Breaking: Federal Appeals Court Finds the Key Component of DOMA Unconstitutional

Awesome! The Boston Federal Appeals Court declared today that Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.

From AP News:
 

BOSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

In its unanimous ruling, the three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston said the 1996 law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman discriminates against gay couples because it doesn't give them the same rights and privileges as heterosexual couples.

The court didn't rule on the law's other politically combustible provision, which said states without same-sex marriage cannot be forced to recognize gay unions performed in states where it's legal. It also wasn't asked to address whether gay couples have a constitutional right to marry.

And here's part of the ruling via Metro Weekly:

[M]any Americans believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and most Americans live in states where that is the law today. One virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice, but this applies as well to the states that have chosen to legalize same-sex marriage. Under current Supreme Court authority, Congress' denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest.

Help! My Bigotry is Being Oppressed! #1

AFA host Kevin McCullough being slightly weirded out by being called out on his hate speech.

So, um, us gays hate straight people for having sex and having babies, so we'll stop them by, uh, asking to get married! Cause we're evil and stuff. But that's ok, cause gays don't REALLY exist. So why all the hate for this guy? So so very very unfair...

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Meanwhile, "Gay Activists Try To Suppress Biblical Viewpoint From The Media", apparently, or so Gary Schneeberger, vice president of communications for "Focus On The Family", says, adding his voice in the general hate group outrage for GLAAD's new Commentator Accountability Project which I blogged about in the previous post. Other oppressed bigots include the "Liberty Council"'s spokesperson Matt Barber, who says that GLAAD Can't Silence Christians, failing to note that GLAAD isn't trying to...

"They need to understand -- liberals and secularists -- that as Christ followers, we will never, ever stop speaking God's truth in love," Barber comments. "We appreciate when they reveal who they really are here and reveal the weakness inherent within their own arguments by attempting to silence those who would dare to dissent with their radical secular socialism."

Hopefully journalists with a conscience will do what's right.


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Another monster whose hatred is being oppressed is Evangelical monster Scott Lively who just got sued in Massachusetts court by a Ugandan LGBT rights group for inciting the persecution and murder of homosexuals in their country.

The lawsuit maintains that beginning in 2002, Mr. Lively conspired with religious and political leaders in Uganda to whip up anti-gay hysteria with warnings that gay people would sodomize African children and corrupt their culture.

The Ugandan legislature considered a bill in 2009, proposed by one of Mr. Lively’s Ugandan contacts, that would have imposed the death sentence for the “offense of homosexuality.” That bill languished after an outcry from the United States and European nations that are among major aid donors to Uganda, but was reintroduced last month.

Lively is of course outraged by the vermin's temerity:

“I am an American citizen [being targeted] over the persecution of homosexuals as they define it as a crime against humanity – for speaking the truth of the Bible in a foreign country.”

Poor bastard...

The Fabulous Adventures of Sheriff Paul Bebeu, Part II: Fun at the Boarding School

The recently outed and disgraced Republican Arizona sheriff Paul Babeu (you can find all about that tale of woe here) is now under an even darker investigation than the ongoing allegations of threatening to deport his Mexican ex-boyfriend. Apparently, Babeu was the headmaster and executive director of the now-defunct DeSisto boarding school in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, between 1999 and 2001. Investigating reporters for ABC have uncovered the abusive policies that were going on during his time there, as well as an alleged relationship between him and a 17-year old student that both the other students and Babeu's own sister claim to have been aware of at the time. Even though the legal age of consent in Massachusetts is 16, the relationship is still highly unethical, and if proven true (the student, whose name has not been revealed at this time, has refused to talk to the reporters), would put the already seriously questionable morals of the good sheriff into an even worse light.

Honestly, at this point, any political career Babeu was hoping to have has gone down the drain. It seems to me extremely naive of him to have expected to ever survive in the world of politics with this past, especially being on the Republican side, where even were he not obviously an immoral sleazeball, the very fact that he's gay is already a death sentence. I just hope the guy gets proven guilty for at least some of this shit, and sentenced to something...

For more on this story, and the actual ABC video, go to the HuffPost.