Gay rights took one step back and then one step forward this week in Arizona, landing everyone pretty much in the same place. First Arizona legislators voted to give businesses the right to deny gay people service on religious grounds. I don't know why they thought it was worth anyone's time to go through all that trouble. But anyhoo! Thousands of outraged tweets, posts, interviews, and facepalms later, Governor Jan Brewer vetoed SB1062, aka The Embarrassing Money-Losing Anti-Gay Bill. Most of America breathed a sigh of relief.

As usual, people had a lot to say about this bill via Twitter. Here's some of the highlights ...

Dale Hansen, a 65-year-old sports anchor in Dallas, is making huge headlines this week after addressing the Michael Sam controversy in his "Hansen Unplugged: Celebrating Our Differences" segment Monday night. If you haven't been keeping up, Sam is "the best defensive player in college football's best conference" who bravely went on ESPN and came out as gay. So if he's drafted in the 2014 NFL Draft or signed by an NFL team as an undrafted free agent, he will become the first active openly gay player in NFL history. Cheers to that!

'Course he knows his path to that title won't be an easy one. It's already proven to set tongues wagging. Which drove Hansen to give an absolutely rousing, inspiring, kickass speech about Sam's predicament and what it says about American hypocrisy -- on and off the field.

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Four employees at a group home for disabled adults in New York allegedly encouraged two severely handicapped men to attack each other. Eric McHenry, Justin McDonald, Stephen Komara, and Rosemarry Vanni face felony charges for “endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person.”

The incident came to light after cell phone video footage emerged showing three of the workers egging on the two men, encouraging them to hit each other, knock over the other’s wheelchair, and offering praise when they did. The men are in their 50s, but have the mental development of preschoolers.

A year after offering $65 million to any man willing to marry his lesbian daughter, a Hong Kong tycoon is desperate to find a suitor and has doubled his sum. Now, Cecil Chao Sze-tsung is willing to dish out a casual $120 million to any man who can romance his daughter Gigi.

Gigi Chao, who is 34 and has been with her wife Sean Eav for more than nine years, responded to her father's latest proposal with an emotional open letter in the South China Morning Post. In Gigi's sad plea to her dad, she talks about how admirable he is as a businessman but how foolish he's been in matters of the heart.

Oh. No. Just about a week after Time depicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as nothing more than, as Slate described, "a pointy heel trampling an emasculated dude," here comes The New York Times Magazine with their ridiculous interpretation of the Democratic 2016 presidential election frontrunner. NYT staffer David Joachim tweeted a preview of the newspaper's Sunday magazine cover, stating that it shows Hillary "as you've never seen her." That's for damn sure.

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UPDATE: Juan Pablo has issued an apology via his Facebook page, noting, "The comment was taken out of context. If you listen to the entire interview, there's nothing but respect for gay people and their families. I have many gay friends and one of my closest friends who's like a brother ... The word pervert was not what I meant to say and I am very sorry about it. ... What I meant to say was that gay people are more affectionate and intense and for a segment of the TV audience, this would be too racy to accept. The show is very racy as it is, and I don't let my 5-year-old daughter watch it."

If we're being completely honest, it wasn't exactly a total shocker to see Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson deliver a homophobic rant last month. But now, Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis is under fire for gay bashing! So didn't see that one coming.

People love leaving passive-aggressive notes -- and even more people love reading them. Some of them are pure genius, comedy gold! And some, even though technically meant for just one person, serve up a message many should take to heart. Feel the meaning ... let it resonate. Make a change. Be better. Yes. This is what this latest note is all about.

A mystery woman, who happens to be gay, was hurled a rude comment by her neighbor who walked by her in the laundry room in the apartment building where they both live. Apparently it was one of those whispers people say under their breath noting it's something bad, something that's muttered with disdain, disgust. She's a lesbian. In the same tone as saying something like she's the dog poop smeared on the sidewalk that you just got all over your shoes. Yuck. So this lesbian did what she felt she had to do. She left the guy a note.

Hal Faulkner enlisted in the Marines in 1953. He was one of eight children in his family, and his father passed away when he was just 7 years old. The family struggled financially, and they lived on a cattle ranch in the north part of Florida. When he was 19, he attended boot camp in South Carolina and rose through the ranks from private first class to corporal, then to sergeant. He served in the Philippines. He was on his way to the top. But then something happened.

In 1956, when he was 22 years old, he was dishonorably discharged after three years of service. Proud service. He never had an issue -- his record was clean, no insubordination, there were no write-ups of incompetence or laziness. But there were rumors ... and injustice.