Bill Johnson

Anti-Gay Alabama GOPer Secretly Donated Sperm To Lesbian Couples In New Zealand

Jillian Rayfield | December 12, 2011, 1:17PM

We feel safe in saying this is probably the weirdest story you'll read all day...

An anti-gay Alabama Republican was reportedly making secret sperm donations to at least nine New Zealand women he met over the internet, unbeknownst to his wife back in America.

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Topics: Alabama, Bill Johnson, Sperm Donation

Alabama

Feds Tug On Purse Strings Of Alabama Cops Over Immigration Law Enforcement

Ryan J. Reilly | December 6, 2011, 7:55PM

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has taken the unusual step of warning 156 local law enforcement agencies in Alabama that they'll lose their federal funding if they don't comply with federal civil rights laws when enforcing the state's harsh immigration law.

"As you undertake law enforcement activity under H.B. 56, it is critical that your enforcement of this law does not result in the unlawful stopping, questioning, searching, detaining, or arresting of persons in violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, or in the targeting of racial or ethnic minorities in a manner that violates the Fourteenth Amendment," Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez wrote in a letter dated Friday and sent to reporters on Tuesday.

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Topics: Alabama, Civil Rights Division, Immigration