Homophobic Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly Dead at 92

Phyllis Schlafly, the homophobic, anti-feminist activist occasionally referred to as the mother of the Christian conservative movement, has died at the age of 92.

Schlafly’s death was announced in a message on the website of Eagle Forum, the organization she founded.

Eunie Smith, Eagle Forum first vice president also released a statement: “Today, Phyllis Schlafly has gone home to be with her Lord after a long illness.”

Though she’s known best for her opposition of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the early ’70s, Schlafly, whose son is gay, also vocally opposed LGBT rights her entire life.

Schlafly spoke with SiriusXM Progress host Michelangelo Signorile last year following the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality:

“The gays have their argument about inevitability,” the 90-year-old author of 25 books told me in an interview for SiriusXM Progress at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, over the weekend, during a book-signing including her new book, “Who Killed the American Family?”

“I don’t think that’s so,” Schlafly continued with a smile, rejecting the “inevitability” argument. “I’m extremely disappointed that the Republican Party, the conservative movement, even the Democratic Party and the churches, have been saying, ‘Well soon the court will decide, and that will be it.’ Well, a lot of people thought that about Roe v. Wade, and we’ve seen the whole abortion movement turned around in the last ten years.”

Schlafly called on states to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling.

She has also claimed that marriage equality advocates want to wipe out the Christian religion.

In an interview with conservative radio host Chuck Wilder last year, Schlafly spoke out for “harassed” business owners:

“Have you noticed that only Christian small-businesspeople have been harassed and sued for refusing to participate in same-sex marriages even though our fast-growing immigrant populations, you know of Muslims, Hindus and other faiths are also opposed to that concept? They want to wipe out the Christian religion. And most of these other religions do not recognize same-sex marriage. I assume there are some Muslim bakers and photographers and other people who have been harassed, but they’re not being attacked and they’re not being criticized.”

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So Many Male Celebs Bared It All This Summer. Let Us Help You Keep Count.

Was this the summer full-frontal male nudity went mainstream? Well no, let’s not get hysterical. But there was plenty of it, and we have photos to prove it.

It began with Alex Bowen, the aggressively handsome star of reality series Love Island, who couldn’t have been too terribly upset when an explicit photograph of himself started making the rounds back in June. You really can’t buy that kind of publicity.

A-List Hollywood apparently took note, with Orlando Bloom soon joining the coveted coven of male celebs with their own jaw-dropping penis pic leaks. Not to be outdone, fellow star, occasional romantic rival, and all-around runt Justin Bieber once again took off all his clothes to prove, once and for all, that he can be nude with the best of them. Then he proved it again. And again. Hey, he proved it last summer, too.

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Well, 50 Cent must’ve read about all this nudity business and decided he wanted in on the action — although he unconvincingly feigned outrage when an episode of Starz! original series Power (which he produces) showed him very naked indeed, apparently without his permission. Which, that was weird.

All of this must’ve weighed heavily on skier Gus Kenworthy, who ultimately decided he should probably stop being such a baby, and start being unequivocally nude. Hunky Brazilian Gymnasts Arthur Zanetti And Sergio Sasaki followed suit when some intriguing video footage surfaced.

And this nudity of which we speak was not merely confined to the states, either: Leaked photos of former Dr. Who star Matt Smith demonstrated that the British actor does not always wear pants and on occasion has been known to doff his shirt. So now you know.

Oh, and now there’s also the Finding Prince Charming guy.

Who did we miss? Who will be next? What are you wearing? Sound off in the “Comments” section below if that’s what makes you happy.

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Woman Totally Distaught After Learning Her Boyfriend Had Gay Sex While They Were Broken Up

In a new Reddit thread titled My boyfriend [20/m] had gay sex while we were broken up, what do I [19/f] do?, a young women contemplates the future of her relationship.

“My boyfriend and I were together 2 years and we broke up for 4 months,” the post begins. “I was depressed, because I wanted to make it work. I was in love with him, and was absolutely heartbroken.”

We’re sure she was.

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“After we broke up,” she continues, “he hooked up with a guy. He said he wanted to try it but didn’t like it. I never got the courage to ask how far the relationship went, as I was never ready to hear the answer.”

Until now.

“Today,” she says, “I finally asked him. He told me that he had sex with a guy and he was the one giving.”

(We assume she means he was the top. Bless her 19-year-old heart for not knowing the correct terminology.)

“This made me sick to my stomach,” she continues. “I started to cry. It makes me sick to think my boyfriend didn’t wear a condom. Should I ask him if he wore a condom? He showed me that he’s been tested and it came back negative.”

(OK, if the test came back negative, then the whole condom question seems moot at this point. But we digress.)

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Apparently, the young woman says, the whole thing just makes her “so sick.” To make matters worse, the guy her boyfriend hooked up with had been trying to seduce him “for the longest time.”

“The guy is rude to me,” she says, “and he said ‘your boyfriend must not have loved you to much because he f***** me while you were broken up.’”

“What should I do?” she wonders. “What should I say to him? All I can picture is them doing stuff. How can I have sex with him again?”

Unfortunately for the young woman, her fellow Reddit users aren’t terribly sympathetic to her plight.

“You were broken up,” one person writes. “You don’t really have standing to be upset about something he did when he was not dating you.”

“So he had sex with someone else while you were broken up,” another person says. “It must’ve occurred to you that that was a possibility.”

“You can accept it or not, that’s up to you,” a third person writes. “But don’t hold his honesty, or his actions while single, against him. If the fact that he had sex when you weren’t together is too much for you to handle, let him go.”

Oh, but the responses don’t stop there.

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“Stop thinking about it,” someone suggests. “If you can’t do that, break up. That’s just common sense.”

“Break up and find someone else,” another person says.

“As someone who’s bisexual, your distaste for him having sex with a guy is kind of homophobic,” someone else writes. “He had sex with someone else. You were broken up.”

What advice would you give this young woman? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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