Ellen Takes Pride In Adam Lambert, Lambert To 20/20, Security Guard Stephen Johns Dies, Operation Rescue To Turn Tiller Clinic To Anti-Abortion Shrine

Ellen DeGeneres tries to put Adam Lambert and his coming out in perspective, saying that she was “proud of him,” and adding that “I’m a huge advocate for someone living their honest, truthful life. I think that’s what our responsibility is. We have this life, this opportunity, not only for ourselves to be truthful because that’s a healthy way to live, but if you can help other people who are struggling.” Ellen also said that Adam did not have to come out at all, and that criticism directed toward Lambert’s coming out as a career maneuver is not warranted because, according to DeGeneres, “there are still a lot of people who are still not out in this business.” Is Ellen correct in her assessment? Does Lambert deserve the support of the gay community, a strong sense that we all should be proud of him or are the complaints that he copped out valid? Or are her sentiments slightly curious since she herself – long since out – seems to struggle with public declarations of who she is, the stunning silence she kept during the campaign leading up to and after the passing of Proposition 8?

Lambert, by the way, is scheduled to be interviewed for an episode of ABC’s 20/20 this Friday evening.

New York gay couples wanting to marry have rightly grown impatient with the nonsense that is that State’s government and the political lagging on legalizing gay marriage and made their way to Connecticut, where same-sex marriage have been sanctioned since November 12th, 2008.

Stephen Johns, the security guard shot Wednesday by white supremacist James Von Bunn in Washington, D.C. at the Holocaust Museum, has died, succumbing to wounds. Johns had worked there for six years. Mr. Bunn, who is in critical condition, had a history of rants and raves on various sites through the world that is the internets, but several of those sites have already started to erase any evidence that he or his work ever existed.

Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, the vehemently and violently anti-abortion group, said Wednesday that his organization might purchase the now closed abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, that was run by slain Doctor George Tiller and recreate it as a museum for and to “the babies.” Tiller’s family, through a spokesperson, dismissed the statements as another irrelevant, extremist publicity stunt.”