Oh, Paul Cameron. Don’t ever change. You and all your extremist cohorts help our side so much. [All you guys at Peter's Troof Skool this week, I'm including you in that list of "extremist cohorts."]

[h/t Christine Bakke-O'Neill]

Or at least how she thinks the anus works?  This all, somehow, has to do with civil unions in Colorado:

[h/t watertiger]

From One Colorado:

The Colorado Civil Unions Act provides committed gay and lesbian couples with critical legal protections and responsibilities, such as the ability to insure a partner, to inherit property, to take family leave to care for a partner, to visit a partner in the hospital, and to make medical and end-of-life decisions for a partner. “Civil unions will allow committed couples to share in the responsibilities and protections in Colorado law that most families take for granted. Our society is stronger when we promote personal responsibility and taking care of one another, and civil unions do just that,” said Senator Pat Steadman, sponsor of the bill. A key provision of the civil unions bill includes a religious exclusion. The bill explicitly protects freedom of religion by not requiring priests, ministers, rabbis, or other religious officials to certify a civil union. Religious leaders who want to certify a civil union may do so.

Joe points out that 72% of Coloradans support giving gay and lesbian couples legal recognition, but that the bill will have a hard time in the state House, which is under Republican control. Fingers crossed!

Here are the tabs that are still open in my browser, which you may find interesting:

1.  Marriage equality supporters in New York say they’re in a stronger position than they were last year, and indeed plan to bring a new vote in New York’s Senate.  Meanwhile, in Colorado, openly gay Senator Pat Steadman is introducing a civil unions bill.

2.  Jennifer Roback Morse, of the wang of the National Organization for Marriage known as the Ruth Institute, is whining and crying about gays stealing rainbows from the Christians.  Also, she wore a rainbow scarf to the Prop 8 hearings, but nobody got the joke, because wingnuts aren’t funny people, because a sense of humor requires a grasp on reality.  Meanwhile, some lady with OneNewsNow says that the anti-gay bigots are the REAL rainbow coalition, because a wide variety of straight, Christian bigots are against marriage equality.

Whatever.

Very cool:

Deputy Attorney General Monica Marquez is the first female Hispanic Colorado Supreme Court Justice and she is also the first openly gay jurist on the state’s high court.

But she was quick to tell her colleagues that her allegiance is to the law, not any special interest group when she was sworn in Friday.

“On the bench, of course, my allegiance is to the law, not to any particular constituency,” she said after she was sworn in by her father, retired Judge Jose D.L. Marquez, who was the first Latino appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals.

[...]

Gov. Bill Ritter told the justices that he interviewed Marquez and determined she has a “deep respect for the rule of law.” He said he was reassured she would not show preference.

Wingnuts will freak out, of course, but who cares?

I can’t decide whether this is more dumb, more offensive, or equally dumb and offensive. Colorado teabagger candidate Ken Buck was on Meet the Press yesterday and had the following exchange with David Gregory:

GREGORY: Do you believe that being gay is a choice?

BUCK: I do.

GREGORY: Based on what?

BUCK: Based on what? I guess you can choose who your partner is.

GREGORY: You don’t think it’s something that’s determined at birth?

BUCK: I think that birth has an influence over it, like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically, you have a choice.

I love it when straight conservative men speak as if they have any authority on the subject of sexuality. It’s just laughable.

Watch it:

Amanda Terkel at HuffPost points out that which we at Truth Wins Out know all too well: That, aside from the bigotry in his remarks, his “ideas” on the subject are considered flat wrong by every major, credible scientific medical association. She also points out that Buck is facing backlash from a situation when he was a District Attorney, where he refused to pursue rape allegations, and made comments that bordered on apologizing for rape:

Gregory also pressed Buck about his refusal to follow up on rape allegations involving a University of North Colorado student in 2005, while he was Weld County District Attorney. Buck declined to file criminal charges against the alleged victim’s attacker on the belief that not enough evidence existed to win the case, a conclusion that is not entirely rare with such delicate cases.

Controversy has erupted over some of Buck’s newly resurfaced remarks, including his comments to The Greeley Tribune that a jury may simply conclude it was a case of her “buyer’s remorse.” In an audio recording obtained by The Huffington Post, Buck told the victim, “It appears to me and it appears to others that you invited him over to have sex with him,” before acknowledging she may have been unconscious at the time.

How shocking! An anti-gay politician also not all that concerned about rape? I can’t believe it.

Grant Haas, reputed recipient of hush money from New Life Church following a sex scandal involving disgraced bisexual evangelist Ted Haggard, on Tuesday issued lurid accusations about Haggard and himself on gay author Michelangelo Signorile’s daily Sirius/XM satellite radio show.

At this time, Haas’ accusations — involving explicit sexual discussions, extreme drug abuse, and ex-gay sexual exploitation of the opposite sex — have not been independently corroborated.