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LISTEN: Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal Play Christian Victim Card
LISTEN: Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal Play Christian Victim Card
The debate over ‘religious freedom’ laws betrays intolerance of Christians, say Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal.
Trudy Ring
Arkansas State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson: I Was A 'Coward' To Pass Religious Freedom Bill In Committee
Arkansas State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson: I Was A 'Coward' To Pass Religious Freedom Bill In Committee
Jeremy Hutchinson, an Arkansas state senator and Republican who cast one of the five votes that brought the original version of the state’s controversial religious freedom bill to the Senate floor, joined HuffPost Live on Friday and expressed disappointment at his voting record on the bill.
Hutchinson (who is the nephew of Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson) voted for the first version of Arkansas’ Religious Freedom Restoration Act in the Senate Judiciary Committee, then he voted against it when it came to the floor, and he later sponsored an amended version of the bill. In a conversation with HuffPost Live’s Alyona Minkovski, he addressed why he shifted his stance on the controversial legislation.
After HB 1228 had been defeated three times in the committee, a Democrat changed his vote and created a tie, which Hutchinson then had to break, he told Minkovski.
“I had yet to vote on it, period, because as chairman you don’t vote unless you’re needed to make the fifth vote, which is the passing vote,” he said. “And so when this Democrat switched his vote, I was surprised, as was everybody else, and in that moment, I honestly was a coward and voted party line and voted to send it out.”
After the bill passed, Hutchinson “immediately began to regret” his decision, holding bill in committee for two days. The bill later went to the full Senate floor and passed, 24-7.
Although the bill has since been revised to match the language of the more narrowly-worded federal regulations, Hutchinson lamented his role in the passage of the original bill.
I have failed in many ways because I should have raised the concerns that I ended up sharing with everybody. I should have done that months in advance, but again, we didn’t think the bill would ever get out of committee. But I began to raise those concerns. Other people began to recognize the uncertainty of [HB] 1228 and not knowing what all of the unintended consequences could be.
Watch the HuffPost Live conversation with State Sen. Hutchinson in the video above.
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GOP Leaders Submit Anti-Marriage Equality Brief to SCOTUS
GOP Leaders Submit Anti-Marriage Equality Brief to SCOTUS
Today, over 50 Republicans in Congress submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court against nationwide marriage equality.
HRC.org
CBS Employee Feared Being Raped By Male Co-Worker, Files Sexual Harassment Suit After Having Testes Grabbed
CBS Employee Feared Being Raped By Male Co-Worker, Files Sexual Harassment Suit After Having Testes Grabbed
Colley (left), Lombardi (center), Tollison (right)
“I wanted to apologize if anything I did offended you or crossed a line,” the text read. “I like to get a little crazy. If you weren’t offended, then let’s do it again. LOL How is your day so far? :)”
That’s the message former CBS entertainment reporter Ken Lombardi says senior CBS producer Duane Tollison sent him after an incident at a 2013 office party. According to Lombardi, Tollison allegedly pinned him to a wall, kissed his neck, then slipped his hand down his pants and took firm hold of his penis and testes.
Now, Lombard is suing his former employer for firing him after he complained about the incident to HR.
Lombardi, who identifies as bisexual, also says he was left “terrified” after being molested by CBS Evening News director Chip Colley while the two were having drinks at a gay bar after work one evening. Colley allegedly kissed Lombardi then grabbed his leg and starting asking him about what kind of porn he liked to watch.
“While I was being attacked by Chip,” Lombardi told the New York Post, “I was texting my brother, ‘Oh my God, I’m about to be raped. Please, God, help me. It’s painful to even look at them again.”
Afterward, he says Colley started following him around the office “in a creepy fashion.” He now claims to suffer suffer from PTSD from the harassment.
“I have nightmares,” he said. “I relive these moments every day. The sound of ice in a glass will take me back to that moment.”
After Lombardi went to CBS’s HR department about the situation, he claims his direct supervisor, Paula Cohen, didn’t take his allegations seriously. Lombardi was let go from the network in November 2014.
CBS is denying Lombardi’s allegations, saying they are “without merit” and vowing to mount a vigorous legal defense.
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Asif Kapadia Hints At Unreleased Music In Winehouse Documentary 'Amy': WATCH
Asif Kapadia Hints At Unreleased Music In Winehouse Documentary 'Amy': WATCH
British filmmaker Asif Kapadia is reportedly in possession a large amount of never before released footage and demo tracks with Amy Winehouse.
Island Records released Amy Winehouse’s final, posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures five months after her death in 2011. Since then there’s been little in the way of previously unreleased content from her. That may be changing soon. British filmmaker Asif Kapadia is currently working on Amy, an eponymously named documentary about the famously troubled soul singer. In addition to sit down interviews with friends and loved ones Kapadia says that his doc will feature “extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks.”
“A once-in-a-generation talent and a pure jazz artist in the most authentic sense, Amy wrote and sung from the heart using her musical gifts to analyse her own problems,” he said of his film subject. “The combination of her raw honesty and supreme talent resulted in some of the most original and adored songs of the modern era.”
Kapadia has yet to announce a release date, but the film’s first teaser trailer has just been released and it’s uncanny just how prescient a younger Winehouse was about what a monster fame would ultimately become for her.
“I don’t think I’m going to be at all famous,” she says. “I don’t think I could handle it. I would probably go mad.”
Check out the first trailer for Asif Kapadia’s Amy AFTER THE JUMP…
(h/t The Dissolve)
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Indianapolis rally to call for statewide civil-rights protections for LGBT community
Indianapolis rally to call for statewide civil-rights protections for LGBT community
INDIANAPOLIS — Gay-rights activists and their supporters are planning a rally during this weekend’s Final Four in Indianapolis to push for a state law that specifically bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Fill the Stands on LGBT Pride Night
Fill the Stands on LGBT Pride Night
WATCH: Trans Teen's Emotional Reunion with Counselor Who First Supported Him
WATCH: Trans Teen's Emotional Reunion with Counselor Who First Supported Him
Nightline offers the best tearjerker of the week: a trans boy’s tearful reunion with the counselor who first told him he could be himself.
Mitch Kellaway