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Daily Archives: January 27, 2018
Josh Weed, Gay Mormon Famous for ‘Sexually Robust’ Straight Marriage, Is Divorcing
Josh Weed, Gay Mormon Famous for ‘Sexually Robust’ Straight Marriage, Is Divorcing
Josh Weed, the gay Mormon who in 2012 made national headlines as he set out to prove that a gay man could be happily married to a straight woman and have kids, is divorcing.
In 2012, Weed made this announcement about his marriage:
Some might assume that because I’m married to a woman, I must be bisexual. This would be true if sexual orientation was defined by sexual experience. Heck, if sexual orientation were defined by sexual experience, I would be as straight as the day is long even though I’ve never been turned on by a Victoria’s Secret commercial in my entire life. Sexual orientation is defined by attraction, not by experience. In my case, I am attracted sexually to men. Period. Yet my marriage is wonderful, and Lolly and I have an extremely healthy and robust sex life. How can this be?
Shortly thereafter, there were charges that Weed practiced “ex-gay” therapy, accusations which Weed strongly denied.
I do not practice, nor do I believe in, reparative therapy or change therapy. Quite the opposite, my therapeutic stance is one that favors (but does not depend on) the idea that sexual orientation is immutable.
My therapeutic approach is to meet clients where they are–wherever that might be–and then help them to analyze the goals and aspirations that they have for their own life.
Weed and his wife Lolly were even featured on a Nightline episode championing their foray into the world of married platonic love, announced the divorce in a lengthy blog post which you can read HERE.
“Today, we need to let you know that Lolly and I are divorcing,” the blog said this week, after recounting the couple’s accidental rise to the media spotlight when Josh Weed came out as a gay LDS man who was faithful to his church and married to a woman. They were in high demand to explain how they made the seemingly contradictory lifestyles work together.
The couple wrote, together and then individually in the same blog post on Thursday, that they came to understand over time that their deep platonic love was not a substitute for romantic love and that such a relationship is vital to everyone’s happiness.
They explain at length how they came to the realization. Josh Weed said three factors led him to believe this was the case.
Love for the LGBTQ population
Love for himself as a gay person
The death of his mother
Read Weed’s full post here.
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Josh Weed, Gay Mormon Famous for ‘Sexually Robust’ Straight Marriage, Is Divorcing
Kabul Bomb, Hidden In Ambulance, Kills At Least 95 People And Wounds 158
Kabul Bomb, Hidden In Ambulance, Kills At Least 95 People And Wounds 158
A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded 158 in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint on Saturday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide blast, a week after they claimed the attack on the city’s Intercontinental Hotel in which more than 20 people were killed.
An interior ministry spokesman blamed the Haqqani network, a militant group affiliated with the Taliban which Afghan and Western officials consider to be behind many of the biggest attacks on urban targets in Afghanistan.
Hours after the blast, a health ministry spokesman said the casualty toll was likely to rise as more figures were collated from hospitals.
As medical teams struggled to handle the casualties pouring in, some of the wounded were laid out in the open, with intravenous drips set up next to them in hospital gardens.
“It’s a massacre,” said Dejan Panic, coordinator in Afghanistan for the Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a nearby trauma hospital.
The latest attack will add pressure on President Ashraf Ghani and his U.S. allies, who have expressed growing confidence that a new more aggressive military strategy has succeeded in driving Taliban insurgents back from major provincial centres.
The United States has stepped up its assistance to Afghan security forces and increased its air strikes against the Taliban and other militant groups, aiming to break a stalemate and force the insurgents to the negotiating table.
However, the Taliban has dismissed suggestions it has been weakened by the new strategy, and the incidents of the past week have shown its capacity to mount deadly, high-profile attacks is undiminished, even in the heavily protected centre of Kabul.
Mirwais Yasini, a member of parliament who was nearby when the explosion occurred, said an ambulance approached the checkpoint and blew up. The target was apparently an interior ministry building nearby.
Buildings hundreds of metres away were shaken by the force of the blast, which left torn bodies strewn on the street amid piles of rubble, debris and wrecked cars.
Saturday is a working day in Afghanistan and the streets were full when the blast went off at around lunchtime in a busy part of the city near a number of foreign embassies and government buildings.
The casualty toll is the worst since 150 people were killed in a truck bomb explosion near the German embassy, not far from Saturday’s blast, last May, an attack that prompted a major reinforcement of security in the city.
With much of central Kabul now a heavily fortified zone of high concrete blast walls and police checkpoints, there were angry questions about how the bomber had been able to get through and set off the blast.
“I was sitting in the office when the explosion went off,” said Alam, an office worker whose head was badly cut in the blast.
“All the windows shattered, the building collapsed and everything came down.”
People helped walking-wounded away as ambulances with sirens wailing inched their way through the traffic-clogged streets of the city centre.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kabul-bomb-blast_uk_5a6c811de4b0ddb658c6cc17
Reba McEntire Dons Colonel Sanders Drag for New KFC Campaign
Reba McEntire Dons Colonel Sanders Drag for New KFC Campaign
The Grammy winner is the latest celebrity and the first woman to play the iconic KFC spokesperson.
www.advocate.com/business/2018/1/27/reba-mcentire-dons-colonel-sanders-drag-new-kfc-campaign
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Dschungelcamp: Melanie Müller findet Mangiapane “hinterfotzig”
Dschungelcamp: Melanie Müller findet Mangiapane “hinterfotzig”
- Die ehemalige Dschungelkönigin Melanie Müller fällt ein hartes Urteil über den diesjährigen Camper Matthias Mangiapane
- “Das ist eine One-Man-Show, die er da abzieht”, sagt sie
Das diesjährige Dschungelcamp ist ziemlich langweilig – viele Fans beschweren sich auch über die Auswahl der Teilnehmer.
Selbst Trash-TV-Star Melanie Müller, die 2014 Dschungelkönigin wurde, ist nicht begeistert.
► Vor allem ein Kandidat nervt sie: Reality-TV-Star Matthias Mangiapane.
“Der ist ein Mensch, den braucht die Welt nicht”
Mangiapane erlangte im Trash-TV-Universum durch seine Teilnahme beim “Sommerhaus” ein bisschen Berühmtheit. Im Dschungelcamp musste er bisher bei fast jeder Prüfung teilnehmen und lenkte auch sonst gerne die Aufmerksamkeit durch lautstarkes Gequengel auf sich.
Die 29-Jährige sagte gegenüber dem Promi-Portal “Promiflash”, dass Matthias ihr deshalb mittlerweile “auf den Zünder” gehe. “Der ist ein Mensch, den braucht die Welt nicht.”
► Sie findet ihn “hinterfotzig, egoistisch und nicht teamfähig”.
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Müller: Mangiapane verfolge eine Strategie
Außerdem will Müller hinter den hysterischen Eskapaden Magiapanes eine Strategie erkannt haben: Er wolle auf diese Weise nach jeder Dschungelprüfung wieder in die nächste gewählt werden.
► “Das ist eine One-Man-Show, die er da abzieht”, sagte Müller zu “Promiflash”.
Und zwar ihrer Meinung nach auf Kosten der anderen Camper, die bei zu geringer Sternenausbeute darben mussten.
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Ant McPartlin’s Rep Shuts Down ‘Bulls***’ Scarlett Moffatt Romance Speculation
Ant McPartlin’s Rep Shuts Down ‘Bulls***’ Scarlett Moffatt Romance Speculation
A representative for Ant McPartlin has hit back at “bullshit” speculation that he could be romantically involved with Scarlett Moffatt.
Over the weekend, several media outlets ran stories based around tweets from fans, pondering whether Ant and Scarlett could be more than friends, after the two were photographed together during the National Television Awards on Tuesday (23 January).
However, a spokesperson for Ant has already dismissed the rumours outright, telling Metro they are “total bullshit”.
Ant and Scarlett’s paths first crossed in 2016, when the former ‘Gogglebox’ star became a contestant on ‘I’m A Celebrity’, eventually going on to be crowned Queen of the Jungle.
In the months that followed, she joined the presenting team of ‘Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway’, and later became one of the co-hosts on ‘I’m A Celebrity’ ITV2 spin-off series, ‘Extra Camp’, alongside Joel Dommett and long-standing presenter Joe Swash.
Earlier this month, Ant confirmed rumours that he and his wife of 11 years, Lisa Armstrong, had separated.
His spokesperson said at the time: “In response to the recent speculation in the media, Ant is very sad to announce that, after 11 years, he is ending his marriage to Lisa McPartlin.
“Ant asks for privacy at this difficult time, for both himself, Lisa and their immediate families. No further statement will be made.”
For the 17th consecutive year, Ant and Dec were named Best Presenter at the NTAs on Tuesday, with Ant getting choked up during his acceptance speech, stating: “It’s been an emotional night tonight.
“It’s been quite a year. It’s been quite a tough 12 months, so winning this tonight means a lot.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ant-mcpartlin-scarlett-moffatt-romance_uk_5a6c607ae4b06e253267dfce
30 Photos of Hibernating Bears
30 Photos of Hibernating Bears
www.advocate.com/photography/2018/1/27/30-photos-hibernating-bears
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Mindestens 40 Tote und 140 Verletzte bei Taliban-Anschlag in Kabul
Mindestens 40 Tote und 140 Verletzte bei Taliban-Anschlag in Kabul
Bei einem schweren Anschlag der radikalislamischen Taliban sind im Zentrum von Kabul mindestens 40 Menschen getötet und 140 verletzt worden.
Das ist passiert:
► Der Attentäter war mit einem mit Sprengstoff vollgepackten Krankenwagen in eine schwer bewachte Straße hineingefahren, an der auch viele ausländische Botschaften liegen.
► Dort zündete er seine Ladung an einen Sicherheitsposten nahe einem Gebäude des Innenministeriums.
► Wer die Opfer sind, und ob auch Mitarbeiter der ausländischen Institutionen betroffen waren, blieb zunächst unklar.
Darum ist es wichtig:
Die Sicherheitslage in Afghanistan ist äußerst kritisch. In Kabul gab es 2017 über 20 schwere Anschläge mit mehr als 500 Toten. Erst vor wenigen Tagen waren bei einem 17-stündigen Taliban-Angriff auf ein großes Hotel fast 20 Menschen getötet worden.
Dieser Umstand besitzt auch für die Bundesrepublik politische Brisanz: Denn nach wie vor will die Bundesregierung abgelehnte Asylbewerber aus Afghanistan in ihre Heimat abschieben.
Zuletzt war am Dienstag ein Flugzeug mit 17 Afghanen an Bord nach Kabul gestartet.
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Mit Material der dpa.