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News (USA)
Starbucks, Google, Alcoa latest U.S. corporations to endorse gay marriage
Starbucks, Google, and Alcoa are the latest in a growing list of major corporations to announce their support for marriage equality in Washington state.
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News (USA)
New Hampshire legislature considers ‘License to Discriminate’ bill
The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held a hearing on HB 1264 — essentially a “License To Discriminate” bill — that would allow businesses that oppose marriage equality to deny services to same-sex couples based on their “conscience” or religious beliefs.
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Life
Perkins: Gays won’t be happy with marriage equality because of an ‘Emptiness within Them’
Citing the stories of “ex-gays,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said that gays and lesbians will always have “an emptiness within them” and will never be content with having the right to marry, as “they are operating outside of nature and outside of God’s plan and design.”
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News (USA)
Obama delivers ‘State of the Union’ — ‘An America Built to Last’
While there was only one direct reference to anything gay in President Obama’s third State of the Union address, the speech and a large number of White House activities surrounding it was inclusive of gays.
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News (USA)
Maryland Governor says marriage bill brings dignity, religious freedom
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — At a gathering on the steps of the governor’s residence in Annapolis, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Tuesday called on the state’s residents and lawmakers to join him in supporting his newly drafted same-sex marriage bill.
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News (USA)
NJ Senate committee advances gay marriage bill; Governor promises veto
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey state Senate committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the Garden State, while Gov. Chris Christie vowed to veto the bill if it reached his desk, and instead said that gay marriage should be decided by the voters.
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News (USA)
TN lawmaker compares homosexuality to ‘pedophilia, prostitution, murder’
According to Tennessee lawmaker Joe Ragan, gay “feelings” can be controlled by “mentally healthy adult human beings,” and questioned, “Should society avoid disapproving of pedophilia, prostitution, murder, etc., because practitioners of those behaviors may commit suicide at higher rates?”
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Life
Romney’s tax returns reveal donations to anti-LGBT groups
The tax returns for Mitt Romney’s charitable foundation reveal that the GOP presidential hopeful has given at least $35,000 in recent years to groups actively working to halt the spread of LGBT equality and, in some cases, intentionally demonize LGBT people.
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Life
Two openly lesbian guests to join First Lady at ‘State of the Union’ adress
Colonel Ginger Wallace, an openly lesbian intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, will be one of two openly gay people in the First Lady’s gallery seats tonight, when President Obama delivers his State of the Union address for 2012. The second openly gay guest is Lorelei Kilker, an environmental chemist who was part of the government’s class action suit to secure equal wages for women.
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News (USA)
Maryland Governor introduces bill to legalize same-sex marriage
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley introduced legislation Monday evening aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland, making good on his 2010 re-election campaign promise to work toward enacting marriage equality while in office.
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Commentary
LGBT kids do not choose to be bullied
In response too many of the tragic suicides of gay teens, religious individuals across the nation have decided that instead of addressing the topic of LGBT bullying directly (a.k.a. punishing the bully), it is the fault of those students who are LGBT that they are being bullied.
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Life
Washington anti-gay pastor to marriage supporters: You Think ‘You Know Better Than God’
OLYMPIA, Wa. — Ken Hutcherson, Washington’s leading anti-gay pastor, ranted against same-sex marriage in his testimony before the Senate Government Operations Committee this morning, arguing that by approving marriage equality, lawmakers would have to assume that they “know better than God.”
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News (USA)
NJ Governor nominates openly gay mayor to state Supreme Court
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Monday nominated Bruce Harris, an openly gay African-American Republican mayor, to the state’s Supreme Court.
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News (USA)
Washington has the votes to become the 7th state to legalize gay marriage
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state legislature appears to have the votes necessary to legalize same-sex marriage, as another state Senator on Monday announced her support for the measure, giving proponents the 25 votes needed for passage.
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News (USA)
Giffords to resign from Congress to focus on recovery from Tucson shooting
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who survived an assassination attempt in a massacre that left six others dead one year ago, has announced that she will resign from Congress this week.
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News (USA)
Tennessee gay teen commits suicide over anti-gay bullying
GORDONSVILLE, Tenn. — Another gay teen has been lost to anti-gay bullying — Phillip Parker, 14, died last week, the victim of an apparent suicide. His parents said Phillip was constantly bullied because he was gay.
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Commentary
NOM wants Newt Gingrich to ‘save’ marriage? Hilarity ensues
It’s obvious that if Newt Gingrich is interested in, as NOM claims, preserving marriage as the union between one man and one woman, he seems to think that he is exempt from the rule. And it’s even more obvious that NOM’s silence regarding his, shall we say, indiscretions is signalling that the organization is turning a blind eye to his past behavior.
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Commentary
The loss of Christian social power: The threat of LGBT rights
I feel that in order to understand why the culture war is a “war,” we must understand what those who fight against us feel that they are losing. To them, it is about Power. With LGBT people placed upon an equal playing field as them, they have lost their status as the movers of society.
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News (USA)
Gingrich comes from behind to win South Carolina primary
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pulled a surprise win in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, throwing off expectations for the race for the GOP nomination. With 31 percent of precincts reporting, Gingrich had a wide lead with 40.8 percent of the vote. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was in second with 21.1 percent.
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News (USA)
GLSEN releases first national study on homophobia, gender nonconformity in elementary schools
Gender non-conforming students are at particular risk for bullying, and many teachers are unprepared to address issues relating to gender expression and LGBT families, according to a groundbreaking new study of bias, bullying and homophobia in grades kindergarten through sixth grade.