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‘Joe the Plumber?’ Don’t know him

Roger L. Simon of Pajamas Media and PJTV reacts to their conservative commentator Samuel Wurzelbacher’s Christianity Today interview:
It should go without saying that this view in no way reflects the views of Pajamas Media or Pajamas TV. Speaking personally, as a very public supporter of gay marriage, I couldn’t disagree more with Mr. Wurzelbacher’s position on this matter.
But will they get rid of him?

‘Joe the Plumber’ on Dobson, ‘queers’ and GOP rebranding

Conservative movement pitchman Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, continues his rather controversial revisionist American history tour with free-wheeling remarks invoking states rights and the Biblical origins of the U.S. Constitution. In an interview published in Christianity Today, Joe the Plumber opines on politics and GOP rebranding efforts while professing his love for James Dobson and slurring "queers" whom he won't let near his children.

Gay marriage watchers eye Colorado

Last week in gay marriage, which brought groundbreaking developments in Iowa and Vermont, underlined the patchwork nature of our country's legal fabric, leaving citizens across the country scratching their heads: "What does it mean?" "What happens next?" ACLU Director Matt Coles has written a short guide to the issue at the ACLU blog, where he explains that the future of gay marriage hinges on what happens in states like Colorado.

Colorado civil unions hearing comes as national debate shifts on gay...

Proponents of a 2010 Colorado ballot initiative that would establish civil unions for same-sex couples met with state attorneys on Tuesday for a required "review and comments" session, a typically staid affair that normally draws only those required to attend. But this was no usual session. Although the initiative was proposed last month, Tuesday's review comes during a week when gay marriage has been at the center of national news and when developments across the country are dramatically shifting the terrain of the debate.

Focus on the Family loses latest heavy-handed battle to ban gay...

Following Focus on the Family's ballot box success on the anti-gay marriage measure Proposition 8 in California, the multi-million dollar Christian publishing empire set it sights a bit closer to home — in Wyoming. But the famously fickle Equality State legislature rejected the "defense of marriage" measure floated by several Mormon lawmakers and backed by the newly-formed WyWatch Family Institute which is reportedly closely aligned with Focus and its affiliate the Colorado Family Institute.

‘Personhood’ author inspires man to push for gay marriage amendment

A 23-year-old Lakewood man who plans to meet with legislative staff Tuesday to review his proposed ballot measure to allow gay marriage in Colorado says he was inspired by 20-year-old Kristi Burton, who sponsored the controversial "personhood amendment" on last year's ballot, Lynn Bartels reports in the Rocky Mountain News. "I don't think there should be gender-specific laws when it comes to marriage in Colorado -- or anywhere," golf club salesman Stu Allen told Bartels.

Musgrave wins spot on Top 5 gay and lesbian ‘villains and...

Adding insult to, well, insult, the social action network change.org ranks defeated U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave among its Top Five LGBT Villains and Villainesses...
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