization found itself more than $2.7 million in the red as a result of its political advocacy arm's spending. You'll recall 2012 being a disappointing year for gay marriage opponents, with pro-equality victories in four of the five same-sex marriage ballot measures by year's end.

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NOM Goes To Hawaii, Pretends To Be Hawaiian

As a special legislative session to debate marriage equality began today in Hawaii, NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, has invaded the Aloha State. Flooding the airwaves with anti-gay ads that make NOM sound like the frauds they are, NOM’s TV ad uses Hawaiian words like “keiki,” which means children, and “ohana,” which means family.

Last week, NOM president Brian Brown wrote that “from Hawaii comes an important reminder of something that we here at NOM have always maintained to be crucial for the fate of marriage in the United States. On this important issue, the people should decide!”

Brown calls their new video, titled, “Hawaii Our Local Culture,” “especially touching because it reflects the great cultural heritage and richness of Hawaii which some of us perhaps have experienced in visits to the beautiful state. And thus it reminds us, too, that marriage is a universal value that every heritage and every culture has treasured and honored throughout history.”

“The heritage of Hawai’i is rooted in family,” NOM’s video announcer says. “Mother and fathers united in marriage caring for each other, and their keiki.

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BS: PASTA CHAIRMAN GUIDO BARILLA APOLOGIZES FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS AMID INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE

Chairman Guido Barilla apologized on Facebook yesterday morning after remarks he made on a radio program inspired calls from all around the world for a boycott of the pasta maker.

Said Barilla on Facebook (loosely translated):

With reference to my statements yesterday to the press, I apologize if my words have offended some people.

For clarity I would like to point out that I have the deepest respect for all people, without distinction of any kind.

I have the utmost respect for homosexuals and freedom of expression. I also said, and repeat, that I have respect for marriages between people of the same sex.

Barilla in its advertising has always chosen to represent the family because this is the symbol of hospitality and love for everyone.

Said Barilla on the Italian radio show La Zanzara last night:

“I would never do an advert with a homosexual family…if the gays don’t like it they can go an eat another brand...For us the concept of the sacred family remains one of the fundamental values of the company....Everyone has the right to do what they want without disturbing those around them..."

He then added: "I have no respect for adoption by gay families because this concerns a person who is not able to choose."

Barilla Chairman Comes Out As A Raging Homophobe

Guido Barilla, chairman of the world’s biggest pasta brand, Barilla.

“I would never do an advert with a homosexual family,” Barilla told Italy’s La Zanzara radio show Wednesday night. “If the gays don’t like it they can go an eat another brand. For us the concept of the sacred family remains one of the fundamental values of the company.”

“Everyone has the right to do what they want without disturbing those around them,” Barilla added. “I have no respect for adoption by gay families because this concerns a person who is not able to choose.”

Barilla accounts for almost half of Italy’s pasta market and a quarter of that in the US, but its chairman’s anti-gay comments have prompted calls for a boycott.

“This is another example of Italian homophobia,” Alessandro Zan, politician and gay rights activist told The Independent. “I’m joining the boycott of Barilla and I hope other parliamentarians do the same.”

Gay rights leads to incest, bestiality, persecution of Christians

Conservative political activist and author Alan Keyes returned to “Dr. Chaps” Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program on Thursday where he made the case that there can be no such thing as a “right to homosexuality” because all rights come from God, and God has said that homosexuality is an abomination.

“Only those things that are demonstrated to have a relationship with what is right from the point of view of the society, of human nature, and of the things that God requires of us as part of our responsibility to him, those things can be claimed as right,” Keyes asserted.

Letting “people who love each other do whatever they want,” Keyes said, would lead to pedophilia, incest, and bestiality and persecution of Christians:

‘I Have To Believe’ — Russia Told Us ‘Sochi Will Be Free’ Of Anti-Gay Laws

An official from the International Olympics Committee says she has faith in the Russian government when they say they will drop their anti-gay laws during the Sochi Olympics. Newly-elected International Olympics Committee executive board member Anita Defrantz says she has to believe that because some members of the Russian government have sent assurances they’ll drop the ban against “homosexual propaganda” during the Olympics, they actually will.

This is the level of professionalism and practiced protection LGBT people and allies will be existing under when they travel to Russia in February. Belief and faith.

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Fortunately, Defrantz was balanced by Harvey Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, of the Harvey Milk Foundation, who condemned Putin’s anti-gay laws. “This law actually incites hatred and incites violence,” Milk said.

“We have seen that throughout Russia and through out Eastern Europe where there are other nations like Lithuania that had the same type of anti-LGBT propaganda law since 2008. So they’re using their cultural nationalism as the basis for discrimination. And the one thing that I think we have to look out for is how long is their shopping list?

It may start with LGBT people, but it doesn’t stop with them. So this is a real warning, and the international community’s response and IOC’s response is what the world is watching right now.”

 Milk also called on Russia to remove their ban on the Pride House. “I think we need to be supporting a Pride House. We have these wonderful cultural houses that are sometimes national, sometimes regional, sometimes cultural. And the Russian government has banned what we had for the previous two Olympics. They’ve banned an LGBT Pride House. So let’s move that into the Olympic village, do a Pride House. Show that the Olympics is inclusive of everyone.”

 Defrantz was opposed to moving the Pride House into the Olympic Village. “My hope is that we don’t have to segment out the Olympic Villages for the athletes. That’s their home away from home. It needs to be private. It needs to be allowed, for them to be free, and not have a focus on that.”

 In typical conservative speak, Defrantz called on tradition. The Olympic athletes “express themselves as they have for centuries as they are as people and sharing the experience together and respecting one another. To me that’s what’s important — to keep it as it is and to not create more divisions.”  Read into that as you will.

 And then it came. “They’ve assured us that all of Sochi,” Defrantz proclaimed, “all of where the Games are, will not have this [law] into effect.”
 “Anita, you don’t believe them?,” O’Donnell asked.
 “I have to. I have to,” Defrantz replied.
 O’Donnell challenged her: “No, you don’t. Why would you believe them?”
 “Because they told us that Sochi will be free of the enforcement of these laws. So are we going to give them the chance?”

 Why would we, when they’re literally allowing rape and violent anti-LGBT hate crimes to be perpetrated unpunished?

Mormon Church stakes out new position in Hawaii same-sex marriage debate

Just weeks away from a a special session of the Hawaii legislature called by Gov. Neil Abercrombie to move forward on a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, the Mormon church is once again calling upon its membership to get involved.

But, according to Ruth Todd, spokeswoman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the difference in this post-Proposition 8 era is that that the emphasis will be focused not on telling members of the Church which side of the issue to take, but to study the Mormon church’s philosophy that endorses marriage as between one man and one woman.

In a letter dated Sept. 15 and read at LDS temples on Sunday, church leadership urged Mormons to “study this legislation prayerfully and then as private citizens contact your elected representatives in the Hawaii Legislature to express your views about the legislation.”

Whether Mormons favor or oppose the potential change, the letter said, they should push for “a strong exemption for people and organizations of faith” that would protect religious groups “from being required to support or perform same-sex marriages or from having to host same-sex marriages or celebrations in their facilities; and protect individuals and small businesses from being required to assist in promoting or celebrating same-sex marriages.”

If lawmakers pass a bill, Hawaii would join 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in legalizing same-sex marriage.

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New National Holiday in 2014: Michele Bachmann Retiring From Congress In 2014

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced early Wednesday that she will not seek a fifth term in office.

'Intolerant Left' for Bullying 'Sexual Morality' Out of the Boy Scouts

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) took the floor in the House this week to rip the "intolerant Left" for bullying the sexual morality out of the Boy Scouts by campaigning for an end to their discriminatory policies.

BOY SCOUTS VOTES TO LIFT BAN ON GAY MEMBERS, RETAIN BAN ON GAY LEADERS

At their convention in Dallas, the 1,400 voting members of The Boy Scouts of America have voted 61% to 38% to approve a resolution lifting a ban on gay scouts. The ban would remain on gay leaders.

We’re Here, We’re White, Get Used To It!

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