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POINTERS
SPIKE LEE
POSES
‘OBAMA
OR A
MORMON’
QUESTION
HUFFINGTON
07.15.12
Spike Lee thinks the presidential election
may come down to what voters think
of Mitt Romney’s religion. “I think there
will be a block of people saying, ‘I cannot
vote for a Mormon,’” he told New York
magazine. “They got a tough decision:
Obama or a Mormon. Their beliefs got
them between a rock and a hard place.”
The outspoken director is a longtime
Obama supporter who predicted to GQ
last month, “Once we get to the debates
my man is going to tear him up!”
CONGOLESE WARLORD HEADED TO JAIL
The International Criminal Court, a decade-old war
crimes tribunal, has handed down its first sentence.
Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga will serve 14 years
for recruiting and using child soldiers in his rebel army
in 2002 and 2003. Lubanga was convicted in March
after his trial revealed that he went to people’s homes
and asked them to donate a child to the war effort.
Lubanga sent children as young as 10 to kill or be killed.
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BARNEY
GETS
HITCHED
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
married his longtime partner, Jim
Ready, in a small outdoor ceremony
in Newtown, Mass. Frank, 72,
was the first congressman to
come out as openly gay in 1987,
and now he is the first sitting
congressman in a same-sex
marriage. Massachusetts Gov.
Deval Patrick officiated the
ceremony and asked the couple to
vow to love each other “for richer or
for poorer, under the Democrats or
the Republicans.”