Even as Florida readies to enact marriage equality next week, county clerks around the state are insisting they won't give same-sex couples marriage license applications. They've been emboldened to pull this stunt thanks to Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose insistence on defending the ban, and refusal to clarify a recent verdict ushering in marriage equality.

All this is to say why The Tampa Bay Times named Bondi its Loser of the Year:

Bondi's clumsy communication skills and relentless defense of Florida's gay marriage ban have made her a modern-day Anita Bryant. Antagonizing Florida's gay voters over same-sex marriage and Hispanic voters over immigration reform ensures Bondi has a bright political future ahead of her — if she moves to Mississippi.

We' love to throw a pie in Bondi's face,

Denver Post sports columnist Benjamin Hochman used a year-end column to call for more tolerance for gay people from sports lovers:

Your favorite player, the guy you worship, the guy whose jersey you proudly wear, the guy who's on a poster plastered on your son's wall — he might be gay. You can't do anything about it. The guy can't do anything about it. It's reality.

So resist being the moral police, deciding if that player should or shouldn't be allowed in your world. You adore and respect the player. Why should this information about his personal life change why you adore and respect him?

Good point.

A just-released report reveals that  a grand total of three viewers filed formal complaints that the BBC's Doctor Who is pushing a “homosexual agenda.”

In August, the show depicted a same-sex kiss between Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh) and her human wife Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart).

“I want to make sure that we’re paying attention to things before they happen,” he said.

New Jersey law currently allows a murder charge to be reduced to manslaughter if it's "committed in the heat of passion resulting from a reasonable provocation.”

But Eustace's measure would exclude the discovery of a victim's sexual orientation, as well as unwanted sexual advances, from that statute.

Photos of  Florian Philippot, deputy leader of the homophobic National Front Party, on vacation with his boyfriend were published earlier this month, outraging even pro-LGBT forces in France, where politicians' personal indiscretions usually go unreported.

“Mr Philippot is admittedly a public figure but he is not a celebrity and has always explained that sexuality is an intimate affair,”  said Philippot's attorney Gregoire Lafarge. “To ‘out’ (someone) is to stigmatize. After sexuality, what will we throw out to the public—religion, health?”

A lawyer for the tabloid insisted the story served the public good, especially since he was the leader of a party that opposes same-sex marriage.