Catholics are waging war against Bill Maher, who recently took some time to not mourn Evangelical Reverend Jerry Falwell.

During his riotous oration on his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher, the 51-year old comedian suggested that gays may gain more rights if we just started a rear-ended religion and offered some clever excuses for gay sex:

We weren't having sex, officer, I was performing a very private Mass, here in my car. I was letting my rod and staff comfort him. Take this and eat of it, for this is my roommate Barry.

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Some gay folk celebrated Reverend Jerry Falwell's death, but not The Advocate's fagling homo-journo, Tully Satre.

Satre, who once spilled ink admonishing so-called bisexuals, writes that we homos must preserve our "dignity" whilst discussing the homo-hating reverend's death, "It is in times like these that our wit and will is tested and we must stand with dignity".

Of course, Satre understands that it's hard to keep a straight face in the face of our enemy's death, so he sucks inspiration from the holiest of holy books: The Lord of the Rings. Except, of course, being a young gun, he prefers his books in film form.

I am reminded of a quote from the film Lord of the Rings, when Gandalf says that “Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life…do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment.” As minorities, we ask to be respected as human beings. We expect people to treat us with dignity and to look beyond our sexual orientation or gender identity. Why then do so many people focus on the politics of Mr. Falwell and find in them reason to celebrate his death?

Bill Maher's a fucking genius. Not only does his eulogy of Reverend Jerry Falwell expose the new cultural rule, "Death isn't always sad", but the outspoken social commentator also offers the gay rights movement a revolutionary suggestion: become a religion. "Forget civil rights, just make gayness a religion. I mean, you're kneeling anyway." Why didn't we think of that?

From this day forward, you queer couples are no longer "life partners". You are "a nunnery of two". Bill Maher has spoken...

• It was all about the Good Times last night at the eastern bloc-housed, Chris Bell-spun, Queerty-loved, Svdeka-soaked weekly party. Check out some pictures over at Twerking and plan your pose for next week. Same gay place. Same gay Good Times.

• Keith Olbermann names voter/gay scandal-ridden political, North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry "worst person in the world".

• Trans activists in Massachusetts are pushing for a bill to lift their 100% natural rights. (Get it?)

• Fred Phelps and his rootin' tootin' Westboro Baptists are gearing up to protest Reverend Jerry Falwell's funeral. From GodhatesAmerica.com:

WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone'.

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Jerry Falwell helped make Tinky Winky a star, albeit in the worst possible way. In a 1999 National Liberty Journal article, the late Reverend Falwell, who died by hexing earlier this week, shocked the world by outing Tinky Winky.

The world went wild, thrusting Tinky Winky into the spotlight brighter than anything he'd ever known and alienating him from the other Teletubbies. Nothing would ever be the same. Years on and healing Tinky Winky describes finally chats with King Kaufman about his harrowing journey:

It was traumatizing, really. I'm a very private Teletubby. I just wanted to get away, go over the hills and far away. But when you're 7 feet tall and purple with an antenna on your head and a TV screen in your belly, where are you going to go?

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• NewsBusters, the watch dog group dedicated to "exposing and combating liberal media bias", are taking aim at GLAAD the group released a statement in which president Neil Giuliano "urges" the media to commemorate Falwell as a homo-hating monster:

As they look back on the life of the Rev. Falwell, media have an opportunity and a responsibility to reflect on the outdated, hurtful attitudes and beliefs he embodied...

It's an important opportunity to take stock of how far our nation has come in moving toward a more respectful and inclusive society, and how far we still have to go.

On Anderson Cooper 360, CNN correspondent Randi Kaye, who raised eyebrows in December for a story worrying about Saddam suffering when he hanged, shared no comparable horror at the death of Falwell. Her transcript read like a commercial for GLAAD... Anchor Anderson Cooper titled his segments "Faith and Fury," and fury was certainly in heavy rotation on CNN.

• America's Next Top Model's (Ms.) J Alexander warns touchy-feely fans to back off: "I knocked a lot of people in the nose and knocked a lot of people in the head and knocked a lot of people in the chest for grabbing up on Miss Jay."

• California-based gay activist Larry Sprenger has died. Sprenger's work with the Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles helped close bath houses to stop the spread of AIDS.

• CBS' Kiddie Nation proves that reality television really is for children.

• St. Petersburg Pride banned! The city's just too dang busy, you see?

• Wanna see some cute boys? Sure ya do! Especially when they're fine ass D&G models posing in their undies...

• Just so you know, Antarctica's still melting.

As of this writing, there are 1,928 news articles on Reverend Jerry Falwell's death. No surprise there - the Evangelical changed the course of American politics. His Moral Majority helped lead the Christian right into office, his sermons regularly pushed anti-gay agenda and the abortion debate drips in his righteous venom.

On the other hand, however, he gave millions of people hope, founded a university dedicated to educating his followers and donated to charity. Falwell's politics may have been evil, but as Al Sharpton remarked last night on Larry King Live, Falwell had some good in his heart, however misguided. Needless to say, the reactions to his death have been mixed.

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• The 911 call that's sure to be a classic.

• Keith Boykin on Bobby Brown's anti-gay tirade, sexual panic and hate crime legislation.

• Which Republican presidential candidate will shed the most publicist-endorsed tears for Jerry Falwell's death?

• Some gay San Franciscans won't be shedding any tears for Jerry Falwell. They're planning an anti-memorial. Whoa. That's a. unnecessary and b. makes gay people look like jerks.

• California high school student Johnny Vera has our undying respect. This ballsy fucker's not only transgender in high school, but he had the confidence to run for prom queen! And won! You work that shit, girl. You work that shit... (PS: We have to include the picture. Trannie prom queens forever!)

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The Lesbian Death Angels - a group dedicated to setting "the world back on its axis one hex at a time" - have claimed responsibility for 73-year old Reverend Jerry Falwell's death. The boastful baddies issued a press release reading thus:

[We], concerned that Rev. Falwell's followers will misattribute the cause of their leader's demise to their antigod or to some weenie group like Soulforce, have announced that, in a mass worldwide action, they hexed at 10:30 am today and that the subject of their hex was the Rev. Jerry Falwell. In other words, they are claiming to be responsible for Jerry's death and wish the world to know that they are proud of it to boot.

One member, coochie-loving, spell-casting Connie L. Ingus, remarked: ""Proselytizing is usually so rude". Indeed.

The press release also warns that the ladies will hex again. It did not, however, name a specific target. Be Afraid. Be very, very afraid.

Lesbians Claim Credit For Falwell Demise [bilerico]

Evangelist Jerry Falwell has died. Liberty University colleagues found the Moral Majority leader and all-around homo-hater "unresponsive" in his office earlier today. Paramedics rushed the reverend to a local hospital, but apparently God had other plans for the man who used His name to build the formidable Christian right.

San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but he said Falwell "has a history of heart challenges."

"I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast," Godwin said. "He went to his office, I went to mine, and they found him unresponsive."
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Falwell, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and serve[d] as its president.

Hopefully the G-Man will have some mercy on Falwell's misguided soul. That is, of course, if God exists. Hey, Jerry, what's the word?

Mitt Romney's one determined man. After Massachusett's legislature voted for recess before considering his proposed same-sex marriage referendum, he's going before a Supreme Judicial Court to ask for a 2008 referendum. 365 Gay reports:

The proposed amendment was the result of a signature gathering campaign mounted by conservative groups. More than the required number of names were collected, sending the issue to the Constitutional Convention where it needs only the support of only 50 lawmakers - 25 percent of the House and Senate - in two constitutional conventions for it to be put to voters in 2008.

If the convention fails to vote on January 2 supporters of the amendment would have to begin collecting signatures all over again in an attempt to place it before voters in 2010.

Speaking of Church, Romney's long been homies with the Evangelicals. Just a few weeks ago he met with leaders to discuss his planned (and hopefully doomed) bid for President. Though Romney would like you to believe the E-Vans are praying for his political gain, it seems supreme leader (read: douche) Jerry Falwell's not on the Romney bandwagon.

It has come to my attention that a statement attributed to Governor Mitt Romney suggests that I have endorsed his candidacy for President... I have met with and respect Governor Romney, as I do many of the other prospective candidates for President.

If Governor Romney becomes the Republican candidate, I could certainly support him...However, I have not endorsed or offered support for Governor Romney or any other candidate and have no plans to do so in the immediate future.

Remember Mickey Weems, the homo-journo who professed his non-sensical love for The L-Word?

Sure, we gave him a bit of shit over that piece, but we still heart him like whoa. After reading his latest offering, we love him like whoa times two.

Just in time for Halloween (today, in case you didn't know), Weems gives Hell House, the Christian sin-themed haunted house, the ol' faggot make-over by suggesting a few sulfur-infused punishments for homo haters (and, of course, a few select homos) everywhere.

While they're all fairly clever, our personal favorite has got to be this particular damnation:

For Christian media whores who drive God-fearing homosexuals into ex-gay reparative therapy (I’m thinking Jerry Falwell, Ann Coulter and the late Reggie White), their hell would consist of being irresistibly attracted to Pope Benedict XVI, who would prance before them in a sexy hot-pink thong (body hair untrimmed) and red Prada shoes.

(We must admit, however, that we object to Benedict getting to flit about in his Prada's. Give 'em Pay Less or nothing at all!)