Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s 8:45 AM round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but let us know what you’re checking out too. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
- Religious conservatives have already begun blaming the LGBT community for yesterday’s east coast earthquake, as they will probably do so next week for Hurricane Irene. We’d like to take this opportunity to apologize in hopes of saving them the trouble.
- Metro Weekly takes an in-depth look at the impact of the President’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act six months ago.
- Openly gay Virginia Senate candidate Adam Ebbin (D) won his primary yesterday, clearing the way for a likely victory in the heavily Democratic 30th district.
- U.S. District Chief Judge James Ware has suggested he might record the August 29 hearing in the Prop 8 case.
- Never underestimate the National Organization for Marriage’s ability to depict a fight for more rights as a fight to curb rights.
- The Minnesota Independence Party has come out in opposition to the 2012 ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state’s constitution.
- The Florida teacher who told the world through Facebook that same-sex marriages are a “cesspool” that made him “almost throw up” is not sorry in the least for “exercising his rights.”
- But Billy Clemons, city manager of Lorena, TX, has “apologized” for various homophobic and and racist remarks he made in “private” (on Facebook).
- A bar in Cork, Ireland has sincerely apologized to a gay couple who were thrown out by bouncers for kissing.
- Mission America’s Linda Harvey presents homophobic rhetoric at its best, suggesting ending the gay identity entirely is the key to fighting HIV.
- Dr. Charlie Glickman points out that the study “proving” bisexuality is not wrong, but fundamentally flawed for the pedantic way it attempts to “measure” sexuality through pornographic arrousal.
- Coming soon from HBO: “The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
- CNN anchor Don Lemon comments on the strange dilemma of being a “confirmed bachelor” so long as he and his boyfriend never marry.
- Do you believe Rick Santorum has gay friends who respect them? We’d love to meet them:
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