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Life
Freedom to Marry vs. NOM on who should decide who gets married
Jeremy Hooper at Good As You calls our attention to Sunday’s televised “debate” on same-sex marriage between Freedom to Marry President Evan Wolfson and National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown.
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News (USA)
Family, friends hold vigil for bullied gay teen who committed suicide
CASHMERE, Wash. — Family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil on Friday evening to remember 14-year-old Rafael Morelos, who hanged himself on Sunday, Jan. 29. Rafael was openly gay, and friends said he was bullied because of it.
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News (USA)
Rolling Stone: Evangelicals in Michele Bachmann’s district have created an anti-gay climate
For nearly three years, people living in the suburban Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin area have been dealing with not only a rash of LGBTQ youth committing suicide, but a cultural environment that at times seems nearly a war zone as the greater LGBTQ community and its supporters have squared off against the small but well-funded virulently anti-gay conservatives.
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Commentary
The Voice of Apathy
If we exist in a society that ‘hates’ us and where it is OK to openly compare LGBT people with pedophiles and murderers, we will still feel and have to deal with such pain. Instead of working to end such pain, silence reinforces it, and lengthens its approval within society.
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Commentary
Sex – Goodness, or madness?
What is it that makes prudes so mad about sex, especially about people enjoying sex? Why do so many think they have the right to define the limits of other people’s consensual sexual activities?
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News (USA)
Mitt Romney scores another victory in Nevada GOP primary
Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney claimed another victory on Saturday in the GOP primary contests by coming out on top in the Nevada caucus. The former Massachusetts governor was expected to win because polls throughout the week placed him well ahead of his competitors.
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News (USA)
Daughter of same-sex parents pleads with NJ lawmakers for marriage equality
In Maryland, 14-year-old Sarah Crank asked lawmakers to vote “no” on marriage equality because “people have the choice to be gay” and she doesn’t want to be affected by their choice. But in New Jersey this week, 15-year-old Madison Galluccio testified she should not be forced to feel like an outcast because her parents are gay.
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News (USA)
Colorado gay rights group donates to Republican lawmakers who voted for civil unions
One Colorado, the group leading the lobbying effort for civil unions here, has repeatedly pledged to support any lawmaker — Republican or Democrat — who supports relationship recognition legislation. This week, campaign finance reports show the group has made good on its promise.
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News (USA)
Virginia legislature allows adoption agencies to discriminate against gays
RICHMOND, Va. — Lawmakers from both houses of Virginia’s legislature passed a measure Friday that codifies into law regulations adopted by the state’s Board of Social Services this past December, which allows private adoption agencies to deny placements based on factors including gender, age, religion disability, sexual orientation and family status.
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Life
Santorum: Gays don’t deserve ‘privilege’ of marriage because gay unions don’t ‘benefit society’
Rick Santorum told a gay man in Fulton, Missouri Friday afternoon that he didn’t deserve the “privilege” of marriage because his same-sex relationship does not “benefit” society in the same way that opposite-sex marriage does.
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Life
Scott Lively: Gay-Straight alliance clubs are designed to recruit kids
Scott Lively has found time to go after the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and accuse them of creating Gay-Straight Alliances in schools as part of an effort to seduce lonely kids and recruit them into homosexuality:
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Life
Facing deportation to anti-gay Uganda, Joseph Bukombe is hopeful about the future
“I’ve always had a dream of owning my own hotel back home in Uganda and I pray that, maybe as situations get better where gay people can live freely, [that could be a possibility]. I would love to open a restaurant back home and hope people back home would come,” said Joseph Bukombe.
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News (USA)
New Jersey Assembly committee advances marriage equality legislation
TRENTON, N.J. — A committee in the New Jersey State Assembly on Thursday approved a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting the stage for a showdown between the Democratic-controlled state legislature, and Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who has vowed to veto the measure.
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News (USA)
Broad coalition launched to repeal federal ‘Defense of Marriage Act’
WASHINGTON – A broad coalition of more than 50 civil rights, labor, progressive, faith, student, health, legal, women’s, and LGBT organizations on Thursday announced support of the Respect for Marriage Act– the bill to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that withholds federal protections for legally married gay and lesbian couples. The group, […]
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News (USA)
Repeal of gay marriage absent from New Hampshire’s House agenda
CONCORD, N.H. –The New Hampshire state House legislative leadership announced Thursday they will focus on the state’s economic growth and education initiatives in the 2012 session, but are leaving social issues out of the agenda — including a repeal of the state’s same-sex marriage law.
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Life
Scott Lively’s anti-gay lunacy: ‘The Global Threat of Homosexuality’
Scott Lively delivered an hour long speech recently entitled “The Global Threat of Homosexuality” at Resurrection Life of Jesus church in Sacramento and it was, as you can imagine, chock full of all sorts of anti-gay lunacy as Lively sought to make clear that homosexuality is not a sin just like any other sin, but rather a warning sign that our society is on the verge of collapse.
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News (USA)
Senate panel approves LGBT-inclusive domestic violence bill
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel approved LGBT-inclusive legislation on Thursday that would extend and strengthen programs working to combat and prevent domestic violence.
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News (USA)
Hate group slams JC Penny for hiring Ellen DeGeneres as spokesperson
TUPELO, Miss. — Retail giant J.C. Penney has come under fire from the anti-gay group “One Million Moms” over its recent hiring of hugely popular daytime television talk-show host, Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson.
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News (USA)
Federal appeals court rules Prop 8 trial videotapes to remain sealed
A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled against the release of the videotapes of the Proposition 8 trial, the federal court challenge of California’s 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Called ‘faggots,’ humiliated by police — Ohio couple files federal lawsuit
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A gay couple has filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court against several officers from the Cleveland Police Department, alleging several officers of the department violated the couple’s constitutional rights stemming from an arrest last April.