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Holder: U.S. to recognize same-sex marriages in six new states
WASHINGTON — The federal government is recognizing gay marriage in six more states, extending federal benefits to those couples. Attorney General Eric Holder says the states are: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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Campaign underway to oust Kansas judge who allowed gay marriage licenses
LOUISBURG, Kan. — The husband of a state senator from northeast Kansas has begun a campaign to oust a trial judge who ordered a court clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Brian Baumgardner announced the campaign against Johnson County Chief District Judge Kevin Moriarty on Friday, accusing him in …
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Building Bridges: One gay Mormon who has found his voice
Rand Irons looks ready for a black name tag and matching conservative grey suit. But you won’t see him walking door to door with Mormon Church pamphlets in hand, nor will he get his chance to travel the world in the name of his faith spreading the message of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints…
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Houston mayor: ‘two moms’ caused daughter’s driver’s license woes
HOUSTON — Houston Mayor Annise Parker says her daughter faced difficulty in getting a Texas driver’s license because she listed two mothers as her parents on her application.
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Investigators: U.S. Army discriminated against civilian transgender worker
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Army officials discriminated against a transgender employee who underwent a sex change while working at an Alabama installation, restricting her from the women’s restroom and using her male name despite her preference to be referred to as a woman, a federal investigation found.
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Judge nixes opposite-sex couple’s bid to intervene in Kansas gay marriage case
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge has spurned an effort by a heterosexual couple to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the Kansas ban on same-sex marriage. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled Friday that Harper, Kan., attorney Phillip Unruh and his wife Sandra, have no legal right to join the lawsuit …
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Florida AG Pam Bondi asks federal court to keep gay marriage ban in place
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi wants a federal judge to keep the state’s ban on gay marriage in place despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Bondi on Friday contended in a court filing that there was a “great public interest in stability of the law” and that the ban should remain intact while the legal battles continue.
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N.C. pastor refers to gay judicial candidate as ‘flaming homosexual’
RALEIGH, N.C. — An anti-LGBT pastor known for his advocacy against LGBT equality and marriage went on the attack against an openly gay judicial candidate at a press conference Thursday hosted by North Carolina Republican House Majority Leader Paul Stam.
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Eugene Delgaudio: Gays will make it legal to ‘rape and murder young boys’
In a rambling email Friday for his Religious Right group Public Advocate of the United States, Virginia GOP politician and anti-Cory “Brooker” activist Eugene Delgaudio writes that he sees “agents of the radical Homosexual Lobby everywhere…huddled in dark corners scheming and plotting” and “drooling for more in the new Congress.”
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News (World)
Macedonia: Gay rights activists attacked in Skopje cafe, two wounded
SKOPJE, Macedonia — Police say about 30 people wearing masks and throwing rocks and bottles have attacked members of a gay rights activist group in Macedonia, wounding two of them. Friday’s assault occurred at a coffee shop in the Old Bazaar section of Skopje, the capital, as the LGBT Association of Macedonia was…