WATCH: Obama Supports The "Ground Zero Mosque"

I agree with him. Even if 68% of Americans oppose it. Constitutional rights (freedom of religion) is not subject to popular whim.

People Believe Gays Face More Discriminaton

The Pew Research Center has been doing a lot of public opinion research about Americans feelings about religion and other minorities. They have released a chart showing that more people feel that gays and lesbians face discrimination than Muslims, Hispanics and Blacks.

The only group that Americans perceive as subject to more discrimination than Muslims is homosexuals; nearly two-thirds of adults (64%) say gays and lesbians face a lot of discrimination. About half say blacks (49%) and Hispanics (52%) suffer from a lot of discrimination, and more than a third (37%) say there is a lot of discrimination against women in the U.S. today.

Interesting.

Haaz Sleiman Talks About His Gay Muslim Character

Haaz Sleiman, left with Edie Falco on Showtime's Nurse Jackie

MadProfessah fave and overall hottie Haaz Sleiman is appearing in Showtime's new Nurse Jackie series starring multiple-Emmy-winning actress Edie Falco as a gay Muslim male nurse named "Mo-Mo."

Sleiman co-starred in last year's Oscar-nominated The Visitor (one of my favorite movies of 2008) and has also appeared as an "improbably hot Arab terrorist" on Fox's 24 television series.

Below, some video of him talking about his role on Nurse Jackie, which started airing on Showtime this week (Mondays)

U.S. Signs On To UN Declaration on Homosexuality Decriminalization

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

In an official declaration from the Obama Administration's Department of State released today, the United States has signed on to a United Nations Declaration in favor of the Worldwide Decriminalization of Homosexuality that the Bush Administration declined to sign onto when 66 others did so in December 2008.

UN Statement on "Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity"
Robert Wood
Acting Department Spokesman, Office of the Spokesman
BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Washington, DC
March 18, 2009

The United States supports the UN Statement on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity,” and is pleased to join the other 66 UN member states who have declared their support of this Statement that condemns human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity wherever they occur.

The United States is an outspoken defender of human rights and critic of human rights abuses around the world. As such, we join with the other supporters of this Statement and we will continue to remind countries of the importance of respecting the human rights of all people in all appropriate international fora.

Change we can believe in.