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\"Pence<\/a>
Republican Governor and serial human rights abuser Mike Pence, second from left, ties a blindfold on a man who\u2019s about to be executed by firing squad on suspicion of insufficient conformity to the principles of the Religious Right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New York\u2019s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has banned all \u201cnon-essential\u201d travel by state employees to Indiana because of its new RFRA law on religious freedom, which he fears could lead directly to difficulties for gays and lesbians in obtaining wedding cakes, ordering cheeseburgers, and hiring photographers. \u00a0And, in completely unrelated news, Governor Cuomo will head to gaytopian Cuba on 20 April:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/tom-blumer\/2015\/03\/31\/andy-cuomo-bans-non-essential-travel-indiana-because-its-rfra<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cuba\u2019s current l\u00edder m\u00e1ximo, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and President of the Council of State, His Excellency the Honorable Ra\u00fal Castro
(Have I perhaps messed something up on these photo captions? \u00a0Something seems vaguely odd.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And Apple\u2019s CEO, Tim Cook, has denounced the new Indiana law, boasting that \u201cApple is open for everyone.\u201d \u00a0And it certainly is. \u00a0For example, here\u2019s a map<\/a> showing the location of the Apple stores in gay-friendly Tehran, Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"Iranian<\/a>
At Dupont Circle in Washington DC, a gay-rights activist celebrates Iran\u2019s benevolence towards homosexuals by holding up an Iranian flog . . . er, flag during what seems to be a kind\u00a0of party \u2014 though there\u2019s something different about the flag that I just can\u2019t seem to put my finger on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And then there\u2019s the case of Jon Stewart\u2019s anointed successor on The Daily Show<\/em>, Trevor Noah. \u00a0It was confidently predicted that his takeover of the program would be greeted by hostility and anger on the Right because, well, conservatives are knuckle-dragging \u00a0bigots who hate and fear People of Colour and, for that matter, anybody else who\u2019s in any way different from them and lives in a cultural world more current than the Eisenhower years and more sophisticated\u00a0than Mayberry RFD. \u00a0But Kevin Williamson describes\u00a0where the protests have actually<\/em> come from: \u00a0http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/416235\/mr-noah-and-flood-kevin-d-williamson?target=author&tid=903320<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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