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NBA adds ‘sexual orientation’ to non-discrimination policy
The National Basketball Association’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement, signed by the players’ union and ratified Thursday by the NBA’s board of governors, now includes language protecting players from discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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News (World)
Malawi government says it’s reviewing ‘bad’ laws, including sodomy law
Malawi’s government announced Thursday that it was reviewing a number of laws, including its anti-gay and anti-lesbian laws. The announcement led to the headline ‘Malawi makes U-turn on disputed laws on media, gays’ in local newspaper.
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News (USA)
Poll: Majority of Coloradans now favor full same-sex marriage
A majority of Coloradans now support full marriage equality for same-sex couples, a poll released Friday shows. According to Public Policy Polling, 47 percent of those Coloradans polled said they believe gay and lesbian couples should have all the rights of marriage — and the name to boot.
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Life
NOM: Seriously, Gay parents molest their own children
On Thursday, the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) Ruth Institute was endorsing a book that claimed, among other things, that gay parents are more likely to molest their own children than heterosexual parents. Now, NOM appears to be doubling down on that claim – and this time on its main blog.
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News (USA)
Appeals court signals judge’s sexuality likely a non-issue in Prop 8 case
SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of federal appellate justices signaled Thursday that they see no reason to overturn a ruling against California’s same-sex marriage ban due to the trial judge not disclosing his long-term relationship with another man.
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Commentary
‘I no longer identify as a Christian . . .’ — they often write
If part of a person’s expression of faith means treating people unequally, denying rights of others and making them a target of their fear, that faith is not aligned with the God of the Bible. They may be aligned with a God of a party or a denomination, but they are missing the heart of the Father God, the One who created and loves His children. Every one of them.
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Commentary
He Died Waiting to Get Married
A heartbreaking story out of California tonight. Last March, we posted this article about Derence Kernek and Ed Watson, who recorded a video for California’s 9th Circuit Court, requesting that they allow Judge Walker’s decision to overturn Prop 8 to stand. This request was because Watson had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and they wanted […]
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News (USA)
Perry’s chief pollster ‘outed’ in backlash, in-fighting over anti-gay ad
WASHINGTON — The controversial anti-gay television ad that began airing in Iowa Wednesday from the campaign of Texas Governor Rick Perry — in which Perry takes direct aim criticizing the Obama administration’s repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — has sharply divided his advisers, and caused in fighting between conservative gay GOP political groups.
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News (USA)
Family of Tyler Clementi learned he was gay weeks before his death, announce foundation
The parents of Tyler Clementi — a Rutgers University student who jumped to his death last year after being humiliated online over his sexual orientation — said they learned only weeks before his suicide that their son was gay, and announced they have established the Tyler Clementi Foundation to work to prevent teen suicide and implement anti-bullying programs.
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Commentary
Attacks on Obama Administration’s LGBT policy shames Christianity
Naturally, religious right groups and some of those on the right in general aren’t happy with the Obama Administration’s announcement this week against LGBT persecution worldwide, or Hillary Clinton’s speech in which she declared “gays rights are human rights.” It’s a sad statement on what Christianity has become in America.
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News (USA)
Realty office: Report it fired Troy mayor due to anti-gay comments is ‘false’
TROY, Mich. — Reports claiming Troy Mayor Janice Daniels was fired from her job at Century 21 Town & Country are not true, according to the manager of the real estate office where Daniels worked.
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Commentary
Another teen bullied to death; another reason for a new Christianity
Another kid has been bullied into killing himself. His name is Jacob Rogers. He went to Cheatham County Central High School, in Ashland City, TN. Apparently he’d been being pretty severely bullied for four years…
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News (USA)
Friends say classmate killed himself due to anti-gay bullying
ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. — Students at a local school are grieving a classmate. Friends say the young man took his own life because he couldn’t take any more bullying.
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News (USA)
NY activists donate $100k to kick-off campaign to aid homeless LGBT youth
The Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest organization working on behalf of homeless LGBT youth, on Monday announced that longtime New York activists Frank Selvaggi and Bill Shea had donated $100,000 to the center to kick off its “Homeless for the Holidays” campaign, aimed at raising $1 million to increase the number of beds for homeless LGBT youth in New York City.
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News (USA)
Immigration judge dismisses deportation case against lesbian spouse of U.S. citizen
NEW YORK — A federal immigration judge has signed an order dismissing the case against an Argentine woman who had married a U.S. citizen and was facing deportation.
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Commentary
Rick Perry upset over new U.S. policy of promoting universal human rights
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry is not good with the United States standing up for universal human rights. To Rick Perry, using U.S. foreign aid to prevent persecution and even execution of LGBT people amounts to “promoting special rights for gays.”
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News (USA)
Court ruling in transgender case hailed as ‘hugely important’
LGBT advocates are hailing a federal appellate court ruling as a significant win for transgender rights and a means to provide recourse to others who face discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Commentary
Fake Christians continue to show their true colors by persecuting gays
Neither Rick Perry nor Rick Santorum will ever get to the White House. In fact, their behavior on the campaign trail makes one wonder just how did they attain their original elected offices in the first place. They are both like a bad dancer who has tripped his way through a recital and now thinks of himself as a Baryshnikov.
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Life
British coroner rules anti-bullying advocate’s death a result of suicide
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, England — Roger Crouch, a former director of children’s services and anti-bullying advocate for youth, died last week as the result of suicide, according to David Dooley, the Deputy Coroner for Gloucestershire.
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News (USA)
Colorado’s most anti-gay state senator eyes Jared Polis’ congressional seat
Colorado State Sen. Kevin Lundberg is contemplating a run for Congress. Lundberg, perhaps the most conservative state senator and most definitely the most anti-gay lawmaker under the dome, tweeted he might want to advance his political career to Washington D.C.