Morning Meme: Sally Kern Compares Gays To Terrorists, "Teen Wolf" Promises Even More Skin, and The Game Calls For a Replay

Teen Wolf star Colton Haynes says that we should prepare to see his character in a lot less clothing next season. Swim team instead of lacrosse perhaps? And just how much of the production costs is Logo picking up now?

Oklahoma nutjob Sally Kern has a book to promote, so on the eve of 9/11 she goes on the radio to say again that gays are responsible for more deaths than terrorists.  She seems terribly worried that with gays around, we'll no longer be a virtuous nation. Sally, you know what else hurts our virtuous nature? Lying, opportunistic bigots.

I really do enjoy Let's Be Friends Again, and it takes a dip into gay humor every few weeks. Now they're taking on Orson Scott Card's rewrite of Hamlet.

I don't watch Big Brother, but even I heard about the homophobic rant that housemate Jeff Schroeder went off on about Hogwarts being unsafe for children because Dumbledore was gay. Now he's saying that we all took it wrong, he's not anti-gay, he's anti-fictional-place.

If you've had enough sadness thanks to all the tributes of the last few days, take a moment to go watch this gay teenager explain how the It Gets Better project saved him from seeking out conversion therapy. When I spoke at Washington & Lee, it was evident that It Gets Better hit on a different level to younger people that it did to an old cynic like me, and here's more proof.

The sneaky North Carolina gay marriage amendment is so poorly written it may invalidate domestic violence protections if enacted in current form.

Are Cam and Mitchell the only decent TV parents left today?

I'm just getting ready to start on season one of The Walking Dead, but in season two they plan on getting into the details of something I thought was pretty settled for zombies: dinner. Aren't they mostly in it for the brains?

Fox has set The Three Stooges with Sean Hayes for April 4, 2012.

Dancing With the Stars Mark Ballas again says he's totally up to be a same-sex partner for a celebrity, but he still thinks it puts them at a disadvantage in the competition because of how it's scored. And not from the Midwest, but the professional judges. Maybe they should hire a same-sex ballroom judge then?

Contagion won the box office with $23 million, finally unseating The Help, which fell to second place after five weeks of release. But perhaps most amusing was Creature, opening on 1,507 screens to only $331,000, the fifth worst opening of all time.

The male Unitarian Universalists of Framingham have a new beefcake calendar that is sure to delight.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is preparing to publish a new study that Spongebob Squarepants is bad for your brain.  Preschoolers "were significantly impaired in executive function immediately after watching just nine minutes of a popular fast-paced television show relative to after watching educational television or drawing." To which I say "Duh!" But seriously, the study is so stupid I don't know where to start. Kids are more focused after studying than after giggling? Preschoolers? Spongebob is targeted at ages 6-11, and college stoners. The article linked above picks it apart fairly well. At least it's not turning kids gay anymore.

ABC has bought a pilot about a 1970s singing family. In other words, we're having The Partridge Family rebooted.

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