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Serial adulterer Newt Gingrich vows fidelity, affirms opposition to gay marriage
Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has affirmed his support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but stopped short of signing a controversial marriage pledge that calls for “vigorous” opposition to same-sex marriage rights.
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News (USA)
Orlando, Fla., city council unanimously approves domestic partner registry
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlanda City Council on Monday voted unanimously to enact a domestic partnership registry, as the city became the first in Central Florida to recognize relationships of same-sex couples.
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Life
Crouse trots out same old stats to show how gays threaten marriage
Last week, Concerned Women for America posted a video featuring Janice Crouse, a Senior Fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute, discussing the three biggest threats to the institution of marriage. Among them — promiscuity, co-habitation, and, of course, homosexuality.
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News (USA)
Senate GOP blocks appointment of LGBT ally as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday blocked efforts to confirm Mari Carmen Aponte, a Washington D.C.-based attorney, as the permanent ambassador to El Salvador, because, according to one source, Aponte is an LGBT advocate who has previously called for the “elimination of prejudices” against LGBT people.
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Minnesota school board labels conversations about LGBT students ‘controversial’
COON RAPIDS, Minn. — During its meeting before a packed room with a standing room only crowd Monday, the Anoka-Hennepin Minnesota School District’s board proposed a new “Controversial Topics Curriculum Policy” to replace the current “neutral policy” that prohibits the district’s teachers from talking about homosexuality in the classroom.
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News (USA)
Conferees omit anti-gay provisions from defense authorization bill
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill unveiled on Monday an agreement on major defense budget legislation that omits anti-gay provisions found in the House version of the legislation — including language that would have prohibited military chaplains and facilities from being involved in same-sex marriage ceremonies.
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News (World)
Russian Prime Minister Putin to be quizzed by EU over anti-gay laws
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to be quizzed directly tomorrow over anti-gay laws. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, told activists on Tuesday that she would raise the discriminatory laws at the EU-Russia summit.
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Twice discharged under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ gay sailor rejoins Navy
A gay sailor who holds the distinction of being discharged twice under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was readmitted to the armed forces — and may be the first gay person to re-enlist as an active duty service member since repeal of the military’s gay ban.
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News (USA)
Mitt Romney at odds with gay Vietnam veteran over same-sex marriage
MANCHESTER, N.H. — During a campaign meet and greet at a local diner Monday morning, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney found himself in an awkward position defending his stance on same-sex marriage.
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Commentary
Good Friends, Or Socially Maladjusted Cretins?
Coming out to people sometimes causes them to freak out a little. Quite often they soon enough thereafter settle down, though, and become okay with what, to them, is the new you. Sometimes the person coming out just has to wait for that uncomfortable storm to pass. It’s unfortunate that people tend to need that adjustment period, but, let’s face it: we humans aren’t the swiftest group in the world.
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NOM’s 2010 financial records raise questions — two-thirds of revenue came from two donors
In 2010, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a tax-exempt nonprofit trying to thwart the legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the U.S., reported the highest individual donations it has received since its inception in 2007, according to NOM’s most recent income disclosures to the Internal Revenue Service, recently obtained by The American Independent.
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News (World)
Norway refuses gay Iraqi asylum, says ‘go home, be discreet’
A gay Iraqi has been refused Norwegian asylum and told to “go home and be discreet.” The High Court accepted that Azad Hassan Rasol was gay and that gay men in Iraq are at risk, including at risk of being killed, but it ruled that Rasol ‘must comply with Iraq’s socio-cultural norms’.
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Commentary
What’s next for Prop 8? Ruling on California gay marriage ban expected any time
Prop 8’s finished — or at least, oral arguments in the appeals court are all done. Now a ruling on California’s marriage ban could come at any minute. A couple in Hawaii sues for marriage; Scotland may reform its marriage laws; Australian legislators are moving towards equality but the battle’s still far from over.
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Commentary
Rewards of Despair
To live through horror, persecution and deprivation is not unknown to many peoples; indeed, LGBTQ people seem to be rather adept at learning how to survive in a hostile world. And it’s not merely a matter of what we survive making us stronger, it’s a matter of daring to live and love in the face of adversity…
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News (USA)
Lesbian couple sues state of Hawaii over right to marry
A lesbian couple is suing the state of Hawaii in federal court over the state’s denial of same-sex marriage, claiming that the state’s refusal to issue them a marriage license violates their due process and equal protection rights guaranteed them by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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News (USA)
Former Rutgers student rejects no-prison plea deal in Tyler Clementi suicide case
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student accused of bullying his gay roommate, allegedly leading his victim to kill himself, rejected a plea deal on Friday that would have allowed him to avoid a jail sentence.
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LGBT advocacy group announces plans to sue PFOX for defamation
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Truth Wins Out, a non-profit advocacy group that fights anti-LGBT extremism, announced Sunday that it plans to launch a defamation lawsuit against Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) as a result of PFOX President Greg Quinlan’s comments in a television interview where he claimed that TWO Executive Director, Wayne Besen, tried to have him murdered.
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News (USA)
Rick Perry heckled in Iowa for demonizing gays in recent campaign ad
AMES, Iowa — Texas Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry was met by hecklers during a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa on Sunday, continuing to catch heat for an anti-gay campaign ad released last week in which he said that gays serving openly in the military is a sign of what’s wrong with America.
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Chuck Colson warns of domination by the ‘sexually deviant’ gay community
During a conference call with Champion the Vote, the ostensibly non-partisan group that is working to increase the turnout among voters with a “biblical worldview,” Chuck Colson argued that Christians in America are a “sleeping giant” that has been beset by the domineering gay community.
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News (World)
Australia town believed to have elected world’s first intersex mayor
Believed to be the world’s first intersex mayor, Councillor Tony Briffa has been elected in Australia., winning in the City of Hobsons Bay in the suburbs of Melbourne at the end of November.