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Russia looks to mandate fingerprinting of HIV+ people

A bill has been introduced in the Russian legislature that would require the fingerprinting of HIV+ people.

RT reports:

Roman Khudyakov[State Duma deputy Roman Khudyakov] explained he came up with the idea because sometimes infected people change their names and disappear from the state system. Khudyakov says fingerprinting would make it impossible. In addition, universal fingerprinting would make it easier to fight crime, reduce the amount of bureaucratic red tape, and solve many social problems where quick identification is often required.

The bill on universal fingerprinting was drafted by the Liberal Democratic party in August last year. It orders every Russian resident, regardless of citizenship, to register at their place of permanent residence and undergo fingerprinting. The current bill suggests those who refuse can be punished with 50,000 ruble fines (about $1400) and non-citizens could be deported, and banned from entering Russia for 15-years. The bill has been supported by the government but there have been no parliamentary debates on it yet.

HIV Plus Mag points out that due to the stigmatization of the LGBT community in Russia, the law is likely to pass.

(via Towleroad)

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Anti-gay bigot Peter Labarbera humiliated as audience walks out

Before walkout

After walkout

Sinclair Community College students and professors found their own way to protest anti-LGBT Peter LaBarbera coming to speak at their Dayton, Ohio, campus.

They showed up, and then they just got up and walked out as he began to speak:

Mr. LaBarbera approached the podium and apologized affably for keeping us waiting. He talked about the importance of dialogue and respect. And then he said there was no scientific evidence that homosexuality is not a choice. He reminded us that the hypocritical left, in silencing voices like his, is really the party guilty of intolerance.

And that was our cue to leave.

We stood, without a word, and walked out. I heard a woman shouting, “Shame! Shame on you!” There were gasps and a few loud grumbles of disapproval, LaBarbera’s aforementioned “Are you effing kidding me” among them. We walked out of the venue and into the Student Activities Center, where we hugged and laughed and ate Honey Maid graham crackers. Photographs of the venue after we walked out show that about 12 people remained behind, at least two of whom I recognize as allies who likely stayed to see what he would say. It was a beautiful, beautiful thing.

How perfectly appropriate.

Bravo to the Sinclair community.

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“Christian” radio host Kevin Swanson equates axe murder with homosexuality

From God’s “gentle children” comes this message of gays and axe murderers from Christian radio host Kevin Swanson, speaking about Honey Maid’s pro-gay ad campaign:

“When you come down to things like axe murder or homosexuality and you say, ‘we’re really going to promote it and we’re going to encourage everybody in America to engage in this or at least support this thing,’ there will be people on the other side who will take an adamantly opposed position to your support of axe murdering or homosexuality. They will be intolerant, they will be very intolerant of that which is evil, like axe murdering.

“Didn’t God define love? See the problem with this ‘love’ thing is you can define it anyway you want. Homosexuals love their friends and cannibals love their victims, they taste good.”

(via JMG)

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Four Oregon students wear anti-gay shirts on Day of Silence

Four students in Oregon City decided to make clear that a day to raise awareness against bullying and unity wasn’t going to include them. Instead of being a part of the Day of Silence, the four students wore t-shirts that read “Gay Day is no OK.”

From KPTV:

“I just made it say ‘Gay Day is not OK,’ because I don’t believe that it’s OK,” Oregon City High School student Alex Borho said.

He and just a few of his friends wore the shirts at the school where there are more than 2,000 students.

For some there, today was a day of silence. It’s part of a national movement that only about 40 kids at Oregon City High School participated in.

It ends the much larger unity week that all the students there partake in. It’s meant to be a time of dropping labels and breaking down social barriers.

“I don’t have a big problem with gay people. It’s just when they start parading around the school about how we have a day of silence for gays, lesbians and transvestites,” Borho said. “We don’t have a straight day.”

Borho said he doesn’t like the message associated with the day, intended to draw attention to bullying of gay students.

(h/t JMG)

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Mississippi business owners counter the anti-gay “Religious Freedom Restoration Act”

To counter the bad publicity coming out of Mississippi regarding the recently passed anti-gay “Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” Equality Mississippi has begun a new campaign: If you’re buying, we’re selling.

From the Clarion Ledger:

Eddie Outlaw, who owns William Wallace Salon and Fondren Barber Shop, was part of the creative team behind If You’re Buying, with Mitchell Moore, who owns Campbell’s Bakery in Fondren.

“A lot of us were trying to counter the negative stuff from outside Mississippi,” Outlaw said, referring to the national coverage 2681 got while it circulated the Capitol. “We wanted to let people know – not just the LGBT community but the progressive community as a whole – that this doesn’t represent everybody here.”

To drive that point home, participating businesses will display in their storefront windows a vinyl, sticker-like circle that reads, “We don’t discriminate. If you’re buying, we’re selling.”

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Anti-gay Steve Malzberg: Honey Maid can love on the gays but you’ll incur my wrath

NewsMax’s Steve Malzberg is not happy that Honey Maid responded to anti-gay criticism by taking the hate mail and turning them all into a paper sculpture of the word “Love.”

Watching this, it’s interesting that Malzberg is under the impression that only gays like the positive message coming from Honey Maid. Someone might want to clue him in that a LOT of folks, gay or straight, like a message of inclusiveness.

“I’m all choked up, not really,” Malzberg sneered, adding that he was upset about positive news coverage of Honey Maid’s ad.

“I don’t know how wholesome it is, it’s a company decision and now they are going to have to live with it. If they’re looking to appeal to the 5 percent of the population that’s gay, good for them, but you do so possibly at the expense of some of the other 95 percent of the population and incurring their wrath.”

(via Right Wing Watch)

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Linda Harvey: Being gay dishonors God

The GLSEN sponsored event, National Day Of Silence, is this Friday.

The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.

However, rabidly anti-gay Linda Harvey, speaking yesterday on her radio show, continued her screed against the campaign saying parents should keep their children home to avoid being exposed to a message of inclusiveness and acceptance.

From Harvey’s radio show:

“The Day of Silence is sadly a day of pro-homosexual propaganda in schools. Students pledge to remain silent all day in order to protest what they believe has been the silencing of homosexuals and bullying that isn’t being punished, those who choose to be homosexual or switch genders are the victims and we’re all bullies or potential bullies if we don’t accept this premise.

“But we should not accept this premise because it wrongly communicates that homosexuality is honorable and respectable and that it’s inborn like race. But that’s’ not true. No one, especially young people, should take on this identity and behavior. It’s a high-risk life that dishonors God and the way He created us.”

It’s a sad message from a sad person. You can hear her below:

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Egypt sentences four men to prison for “gay acts”

BBC is reporting that four men have been convicted and sentenced to time in prison for up to eight years.

Egypt does not have specific laws banning homosexuality, but prosecutors use laws on the books that criminalize “debauchery” as a work around.

One man received three years and hard labor in prison, while the other three men received sentences of eight years.  They were apparently accused of holding “deviant parties” and wearing makeup.

From BBC:

US-based Human Rights First group said it was “alarmed and disappointed” at the verdicts.

“Egypt is a bellwether state in the Arab region; what happens in Egypt sets a trend for developments throughout the Arab world,” it said in a statement.

The group said that since the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 there has been a rise in the number of arrests of people based on their sexual orientation.

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US Supreme Court denies appeal of anti-gay New Mexico photographer

In 2006, Elane Photography in New Mexico refused to provide photography services for a commitment ceremony for Vanessa Willock and Misti Collinsworth.

The couple sued the photographer on the basis of violating the state’s public accommodation laws.  Elane Photography felt protected on religious grounds (because takes photos of a lesbian commitment ceremony somehow means you “approve” the event).  Elane Photography lost it’s case at the state supreme court level.  An appeal was filed with SCOTUS.

Today, the US Supreme Court denied the request by Elane Photography. In order to take up a case, at least four Supreme Court justices must agree to consider the case.

That decision means the lawsuit train has stopped in this case. The original ruling stands.

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade:

Had the court taken up the case, justices could have found a constitutional right across the country for individuals to discriminate against LGBT people or refuse services for same-sex weddings ceremonies on the basis of religion.

Anti-gay groups had pointed to the incident as a reason to enact laws in various states to allow individuals and business to refuse services to gay people without fear of reprisal, such as the controversial “turn away the gay” bill recently vetoed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and signed into law by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant. Other bills along those lines are pending in numerous states — Kansas, Mississippi and Georgia — but have seen resistance going forward.

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Drama Queen Alert – Matt Barber

Matt Barber, writing for Barbwire, goes on a very dramatic diatribe about “homofascists” and “breaking out the long knives” over the recent debacle at Mozilla with Brendan Eich stepping down as CEO:

Sadly, many people, even many Christians, think that I and others are using hyperbole when we refer to this sexual anarchist “LGBT” movement as “homofascist” or the “Gaystapo.” I hope you’ll think again. It’s time to wake up and smell the impending anti-Christian persecution. It’s fully at hand.

Christians, buckle up. Your whole world is about to change. The Rainbowshirts are emboldened and they’ve broken out the long knives. “Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence” – Psalm 73:6.

They smell blood in the water. I’ve often said that these folks want those who speak Biblical truth about human sexuality and legitimate marriage either 1) dead, 2) imprisoned or, if they can have neither of these, 3) marginalized to the point where they can’t even support their families.

Check No. 3 off the list. I guess they’re working backwards.

Freedom is hanging on by a thread, America, and it is those who worship the sin of Sodom that are determined to finish it off once and for all.