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Commentary
Family Research Council gives ‘pro-family’ honor to ‘deadbeat dad’
Anyone who thinks that the Family Research Council is either a Christian or “pro-family” group obviously has not done their homework — just last week, FRC anointed Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) a pro-family leader — in spite of the fact that he allegedly owes over $100,000 in child support.
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Commentary
Dan Avila: The Catholic culture warrior who went too far
The Catholic Church’s is a morally challenged institution that has yet to recover from multiple and ongoing pedophile priest scandals. While it scrounges up dwindling funds to fight marriage equality, it closes down Catholic schools across the nation, and shows grossly misplaced priorities and an unnatural obsession with homosexuality.
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News (USA)
Major U.S. corporations tell federal court: DOMA is bad for business
BOSTON — Seventy major U.S. companies, including CBS, Google, Microsoft, Nike and Starbucks, have come together in an “amicus” brief — commonly referred to as a “friend of the court” brief — claiming that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is harmful to commerce.
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News (USA)
NJ judge: Lawsuit seeking same-sex marriage over civil unions can proceed
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey Superior Court judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit filed by the state’s largest LGBT advocacy group, which seeks to force the state to recognize same-sex marriage, can go forward.
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Life
Santorum: Civil laws on same-sex marriage must comport with God’s law
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, staying laser focused on his anti-gay platform, told Iowa voters this week that civil laws relating to same-sex marriage must “comport with God’s law.”
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Life
Ricky Martin granted citizenship in Spain, fuels speculation of plans to marry
Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin has been granted citizenship in Spain, the country’s government has announced. The move has fueled speculation that Martin, who came out in 2009, plans to marry his partner Carlos Gonzalez Abella.
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News (USA)
U.S. House Democrats join fight against DOMA in court
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 132 other Democrats on Thursday joined in the fight to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act in court by filing a legal brief in support of litigation against the anti-gay law.
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News (USA)
Maryland high school reverses ban, will allow play to include gay scene
BEL AIR, Md. — Students in a suburban Baltimore high school’s drama club are rejoicing after school administrators reversed a decision that would have prevented them from staging a play that included a scene in which two young men come to realize they are attracted to each other.
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Commentary
Do Americans prefer transgender people to gay people?
So the pretty darn surprising news, out today courtesy of the Public Religion Research Institute, is that 89% percent of Americans (including strong majorities of all religious and partisan groups) think transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.
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News (USA)
PFLAG opens national conference with keynote address by Dr. Jill Biden
PFLAG opened its bi-annual National Convention on Friday with a keynote address by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, who told the crowd of attendees, “As a teacher and a mom, I know what Jeanne Manford knew — that there is a direct connection between acceptance and positive, healthy outcomes in every important area of life, including education, mental health, and physical health.”
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News (USA)
Illinois couple files complaint against inns for refusing to host same-sex ceremony
An Illinois gay couple has filed complaints with the state’s Human Rights Commission against two bed-and-breakfast inns that have allegedly refused to host their civil union ceremony, telling the couple they only host “traditional weddings” and that the Bible says that “homosexuality is wrong.”
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News (USA)
Elon poll: Tar Heels of all ages and races oppose anti-LGBT amendment
Statewide LGBT advocacy and education group Equality North Carolina has released new data from a recent Elon University poll showing a majority of North Carolinians oppose an anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment that would ban marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.
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Life
U.S. Senate committee advances gay judicial nominee
A Senate committee approved unanimously by voice vote on Thursday a judicial nominee who could become the fourth openly gay person to sit on the federal bench.
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News (USA)
Washington pays tribute to gay civil rights icon Dr. Frank Kameny
In a moving, and at times humorous tribute, official Washington and the city’s LGBTQ community on Thursday paid its last respects to gay civil rights icon Dr. Frank Kameny. The ceremony was held in Washington’s old Carnegie Library in the heart of the city Kameny called home for over 50 years.
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News (USA)
Student charged with felony assault in video beating of Ohio gay teen
A student at Unioto High School has been charged with felony assault in the beating of gay teen whose mother said he was targeted because of his sexual orientation. The beating was captured on video using a cell phone and later posted to Facebook.
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News (USA)
Critics blast anti-bullying law for allowing exceptions based on religion, moral beliefs
The Michigan state Senate on Wednesday passed the “Matt’s Safe School Law,” an anti-bullying bill that contained a last minute addition by senate Republicans that essentially nullified the bill by allowing an exception to the law for “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee, school volunteer, pupil, or a pupil’s parent or guardian.”
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News (USA)
Gay high school student says he was suspended for wearing make-up
LEXINGTON, Tenn. — The parent of an 11th grade Lexington High School student said her son, Kasey Landrum, 16, was issued an in-school suspension after he was caught wearing makeup 10 minutes after school ended.
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Commentary
Family Research Council wants God to stop gay adoptions
In all of the years in which FRC has attacked same-sex households or gay adoption, the organization has never pushed, suggested, or even slightly initiated any type of plan encouraging folks in what it claims to be “perfect family units,” i.e. heterosexual mother/father households into adopting children.
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News (USA)
Three suspects charged in beating of Texas gay man
RENO, Lamar County, Texas — The Lamar County District Attorney’s office told LGBTQ Nation Wednesday that three men have been arrested and charged in the malicious wounding of 26 year old Burke Burnett last weekend in Reno, Texas.
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Life
Canadian LGBTQ advocacy group calls for full review on issue of youth suicide
TORONTO — Egale Canada — the Canadian national LGBT human rights organization — has written to the Chief Coroner for the province of Ontario, Dr. Andrew McCallum, requesting a full coroner’s review on the issue of LGBTQ youth suicide.