News Round-Up: April 26, 2019

Some news items you might have missed:

• Anti-gay President Jair Bolsonaro told reporters this week regarding his country's travel economy: “If you want to come here and have sex with a woman, go for your life. But we can’t let this place become known as a gay tourism paradise. Brazil can’t be a country of the gay world, of gay tourism. We have families.”

• In the first poll published after former Vice President Joe Biden officially announced his run for the White House, Biden leads Donald Trump by six points.

• In related Biden news, his campaign announced Friday that he raised $6.3 million on his first day as an announced candidate, placing him atop the crowded Democratic primary in terms of first-day fundraising totals and shutting down doubts about his ability to raise enough money to compete.

• Mat Staver, founder of the virulently anti-LGBTQ Liberty Counsel, says passage of The Equality Act would lead to pedophilia.

• The Washington Post reports: "A majority of Americans say they oppose calls for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election." I agree. Impeachment proceedings would only make Trump a martyr heading into the 2020 election.

• Geraldo Rivera, on this morning's Fox & Friends, referred to openly gay Mayor Pete Buttigieg as "flamboyant."

"If you wanted to go with the young buckaroo with flamboyant ideas and an aggressive point of view, maybe you go with Mayor Pete who has demonstrated success in South Bend.”

Geraldo Rivera: "If you wanted to go with the young buckaroo with the flamboyant ideas and an aggressive point of view, maybe you go with Mayor Pete" pic.twitter.com/xwsguWrhAw

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) April 26, 2019