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Missouri GOP State Rep Zach Wyatt comes out and speaks against “Don’t Say Gay” bill

Republican Missouri State Rep. Zach Wyatt came out of the closet today in a speech to Republican colleagues, asking them to withdraw their support like anti-gay issues like the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which has been advancing through the legislature.

By coming out, Wyatt becomes the only openly gay Republican state lawmaker in the country, according to PROMO, Missouri’s statewide advocacy organization for LGBT equality.

Said Wyatt:

“I will not lie to myself anymore about my own sexuality. It has probably been the hardest thing to come to terms with. I have always ignored it, didn’t event think about it, or want to talk about it. I have not been immune to it. I hear the comments, usually snide ones, about me. I’m not the first or last Republican to come out. I’ve just gotten tired of the bigotry being shown from both sides of the aisle on gay issues.”

If passed, the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” would ban public school-sponsored instruction, material, or extracurricular activities that discuss sexual orientation except when concerning human reproduction.

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Hillary Clinton turns down movie role

Hillary Clinton just gets funnier and cooler by the day.

Jason Segal recently explained that when reporters ask who the mysterious mother is on “How I Met Your Mother,” he tells them it’s Clinton.

Last month, he also told Us Weekly that he thinks she “would be good at comedy” and joked that he’d like to work with her on the (fictional) film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2: This Time It’s Personal.”

The secretary of state apparently heard of his requests and wrote Segel a letter.

Above is  the note that Hillary sent the “How I Met Your Mother” star last month.

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Mitt Romney’s openly gay foreign policy spokesman resigns

Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney’s recently appointed Foreign Policy and National Security spokeman, has resigned after being on the receiving end of a wave of uproar from anti-gay conservatives.

Grenell’s official statement:

“I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.”

Grenell’s homosexuality and support for marriage equality opposed Romney’s position on the issue.

Figures like American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer called into question how his placement reflected Mitt Romney’s actual views on homosexuals and Grenell’s own inability to separate himself from the “homosexual agenda.” Fischer stated that “you cannot separate religious liberty from the issue of the homosexual agenda. In fact, the homosexual agenda represents the single greatest threat to religious liberty and association in America today.”

Michelangelo Signorile wrote for the Huffington Post:

Actually, I believe this is a big win for progressives and for gay journalists and commentators, as well. We drew out the conservative leaders in addition to Fischer, like Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, and other commentators on NationalReview.com and The Daily Caller, by bringing forth and continually highlighting the true facts about Grenell, which, to most Americans, are completely acceptable, but which, in the eyes of the evangelical right, make him a radical homosexual. As I wrote in a post last week, Grenell isn’t just gay, like some other gay Republicans who stay quiet about their homosexuality. He’s a gay man who very publicly expressed that he wants to get married to another man and who believes President Obama isn’t adequate on LGBT rights.

Why is it this a win? Because Grenell was being used for cover by a candidate with abhorrently anti-gay positions, a man who has promised to “propose and promote” a federal marriage amendment if elected president. I don’t buy the argument made by some that it was a measure of progress that Romney hired a gay man as his foreign policy spokesperson when he’s using that gay man to make himself appear moderate to independents while promising the GOP base that he’ll make gay people into second-class citizens. Actual progress in the GOP will come when their presidential candidates stop bowing to bigots and refuse to sign their extremist pledges. Otherwise, it’s all window dressing.

The Romney camp expressed their disappointment in Grenell’s resignation, stating:

“We are disappointed that Ric decided to resign from the campaign for his own personal reasons. We wanted him to stay because he had superior qualifications for the position he was hired to fill.”

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Bill Nye – “The Science Guy” – booed in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun

Bill Nye, the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” was recently in Waco, TX,  to participate in McLennan Community College’s Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.

Nye somehow managed to offend a group of adults in Waco when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.

As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.

But don’t tell that to the good people of Waco, who were “visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence,” according to the Waco Tribune.

Nye got people riled up when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”

The lesser light  he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled “We believe in God!” and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they’d always suspected.

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.
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Pastor Sean Harris urges fathers to punch their ‘girlish’ sons

Jeremy Hooper at Good as You has posted some extremely disturbing audio identified as Sean Harris, the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, giving his congregation a “special dispensation” to beat their children if they think they might be falling outside of gender norms.

Harris also urged his congregation to vote for North Carolina’s Amendment One in an hourlong sermon posted on Sunday.

Says Harris at the beginning of his horrifying rant:

“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.”

He adds:

“Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.”

Harris has advice for parents who think their daughters might be acting too butch:

“And when your daughter starts acting to Butch you reign her in. And you say, ‘Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.'”

Adds Harris: “Can I take charge like that as a parent? Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that.”
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Every1Against1 – May 1, 2012

Simply put, Amendment One is an unnecessary, thinly veiled attack on civil rights — a gross injustice to North Carolina’s unmarried couples, children, families, seniors, women and businesses.

If Amendment One passes, what’s next? It would mark the first time the North Carolina constitution was amended in order to discriminate against specific individuals. This flies in the face of the state’s tradition of amending the constitution to increase equality.

Make history – don’t repeat it. Vote NO on Amendment One in North Carolina May 8th.

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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill in Las Vegas?

Photo credit: Erik Kabik

Rumors are flying that country king and queen Tim McGraw and Faith Hill about to sign contracts to topple their pal Garth Brooks from his lofty reign on the Strip? Word is they’ll sign on for a series of weekend concerts from November to April to be in competition with Garth.

The deal would be for concerts in an 1,800-seat theater within a guitar pick’s throw of Steve Wynn’s Encore Theater where Garth headlines. It’s so close to being signed that Tim and Faith have scrapped plans to go out on tour together so they can enjoy a residency here. It can’t start sooner because Tim is touring with Kenny Chesney this summer.
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Zach Wahls: That Kid From YouTube

As Olivia Newton-John said “Love is Love.”

Great idea to open dialogue: break bread with folks to talk not about politics or religion, but to just get to know each other over dinner. AND a bottle of wine or three! More wine!

Zach was also on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – check him out below: