One of the ex-gay activists who helped get Texas Republicans to back reparative therapy revealed that the key to his success in overcoming homosexuality was eating a lot of food.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Jeremy Schwab, a former model and onetime member of the Log Cabin Republicans, the Texas GOP platform now includes a plank that reads: “We recognize the legitimacy and value of counselling which offers reparative therapy and treatment to patients who are seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle.”

Lone Star Q reported on Schwab’s involvement, leading him to post a comment on the blog’s Facebook page, which featured the photo at left. “This picture was taken about 7 years ago. It was BEFORE I came back to the Lord,” declares Schwab, who is involved with the ex-gay Christian group Joel 225. “I do not pose for pictures like this anyone for a variety of reasons—including the sin of vanity. Also though, (as some have pointed out) I think in some ways food replaced sexual sin for me and now I can’t even get into my OWN pants.”

Hey, whats a little increased cholesterol when its in the name of the Lord?

Alabama has lifted its ban on sodomy, 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled such laws were unconstitutional.

On Friday, A judge overturned the 2010 conviction of Dewayne Williams, who was sentenced to 12 months in prison after admitting to having consensual sex with another man.

State law defined “deviate sexual intercourse” as “any act of sexual gratification between persons not married to each other involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another.” It also maintained that consent was no defense against the law.

Previously, the Legislature refused to repeal its law despite Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 SCOTUS ruling that invalidated sodomy laws throughout the country.

Friday’s ruling on overturns Williams’ conviction. “Aiming to ban consensual sex is flat out wrong,” said Susan Watson, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama. “A person’s sexual orientation shouldn’t matter. Consensual sex is consensual sex.”

Ulrike Lunacek, an openly lesbian member of the Austrian parliament, was sprayed with butyric acid at Vienna Pride.

It is not yet known who attacked Lunacek, a Green Party representative and co-president of the European Parliament’s LGBT rights committee, but she did not suffer any major injuries.

More than 150,000 people marched in the Rainbow Parade on Friday, which also drew some 50 Christian counterprotestors.

A Texas politician use Father’s Day as an opportunity to write an op-ed calling out discrimination against LGBT people.

Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, a Democratic state senator representing Corpus Christi, wrote the piece as an open letter to his lesbian daughter, Kris.

It saddens me to know that you live your life in a society that views you as “different,” or as someone who should not enjoy the same basic rights as a straight person does. You are my daughter — you deserve the same love and acceptance and to share in the same freedoms to marry the person you love. As a society we should not tolerate acts of discrimination, hate or violence for any reason. We are all equals. I remain committed to the cause of equality and most importantly in fighting to protect you and the children of all fathers. All men and women should have the freedom to choose their partner.

What a dad!