The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, has donated $1M to Protect Marriage, the group behind California's ballot amendment to overturn gay marriage.Here is a message from Geoff Kors of Equality California: We learned today that the right-wing groups behind Proposition 8 received a $1 million contribution from the Knights of Columbus.The Catholic fraternal organization based in Connecticut has also adopted a resolution calling for "legal and constitutional protection ... for the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. Full story...
The woman hit on the head with her Bible in last Friday's melee in the Castro went on Bill O'Reilly last night to claim that her group doesn't seek the conversions of gays.
Over on Huffington Post, Phil Zuckerman makes an interesting comparison between very religious nations and relatively secular ones in respect to the Christiantists' claim that God smites heathen nations.
Unhappy news from the Washington Times:
President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.
From the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins:
The surest way to lose the culture war is refusing to fight.
The Clintons have passed the Obama team's vetting process in Hillary's candidacy for Secretary of State.
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The world's largest and brightest LED billboard lit up in Times Square last night. Via New York Times:
The new Walgreens sign going live in Times Square Thursday is not the largest LED-based sign in the world, but its developers believe that it is the most complex, both in terms of its construction and operation.
The Sun UK is reporting that Michael Jackson has converted to Islam.
The skint superstar, 50, donned Islamic garb to pledge allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a pal’s mansion in Los Angeles, The Sun can reveal.
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