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Please use the "report" button for this, so the staff can move them to their proper categories.

I do agree with you and I'm glad you made this thread.

We had an thread here before about the study done using various images on a computer screen and a camera that somehow knew where the eyes were looking.  MEN, yep that's all of us regardless of sexual orientation, spend a lot of time looking at other men's crotches.

This only applies to Section 3 of DoMA.

Sections 1 and 2 are still the law of the land.

DoMA Section 3 (the part that pertains to the federal government) was struck down as unconstitutional.    The federal government must treat all legal marriages the same.

Prop 8 was refused due to "standing" as the only the state of California has the right to defend it's laws, not a group of people that support that particular law.  The Supreme Court sent it back to the last court to hear the case where standing wasn't an issue.  The entire case is n't thrown out, just the appeal.  Here's good news buried in there though.

From SCOTUSBlog.com;

Kevin Russell: There will be much further discussion and analysis about how the decision in Perry affects other couples in California. For the time being, we will say this: the Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal challenging a final order from the trial court. It would appear, then, that the order will go into effect. And it appears that this final order purports to prohibit the Attorney General and the Governor from enforcing Prop. 8.

There could well be new challenges to the scope of that order. But for the time being, the order appears to be in effect and to prevent enforcement of Proposition 8 statewide.

It has been confirmed that tomorrow (26 June 2013) is the day we find out how the court ruled in both cases, as well as a 3rd non related case.

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16-year-old Jack Andraka discovered a near-100 percent accurate test for pancreatic cancer that diagnoses early enough to ensure an almost 100 percent chance of survival. Oh, and he’s also a gay.

Andraka was inspired by the death of his uncle from pancreatic cancer, spurring in him an interest in early detection. Currently, only 5.5 percent of those diagnosed with pancreatic survive for five years.  At 15, he created a non-invasive paper sensor that detects an increase of a protein indicating the presence of pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer during early stages when there is a higher likelihood of a cure.

According to London Evening Standard, Andraka’s test is “400 times more sensitive, 168 times faster and 26,000 times cheaper than today’s.”

Last year, Jack, a native of Crownsville, Maryland, won the prestigious George E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which came with a $75,000 cash prize. His test can even be applied to the detection of HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s and heart disease, but for his extraordinary achievements, Jack doesn’t think he’s all that extraordinary.

“I wouldn’t call myself smart,” he said. “I know people who are way smarter. But … I guess it’s how you use information. It’s about creativity rather than facts. I’m a creative thinker. My parents never told me answers. They told me how to think, not what to think. I disagree with our bulimic education system: learning by rote and then puking up all the facts in an exam.”

Jack goes to, what he describes as, a “really bad” school about “one to four times a month” because of his lecturing but keeps up online. When he is in class, he avoids the bathrooms; not because he gets bullied — “they don’t put geeks in lockers any more” — but that’s where all the kids are doing drugs. When prompted by the reporter if he ever gets into trouble with girls or alcohol, Jack simply replied, “I’m gay, so no. And I wouldn’t know where to find alcohol.”

I hope all the homophobes do the right thing and refuse the test so they don't become hypocrites.

In the last few years, there have been at least a half dozen of these types of apps.    Most have been removed due to petitions, but a few were removed due to outright bigotry in the app.

The irony is that in France, divorce and affairs are common place.  So how can this have anything to do with the stability of the family?!

I honestly think this is more about the frustrations over the failed economy than about gay marriage.  They know they can't do anything about the economy, so they need another outlet for their frustration.

New web censorship rule bans gay content in Singapore

Websites accessed in Singapore subject to regulations that prohibit 'material [that] advocates homosexuality or lesbianism'
30 MAY 2013 | BY ANNA LEACH

The Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore is introducing a tough new rule that will censor websites that are read from inside the country, even if they are not hosted there.

The new rule, which will come into effect on Saturday (1 June), will require local news websites and those that report regularly on Singapore and get at least 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore over two months to apply for an individual license.

The license will require the sites to comply with existing regulations that include banning 'material [that] advocates homosexuality or lesbianism, or depicts or promotes incest, pedophilia, bestiality and necrophilia'.

Any content found to be in breach of those regulations will be expected to be removed within 24 hours, a statement from government agency MDA said. In addition the sites will have to pay a 'performance bond' of $50,000 (Singapore dollars, $40,000, €30,000).

'It is extremely disturbing,' said gay Singaporean writer and performance artist Ng Yi-sheng to Gay Star News.

'However, there is a chance that the law will be executed very inconsistently (like many laws in Singapore). At this first stage of the law's application, MDA is only going after major corporate news websites. They might decide not to go after [LGBT websites] Fridae, Trevvy, etc, because it'd place them in a too politically awkward situation.'

MDA published a list of the sites they are asking to apply for licenses which includes Yahoo News, Asia One, Business Times and Channel New Asia.

'Ultimately, gay activism won't suffer that much, because a specific issue like this can be easily disseminated via blogs and Facebook walls. It's the more general coverage of human rights abuses here that will suffer,' added Ng.

Jean Chong from LGBT rights group Sayoni said she thinks the new law will be aimed at sites critical of the government. 'It's another censorship attempt by the government and the online community is incensed,' she said.

Veteran gay rights campaigner Alex Au dissected the MDA's announcement on his popular blog Yawning Bread, which could be a victim of the new rule.

'Instead of imposing new regulatory conditions on online media, why not dismantle the straitjackets on offline media?' Au wrote. 'You’d notice that the government is silent on this.'

Opposition parties have also been critical. Singapore Democratic Party and National Solidarity Party both called the new rule a 'regressive' step, Wall Street Journal reports.

In an interview with Gay Star News last December Pink Dot spokesperson Paerin Choa said that existing media censorship laws affecting TV and press were 'the worst' of all the issues LGBT people face in Singapore.

'Content that justifies, promotes or glamorizes gay lifestyle is banned,' Choa said. 'So basically if a gay person finds love and lives happily ever after - that story is banned. Brokeback Mountain is allowed, because the gay person dies and lives a sad lonely life.

'So you have very skewered portrayal of gay people in local mainstream media. It leads to an ignorance about what being gay is about in the general public.'

Nigeria have passed the ‘Jail All The Gays’ law, punishing not only gay sex but gay people, today (30 May).

It bans same-sex marriage, outlaws anyone from forming organizations supporting gay rights, and sets up prison terms of up to 14 years.

Approved by Nigeria’s House of Representatives in a voice vote, the bill will be sent to President Goodluck Jonathan for him to sign into law.

Under the bill the Senate passed in November 2011, openly gay people would be imprisoned whether or not they have sex.

Anybody who knows somebody who is gay will have to tell the authorities or they could go to jail for five years.

Any same-sex couple who got married would be punished by up to 14 years prison and 10 for anyone else involved in the ceremony. Even wedding guests could be jailed.

And ‘any person who directly or indirectly makes public show of same-sex amorous relationships’ would also get a 10 year sentence.

Gay Star News could not immediately obtain a copy of the version passed by the House of Representatives. If there are changes, a joint committee of lawmakers will have to go over the individual differing clauses before sending it to the president.

If there are significant changes, it may have to go back to the Senate to be passed there once again.

The US and the UK governments have threatened to cut aid to the African country if it passes the bill.

Gay sex has long been banned in Nigeria, punished by prison in the south and the death penalty in the north.

Bisi Alimi, a Nigerian gay activist, told GSN he was ‘shocked’ and ‘heartbroken’ by the bill’s passing.

He said: ‘The time the vote was supposed to happen was November last year and they didn’t do it and nobody was expecting it.

‘There has been lots of political instability in the last few days. It was Democracy Day in Nigeria and there are lots of questions about the legitimacy of the president and the House of Representatives.

‘It is a shocking way for them to try to get through those political problems by passing this bill.

‘If the president signs this bill it will be the first country in recent history to criminalize gay people in its constitution in this way.

‘And it will have a big impact. Uganda will be next, Sierra Leone will follow.’

During the debate on the pensions amendment, they discussed a real case.

A man paid into his pension pot all his working life and as soon as civil unions became legal in the UK he and his partner got one.  He died last year.

His gay civil partner gets £500 a year in survivor benefits.  HOWEVER, if he was hetero, his wife would have gotten £41,000 a year.

If the law was changed to make pensions equal, it would cost £18 million or 0.00000006% (7 zeros after the decimal point) of the total pension pot for the UK.  The coalition government said this is too high a price to justify equality in pensions.

Yesterday evening, the UK House of Commons passed gay marriage for England and Wales.   Now it goes to the House of Lords.  This means that there's still a long way to go before it becomes law.

The sad point in all this is that the government refused to allow amendments that would end LGBT discrimination that go with gay marriage and civil partnerships; ie pensions.   So even though we are gonna be treated as less "separate", we are still gonna be legally discriminated against.

sodoma and gomorrah and other 2 cities had nothing to do with sexuality their sin was closing the door to jews which desired to touch their market of nafta,

I already discussed this in the sticky topic.

There are at least 6 direct references to Sodom and Gomorrah, telling why they were destroyed and not a single one even mentions sex/sexuality.  Only Sodom was supposed to be guilty of gay sex/rape.  Jesus mentions Sodom and Gomorrah 3 times and not once did he link their destruction to gay sex, but rather he said it was greed.

BTW, it was 7 cities destroyed that night, 4 of which are directly named.

this cities were in a sismic activity zone, actually you can explain the exact scene in detail as protrayed by the bible threw logic…

This is also the case with Jericho.

It is/was in the center of a seismic area full of methane pockets.

Youtube Video

A young gay christian explains the bible and it's supposedly anti gay bits.

This video is over an hour long, but it's well worth the time to watch it.

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/rules.php#102

Please read the above link, especially #9 about collections.

YES, we did start it.  However, because we no longer have anyone to moderate it, it's been closed (but not deleted).

Star Wars The Old Republic aka SWTOR is supposed to have gay romance in it's expansion that's coming out 14 April 2013.

I don't know if it will still be in the game as there was a huge teenage boy homophobic backlash against it and BioWare hasn't mentioned it for a few months.

More specifically, you may choose to have a great romantic and sexual relationship between Commander Shepard and Kaidan Alenko.

I played through twice doing that.

The first time I played, I had to stop and wait for the "gay patch" to get the romance I wanted.

It's weird the BioWare makes romance such a main part of their more modern games, but so far only ME3 has the gay romance in it.

Double XP for the next 2 weekends; 6pm Friday to 7am Monday GMT

The expansion comes out 14 April.

With Tuesday's vote, France joins Britain in taking a major legislative step in recent weeks toward allowing gay marriage and adoption

This isn't exactly true.

Scotland is supposed to introduce a gay marriage bill "soon" (the ruling party is more concerned about a separate Scotland, than equality) and Northern Ireland says it will never have gay marriage.  Only England and Wales are currently moving forward with gay marriage at the moment.