Gay marriage takes effect in Ireland

More than 300 gay marriages are expected in Ireland in the next two weeks after the new marriage law comes into effect on Monday (16 Monday).

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will sign the commencement order for the Marriage Act 2015 at 2.15pm, and the Irish Independent reported that gay marriages are planned in Dublin, Cork and Galway on Tuesday.

At 2.15 the first lesbian and gay couples will recognised as married in Ireland! What a great wee country! #MarRef t.co/x98UFhECca

— Tiernan Brady (@Tiernanbrady) November 16, 2015

‘There are a lot of people who probably thought that this day would never arrive,’ MP and Yes campaigner Jerry Buttimer told the newspaper.

‘But it is a wonderful endorsement of a modern, inclusive and caring Ireland that this day is finally here.’

The order comes six months after the Ireland become the first country to legalize gay marriage by referendum, with 62.1% of voters in favor of allowing marriage between two people ‘without distinction as to their sex.’

Gay marriages registered abroad will be automatically be recognized, and the 2,054 couples who have entered civil partnerships can convert them into marriages with just a few days notice.

Senator Katherine Zappone, who lost a 2006 case to have her Canadian marriage to her wife recognized in Ireland, sent her love and best wishes to the other couples celebrating the recognition of their marriages.

‘The Marriage Act 2015 is now commenced. We rejoice as our Canadian marriage is recognized,’ she tweeted.

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Darren Wee

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Gospel singer Kirk Franklin apologizes to gays for homophobia in black church

Gospel singer Kirk Franklin has apologized to the LGBTI community for homophobia in the black church.

The Grammy winner said he was embass some who had turned the Bible into a ‘homophobic manual’

‘I want to apologize for all of the hurtful and painful things that have been said about people in the church that have been talented and gifted and musical, that we’ve used and we’ve embarrassed… and all this other horrible crap that we’ve done,” Franklin told The Grio.

‘We have not treated them like people. We’re talking about human beings, men and women that God has created.’

‘The Bible is not a book that’s an attack on gay people,’ he added. ‘It’s not a book written to attack gay people.

‘It is horrible that we have made it where the Bible is a homophobic manual. That’s not what the Bible is.’

Franklin said God sent Jesus saved all people, regardless of their sexuality.

‘I mean you want to talk about things that God gets at… pride and jealousy and envy and arrogance,’ she said.

‘But what we also see is God sending his son to save us all, because we were all… straight, gay or whatever, lost and in need of a savior, and there’s room at the cross for all of us.’

The Black Church is complex. There’s Donnie McClurkin, an “ex-gay” on one end and Kirk Franklin, an apparent LGBT ally, on the other.

— Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) November 12, 2015

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Darren Wee

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Sam Smith Joins Disclosure for SNL ‘Omen’ Performance: WATCH

Disclosure were the musical guests on last night’s Saturday Night Live and Sam Smith joined them to perform the hit single “Omen”. They were also joined by Lorde for a performance of their newer track “Magnets”.

Watch:

“Magnets”:

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Andy Towle

Sam Smith Joins Disclosure for SNL ‘Omen’ Performance: WATCH

Boy Stars in New Barbie Commercial

The new Moschino Barbie is a huge hit (currently sold-out!), and its commercial is breaking boundaries by featuring a young boy in it.

“Moschino Barbie is so fierce!” the boy screams as he and two female friends laud the doll, done up in designer Jeremy Scott’s sleek glamour. Barbie’s cellphone goes off and the male child says, “It’s for you, Moschino Barbie,” before winking at the camera. Watch the ad below.

The strict gender lines of toys and children’s accessories have slowly been breaking down, with Target moving to make its signage more gender-neutral.

Neal Broverman

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SNL mocks people opposed to trans rights

Hopefully the residents who voted down Houston’s anti-discrimination proposal watched this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Earlier this month, the city’s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) failed at the ballot box.

Campaigns against the ordinance focused on the fact that it would bar discrimination in public accommodations – allowing transgender people to use bathrooms in fitting with their gender identity. Campaigners for repeal dubbed it the ‘bathroom ordinance’ and said that it would allow predatory men to use female washrooms.

During a Weekend Update segment, Pete Davidson took the comical axe to the hysteria.

‘The theory is that men, in their relentless quest to watch women go to the bathroom, are going through years of hormones, surgery, changing their name, their wardrobe, coming out to their family. All for that big payoff of peeing in a room without urinals.’

Watch the whole thing. It will make your night.

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James Withers

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First Person: Susie Bright on the Sex-Obsessed Paris ISIS Manifesto

Our friend, Susie Bright, weighed in on the just released Paris terrorist manifesto on her Facebook page. A best-selling author and the country’s preeminent feminist sex writer, Susie is one of the worlds most respected voices on sexual politics, as well as an award-winning author, activist, editor.  In light of the significant role of sexuality in the short document, Susie’s lifelong body of work make hers an interesting voice to check in with. All opinions expressed are those of the author.

Voila, the “manifesto” of the Paris suicide bombers, in their own words (see below).

Their obsession with sexual revenge, the revenge of the sexually rejected, is intense : They referred to the Bataclan nightclub as a place where where hundreds of “apostates” had gathered in a “profligate prostitution party” — that means a rock concert.

Bohemian Paris is on top of ISIS’ target list because it is the country of “obscenity and perversity.” Again, it’s Paris’ mythic reputation for the libertine, for free sexual exchange, for romance and unashamed ecstasy.

This “faith army,” this death cult built on sexual repression masked as religious purity– has a detailed manual about how to run a sex-slave market of their war captives, including rules of inheritance. Essentially, you can’t be a soldier in their army unless you buy into the faith that beautiful women everywhere are taunting and rejecting you, but you will teach them all a lesson by enslaving and raping them all day long — same with young boys. Everything “depraved” is holy when you’re inflicting it upon a slave — makes perfect sense, right?

At some point your Grand Wizard arranges a marriage with an appointed virgin your parents picked out for her dowry. She is of no erotic interest; she is a nonperson except as your baby-receptacle and income source. Siring sons is her husbandry.

Meanwhile, you monitor all the women’s menstrual cycles and the puberty of the young boys and girls in your slave pen so you can be sure to rape the right person on the most advantageous day, repeatedly shouting God’s name when you come.

VOMIT. Vomit. Vomit.

Every fundamentalist religion today is running on the fumes of sexual psychosis. They are huffing and huffing and huffing until they annihilate everything including themselves.

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Susie Bright

First Person: Susie Bright on the Sex-Obsessed Paris ISIS Manifesto