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MADDOW PRESSURED INTO MOSQUE SEGMENT
By Jeffrey GersonPosted August 26, 2010 04:55:00 PM
* RACHEL MADDOW SCARING WHITE PEOPLE FOR FUN AND PROFIT X390
(GRAB) | ADVOCATE.COMIn an interview with The Daily Beast, Rachel Maddow explained her initial hesitancy in covering the story of the ground zero mosque, saying the recent sensationalism "grosses [her] out."

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SOUTH AFRICAN ATHLETE’S RETURN REIGNITES GENDER DEBATE
Caster Semenya in 2009 August 25th, 2010
http://www.lesbilicious.co.uk/uncategorized/south-african-athletes-return-reignitesgender- debate/
Caster Semenya made a triumphant return to athletics this week, one year after being ordered to undergo gender verification testing. Her victory has provoked frustration among her competitors, however, reigniting debates over gender
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GAGA DRAGS IT UP FOR VOGUE HOMMES

By Jeffrey GersonPosted August 26, 2010 06:10:00 PM
* LADY GAGA DRAG VOGUE COVER X390 (VOGUE) | ADVOCATE.COM Lady Gaga hits the cover of the upcoming Vogue Hommes Japan next month in her persona as her masculine side, "Jo Calderone."
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REIGNING HIP-HOP'S QUEEN LATIFAH IS OUTED.
Commentary by Irene Monroe. Huffington Post - USA:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/reigning-hip-hops-queen-l_b_694759.html
Long before the African American celebrity gossip, news, popular culture, and
entertainment blog "Bossip.com" outed Dana Owens, a.k.a. Queen Latifah, with photos of her and gal pal "personal trainer" Jeanette Jenkins in a tender embrace not meant for public viewing, the century-long reliable "chitlin' circuit" told us our closeted Queen was"in the life." Queen Latifah, however, emphatically refuted the rumors as scurrilous attacks.

NEW LUTHERAN GROUP LIKELY TO RISE FROM GAY DISCORD
http://www.365gay.com/news/new-lutheran-group-likely-to-rise-from-gay-discord/
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The ELCA is moving gay pastors into its fold - it's now the largest Protestant
denomination in the U.S. to allow noncelibate gays into its ranks - even as the most
visible dissidents strike out on their own.

ABOUT PROPOSITION 19
The Problem Sent by Diane Lejins
Today, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted enforcing the failed prohibition of cannabis (also known as marijuana). Currently, cannabis is easier for kids to get than alcohol. Prohibition has created a violent criminal market run by international drug cartels. Police waste valuable resources targeting non-violent cannabis consumers, while thousands of violent crimes go unsolved. And there is $14 billion in marijuana sales every year in California, but our debt-ridden state sees none of the revenue that
would come from controlling and taxing it. Cannabis prohibition has failed.
The Solution We need a common sense approach to control and tax cannabis like alcohol. Proposition 19 was carefully written, in order to:
* Control cannabis like alcohol, allowing adults 21 and over in California to possess up to one ounce of cannabis, to be consumed at home or licensed establishments
* Give state and local governments the ability to tax the sale of cannabis for adult consumption
* Put our police priorities where they belong, by ending the arrests of non-violent cannabis consumers, saving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year and enabling police to focus on violent crime
* Generate billions in annual revenue to fund what matters most in California: jobs, healthcare, public safety, parks, roads, transportation, and more
* Cut off funding to violent drug cartels across our border who currently generate 60 percent of their revenue from the illegal U.S. marijuana market
* Protect our kids, our roads, and our workplaces, by increasing the penalty for selling marijuana to minors, banning the smoking of marijuana in public, on school grounds, and while minors are present, maintaining strict criminal penalties for driving under the influence of marijuana, and preserving employers’ rights to maintain drug-free workplaces
* Protect medical cannabis patients’ rights
The National Black Police Assn., which has about 15,000 members, is the second African American organization to back the measure. The California NAACP has also endorsed it, citing the disproportionate arrest and incarceration of African Americans caught with marijuana. The California Medical Association in October declared the criminalization of marijuana
to be a failed public health policy. Its assessment is appropriate.
Marijuana prohibition is a classic case of the so-called cure (criminalization) being worse than the disease (the private recreational use of marijuana).
Voices of Reason: As a retired Orange County judge, I've been on the front lines of the drug war for three decades, and I know from experience that the current approach is simply not working. Controlling marijuana with regulations similar to those currently in place for alcohol will put street drug dealers and organized crime out of business, while allowing police to focus on protecting the public by preventing violent crime.
– Jim Gray Orange County Superior Court Judge (Ret.)
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CHILD OF LESBIAN COUPLE REFUSED PLACE AT SCHOOL
Writing August 23rd, 2010 by Kaite.Welsh
http://www.lesbilicious.co.uk/community/child-of-

lesbian-couple-refusedplace- at-school/
School officials in Texas have barred Olivia Harrison from attending a local
school because her parents are lesbians.
She had been accepted after administrators had assumed her mother
Tracy was a man, but when Tracy and Jill arrived at an information
evening, they were told that Olivia’s admission would be rescinded. They
later issued the following statement:
“It is clear… that enrolling the child in a traditional Christian school, such
as St. Vincent’s School, would not foster her own personal values at home.
And it might undermine the moral instruction of our clergy and teachers in
the minds of our schools students and parents.”
Although the school claims they would have made a similar judgement
about a child of unmarried parents, the couple, who were married in
Canada in 2006, remain sceptical.
In their statement, the staff of St Vincent’s said that the were praying for
Olivia “and her mother.”

 

                            
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