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Democrats criticize Biden’s decision to launch airstrikes in Syria without consulting Congress
Some Senate Democrats on Friday criticized President Joe Biden’s decision to launch an airstrike Thursday night in Syria without conferring with all of Congress.
“The American people deserve to hear the Administration’s rationale for these strikes and its legal justification for acting without coming to Congress. Offensive military action without congressional approval is not constitutional absent extraordinary circumstances,” a statement from Kaine’s office read. Kaine is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Congress should hold this administration to the same standard it did prior administrations, and require clear legal justifications for military action, especially inside theaters like Syria, where Congress has not explicitly authorized any American military action,” Murphy said in a statement Friday.
Democrats criticize Biden’s decision to launch airstrikes in Syria without consulting Congress
Law used to prosecute Capitol riot, Black Lives Matter violence under fire as racist
The law in question was enacted in 1968. It prohibited interference with police or firefighters during group violence, amid devastating riots in Washington D.C. and across the country that followed the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of that year.
Southern senators hastily passed the measure as a way to counter civil rights laws by getting tough on African Americans accused of attacking law enforcement.
Now, attorneys are pointing to that history to question its current application. A series of motions attacking the law have been filed in recent weeks in at least five different criminal cases, which have garnered the attention of top officials at the Justice Department in Washington.
The motions note that the ‘68 law was championed by Sen. Russell Long (D-La.) and that he formally titled it “the Civil Obedience Act,” in a snarky swipe at civil disobedience advocates like King.
The powerful and avowedly segregationist senator said missives like King’s famous letter from a Birmingham jail caused “the ultimate in lawlessness, wanton killing, and senseless, destructive rioting.”
“Because Senator Long believed that criticism of white supremacy and demands for racial justice were bound to cause riots, he proposed the Civil Obedience Act as a tool to suppress such expression,” the newly filed motions argue. “The legislative history … shows that it was enacted to suppress messages in support of civil rights and racial justice for Black Americans.”
Law used to prosecute Capitol riot, Black Lives Matter violence under fire as racist
School assignment asks kids to choose who to save: A gay athlete or Muslim student?
An unidentified teacher at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio gave out a controversial assignment recently. Now many people are criticizing both the teacher and school for allowing it.
The title of the assignment was: Whom to Leave Behind.
To do the assignment, students had to rank 12 different people based on who was most to least deserving to live. In the scenario, Earth is about to destruct, and a spaceship only has eight seats.
Gay Star News
This politician blamed gay suicide on weak anal muscles
A Swiss politician has blamed incontinence due to weakened anal muscles as the reason for an increase in suicide among gay people.
Zurich City Council member Daniel Regli made the statement during a budget debate on funding for sex education.
Regli criticized a sex ed website, Lust and Frust (Pleasure and Pain). He claimed the site, supported by the city’s education department, promotes homosexuality and promiscuity but doesn’t say anything about “homosexuals with multiple partners take their lives between the ages of 30 and 40…because their anal muscle is not holding up as it should.”
LGBTQ Nation
Richard Spencer Is A Texan Of The Year Finalist & The Internet Is NOT Having It
The secret gay history of Winston Churchill
When the first discussions about whether to decriminalize gay sex in the UK reached the cabinet, Winston Churchill was Prime Minister.
His words at that meeting set in motion the creation of the Wolfenden Report – a government sanctioned investigation into homosexuality. This would eventually lead to the partial decriminalization of gay sex.
But the Prime Minister did this at a time when LGBTI lives were totally closeted. And while leading the right-wing Conservative party.
So did he simply hold liberal views, or was he leading a secret double life?
Gay Star News
Wolverine aka Hugh Jackman is voting yes to marriage equality
Hollywood heartthrob and all round nice guy, Hugh Jackman, is the latest celebrity to support marriage equality.
Jackman tweeted that he and his wife Deborah Lee Furness will vote ‘yes’ in Australia’s postal survey on marriage equality.
‘We believe all Australians deserve to be treated equally under the law (sic) That’s why Deb & I are voting YES #equality and #love!’ the Wolverine star tweeted.
Gay Star News
Olympic medallist Colin Jackson announces he is gay
The British Olympic silver medallist and BBC sports presenter Colin Jackson has spoken publicly for the first time about being gay, saying he thought the time was right to reveal his sexuality.
In an interview for a Swedish documentary called Rainbow Heroes, the Welsh two-time 110m hurdles world champion said the reason he had not previously spoken of his sexuality was to avoid it being “sensationalised”.
The Guardian
Supergirl cast accused of mocking LGBT fans
In the video, Jordan begins the recap song by saying that in the past season Lena and Kara became friends, before yelling repeatedly: “But they’re only friends!”
The cast laughs and Benoist joins in, shouting: “They’re only friends!”
They were referring to a large portion of the Supergirl fan community who want Lena and Kara to have a romantic relationship, a pairing who has been dubbed “SuperCorp.”
Jordan later says: “I’m going to get destroyed for what I just did…I just debunked Supercorp,” and Benoist chimes in, saying: “That’s pretty brave.”
Pink News
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Is notion of a genderless humanity going too far?
We don’t even have pronouns for this.
That’s what accounts for the clumsy grammar of the statement parent Kori Doty issued about Doty’s newborn baby, Searyl Atli Doty. For that matter, it also accounts for the clumsy grammar of the sentence you just read.
Anyway, Kori Doty’s statement read: “It’s up to Searyl to decide how they identify, when they are old enough to develop their own gender identity. I am not going to foreclose that choice based on an arbitrary assignment of gender at birth based on an inspection of their genitals.”
As noted, the English language is not ready for this. For all its splendors, English offers no gender-neutral singular pronoun except “it.” Who wants to be an “it?”
If the language is not ready, well, truth to tell, neither is your humble correspondent. It’s a jarring realization.
Gazette-Mail
Alex Jones: Trans Women Are Gay Men Who Want to 'Pick Up More Guys'
In the deranged world of far-right commentator Alex Jones, transgender women are just gay men who want to “pick up more guys” — and trans people in general are mentally ill.
Jones’s rant on his eponymous radio show (also available on his Infowars website) started with a denunciation of news coverage of a British transgender man who recently gave birth to a child. Calling the Briton a man is “fraud,” Jones said, as he is merely “a woman that thinks she’s a man.”
“It’s not that I hate mentally ill people,” Jones continued. “If somebody wants to go be a woman or be a tranny, if it’s a gay guy and wants to go pick up more guys, you want to go get breast implants and doll your hair up, knock yourself out. I’m all for freedom.”
Advocate
Four Brazilian soccer players fired after locker room gay sex video goes viral
Four players from Sport Clube Gaúcho, a Brazilian soccer club based in Passo Fundo, Brazil, have had their contracts immediately terminated after a video of them engaging in a locker room sexcapade appeared online.
The 11-second video was reportedly recorded on Friday and uploaded to the Internet over the weekend. It depicts one player on his knees in front of two other players while a fourth player records, laughing hysterically.
The names of the four players have not been released. Within hours, the video, which is currently available to view on YouTube of all places, went viral.
Queerty
Vatican Police Break Up Gay Orgy at High-Ranking Cardinal’s Apartment
Vatican police have reportedly broken up a gay orgy at a high-ranking cardinal’s apartment at the former palace of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, according to a report in Italian paper Il Fatto Quotidiano (The Daily Fact).
The NZ Herald reports:
The occupant of the apartment is alleged to be a priest who serves as a secretary to cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio (above), the head of the Pontifical Council for Legislative texts and a personal adviser to the Pope.
According to the paper, neighbours became suspicious before complaining about irregular behaviour of those coming and going at the apartment.
When police showed up at the apartment, they reportedly found drugs and a group of men engaged in sexual activity.
The priest was then arrested and taken for questioning.
Towleroad
Phil Donahue: 'Hypocrisy is killing us'
The 81-year-old Donahue said Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that Americans tout their patriotism, but about half of them don't vote.
"Hypocrisy is killing us," he said.
Donahue argued that Trump's base represented a small percentage of the country, but elected Trump because they were "angry" and showed up to the ballot boxes last November.
"These are angry people," he said. "Maybe they haven't had a raise in eight years. The rumor is that their company is being sold. Their kids can't pay back their college loans. They come back exhausted from their day at the factory, and they read the paper where a guy at a hedge fund made a million dollars on Thursday.
"You can't do this to people," Donahue said. "Sooner or later, they're gonna go 'kaboom.' And they did. And the 'kaboom' expressed itself in the election of Donald Trump."
Donahue also criticized the media for "missing the mark" when it came to covering Trump. He said that journalists should "get out of Washington" and spend more time talking with Trump's voters -- the "real people."
CNN
Colton Haynes: Hollywood Management Told Me I Couldn’t Be Gay, Forced Me to Date Women – WATCH
Colton Haynes talked about being forced into the closet by the Hollywood studio system in an interview with Andy Cohen on Cohen’s ‘Radio Andy’ show on Sirius XM. He also described being forced to go on fake dates with young female stars to put up a front.
Towleroad