It only took former Bob Jones University president Bob Jones III three-and-a-half decades to apologize for saying homosexuals should be executed.

"It would not be a bad idea to bring the swift justice today that was brought in Israel's day against murder and rape and homosexuality," Jones told the AP in 1980. "I guarantee it would solve the problem post-haste if homosexuals were stoned and murderers were immediately killed, as the Bible commands."

But after receiving a petition this week sponsored by BJUnity, the school's unofficial LGBT support network, Jones admitted his statement was "antithetical to my theology and my 50 years of preaching a redeeming Christ."

Upon now reading these long-forgotten words, they seem to me as words belonging to a total stranger — were my name not attached. I cannot erase them, but wish I could, because they do not represent the belief of my heart or the content of my preaching. Neither before, nor since, that event in 1980 have I ever advocated the stoning of sinners.

Oh, it was just the one time? That makes it okay.

With Indiana Governor Mike Pence ready to sign SB 101, the so-called  "License to Discriminate" bill, former NBA star Jason Collins took to Twitter to express his outrage. Collins will be in Indianapolis  to cover the NCAA Final Four for Yahoo Sports.

— Jason Collins (@jasoncollins98) March 23, 2015

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Porn star Jarec Wentworth was arrested earlier this month for extorting $500,000 and a Audi R8 from a wealthy businessman afraid to have their trysts made public.

Wentworth (real name: Teofil Brank) was aiming for even more lucre—a condo and $1 million cash—when he was pinched at a Starbucks in L.A. Authorities found a loaded .357 Magnum revolver in his car.

Wentworth, who appeared in clips on Sean Cody and Randy Blue, faces 15 years in prison if found guilty.

Playwright Larry Kramer chronicled the birth of Gay Men's Health Crisis, and his ultimate break from the group, in the seminal AIDS play, The Normal Heart. 

Now, more than 30 years later, GMHC honored Kramer with an eponymous award, the inaugural Larry Kramer Activism Award.

But the trailblazing activist was hardly placating in his acceptance speech:

The main difference between the Larry Kramer who helped to start Gay Men’s Health Crisis in his living room in 1982 and ACT UP in 1987 and the Larry Kramer who stands before you now is that I no longer have any doubt that our government is content, via sins of omission or commission, to allow the extermination of my homosexual population to continue unabated.

Kramer admitted his views led to his dismissal from GMHC, but also credited them with enabling ACT UP to succeed. Fiery as ever, he pointed a finger at "greedy manufacturers" more interested in making profits off of pharmaceuticals to treat HIV/AIDS than a cure.

Russia's attempt at stopping the UN from offering benefits to same-sex partners of staffers failed this week after a General Assembly budget committee voted 80 to 43 against the request. 

Previously, employees' status was determined by the laws of their home country, but last June U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the United Nations would recognize the marriages of any of its 44,000 staffers, same-sex or opposite-sex.

An application for a license plate that read "LGBTALY" (or LGBT Ally) was denied by the Oklahoma Tax Commission because it was "sexual in nature."

John Keefe wanted the plate to show his support for the LGBT community, and calls the OTC's decision "A load of crap."

"I thought that was very uneducated, very bigoted, [and] very discriminatory against a population that has long faced an unfair, unethical discrimination," he told KWTV.