Updated Tuesday, 12:10 p.m. EST

During a school board meeting on Monday night, Jerry Buell, the Lake County, Florida teacher we told you about last week who said that marriage equlaity in New York is a "cesspool" that made him "almost throw up," begged people to start obeying the Bible and refused to apologize for his homophobic remarks. 

Since its launch a few weeks back, Google's social network experiment, Google+, has been heralded for all the features it prides itself on that Facebook and Twitter lack. But recently, it's been the inability for Google+ users to make their gender settings private (a feature its competitors provide) that have caught a few headlines. This week Google announced an update to its gender problem. Details follow. 

It's no stranger to controversial administration, but Facebook easily made the right call in deleting a disgusting "The New Anti-Gay Movement" group from the social network. 

We're not always fans of the changes Facebook institutes, but at Thursday's White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, the world's most popular social network announced an anti-bullying strategy that we can certainly applaud. 

Mashable has the deets:

Facebook’s changes boil down to two main aspects: an improved safety center with more multimedia resources, and better, more social tools for reporting offensive or bullying content.

In addition to reporting harassing or TOS-violating content directly to Facebook, users now have two important options that are more social and more community-centric. Within the reporting options interface, the targeted user can choose to privately message the user who posted the stressful or offensive...

If you were concerned that Aunt Shirley and acquaintances from junior high didn't know enough about your relationship, you're in luck because Facebook has added welcome changes that get right down to the nitty gritty: users in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France and Australia can now select from "In a domestic partnership" or "In a civil union" from the growing list of relationship status options. 

GLAAD applauds Facebook for the inclusion.

"Today, Facebook sent a clear message in support of gay and lesbian couples to users across the globe," said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios. "By acknowledging the relationships of countless loving and committed same-sex couples in the U.S. and abroad, Facebook has set a new standard of inclusion...

To raise awarenes for its Gays and Lesbians Adorn the World campaign, the Serbian-based Gay And Lesbian Info Centre (GLIC) is hoping they do.

We all know that Betty White's return to the top can be accredited to a Facebook Page campaign. But the effect's of the latest social network awareness-raising trend -- changing one's profile picture to coincide with the cause of the day -- are ambiguous. 

Still, the GLIC is asking that those in support of World Human Rights Day (more on it here) on Friday, December 10 add a picture of a well-known LGBT leader as their profile pic to call attention to the group's new campaign. 

We did it to fight bullying, we did it to fight child abuse, and we'll surely keep changing our pictures. But ...

Update:

This fishy plot thickens. CBS has now officially rejected the ManCrunch.com ad, as questions still float around about whether or not the company even intended for the ad to run, or whether it just wanted free publicity.

"After reviewing the ad—which is entirely commercial in nature—our Standards and Practices department decided not to accept this particular spot," said CBS in a statement. "As always, we are open to working with the client on alternative submissions."

"We're 100% serious," said the site's spokesperson, Elissa Buchter. "We have the money to pay for it. If the ad showed a man and woman kissing it would have been accepted. You see ads for erectile dysfunction morning, noon and night. It's discriminatory that they...

In other dating site news (see eHarmony post below), OKCupid has conducted a massive scientific study on social network profile photos, arriving at a wonderful academic theory: headless shots showing off abs work wonders! Great news for those of us discreetly posting to Craigslist or Manhunt or A4A, wondering if we'd get more response if we butched it up and revealed our mugs.

The study of over 7,000 profiles and photos reveal that ab-shots gain nearly 1.5 more meetings than those with clothed photos. Though a caveat: the statistics decrease as the photo owner's age. It seems possible interested parties would much rather see a shirtless 19 year old than a shirtless 45 year old, for some reason :(

And another thing, the numbers reflect a...

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