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American gay marriage support tops 50 percent for first
time
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Gay marriage support increased 17 percent in the recent Washington Post/ ABC
News poll results. Now, 53 percent of participants think gay marriage should be
legal. This is the first time a majority of Americans favored gay marriage in
the Post/ABC poll, according to the Washington
Post.
Results indicate increased support from men, college-educated
whites, political independents and participates who are not
religious-affiliated. The survey also shows a leveling of intense emotion on the
matter, with 35 percent strongly opposing legal gay marriage and 36 percent
strongly supporting it.
The poll was randomly conducted by phone from March 10 to 13 and sampled
1,005 adults.
Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, sees a parallel between these
results and the gay community’s progress over the years. He told the Post , “as people have come to understand this is about loving, committed
families dealing, like everyone, with tough times, they understand how unfair it
is to treat them differently.â€
The poll asked “Do you think it should be legal or illegal for gay and
lesbian couples to get married?†Opponents argued the wording skewed the
results, though the Post/ABC polls has used the same “legal or illegal†wording
since 2003, as have surveys by the Pew Research Center, the Associated Press and
CNN.
 Man stoned to death for being gay
- Man beats gay man to death because the Bible told him
to
John Joe Thomas, 28, beat 70-year-old Murray Seidman to
death in January with a sock full of rocks because he read in the Old Testament
that gays were supposed to be stoned death. Thomas spent nearly
every day with Seidman, who made sexual advances towards his eventual murderer
over a period of time. Thomas had left Seidman’s corpse in his apartment for
five days before returning and pretending to discover his body. I don’t think
it’s possible to put the amount of disgust I am feeling into words.
- Openly gay Maryland mayor fights continues to fight for marriage
equality
David Lublin, the mayor of Chevy Chase in Maryland, has
promised to continue to fight for marriage equality in Maryland, despite the
state’s recent killing of a gay marriage bill. Lublin, author of
Maryland’s Politics Watch Blog and advocated for the failed bill in front of the
state’s senate in February, has said he will continue fighting with the
grassroots group Equality Maryland.
- Priest settles with college after claiming he was fired for being
gay
Father Jim St. George, an openly gay priest and former faculty
member at Chestnut Hill College in Pennsylvania, has settled with the
school. St. George, who taught theology and justice courses at the
private Catholic school, claimed that he had never hid his sexuality or the fact
that he had not been ordained by the Roman Catholic Church from school
officials. The school, however, said they had only recently found this
information out. St. George released a statement yesterday after he canceled a
press conference that said he is pleased with the agreement and wishes to move
on.
- California county clerk defends Prop 8
Chuck Storey, a county clerk in California’s Imperial
County, has recently requested to be the primary defendant in a lawsuit to
uphold Proposition 8 if the current backers were removed. Despite
the fact that his county was decidedly supportive of the anti-gay marriage bill,
many residents have come out to say “no thanks†to Storey’s request. So far,
everyone pretty much wants to say “let it go.†Now please, just let it go.
- An ex-Mormon tells his story
Mercury News has a great Q&A with openly gay
ex-Mormon Kerry Rutz who talks about the church’s conversion
therapy (which is denies), the fear he had growing up, his struggle to hide his
secret and how his own brother tried to beat the gay out of him. He doesn’t hold
back either: â€
“The Mormon church is happy and willing to undermine or destroy the humanity
of gays and lesbians they find in their midst. Their intent behind this
treatment can only be compared to the motives behind experiments conducted on
concentration camp victims during World War II; like the fascist regimes which
supported those “experiments†in Germany and China, the Mormon church’s …
maltreatment of gay and lesbian Americans amounts to barbaric criminality.â€
- WARNING: SOME MAY THINK THE FOLLOWING IS XXX RATED
- Tom Hardy goes naked for a short film
No lie. Inception-star and soon-to-be Batman villain Tom Hardy spends several
minutes of the beginning of the short film Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother in
the nude. You can find the rest of the images here if you so dare
(NSFW)">Sorry, you won't see anything HERE--prudes don't go there--others scroll down the web site! LOL