Well that's an analogy we hadn't heard yet.  

While speaking to a group of 100 students at Spring Arbor University yesterday as part of the Thomas H. Cobb President’s Leadership Speaker Series, former Presidential candidate and virulent homophobe Alan Keyes equated the right to marriage equality with...a child that picks their nose and eats what comes out.

Thanks for the visual, Alan. 

More after the jump.

As Republicans convene this week to assess their party's arguably failing platform, social conservatives are threatening to jump ship if the party takes any steps in the direction towards equality.

Thirteen influential wingnuts (joined, of course, by hate group leader Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council) penned a letter to the Republican National Committee telling them to affirm the party's 2012 platform, which supported a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and supported the Defense of Marriage Act, or face abandonment by their socially conservative base.

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Research Medical Center in Kansas City has expanded upon its initial statement to put blame of the controversial arrest of Roger Gorley on his "belligerent behavior" in the hospital room of his ill partner. 

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(A petition has been started on Change.org in hopes of grabbing the Obama Administration's attention. Sign it here.)

A heartbreaking situation in Missouri has reminded us why exactly we're fighting for full federal marriage equality. 

A gay man has been arrested for refusing to leave his partner's hospital room, and banned from stepping foot inside the facility again.

After Uruguay became the second Latin American nation to approve marriage equality this week and France pretty much finalized its legislation, the world asks, "Where is the U.S.A.?"

The emotional moment when Uruguay's House passed marriage equality was caught on video. Grab the Kleenex and follow the jump to share in the momentous moment for Latin America!

Updated April 10 at 5 p.m. (PST):

Well it's now really official. Uruguay's House just voted and passed (as expected) the marriage equality bill with a vote of 71-21! 

President Jose Mujica has said he intends to sign the bill into law. 

Progress in Latin America!

The crucial vote on marriage equality in the French Senate took place Tuesday night, with 179 votes (to 157) supporting removing the "opposite-sex only" provision in French law. A final vote is scheduled in the next few weeks, but passage of marriage equality is basically secured at this point. 

Still, French homophobes are unwilling to give up. 

A marriage equality resolution will be put before spring meeting of the Republican National Committee on Thursday. The motion seeks to reaffirm the 2012 RNC platform which already mentions adding a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. More details after the break.

Glenn Beck hasn't exactly jumped on the marriage equality train, but he's definitely acknowledged that it's left the station and there's no way it's turning back!

Beck gives his take on why the conservative right has lost the marriage war and why the principle of marriage equality is...right. 

Watch after the jump!

Just in case there was any confusion, Democratic Senator Mark Pryor from Arkansas wants to make it very clear that he definitely opposes marriage equality.

You can all rest easy now. 

See what he had to say after the jump.

Delaware will be the next state to consider marriage equality in 2013 as a bill that will extend civil rights to same-sex couples gets ready to be pre-filed in the state House on Thursday.