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Pope Francis reportedly used the term “faggotry” (“frociaggine”) again during a meeting with 160 priests where the Pontiff also discussed the issue of homosexual men entering seminaries. According to major Italian news outlets, Francis told the priests present during the closed-door meeting at Salesian Pontifical University on Tuesday that “there is an air of faggotry in the Vatican.”

If there is one thing we know above all at Twitchy, it is that language matters. Words matter. After all, words are our stock in trade. If we keep letting leftists redefine words according to their whims, then those words stop having any meaning. If we let leftists take control of language, then they have already won. It is why we ignore the 'preferred pronouns' nonsense, not to mention other bastardizations of language like 'gender-affirming care.' But sometimes we are even amazed at the attempts by the left to twist language to their nefarious purposes. For instance, take this latest...

Portland, Oregon - Veterans burned their US military uniforms during a powerful protest on Wednesday in honor of Aaron Bushnell, the active Air Force member who self-immolated in protest at Israel's war on Gaza. The action, organized by the group About Face: Veterans Against the War, took place in honor of 25-year-old Bushnell, an active Air Force member who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC on Sunday to protest US complicity in Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza.

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Sandie Shaw (born Sandra Ann Goodrich, 26 February 1947) is an English pop singer, who was one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s.

Late Show host Stephen Colbert practically bowed down before Barack Obama during a sit-down interview with the former President on his Tuesday night CBS show. After starting off the show gushing over how much they both enjoyed each other, a star-struck Colbert confessed he needed to “drink in” Obama's presence: "Can we just take moment -- I can just -- and I want to talk. I just want to take a moment to drink you in for just a moment. Because I'm having to get used to looking at a President. [LAUGHTER] Again. You know, I've gotten out of --...

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John Travolta's 'inappropriate behavior' got him tossed from Peninsula Hotel's massage spa: staff Travolta’s stay on the blacklist was about three years, and followed a complaint to the hotel’s bosses, said Michael Caputo, a one-time Peninsula masseur Staff at the swank Peninsula Hotel claimed John Travolta was banned after several creepy run-ins with the spa’s male employees. But the temporary ban in the early 2000s was eventually lifted and the “Pulp Fiction” star was welcomed back, says a former staff member. Travolta was banished to the Fifth Ave. hotel’s “no-thigh zone” after his inappropriate antics led to an insurrection, said...

FRANKLIN LAKES — The way Tom Murro tells it, a chance encounter with President Obama on a Martha's Vineyard golf course last summer had a transformative effect on him. Among Tom Murro's high-profile run-ins: President Obama, Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman and Kathie Lee Gifford. Suddenly, the Franklin Lakes father of two became the "Celebrity Magnet," known for an uncanny ability to attract, rub elbows and be photographed with some of the world's most famous people. Last April, Murro folded the mortgage company he had run for two decades and took to chronicling his exploits and conquests online at celebritymagnet.com. "Some...

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Robert Pattinson has had enough of being rejected by co-star Kristen Stewart and has demanded that the actress choose between him or her longtime love Michael Angarano. "Robert is completely frustrated," a friend of his told OK Magazine! "If Kristen isn't interested in a serious relationship, she needs to tell him so he can move on." The source said that Robert Pattinson is giving Kristen Stewart a few months to sort out her feelings. Pattinson wants the issue resolved by the time the two re-unite in Vancouver for the filming of Eclipse, the third installment of the Twilight franchise. "He's...

Now that the media have shared with us their joy over the advent of homosexual “marriage” in California, here’s the other shoe that will drop in the next few weeks. Get used to this term: “The sky is not falling.” It will be used by pro-gay spokespeople that the media showcase to make the point that nobody will be substantially affected. Shortly after May 17, 2004, when Mitt Romney’s administration began handing out same-sex marriage licenses in Massachusetts despite no legislative action on the law, which was required under the Massachusetts Constitution, the media eagerly showcased gay activists who...

LONDON (AP) - Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe. "Syphilis used to be a very rare disease," said Dr. Marita van de Laar, an expert in sexually transmitted diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. "I'm not sure we can say that anymore." Most cases of syphilis are in men, and experts point to more risky sex among gay men as the chief cause for the resurgence. But more cases are being seen among heterosexuals, both men and women, too. Syphilis was...

BOSTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Massachusetts' lawmakers on Thursday took a giant step toward killing a proposal to ban gay marriage in the only U.S. state where it is legal. With protesters on both sides of the debate rallying outside the gold-domed statehouse, lawmakers voted 109 to 87 to delay a decision on whether to back a constitutional amendment that would have given voters a chance to ban gay marriage. Gay rights advocates cheered the move, seen as a crushing blow to opponents of gay marriage who had gathered 170,000 signatures in a petition that asked lawmakers to put the...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been censured by an Army court on the same day he agreed to a deal with the White House outlining new provisions for military justice in cases involving suspected terrorists. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces yesterday held that Sen. Graham violated the Incompatibility Clause of the Constitution when, as a Reservist, he sat on the Air Force's intermediate appellate court while also a member of the Senate. According to one military law expert, there is no penalty for Graham, but the court overturned the case on which Graham sat, entitling the...

Today: September 21, 2006 at 15:45:18 PDT Court: Senator Can't Be Military Judge By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - It is unconstitutional for Sen. Lindsey Graham to serve as a member of Congress and a military judge at the same time, a military court has ruled. Graham, R-S.C., is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Standby Reserve, and is assigned as a reserve judge to the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals. "One of the purposes served by the separation of powers is that a military accused will not be judged by a Member of...

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham made a statement on the Presidential news conference Friday. Graham also released a letter addressed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking for clarification of the United States response should a situation arise involving a CIA paramilitary operative captured in Iran and placed on trial in that country. Graham's letter stated: "This is a time for thoughtful, reasoned discussions. What we do today will affect the nation not only in our current war but in future wars as well. "President Bush is sincere in wanting the tools necessary to protect the nation, including...

To say that Lindsey Graham has been a disappointment to the conservatives who were the heart and soul of his campaign would be an understatement. Unfortunately, our senior senator has moved from disappointing to downright dangerous. In recent days, we have seen al-Qaida, in all of its videotape glory, threatening Americans with death and destruction unless we surrender to the Wahabbist strain of Islam and convert. We’ve seen “American al-Qaida” Adam Gadahn and his Egyptian cohort Ayman al-Zawahiri “invite us” to join Islam (or face destruction), while al-Jazeera runs old footage of Osama bin Laden with the 9/11 hijackers just...

HH: Happy to welcome to the program United States Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina. Senator Graham, welcome. Good to talk to you. LG: Thank you, Hugh. How are you doing, buddy? HH: I'm great. I want to cover a bunch of stuff with you. Let's do the easy ones first. LG: Okay. HH: Peter Keisler didn't get out of committee today, because not enough Republicans showed up. Does that doom his confirmation in this session? LG: No, I don't think so. He's a good guy. He's being held up because of some dispute about the number of judges at...