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Galliano Faces Judge

Designer Galliano Says He Can’t Recall Speaking Slurs NYTimes

The NYTimes report on the courtroom proceedings of today’s trial is a very sad story for such a talented designer. 

At one point, the presiding judge, Anne-Marie Sauteraud, asked his current profession.

“I have none,” he said, almost inaudibly.

Then he issued a plea to the judge to take note of his work, inspired by his travel to diverse countries.

“I know what it feels to be discriminated against,” Mr. Galliano testified, noting that his real name is Juan and that his mother is Spanish. “We moved to south London when I was 6 years old and aware that I was gay. I was sent to a difficult English boys school and you can imagine that children can be cruel.”

The court’s decision will come on Sept. 8.

Designer Galliano Faces French Court for Racist Tirade France 24

About 100 French and foreign journalists are waiting for John Galliano’s Parisian court appearance today. The former head designer for Christian Dior will answer charges surrounding his alleged anti-Semetic tirade in a bar located in the Parisian bar.

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Anti-Gay Couple Loses Foster Care Case | Court Rules Britain Is Not A Theocracy

Court rules against Owen and Eunice Johns who refused to tell children a ‘homosexual lifestyle’ was acceptable. Photograph: Ellen Branagh/PARedTracker| A British High Court court has ruled against a Derby couple who sought to be foster parents but refused to tell a child that being homosexual is acceptable.

The Guardian writes that the couple insisted on their right to tell young foster children that homosexuality is morally wrong.

“We are prepared to love and accept any child. All we were not willing to do was to tell a small child that the practice of homosexuality was a good thing. We feel excluded and that there is no place for us in society.”

The couple’s lawyer Andrea Minichiello Williams a member of the Christian Legal Centre, lashed out saying:

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Dump Your Wings | Run Fast From Tea Party Exorcists and the Bible Brigade

Will Carine Roitfeld Use Candice Swanepoel For An Angels Shootout in Vogue Paris? Sensually Yours

I wrote in my Sensually Yours column this morning that if I had a young daughter, I would begin working to get her dual citizenship. Simply stated, I am terrified for the future of our young women, not just because of losing our reproductive rights but because of a strong evangelical movement to make men the boss again in America.

The women of America will be split into two camps in the coming years: the Mama Grizzlies and the Snake Charmers. You probably know where I fit in.

I’m not cocky or cute in writing these words. When the state of Utah passes a bill that made miscarriage a felony and it only escaped becoming law because the governor vetoed the bill, I’m very frightened for the young women of America.

The militias are coming for us, making a travesty of the founding principles of this country. Pope Benedict is close behind. And my alma mater Victoria’s Secret wants women to wear wings so big that we can’t run fast from the exorcist in hot pursuit of the devil in us.

Tea Party Propoganda

This is not the America that I know and love, but it is the America I fear we are becoming.

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Uganda's Draconian Homosexuality Bill Update

HopeTracker| Retired Diocese of Western Uganda Bishop Christopher Senyonjo has thanked people around the world for speaking out against the proposed changes in Ugandan laws that would criminalize homosexuality.

Senyonjo was interviewed June 8 by Diocese of New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson during an hour-long Center for American Progress event held in Washington, D.C. Robinson called Senyonjo “one of my heroes.”

American Evangelicals speaking in Uganda have been a major catalyst in stirring up the anti-gay hatred.

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