Oops :/ Trump Cabinet Hopeful Forgets Coversheet, Exposes Homeland Security Plan

Here’s our SuperZoom of Chris Kobach’s plans… pic.twitter.com/bKerg2Om8b

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) November 21, 2016

Thank god Cris Kobach didn’t email these potential Homeland Security plans to anyone — can you imagine the uproar?

Instead, he just blithely smiled on as professional camera equipment snapped his sensitive document, sitting at the top of his folder sans cover sheet.

Kobach, who is currently the Secretary of State in Kansas (we can’t imagine Kansas receives all that many threats to its security), joined the revolving door theatrics of visitors to President-elect Donald Trump, as he assembles his team of power players.

Kobach is in the running for Secretary of Homeland Security, but if he’s trying to show he’s up for the job, he’s got a ways to go.

“Kobach strategic plan for [the] first 365 days,” reads the top of the document, just underneath the header “Department of Homeland Security.”

At the top of the list is an item called “Bar the Entry of Potential Terrorists.” The plan, according to this doc, is to reinstate the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, which went into effect after 9/11 and required men over the age of 16 from 25 different countries, 24 of which are majority Muslim, to register with the government upon entry to the country.

This may even sound like “better safe than sorry” common sense, but when the plan was effectively called off in 2011 by President Obama, it had helped convict exactly zero terrorists.

The document also calls to “reduce the intake of Syrian refugees to zero,” and add “extreme vetting questions” about Sharia Law, jihad, equality of men and women, and the United States Constitution for “high-risk aliens.”

The next part of the paper addresses “criminal aliens,” the proposed wall on the Mexican border, and voting laws, though much of the text is covered by Kobach’s arm and hand.

Hey, maybe this will take the conversation off Trump’s bashing of Broadway’s Hamilton. Well played, gents.

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Out Massachusetts Mayor Alex Morse Targeted with Anti-Gay Threats: ‘You Are Going Down’

Out Holyoke, Massachusetts Mayor Alex Morse has been targeted in two incidents of ugly anti-gay abuse since the election, and shared a threatening note he received on Friday.

Said the note:

“Alex, You are one of the most selfish people that I know due to your “gay” lifestyle. You are going down.”

Morse, who was elected mayor in 2011 at age 22 after running as an openly gay candidate, posted the note to Facebook, and wrote:

“Anonymous hate mail isn’t uncommon and doesn’t typically bother me, but given we have a President-elect who just announced the appointment of an Attorney General who will do nothing to protect LGBTQ Americans and people of color, it’s important to bring to light the progress we need to protect and the challenges still ahead. #TrumpsAmerica“

RELATED: Gay Florida Couple Attacked in Hateful Anonymous Letter from Trump Supporter: WATCH

In the second incident, one of Morse’s campaign signs was defaced and posted high in a tree near a public field, The Republican reports:

The added words on a surface attached to the Alex Morse for Mayor campaign sign were “sucks” and what appeared to be an attempt to spell “literally,” though it’s misspelled as “litteally” and “www.gay.com.”

After an acquaintance told him of the sign, Morse drove over to the spot and took photos of it himself, he said.

He was unsure if the altered sign was related to the anonymous letter, but he said that as with the letter, he would forward information about the sign to Police Chief James M. Neiswanger, so that police have a record of such actions.

A constituent posted a photo of the sign to Morse’s Facebook page:

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Pope Francis: Priests Can Forgive Abortion

But it’s still a sin, according to the Roman Catholic Church’s leader. 

www.advocate.com/religion/2016/11/21/pope-francis-priests-can-forgive-abortion

Chloe Moretz To Star In New Gay Conversion Therapy Drama “The Miseducation”

While the Republican party continues to torture themselves and their children with “ex-gay” abuse, a new movie is in the works that exposes the harm that the discredited “treatment” causes.

It’s called The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and it sounds kind of like a serious version of But I’m a Cheerleader. Starring are Chloe Moretz and Sasha Lane, who are probably young starlets that we should have heard of by now but who can keep track of them all? Anyway, one of them is caught making out the the prom queen, and gets thrown into one of those deadly pray-away-the-gay centers.

It’s based on a novel by Desiree Akhavan, who also wrote Appropriate Behavior, a movie about a bisexual Persian woman.

We don’t know much more about the movie, other than that it’s got John Gallagher Jr, who you didn’t see in Short Term 12, and Jennifer Ehle, who you missed in A Quiet Passion. It’s being shot by Ashley Connor, who worked on Tramps. Frankly, these all sound like made-up titles in a parody world of indi-Sundance, so we’re only like 95% sure it’s a real thing.

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Social Media Post Alleging Mike Pence’s Gay Past Goes Viral

A photo alleging to show Mike Pence’s hidden and shocking gay past has gone viral online.

The only problem is, it’s a hoax. But, a fun hoax that’s not too out of the realm of believability given the secrets anti-gay Republican politicians usually keep hidden in their closets.

On Sunday, a Facebook user named Luis Macias shared a photo of Mike Pence’s official portrait–red tie, American flag and all–juxtaposed with a photo of a semi-topless, tanned and jacked young man who looks an awfully lot like…a younger Mike Pence.

Macias captioned the photo: Mike Pence – “blast from the gay past.”

As of this publication, the post has been shared over 8,000 times and received 1,300 reactions on Facebook.

It’s also been retweeted and liked thousands of times on Twitter. 

However, many were quick to point out that the person on the right is not Pence but rather gay adult film star Brad Patton who starred in many Chi Chi La Rue films for Falcon Studios in the early aughts.

Still, it wouldn’t have been the strangest thing to happen in 2016 if that photo was an actual after and before of Pence. It really wouldn’t have.

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What It's Like For Second-Gens To Come Out To Their Parents
To be honest, it’s a mix of all kinds of emotions.

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Carol Burnett Talks to Chelsea Handler About Lucille's 'Balls'

In the early days it was difficult to be a female showrunner, but Burnett remembers Lucille Ball did it with panache. 

www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/11/21/carol-burnett-talks-chelsea-handler-about-lucilles-balls

Leading Pick For Secretary Of Health & Human Services Thinks Gay Rights Harm Health

“Give Donald Trump a chance before you criticize him” is another way of saying “let him get in a few really solid punches before you even try defending yourself.”

While you’re busy “giving him a chance,” he’s thinking about appointing awful Tom Price to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price is a doctor — a real medical doctor, God help us — who spreads ignorance and fear like some kind of medieval skull-driller.

According to Price, laws that “promote some homosexual-agenda item… should take into account the tremendous medical health impact and economic impact that promoting such a lifestyle will result in.”

Related: Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Shortlist May Have A Secret Gay Porn Past

So, this could be the guy in charge of the nation’s medical and social services. A man who believes that treating you with equality is a bad idea because you are sick and diseased and a burden on everyone around you.

He also says: “The consequences of activity that has been seen as outside the norm are real and must be explored completely… [before] moving forward with any social legislation that would alter things.”

Related: A Brief History Of Incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Horrific Antigay Record

Just to be clear — he’s wrong about virtually everything. But being wrong is what Republicans do best. And once he’s in power, you can bet that he’ll gut services and protections for LGBT people — that could mean anything from access to homeless shelters to assistance with adoption, HIV counseling, the ability to see your partner in a hospital, gay couples being kept together when they go into elder housing, and who even knows what.

Now as we’ve learned, it’s the most sanctimonious Republicans who are hiding the most depraved secrets, so do you want to take any guesses as to what terrible shameful brokenness Tom Price is hiding? Whatever it is, a person doesn’t turn into a twisted liar unless they’ve got something real devious in their closet.

h/t LGBTQNation

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