We all know it’s true – a gathering of homophobes at a political conference ensures 1) a spike in hotel in-room porn purchases and 2) a lot of homosex. Witness what is going on at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), covered over at Hypervocal.com. This is just one of 10 ads it has collected in [...]

UPDATE: And the winner is…Rick Santorum. The tiny minds of the flaccid stakeholders in the movement to control wombs and demonize the LGBT community met to agree upon which Clown in the GOP Clown Car to unite behind to take out Mittens. If you follow the professional bigot brigade, the some of the 150 or [...]

Washington state Senator Steve Litzow (R-Mercer Island) has announced his full support of the marriage equality bill expected to be introduced this week, making him the first Republican in the state Senate to openly support marriage equality. The Seattle Times editorial board writes: “Outstanding. Litzow is a profile in courage, a freshman lawmaker willing to [...]

Racism in the GOP? Nah… just class from the state of Fred Phelps and the personal email of Rep. Mike O’Neal, via Pat Cunningham of the Rockford Register Star: Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal, from the city of Hutchison, sent an email before Christmas that compared the president’s wife to the Dr. Seuss character The Grinch, [...]

How else are we to interpret this: “Republican Gov. Rick Snyder Thursday signed into law HB 4770 which prohibits public employers from providing partner benefits to domestic partners of public employees.” The reach of this law is sweeping, prohibiting not only state agencies but also counties, townships, cities, school districts and community colleges from providing [...]

Why not? The state of Minnesota, like North Carolina, faces a marriage discrimination amendment at the polls in 2012. Minnesota Senate Majority Leader (er, former) Amy Koch (R, no surprise) had no trouble supporting legislation that would bar same-sex couples from civil marriage. It looks like she was “pulling a Newt” regarding own domestic legal [...]

Seen in Southern Durham today while Kate and I were out at The Streets of Southpoint, a very large mall here: This desperate-for-attention-for-Ron Paul fan is probably from Raleigh or Cary. (LOL, j/k; local inside joke).

As someone whose healthcare treatment is from the Veterans Administration (VA) because of service connected disabilities, Romney’s discussion of how healthcare should be perhaps provided via voucher sounds like a really, really bad idea. From Talking Point Memo‘s Romney Spit-Balls His Way To Privatizing Veteran’s Benefits: MAULDIN, SC — Over barbecue and sweet tea with [...]

Herman Cain (above); NOM’s Brian Brown (below) What do anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and Herman Cain have in common? Cain’s legal team consists of Sarah Troupis, Scott Bieniek and Joseph LaRue, three attorneys who until very recently worked for NOM’s bigshot GOP lawyer James Bopp, according to the Wall Street Journal‘s Legal Blog. [...]

In San Diego, we have two credible gay candidates vying for election to mayor. The Christian Post describes it this way in their article 2 Gay GOP Candidates in San Diego Mayoral Race: San Diego’s mayoral race is featuring two openly gay candidates as leading contenders. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, 59, and City Councilman Carl [...]