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	<description>If you're not outraged, we're not doing our job.</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Because I Can&#8217;t Think of a Better Fourth of July Tribute Than Laura Nyro&#8217;s &#8220;Save the Country&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/04/because-i-cant-think-of-a-better-fourth-of-july-tribute-than-laura-nyros-save-the-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We can build the dream with love&#8230;&#8221;

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		<title>Proof That Gay Marriage Leads to Incest!</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/04/proof-that-gay-marriage-leads-to-incest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re gay-married. They&#8217;re our adopted children &#8212; brother and sister.

OMG, what have we done?!
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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Know Much About Poker, But We Know What We Like: Annie Duke</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/we-dont-know-much-about-poker-but-we-know-what-we-like-annie-duke/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/we-dont-know-much-about-poker-but-we-know-what-we-like-annie-duke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Church-State Separation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Dear Annie: Please forgive us for stealing this image from your site without permission, but we think this pic is totally hot, we think you&#8217;re, like, totally cool, and we&#8217;re, like, totally plugging you. OK?


No, darlings, not Anna Duke, as in Patty Duke (who, by the way, is appearing live, along with Bruce Vilanch, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mennonites More Evolved Than Most Christians</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/mennonites-more-evolved-than-most-christians/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/mennonites-more-evolved-than-most-christians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>

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Mennonites protest church exclusion of gays
(Columbus, Ohio) In a quiet act of defiance, gay and lesbian Mennonites dressed in bright pink gathered outside the church’s official convention in Columbus on Thursday and criticized its leaders for trying to push them out.
About 100 ministers and church members prayed, sang religious hymns and told stories of feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Sex Decriminalized in India After 150 Years</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/gay-sex-decriminalized-in-india-after-150-years/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/gay-sex-decriminalized-in-india-after-150-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not that India&#8217;s radical religionists aren&#8217;t going batpoo ballistic &#8212; they are, of course:
India&#8217;s ban on gay sexoverturned after 150 years
LAWS dating back to the British Raj that banned gay sex have been overturned in a landmark judgment in India&#8217;s capital.
The 150-year-old section 377 of India&#8217;s penal code, introduced when the British ruled the subcontinent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Set Fire to Mother Jones?!</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/who-set-fire-to-mother-jones/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/who-set-fire-to-mother-jones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No kidding &#8212; see for yourself (at 10:09 p.m. PDT):
Due to a fire at a massive server center our site is down. We hope to be up soon and bring you the latest on Sarah Palin&#8217;s resignation, sunscreen scams, and MoJo&#8217;s scoop that the White House garden has been poisoned by sewage sludge.
While you wait, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gray Davis is Just Too Nice a Guy to Go: &#8220;Nyeah! Nyeah! Suckersss!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/gray-davis-is-just-too-nice-a-guy-to-go-nyeah-nyeah-suckersss/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/gray-davis-is-just-too-nice-a-guy-to-go-nyeah-nyeah-suckersss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[But we&#8217;re not nearly as nice as Gray Davis. So, to all the poop-for-brains Californians who 1) voted to recall Davis, and 2) voted in Musclehead Steroid Boy: &#8220;Nyeah! Nyeah! Suckersss!&#8221;
It&#8217;s not easy be right so often, you know &#8212; so you have to get your yoks where you can find them, especially as your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Long As We&#8217;re Sticking Our Necks Out on the Gay-Black Issue&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/as-long-as-were-sticking-our-necks-out-on-the-gay-black-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/as-long-as-were-sticking-our-necks-out-on-the-gay-black-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the big mystery behind the black-gay divide? There is none. Where there are more African-Americans, there are more African-American gays (or gay African-Americans, of you prefer). And where there are more African-American gays (or gay African-Americans)&#8230;
Where Blacks Lead the Fight for Gay Rights
The anti-gay-rights movement has long sought to use the relative religiosity of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earl Ofari Hutchinson to be Thrown Under the Obamabot Bus in 3&#8230; 2&#8230; 1&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/earl-ofari-hutchinson-to-be-thrown-under-the-obamabot-bus-in-3-2-1/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/earl-ofari-hutchinson-to-be-thrown-under-the-obamabot-bus-in-3-2-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We didn&#8217;t write it &#8212; he did &#8212; and for the L.A. Watts Times, no less. You got a problem with it, tell him:
Towering Obstacles to OvercomeBlacks’ Gay Marriage Bias
A June Los Angeles Times poll on voter attitudes toward gay marriage found two things, one surprising, the other not. It was no surprise that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Headline That Made Me Want to Scream: &#8220;Check for a Knife, Kirsten!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/the-headline-that-made-me-want-to-scream-check-for-a-knife-kirsten/</link>
		<comments>http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/03/the-headline-that-made-me-want-to-scream-check-for-a-knife-kirsten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sapphocrat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama aide:President has Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand&#8217;s back
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