Rick Perry was clearly speaking to a core group of voters with the “Strong” video he released earlier this week… and this is how it sounded to everyone else.

What Reasonable Americans Heard When Watching Rick Perry’s ‘Strong’ Video is a post from: The Inquisitr

If you felt a bit depressed by Rick Perry’s “Strong” video earlier this week- which took shots at gay people and non-Christians- this might make you feel a bit better.

Rick Perry’s “Strong” Ad Parodied, Parody Actually More Politically Viable Than Original is a post from: The Inquisitr

Texas Governor Rick Perry isn’t afraid to take a stand on intolerance, except like, coming down hard on the side of being intolerant, openly.

Perry released the campaign spot below, titled “Strong,” on December 6th, and the clip has gone viral in the past few hours. When it first began circulating on Facebook at around 6PM EST, it had just over 500 views, but that’s growing. And thankfully, so are the downvotes- Rick Perry’s “Strong” clip currently has a 97% thumbs-down rate on YouTube, and you should go over and voice your dissatisfaction as well.

It seems Perry is relying largely on a core block of voters- voters who happen to be straight, white and Christian. In the clip, he manages to take down gay people and non-Christians in the first sentence, making a string of points that can best be described as incoherent. Perry says:

“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian. But you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. As president, I’ll end Obama’s war on religion. And I’ll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage. Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.”

As the Washington Post points out, Perry’s characterization of the President, a Christian, as complicit in the abolishment of prayer in schools is not only offensive, it’s “factually wrong.” And while the GOP contender doesn’t outright say anything specifically anti-gay, the implication is pretty strong when he says there’s something “wrong” about gay servicemen openly serving while church and state remain separate. Do you think Perry torpedoed his chances with the intolerant spot?

Rick Perry Comes Out Swinging Against Gay Rights, Non-Christians in New YouTube Spot “Strong” is a post from: The Inquisitr

It goes without saying that in an era when everyone is on Facebook and knows how to do screenshots, you should be careful what ugly parts of your personality you reveal in the undoubtedly public space.

But as controversy swirls in one Michigan jurisdiction, another question has arisen after an injudicious Facebook post by a mayor- should an elected office be resigned if it’s found that the person elected to the position holds prejudicial views about a certain group of people? It seems the answer is obvious- how can someone serve a group of constituents if they don’t like black, Latino or gay people? One would think they really can’t. But mayor of Troy, Michigan Janice Daniels is hoping her constituency (which inevitably has some gay residents) will forgive her openly hateful comments on Facebook just a few months ago when gay marriage was legalized in the state of New York. Daniels- who had not yet been elected Mayor of Troy- said something I hope many people reading this post will find shocking and appalling in 2011:

“I think I am going to throw away my ‘I love New York’ carrying bag now that queers can get married there.”

Since the post was uncovered last night by local blog “Keep Troy Strong,” calls for Daniels’ resignation have come from all over the country. But Troy’s mayor thinks that it’s okay to say things like that and still remain in an office where she is expected to serve residents, queer and not queer alike. She hedged:

“I may have said something like that… I probably shouldn’t have used that kind of language, but I do believe marriage should be between one man and one woman.”

Daniels also says she “regrets having said it,” and added:

“I’m hoping because I’m expressing my regret, that people will accept that I’m human… And that’s what I’m asking for is forgiveness.”

While mistakes are understandable, it’s difficult to forgive what appears to be clear animosity toward a group that includes literally millions of tax-paying Americans. It’s not that she used the word “queer,” albeit derisively, but she also indicated ill-will towards the entire State of New York for granting gay couples the same civil rights enjoyed by their straight counterparts. While most scandals that end political careers, minor and major, seem to be down to personal business, there’s no way in the world someone who feels that way should be in a decision-making position. Do you think Daniels should resign her post as mayor?

Janice Daniels, Michigan Mayor, Faces Calls For Resignation After Gaycist Post on Facebook is a post from: The Inquisitr

A gay Texas cheerleader is crying foul after high school officials kicked him off the cheerleading squad and suspended him for kissing another boy.

The teenager believes school officials deliberately attempted to catch him in the act by closely monitoring cameras to catch him in the act. According to the boy:

“They never check cameras for anything unless something is stolen,” while he added, “I’m sure we were the only ones, sexual orientation wise, being caught like that.”

The student says that kissing between boys and girls happens all the time, nothing “In this school, kissing is everywhere,” and if that meant a suspension, “half the school would be suspended.”

Following media attention school officials are “reviewing” the decision. If officials decide that the right decision was made the boys parents plan to school the school and district over the alleged and in my view obvious case of homophobia.

Do you believe the school should immediately re-instate the boy’s status at school including his spot on the cheerleader squad?

Texas Homophobia: School Officials Suspend Gay Cheerleader For Kissing Another Boy is a post from: The Inquisitr

At 12:01 a.m. gay right activists Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd became the very first same-sex couple to receive a legal marriage in New York City. The couple, who have been together for twelve years have 12 grandchildren between them and were pronounced legally married by Mayor Bloomberg right after the clock struck midnight. The wedding for the couple occurred exactly12 years after they started dating.

In New York City 823 couples will receive their marriage license on Sunday, while many others are expected to visit the city clerk’s office to tie the knot, the office opened on Sunday to mark the special occasion.

In the wake of the gay marriage law, two homophobic town clerks have resigned over the new law, while the National Organization for Marriage is planning at least four protests today.

The first male couple to legally wed in New York City? Marcos A. Chaljub, 29, and Freddy L. Zambrano, 30 who wore matching outfits as they became a “legal” couple in the states eyes.

First Gay Couples Begin Marrying In New York City is a post from: The Inquisitr

Late Friday night, a friend in Nashville (who incidentally is gay) posted on Facebook, angry about some offensive things Tracy Morgan said during a stand-up performance.

At the time, I didn’t know the details of what was said, and it didn’t really register fully, due to the late hour. Then I saw this post from The Hollywood Gossip reporting some of the specific content of Morgan’s rants. Whoa. It’s a bit difficult to imagine statements like these being made in a comedy club environment in this day and age- and be warned, some of what he said is very hurtful and shocking:

The eyewitness on Facebook said that while perhaps 10 to 15 people left Ryman Auditorium following that portion of the rant, far more of those present cheered Morgan on, whooping and hollering support. The attendee also reports Morgan stated that he knows being gay is a choice, because “god don’t make no mistakes”- with the implication being gay people would be a mistake if they were “born that way.”

Morgan has not to our knowledge addressed the statements he made on stage in Nashville, but the auditorium that hosted the event commented:

“The Ryman Auditorium regrets that people were offended by statements made by Tracy Morgan during his June 3 appearance. The Ryman does not control the content presented by people appearing on its stage, nor does it endorse any of the views of, or statements made by, such persons.”

It appears from the eyewitness account that this was not a small three to four joke arc- the bit seems to have gone on for some time. What’s more. the witness says Morgan’s “demeanor” changed during the segment and he appeared to be “filled with some hate.”

Do you think Morgan’s hateful comments were totally out of line, or does anything go at a comedy show?

[Wait, What?] Tracy Morgan’s Homophobic Rant in Nashville, Updated is a post from: The Inquisitr

A Florida activist group who hates gay men and women spent $7,000 in airplane fuel to “warn” possible visitors to Disney World that the annual Gay Day celebration was about to take place at the happiest place on earth.

The group spent that money on airplanes which worked in 10-hour shits to fly a message that read:

“WARNING GAY DAY AT DISNEY 6/4” and “WARNING GAY PRIDE DAY AT DISNEY 2DAY.”

The group, known as “The Florida Family Association” says they are dedicated to “improving America’s moral environment.”

According to the group, people shouldn’t be able to make up their own minds about gay individuals (they didn’t state that but their actions have proven it), stating that families shouldn’t be “confronted with the reality of witnessing over 15,000 Gay Pride Day revelers.” According to the group everyone hates gay people (again just their actions state this) and park visitors will “turn around and leave” the park when they see gay couples.

Participants of the gay day celebrations quickly retorted that FFA leaders “simply don’t have a grasp of what it means to be tolerant of people that are different than you.”

As a final warning, watch out for those gay people, they will steal your children and drink all of your mimosas. Give me a break.

Florida Activist Group Warns: Gay Day Ahead At Disney World is a post from: The Inquisitr

In an issue gay people would file under “problems we would like to have,” a straight British couple is going to court for the right to essentially gay-marry each other.

While some jurisdictions recognize gay marriage, and some allow “civil partnerships,” gay marriage is not a right recognized nearly as widely as same-sex marriage. But the opportunity to marry one another, a right denied gay people in many places, is not enough to satisfy the couple, both of whom are 26:

“The titles of husband and wife and all the things that pop into people’s heads when you say you’re getting married don’t appeal to us,” said (Katherine) Doyle, a student. “In our day-to-day life we feel like civil partners — we don’t feel like husband and wife, and we want the government to recognize that.”

An activist who commented on the case cited a larger motivation to have “one law for everybody,” but also implied that the fight to legalize gay marriage is somehow harmful to straight couples, roughly half of whom don’t even see fit to honor the vows they take in the first place:

“Denying heterosexual couples the right to have a civil partnership is heterophobic,” Peter Tatchell said.

As someone who has watched close gay friends genuinely suffer due to lacking the option to marry, this seems to me to be a bit of a slap in the face to the movement to legalize gay marriage. Setting the debate back to whether marriage, a mostly heterosexual institution, should even exist will only serve to delay gay people being granted equal rights as well as bolster arguments from gay marriage opponents that allowing gay people to marry somehow tears at the fabric of the institution of marriage.

Does this fight advance smarter marriage and civil union related policy, or is it a setback for the fight to allow gays to marry?

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Should straight people also be able to get gay married? is a post from: The Inquisitr

Constance McMillen, the girl from Mississippi who was banned from her prom for planning to bring a same-sex date, then later “allowed” to go only to be redirected to a fake event while almost all the other students partied at a secret undisclosed location, was awarded a settlement after the ACLU sued the Itawamba school district on her behalf.

While the school agreed as part of the settlement to “follow a nondiscrimination policy,” the district contends that it has been in place all along despite the nationwide attention drawn to the whole “no lesbians at the prom” flap:

McMillen’s lawyers filed notice Monday in U.S. District Court to accept a judgment offer from school district that will pay $35,000, plus attorney’s fees. As part of the agreement, the district also said it would follow a policy not to discriminate based on sexual orientation in any educational or extracurricular activities or allow harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

School officials contend that their agreement to follow the nondiscrimination policy merely reaffirms inclusiveness rules the district already had, said school board attorney Michele Floyd. She said the district’s insurance company will pay McMillen.

McMillen, who eventually sought to finish out her senior year at a school in Jackson, Mississippi, has relocated to Memphis. She says she is attending Southwest Community College, and plans to use the settlement money to pay for her education. Of the incident, McMillen speculated to NPR:

McMillen said she thinks the case resonated with so many people because “prom is a common theme and everyone knows how it feels to want to go to prom. With my story, even if people didn’t agree with being gay, they understood. They figured out how cruel some people can be.”

School who banned lesbian teen from prom ordered to pay $35,000 is a post from: The Inquisitr

Remember that adage about being careful about what you post to the web coming back to haunt you?

Well it might be a new adage but it is definitely one that Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz will have plenty of time to ruminate over now that he has been removed from the select team of scientists that were selected by the Obama administration to look into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The reason for his removal it seems is some writings on his blog about some rather sensitive social issues of which his little screed defending homophobia was one.

In that post Katz wrote this about the AIDS epidemic

“The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts,” he wrote. “Engaging in such behavior is like riding a motorcycle on an icy road without a helmet. It may be possible to get away with it for a while, and a few misguided souls may get a thrill out of doing so, but sooner or later (probably sooner) the consequences will be catastrophic. Lethal diseases spread rapidly among people who do such things.”

According to the post in the LA Times these writings were not known about at the time when Katz was picked for the team.

“Dr. Chu has spoken with dozens of scientists and engineers as part of his work to help find solutions to stop the oil spill,” a statement from the Energy Department said. “Some of Professor Katz’s controversial writings have become a distraction from the critical work of addressing the oil spill. Professor Katz will no longer be involved in the Department’s efforts.”

As for your past coming back to haunt you. Those writings by Katz are from about 10 years ago which goes to show that you might have forgotten about your rants but the web never will.

Leading scientist removed from oil spill team after discovery of homophobic blog posts is a post from: The Inquisitr

As we reported not too long ago, a Mississippi teen was cruelly redirected to a fake prom with only a handful of students in attendance while all her classmates partied nearby- because her peers and their parents were snitty that she’d requested a ticket for a same sex date.

While McMillen’s peers seemed proud of their actions and shamelessly posted pictures of their straight-only prom all over the internet, the openly gay teen took the high road, even going so far as to chastise supporters for lambasting her classmates on Facebook. Ellen DeGeneres invited McMillen to be on Ellen, and gave the teen a $30,000 scholarship, but Constance has other supporters, too.

McMillen was named as a Grand Marshal of New York City’s late June pride parade this year, parade organizers Heritage of Pride have announced. McMillen’s lawyer confirmed that the teenager will be attendance for the parade on June 27th in Manhattan. McMillen also plans to attend a “promlike event” on May 1st in San Francisco, so it appears that her classmates in Fulton, Mississippi can indeed suck it.

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Constance McMillen, lesbian teen sent to fake prom, named Grand Marshal of NYC pride parade is a post from: The Inquisitr

Rumors that the teenage lesbian from Mississippi who was banned from attending her prom only to be re-directed to a fake prom with a mere five other students in attendance have been confirmed, quite hatefully, by McMillen’s classmates.

A classmate of Constance’s named Lindsay Begley wrote a rather lengthy explanation of why she and her classmates are a bunch of horrid bigots, and if following this story from the outset hasn’t brought back the wretchedness of the highschool hierarchy, Begley’s message certainly will. (And if you’re the type of person who would throw rocks at McMillen and call her names, you can join the Facebook group “Constance, quit yer cryin’.”)

Begley says:

**Open Minded Readers Only**

I am a senior at IAHS, and I’ve known Constance for the last 6 years. Please hear our side of the story before you decide on our fate.
The party we had in Evergreen (the county neighborhood I live in) is 30 mins away from the school. we rented out the community center, hired vendors, decorated, and our parents ran the security/chaperone staff- but it wasn’t prom. Prom was at the country club where constance and 7 other students were. The reason the senior class boycotted the actual prom was not because we hate gays. We wanted a drama-free gathering to celebrate 3 great years and 1 lousy one together, and we wanted to lay low. We also wanted to do it without the main cause of the lousy. What people are failing to realize is that much of the fault of this whole stink lies with Constance, not her mistreatment by the school district, but her crazy-reckless need for attention. It sounds mean and horrible and like we planned it all specifically to embarrass Constance, but we didn’t. We let her have her prom with her girlfriend and her tuxedo and we went to party it up in the “boondocks” not because we wanted her rights violated, but so we could salvage what has turned into a total fiasco. As a whole we didn’t support her decision to throw the district under the bus, or her insinuations that we’re all just a bunch ‘a hicks driving around in beater pick up trucks spitting tobacco and burning crosses. IAHS is one of the top schools in the state and I’m proud of that, and I’m proud that we took a stand and just said you know what? forget it, we have just as much right as you do to have a party for ourselves. So we did, and now we’re getting flack because poor Connie’s ego got a bit of bruising. She’s playing the lesbian card to prove she ALWAYS gets what she wants. This time, we didn’t just let her.

Take it as you will, because I’m sure it sounds like we faked her out, but understand this- the decision NOT to attend prom had nothing to do with the school or with Constance’s sexual preferences; it had everything to do with proving we weren’t going to let her and the ACLU steamroll us into doing what Constance wanted. We flexed the muscle of the majority and we’ll suffer the consequences.

Still don’t see why the en masse actions of McMillen’s classmates were so shameful, bigoted and horrible? The same thing happened to a black girl 45 years ago in Birmingham. Have you been buying the story that these kids and their parents just wanted a “drama free” prom? You can read some of their Facebook comments after the event here. Still okay with it? The blog Global Shift explains how this kind of institutionalized discrimination parallels the “separate but equal” racial struggles of the past:

Of course, this goes beyond helping the football team shove a science nerd in a locker; we’re discussing an active and willful plot to publicly separate and shame McMillen and (presumably) Itawamba’s other socially “undesirables” from fraternizing with the mainstream popular kids. The kind of emotional depravity that could justify for a mob mentality to ruin one girl’s high school prom rivals the Old Culture South’s reliance on separate but equal to avoid racial integration (which, apparently, few of the school district officials and none of the Itawamba parents knew had been overturned 56 years ago byPlessy v. Ferguson).

Below are some screencaps of students gloating after the event. Would that real life were like 1980s teen movies and these creeps were treated to some John Hughes style comeuppance.

Followup: Constance McMillen’s classmates confirm prom ruse, the fact that they’re bigoted is a post from: The Inquisitr

If internet reports are correct, the teen who went to court for the right to attend her prom is Mississippi with a same-sex date was redirected Friday night to a “fake prom” with only five other students in attendance.

While Constance McMillen and a handful of other students attended the “prom,” the balance of the students attended a prom from which McMillen was deliberately directed away from and then deliberately excluded from attending:

The judge declined to force the school district to hold the prom because a parent-sponsored, private prom was being organized — and the understanding was that McMillen and her date were invited to that event. But Hampton says McMillen was never invited and organizers made it very difficult for her to find information on the time and location. That prom was later mysteriously canceled, with the Friday night event at the country club officially replacing it.

McMillen confirms that version of events, and says that the prom she attended was also attended by students with “learning difficulties”:

Two students with learning difficulties were among the seven people at the country club event, McMillen recalls. “They had the time of their lives,” McMillen says. “That’s the one good thing that come out of this, [these kids] didn’t have to worry about people making fun of them [at their prom].”

It’s difficult to imagine that all the other students would be able to keep their yaps shut forevermore about the secret prom, and reports on the Facebook group supporting McMillen’s efforts to attend her prom say that other students uploaded pictures from the “real prom.” If the picture above is accurate and taken on the night of the fake prom, it would appear that more than seven students were in attendance.

While the real, secret prom was likely parent sponsored and private (ruling out ACLU intervention) a commenter on the Advocate’s coverage of the incident who identifies himself as Christopher Bingham has a novel solution for discouraging similar behavior in the future:

We live in the age of the internet. Surely the people who organized the other party have names and if it was country club, or a church that hosted they have names too. The kids that orgnanized the event and thir [sic] parents should be known to the world. As an employer, I know I wouldn’t hire anyone who organized something like that – and the internet is forever. There are surely lots of jobs in the fundie world for this kind of sewage, but not so much in the rest of the world. A future enmployer should see the names of these kids much like what you get when you google “santorum.” the only person who has risked anything is the young woman who sued. The other side should have some consequences for their actions as well.

Constance McMillen, banned from prom for being gay, says district staged “fake prom” is a post from: The Inquisitr

Remember in high school when you goofed off at Field Hockey and Coach Lally made the entire team run for twenty minutes?

This story is kind of like that, but instead of acting like a schmuck, Constance McMillen is gay. And instead of Coach making the team run laps, her lesbianism is the reason the Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi is canceling the prom for everyone. The school didn’t come out and say, “well thanks to your gayness, no one can go to the prom,” but they did cite “distractions to the educational process caused by recent events” in a statement about the decision. Because the prom itself is totally educational and not at all distracting.

McMillen reacted in a way any kid would react when their request to bring a date caused the whole prom to be taken away:

“Oh, my God. That’s really messed up because the message they are sending is that if they have to let gay people go to prom that they are not going to have one,” she said. “A bunch of kids at school are really going to hate me for this, so in a way it’s really retaliation.”

Of course, the prom isn’t really canceled, it’s just canceled in a way to exclude the gays:

The school board’s statement canceling the official school prom also included a suggestion that a private group could organize an independent prom instead. Ms. McMillen said that’s their way of getting around the issue.

“If they set it up privately they probably aren’t going to allow gay people to go, and there is nothing that you can do about it,” she said. “I’m going to have to change schools or something.”

What a compromise! The anti-gay folks involved get to be martyrs for political correctness, they don’t miss out on any opportunities to pick on the girl and the prom goes on anyway! Just with no pesky gay people!

Is it wrong to hope that Clinton Kelly, that guy who does weddings after Bridezillas is on and other reality-tv fabulousness experts swoop in and give this kid and all her supporters a better prom than her podunk town ever could have thrown? And that at the door they have a no homophobes policy?

Being a lesbian ruins the prom for everyone is a post from: The Inquisitr

Comedienne Roseanne Barr took to her blog to blast the Mormon church for its anti-gay rhetoric, speculating that the pressure drove Marie Osmond’s son Michael Blosil to commit suicide in Los Angeles last week.

Barr doesn’t attack Osmond (much) directly, instead blaming the institutionalized homophobia in the Mormon church for driving Michael to suicide:

because he had been told how wrong and how sick he was every day of his life by his church and the people in it. Calling that “depression” is a lie!

Gerald Lund one of the ex church apostles has three gay kids himself.

Yet, even though the people they say they love the most in all of their public displays and speeches (THEIR KIDS AND FAMILY!!) are gay,– their own children,for crying out loud- these people cannot find the christian decency and compassion within themselves to stop their hypocritical gay bashing!!

Barr goes on to take a minor swipe at Osmond, urging her to advocate for kids like Michael in the same way she advocates for

Marie please don’t talk about how your faith in your church has helped you get through this one! Please get some integrity and tell that church of yours that you will leave it and stop giving it ten percent of your money if they don’t stop trying to destroy your kids’ and all gay people’s civil rights and dreams and hopes!!

G-d is trying to use you for something good and this is your opportunity! Your church is wrong and on the wrong wrong wrong side of things! Get as vocal about that as you are about your diet. G-d bless you too, Marie.

Osmond has not commented on the issue.

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Roseanne Barr says Marie Osmond’s son killed himself because of anti-gay Mormons is a post from: The Inquisitr

Daily Fail Mail writer Jan Moir’s article, originally titled Why there was nothing ‘natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death, has taken over Twitter, spawned a Facebook group and crashed a website that handles press complaints.

The piece, now titled A strange, lonely and troubling death…, has spawned the Twitter hashtag #thedailymailisgay and angry tweets about the article’s implications are coming at the rate of hundreds a minute. Moir’s conclusions are cringe-worthy, embarrassing to read and brings to mind the feeling one gets when an off-color remark is overheard at a party.

The general tone permeating the piece implies that Gately died, essentially, of his gayness. That homosexuality is somehow an inherent moral disease that eats away at a person, making the sudden death of an otherwise apparently healthy 33-year-old man not necessarily shocking. The fact that Gately was found by a man other than his partner (who stayed the night!!!) and that he’d >gasp< smoked cannabis sometime that evening are held up as proof that his death was not only to be expected, but it’s implicit that it was somehow deserved. What does one expect, hosting strange gay men for sleepovers and puffing the magic dragon? Nevermind that the UK as a whole is booze-soaked and marijuana has no recorded fatalities, he was a pot-smoking homo!

Reaction to the piece was quick and painful across the blogosphere. Twitter big shot Stephen Fry opined, “I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane. . . .” and Brit news parody site satirized Moir’s angle with a similar hateful dismissal of her career:

One Mail reader told us, “All she did was speak the truth about Stephen Gately’s unusual death, because every Daily Mail reader knows that the gays can only die if you drive a wooden stake through their heart.”

“His death is very suspicious, maybe someone should think about interviewing all the immigrants, eh?”

Should you doubt Moir’s homophobia or want to give the woman the benefit of the doubt, pay close attention to this portion. While Moir’s implications are hateful and hurtful, she wraps it all up in a discriminatory bow at the end. Overlooking the much more plentiful instances of straight on straight violence, Moir doesn’t pass up the opportunity to cast aspersions on the many happy gay couples both in the UK and abroad:

Another real sadness about Gately’s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.

Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.

Of course, in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately’s last night raise troubling questions about what happened.

Daily Mail article on Gately’s death sparks social media outrage is a post from: The Inquisitr

A school in Utah has sent a student home after alleging the student was promoting cross dressing by wearing a kilt.

14 year old Gavin McFarland, who has Scottish heritage (if the Mc wasn’t a give away already) was wearing his family tartan to school as part of an art project. Rocky Mountain Junior High Principal Craig Jessop though had other ideas: that kilt was clearly a sin as it promoted the homosexual act of cross-dressing.

The school district however was far more tolerant of Scottish tradition, and has asked Jessop to apologize to McFarland over the incident, as opposed to apologizing for his clear homophobia and victimization of school children.

Utah school says wearing a Kilt promotes cross-dressing is a post from: The Inquisitr