'MO NEWS--FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009

Rachel Maddow opines on the President's Memorandum:

THEY'RE SUCH CHURCH GOING FOLK:  That hideous Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing a NY gay synagogue, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah this Sunday:

CBST will be holding a non-violent prayer vigil and service during the time of their protest. We cannot allow this group to go unchallenged as they engage in hateful speech at our synagogue. The most powerful response to such hatred is our demonstration of what makes us strong and powerful in the face of bigotry. We will not engage in any confrontational action or shouting matches. They would love it if we were to lose our composure. We will present who we are in a strong and meaningful way.

If you have a tallit, please bring it. If you would like to make colorful signs, please consider using:

"We are all created in God's image"
"God loves all of us"
"God made me gay"
and similar messages

8:45 AM on Sunday, June 21st at our Bethune location

QUITE FRANKLY:  Congressman Barney Frank criticized the DOJ-DOMA brief a couple a days ago; now, the Senator waxes pontifically for it:

“When I was called by a newspaper reporter for reaction to the administration’s brief defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, I made the mistake of relying on other people’s oral descriptions to me of what had been in the brief, rather than reading it first. It is a lesson to me that I should not give in to press insistence that I comment before I have had a chance fully to inform myself on the subject at hand.”

“Now that I have read the brief, I believe that the administration made a conscientious and largely successful effort to avoid inappropriate rhetoric. There are some cases where I wish they had been more explicit in disavowing their view that certain arguments were correct, and to make it clear that they were talking not about their own views of these issues, but rather what was appropriate in a constitutional case with a rational basis standard – which is the one that now prevails in the federal courts, although I think it should be upgraded.”

MAINE EVENT:  Those opponents of gay marriage in Maine have gone on to hire the publicity firm that was successful for YES on Proposition 8 in California--BITCHES JUST BE HATIN:

Organizers of an effort to overturn a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in Maine have hired the California public relations firm that ran the successful Proposition 8 campaign to overturn same-sex marriage there. Supporters of the law have hired a seasoned Maine political strategist who ran the successful Maine Won't Discriminate campaign in 2005. That campaign fought a people's veto of Maine's gay-rights law.

OLD GARBAGE:  Old hag Pat Robertson states that Homosexuals are sending the country into the 'garbage heap:'

THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND:  Senator Kristin Gillibrand opined an "editorial," if you will, stating that she pledges to sponsor a  repeal of DADT:

I am firmly committed to repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell. To that end, I am working closely with Congressman Murphy and Senator Kennedy's offices to develop support for repeal legislation and will be among the original co-sponsors of the bill when it's introduced. In the weeks and months ahead, I plan to work with Lt. Choi to repair the damage that has been done to his career and spare thousands of innocent, brave men and women, from the same injustice.

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DOWN FOR THE COUNT:  2010 Consensus plans to include same-sex marriages and partnerships so says the White House:

The administration has directed the Census Bureau to determine changes needed in tabulation software to allow for same-sex marriage data to be released early in 2011 with other detailed demographic information from the decennial count. The bureau historically hasn't released same-sex marriage data. [snip] The Census Bureau has long collected data on same-sex marriages when people chose to report it. White House officials said the previous administration interpreted the federal Defense of Marriage Act as prohibiting the release of the data. The Obama administration has abandoned that interpretation.

DON'T GET IT TWISTED BITCHES:  Michelangelo Signorile ponificates on the Gay Anger directed to President Obama in the light of the recent events:  DOJ-DOMA, DADT, CA. Prop 8 ruling......

A DATE WITH DEATH:  Another internet hookup/date turns to murder when a man is found stabbed to death in his Queens apartment:

Michael Pecora's nude body was found in his Forest Hills apartment late Wednesday, hours after his sister called his cell phone only to have a stranger answer, the sources said. The man with Pecora's cell phone was a cab driver, who told the sister he was given the phone earlier in the week by a passenger who said he didn't have any money to pay the fare, sources said. The passenger gave the cab driver the phone and a watch as payment when he was dropped off in the Bronx. The panicked sister called police, and detectives interviewed the cabbie, who told them he picked up the mysterious passenger near Pecora's 65th Ave. apartment, sources said. The building super climbed onto the fire escape and let cops into Pecora's sixth-floor apartment through the window where they found his body sprawled in a hallway near his bedroom. He had been stabbed three times.

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