On Monday, Mitt Romney interrupted a Vietnam vet's breakfast date with his husband. What resulted was an awkward moment filled to the brim with disrespect handed out by the GOP presidential candidate. Though Bob Garon, the vet who took Romney's marriage equality temperature, provided a bit of his perspective of the encounter on Monday, today we get a more in-depth look behind the community's newest activist star. 

Todd Wathen and his partner of eight years have filed a lawsuit against two Illinois bed and breakfast establishments that refused access to their special events spaces because of the couple's sexuality.

It is illegal for a business open to the public to deny goods/services to a customer based on sexual orientation in the state of Illinois. 

Both the Beall Mansion and the Timber Creek B&B turned Wathen and partner away because they're gay, though the Timber Creek B&B continued its harassment of the couple by sending consecutive emails quoting the Bible. 

"We will never host same-sex civil unions," wrote Timber Creek. "We will never host same-sex weddings even if they become legal in Illinois. We believe homosexuality...

On the day of the highly-controversial National Prayer Breakfast (which President Obama decided to speak at, despite organizers The Fellowship's well-known ties to the homophobic genocide movement in Uganda), a new Gallup poll shows that the number of Americans who want organized religion to play a part in politics is on the rise. Conversely, the number of Americans who want less religion in their government is on the decline. Still, both numbers rest at 29%, while a majority of Americans (39%) simply want the level of religious interference in our politics to remain the same. Interesting. 

A gay couple says they were turned away from a Bed & Breakfast in the U.K. over the weekend after the owner said it was against her convictions to allow the two men to sleep together.

Michael Black, 62, and John Morgan, 56, told the owner that it was illegal to discriminate against them, but she refused to allow the stay. She gave the two men their money back before they called the police. The authorities advised the men that the case was more appropriately a civil matter.

The inn's owner told the BBC, "They gave me no prior warning and I couldn't offer them another room as I was fully booked. I don't see why I should change my mind and my beliefs I've held for years just because the Government should force it on me,'' she said. "'I am...

Maybe President Obama is in fact affecting change.

The BBC is reporting that Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill is likely to change.

Uganda's controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is likely to be changed, a minister has told the BBC.

However, Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem did not give details of how he thought the final bill would be different to the current proposals.

Uganda has come under intense international pressure over the bill, which provides for the death penalty for some homosexual acts.

Mr Oryem was speaking after US leader Barack Obama called the bill "odious".

It has also been condemned by various European countries.

"I am sure the bill will take a different form when it is tabled on the floor in parliament,"...

It may have been a sour spot for critics of President Obama's appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast, but his speech, along with fellow attendee Secretary Hillary Clinton’s, provided a brief moment of protest against the “kill the gays” bill in Uganda.

Some had pressured the president into finally broaching the deplorable topic after a rumor that Uganda MP (and author of the bill) David Bahati would also be attending this morning’s religious gathering. Regardless of the source of prodding, President Obama stuck a tiny snippet of opposition into the larger theme of health care and equality, saying, “"We can take different approaches to ending inequality, but surely we can agree on the need to lift our children out of ignorance,...

Updated Wednesday, January 20

Box Turtle Bulletin, which earlier reported that Ugandan "Kill the Gays" bill author and MP David Bahati was slated to appear at the upcoming National Prayer Breakfast, has received word that the intvitation was never extended.

A spokesperson for the NPB issued a quick response to the website's claim, saying:

Ambassador Richard Swett, a longtime associate of the Fellowship Foundation since his days in Congress in the early ‘90s, confirmed the accuracy of Mr. Hunter’s report to Warren Throckmorton. He went on to state, “The National Prayer Breakfast is an organization that builds bridges of understanding between all peoples, religions and beliefs and has never advocated the sentiments expressed in Mr...