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May. 24th, 2012 02:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Chen Guangcheng is safe in the US, but his family is still in danger. His brother just escaped to the US embassy.
* Whoa! Colin Powell, who used to be mildly anti-gay is now pro-marriage equality.
* You know how the Romney camp is claiming that President Obama is increasing federal spending at "unprecedented levels?" Well it turns out the President is presiding over the slowest rate of spending increase since the end of the Korean war under Eisenhower. *Sigh* Can we stop treating lies as if they are truth now?
* More CNN coverage of the Baptists demanding concentration camps for LGBTQ folk, including Anderson Cooper trying to interview parishioners on their illogical and horrifying beliefs:
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/23/church-member-defends-pastor-worley/?hpt=ac_mid
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/23/gay-mom-saddened-by-pastor-sermon/?hpt=ac_bn2
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/church-member-to-cnn-lay-off-my-pastor/?hpt=ac_bn14
* Yes, I've seen the North Carolinian Baptists claiming that their demand that LGBTQ folk be sent to a concentration camp is an example of "loving the sinner and hating the sin." Somehow, this concentration camp thing is not making me feel "loved" at all. I do not see how stripping me of even the most basic of civil rights constitutes love.
* "Bad News Round up:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2012/05/bad-news-round-up.html
* I honor of Harvey Milk: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/05/got-milk.html
* Dogboy and Justine is really happening! I'm so excited despite being on the other side of the country and therefore unable to see it. Art like this needs to happen: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2012/05/23/dogboy-justine-tickets-now-on-sale
* Tim Gunn FTW: http://browngurlwfro.tumblr.com/post/23542369011/have-you-seen-most-of-the-plus-size-sections-out
* And a comic: http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/6963
* The Clutch:
* Whoa! Colin Powell, who used to be mildly anti-gay is now pro-marriage equality.
* You know how the Romney camp is claiming that President Obama is increasing federal spending at "unprecedented levels?" Well it turns out the President is presiding over the slowest rate of spending increase since the end of the Korean war under Eisenhower. *Sigh* Can we stop treating lies as if they are truth now?
* More CNN coverage of the Baptists demanding concentration camps for LGBTQ folk, including Anderson Cooper trying to interview parishioners on their illogical and horrifying beliefs:
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/23/church-member-defends-pastor-worley/?hpt=ac_mid
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/23/gay-mom-saddened-by-pastor-sermon/?hpt=ac_bn2
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/church-member-to-cnn-lay-off-my-pastor/?hpt=ac_bn14
* Yes, I've seen the North Carolinian Baptists claiming that their demand that LGBTQ folk be sent to a concentration camp is an example of "loving the sinner and hating the sin." Somehow, this concentration camp thing is not making me feel "loved" at all. I do not see how stripping me of even the most basic of civil rights constitutes love.
* "Bad News Round up:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2012/05/bad-news-round-up.html
* I honor of Harvey Milk: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/05/got-milk.html
* Dogboy and Justine is really happening! I'm so excited despite being on the other side of the country and therefore unable to see it. Art like this needs to happen: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2012/05/23/dogboy-justine-tickets-now-on-sale
* Tim Gunn FTW: http://browngurlwfro.tumblr.com/post/23542369011/have-you-seen-most-of-the-plus-size-sections-out
* And a comic: http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/6963
* The Clutch: