Administration Publishes Faith-Based and Neighborhood Organization Rules
The federal government took steps to implement a 2010 Executive Order that detailed fundamental principles for faith-based organizations receiving federal grant funding through a set of proposed rules published by nine federal agencies.
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Gay Condom Company Wants You To Protect Your ‘Back Door’ – VIDEO
Gay condom company Stag Condoms has released a cheeky advertisement encouraging gay men to use protection.
In the ad, the company riffs on the perils of leaving your ‘back door’ open. In this instance, a handsome ginger returns from walking his dog returns home to find a devilish gay romp having taken over his living room.
Watch for the bananas, the kissing booth and the water hose in the video, below:
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Sean Mandell
Gay Condom Company Wants You To Protect Your ‘Back Door’ – VIDEO
One Pregnant Mom's Struggle: Yes, the Baby Is Still in There
When the IVF failed, my wife and I met with our doctor and he mentioned a few options: we could try IVF again, we could resort back to IUI for the fourth time or we could simply take a break and wait it out. The latter was immediately not an option for us — I mean, it’s not like we were going to all of a sudden miraculously get pregnant by the usual methods since even advanced medicine isn’t all that advanced yet. Although stranger things have happened, we weren’t ready to bet the farm on that one…
It was the beginning of February and we had the opportunity to try again immediately later that month. We did, and it took. Not only did it take, it stuck. Our heads began to spin. The two-week wait was as jarring as ever, but this time we were ready to be met with the news we had grown accustomed to hearing, except we didn’t hear it. Instead, we heard that the HcG number was high and that we were absolutely pregnant. There were no caveats. There were no “let’s wait and see” disclaimers. We had a big, fat positive “Go” sign, and we were in complete and utter shock and disbelief.
Over the next week, there were more HcG level checks and the numbers kept soaring. Instead of rising 50 percent, they doubled, tripled even. Still, I had my hand on the break waiting for whatever horrible news was to follow, just in case. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this coping mechanism drove people around me a bit batty. My hesitation to accept the positive outcome we had hoped and prayed for throughout the past two years was hard to swallow for people who expected my reaction to be a bit different than what it was at the time.
“You should be happy!”
“Are you excited?”
“Let’s buy baby clothes!”
“Do you have a name picked out yet?”
“Hold on.” “Stop.” “Wait a minute.” “I need a minute to get on board here.” All of these things flowed through my head and when I eventually tried to explain my lack of enthusiasm, the guilt I already had been feeling seemed to multiply. It felt as if no one understood the hurdles I knew I had to overcome to get to a point where the “happy news” wasn’t underlined in bold with a huge asterisks of “but what happens when…”
Around this time, my wife pointed out a New York Times article wherein a woman recalled her own pregnancy struggles. The author, Amy Klein, wrote:
I’m so sick with worry by the time we get to our weekly ultrasound that I can’t even look at the screen. I keep my eyes on my husband’s face until I see him smile, and only then can I venture a glance to check that the baby is there…But it’s there. The baby is there! Even after a flu, a sinus infection and food poisoning, the baby is alive.
Upon reading this article, I immediately began to feel relief. What I was experiencing was not uncommon. In fact, it made perfect sense. When you suffer losses, the last thing you feel you can handle is another one. Our minds, bodies, spirits and hearts create shockproof ways to handle the inevitable losses we feel we will ultimately have to face — even before it’s a reality. Despite what others had been ringing in my ear, it wasn’t about pessimism — it was a form of survival.
Klein also wrote:
Happy! I want to be happy. I want to let go of all the hurt, disappointment, anguish, waiting, despair — and let’s face it, depression – of the last three years of trying to conceive. Because this time I’m really pregnant.
Enter in the guilt factor here. I would like to say it gets easier, but I’m 25 weeks in and still worry when the baby doesn’t kick as much as I think she should or it takes a few extra seconds to find her heartbeat on the Doppler.
The other day, Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg posted about his own fertility struggle with his wife Priscilla. Reading these ultra-personal stories can feel a bit intrusive to an outsider, but when you’re been through or are going through something similar — it’s a lifesaver and a blessing. I felt it was the right time to send my readers and update.
Throughout the course of my early pregnancy, I had convinced myself that when we reached the 12-week milestone I would feel better and more at peace. However, with the 12-week scan came a new battery of genetic tests that took a couple of weeks to show results. When the 14-week mark arrived and we were told we were having a healthy baby girl, I took a deep breath.
The relief lasted about two weeks. It quickly began to sink in that we were still not out of the woods. Many patients have miscarriages up to 20 weeks. Since I had already suffered two of them, the worry and fear kicked back in. The fact that the two miscarriages had occurred in the first few weeks (genetic abnormalities) wasn’t any consolation for me, although I tried everything in my power to try to make it so.
Our baby is due November 12, 2015. The baby shower is next weekend. Somewhere between next weekend and November 12, 2015, my hope is to feel excitement and release the anxiety, depression and guilt that seems all-consuming at times. In the meantime, acceptance and faith appear to be the current life lessons at play here.
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Terry Sweeney refused to be closeted when hired as SNL cast member 30 years ago
Ronald Reagan was US president and had yet to utter the word AIDS when Terry Sweeney landed a coveted spot in the cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 1985.
Sweeney, whose book Irritable Bowels and The People Who Give You Them will be released soon, was openly gay and made clear to the powers that be that he was not going to lie about it.
‘It was such a big deal. The cover of People magazine was “Rock Hudson Has AIDS.” There was an AIDS frenzy going on,’ he tells Out.com. ‘You didn’t even understand how you got it. If you had a gay waiter, you wondered if he washed his hands. There was a lot of misinformation and hysteria.’
Despite this, Sweeney was frank with SNL’s executive producer Lorne Michaels telling him: ‘I am openly gay and I‘m not going to go in the closet.
He said he wasn’t going to do the standard closeted actor thing of giving interviews about a made-up fiancé who died and he never got over it or saying he’s never had time to find the right person.
Sweeney had simply been too impacted by the AIDS epidemic that had killed so many of his friends. This was 11 years before breakthrough life-saving drugs were available.
‘I’d been to so many funerals and I wasn’t going to join in the shame by hiding in the closet,’ he says. ‘It would have been a disservice to my friends who had died, my friends who were sick. If you were gay, you were always going to memorials or to visit people in hospitals. Straight people were able to go merrily along their way, but this disease was picking off talented gay people one by one.
‘I thought, “I’m not gonna do that. I don’t care if this is my big break. At the end of my life, I want to live with myself.” I didn’t sign the morals clause in my contract. I just said no. I have to give Lorne and [NBC exec] Brandon Tartikoff credit for going along with that.’
During the 1985-86 season, Sweeney was best known for his portrayal of then-First Lady Nancy Reagan. He also did impersonations of Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Joan Collins, Brooke Shields’s mother Teri Shields, Joan Rivers, and Ted Kennedy.
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Quiz: Does This Large Inflatable Hot Dog Toy Look Like A Penis And Promote The Gay Agenda?
It may look like just another inflatable bouncy hot dog toy, but it’s actually an oversized penis disguised to promote the gay agenda. At least according to one antigay Mormon.
The Jumping Hot Dog Hop Hopping Hopper Bouncy Ball is currently available for $19.99 on Amazon. The toy can be inflated to multiple sizes and is great for helping kids develop balance and coordination.
Related: Christians Warn Against “Self-Rape” And Other Bizarre Antigay Religious Signage
“My brother-in-law thinks it looks like a penis,” a gay ex-Mormon man recently wrote on Reddit. The man purchased the toy for his seven-year-old nephew with behavioral problems, but his brother-in-law flat out refused the gift because of it’s alleged phallic nature.
“It’s a hot dog that kids bounce on and it looks nothing like a penis,” the man continued. “That is how riled up Mormons are about homosexuality. I think they believe I’m trying to push a ‘gay agenda’ by getting a seven-year-old a hot dog to bounce on.”
What do you think? Does the giant hot dog look like a penis? Vote in the poll below.
Does the giant bouncy hot dog look like a penis?
Graham Gremore
Gunman Shot Dead By Police After Opening Fire at Tennessee Movie Theater: VIDEO
A gunman has opened fire in a movie theater in Antioch, Tennessee outside of Nashville, engaging in a firefight with police before being shot and killed.
The gunman was reportedly also armed with a hatchet. No word yet on the number of injuries or fatalities.
A man armed with a gun and a hatchet opened fire Wednesday in a movie theater outside Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The attacker was killed after exchanging fire with SWAT officers, police said.
Don Aaron, a police spokesman, said one person may have been wounded by the hatchet. He said the Fire Department was still checking on injuries.
A police officer found the gunman inside a theater where “Mad Max: Fury Road” was playing at the Carmike Hickory 8 theater in the suburb of Antioch, Aaron said.
Police said the gunman had two backpacks with him. Law enforcement officers were checking those, police said.
UPDATE: MSNBC is reporting that no fatalities or major injuries have transpired. CBS News meanwhile reports that the gunman had two backpacks with him when he entered the theater, and a bomb squad has arrived on the scene.
Watch a news report below:
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Hatchet-Wielding Assailant Shot Dead By Police After Attacking Nashville Movie Theater: VIDEO
Anti-Gay Pastor: 'Let's Just Say I Know' Starbucks Is Using Semen In Lattes
The New York pastor who made headlines last year after declaring that Starbucks flavored its coffee drinks with “sodomites’ semen” is doubling down on those claims.
James David Manning of ATLAH World Missionary Church appeared on a Daily Show segment this week called “Hey, Guess Who’s Still Returning Our Calls?,” which revisited some of the show’s most notorious guests.
Manning, who once compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, was just as outrageous as ever in his latest chat with correspondent Jessica Williams. This time, he likens Obama to Satan himself, and doesn’t relent when Williams brings up the infamous Starbucks claim.
“I think Starbucks has recognized that the flavor of their lattes…is that they are using semen to make that latte even more flavorful,” Manning says. When Williams presses for evidence, the pastor notes, “You may not be able to find my explanation suitable to meet the empirical standards. But let’s just say I know.”
All we can say is…yikes.
Still, the remarks aren’t particularly surprising given Manning’s anti-gay history. Last month, he warned viewers of a “sodomite demon” on his “Manning Report” YouTube program, which apparently can be contracted by women who have engage in sex or even just kiss men who have had sex with other men.
“If a man injects himself in another man and injects his semen into him, and he’s crazy, then that’s gonna get in his blood as well,” Manning, whose Harlem-based church has courted regular controversy for displaying billboards that declare its opposition to the LGBT community, said at the time. Describing a man’s semen as the “cream of the blood” that is “even more powerful than blood,” he added, “If demons are in him… you’re gonna get penetrated by demons.”
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