What do you do with an LGBT member of an organization that spews hate for this community? A DC activist says “shame ’em!” Phil Attey’s new website, ChurchOuting.org, aims to broadcast the identities of Catholic priests who are socially out but professionally closeted, shaming them for supporting D.C. Archbishop Donald Wuerl’s attempt to use the poor and homeless as a bargaining chip in his fight against the city council’s attempts to recognize same-gender marriage. But what do you think? Sour grapes, or justified given the church’s years of hate-filled rhetoric? What about priests who oppose the archbishop – if there are any? (h/t Joe.My.God)

Elsewhere…

Texas – A candidate for Texas’ Attorney General is saying a 2005 constitutional amendment declaring marriage “the union of one man and one woman” has invalidated all marriages performed in the state of Texas, because a second section of the amendment prohibits the state, its towns, and its counties from “creat[ing] or recogniz[ing] any legal status identical or similar to marriage.”

“You do not have to have a fancy law degree to read this and understand what it plainly says,” said Radnofsky, who’ll be kicking off her campaign (and presumably more grandstanding) this week. (ThinkProgress)

D.C. – A law granting benefits for the same-gender partners of Federal employees cleared its first hurdle yesterday when the House Commmittee on Government Oversight approved the bill. The (openly gay) head of the Office of Personnel Management, who would oversee the benefits program, says he is very happy. (White House press release)

D.C. – Wingnuts and Republican members of congress are firing up their verbal weaponry in preparation for confirmation hearings for an openly-queer nominee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal body that would be deeply involved in making the Employment Non-Discriminatoin Act work if it became law. (Towleroad)

D.C. – The late, great Washington Blade has a new home! Say hello to The D.C. Agenda. For now, keep up with developments and donate much-needed capital at SaveTheBlade.com. (The Advocate)

Puerto Rico – Juan Antonio Martinez Matos had his bail set at $4 million by a judge in Guayama, PR. Matos confessed yesterday to the hideous decapitation, dismemberment, and burning of 19-year-old gay man Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, saying he was driven into a rage when Mercado, who he thought was a female prostitute, revealed he was biologically male. (PHB)

Baltimore – Another gay teen falls victim to hate. Baltimore teen Jason Mattison Jr. was raped, gagged, and stabbed to death last week. His body was found stuffed in a closet at his aunt’s house. (The Advocate)

Florida – Wingnuts trot out the ol’ ignant saw about cross-dressing men in bathrooms as they go after a Tampa trans rights ordinance. (EDGE)