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Wikileaks on TPP, the south hates gays, and conservative Catholics ain’t...
Let’s start the morning out with a nice assemblage of articles, both fun and serious, that I’ve been meaning to share. Sometimes the day goes by so quickly, and I find myself with 20 open tabs on my...
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Air Force Academy has “ex-gay” cure advocate overseeing cadet character coaching
The US Air Force Academy hired a man to run their character coaching program for young cadets who, for the past two decades, has devoted his entire professional career to the cause of “curing...
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Air Force Academy doubles-down in defense of “ex-gay” character coach
The Air Force Academy contacted me about our story yesterday breaking the news that they had hired Dr. Mike Rosebush, a supposed-“ex-gay” with twenty years experience “curing homosexuals,” to oversee...
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Rachel Maddow on Air Force Academy’s “heterosexual confidence” expert
Rachel Maddow, at the top of her show last night, tackled the story we broke yesterday morning about the prestigious Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado hiring an “ex-gay,” who spent the...
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Air Force Academy now covering up cadet’s concerns about anti-gay climate
The United States Air Force Academy issued a statement this morning claiming that at a recent meeting with the academy’s top brass, gay cadets expressed no concerns about the culture at the Air Force...
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Air Force Academy used to send gay cadets to Ted Haggard to be “cured”
Rachel Maddow digs even further into the story AMERICAblog broke earlier this week about the Air Force Academy hiring an “ex-gay” “heterosexual confidence” expert to run its “character coaching”...
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Air Force Academy to hold gay-bias presser with veracity-compromised Capt....
The US Air Force Academy was already facing growing accusations that they lied in a press release about a recent meeting in which multiple gay cadets expressed concerns to the superintendent of the...
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Did Rick Perry cave on gay National Guard benefits? No one seems to know for...
UPDATE: Well, this is getting interesting. Keep in mind that we’ve heard nothing from the Obama administration about the Texas National Guard press release published last night, so it’s anyone’s guess...
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A look back on the 3-year anniversary of DADT’s repeal
This month marks three years since Congress and President Obama repealed the disastrous “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, which forbade gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. It was a policy...
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Gay 79 y.o. Marine dies 2 weeks after discharge finally changed to “honorable”
A sad, yet uplifting, story about Hal Faulkner, a 79 year old gay man who got an “undesirable discharge” from the Marines in 1956, because he’s gay. Faulkner died Tuesday, less than two weeks after he...
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Is Bill Clinton redeemed?
The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest gay rights group, has invited former president Bill Clinton to keynote their annual dinner next month. That’s led a reporter from the San Francisco...
View ArticleColbert on Gohmert’s claim that gay soldiers give each other too many massages
GOP Cong. Louie Gohmert is concerned that since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” too many gay troops are giving each other back rubs. And while that might have worked for the Greeks, Gohmert says,...
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Mike Huckabee ignores James Madison, tells Christians to avoid military until...
Mike Huckabee is sorta, kinda, give-me-some-money-and-we’ll see running for president. And he was in New Hampshire this past weekend to test the waters on another bid for the White House. On Friday, he...
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The USA Freedom Act, DADT and legislative process in the 21st Century
A longstanding policy becomes intolerable to many on both sides of the political spectrum, and polls begin to show its rank unpopularity with the American public. Debate ensues in the House and Senate,...
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Don’t Tell Me to Wait
When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were duking it out for the Democratic nomination in late 2007 and early 2008, I was a junior in high school who couldn’t tell you all that much about where each...
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Martin O’Malley calls for clearing military records of those discharged due...
As part of a broader plan for addressing veterans issues released today, Martin O’Malley called for clearing the military records of those who were dishonorably discharged from the armed forces due to...
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FDR was a homophobe, and I’m not sure I care
Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a serious problem with gays. And I’m not sure I care. I recently got into a discussion on Twitter with some Tea Party Millennials who were livid that I tweeted something...
View ArticleBREAKING: Pentagon drops ban on transgender troops
Defense Secretary Ash Carter just went on TV to announce that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on transgender troops. “I am announcing today that we are ending the ban on trangender-Americans in the...
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Mike Pence is a raging homophobe
Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, Mike Pence, is a homophobe. I bring the point up, not only because tonight is the vice presidential debate between Pence and Hillary Clinton’s VP, Tim Kaine,...
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Trump bans transgender troops to divert attention from growing Sessions scandal
Donald Trump today announced a ban on transgender American serving in the US military. Trump not only reversed President Obama’s earlier decision permitting trans troops to serve, Trump even surprised...
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