All posts by Justin Snow
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Obama welcomes Senate vote advancing ENDA
President Barack Obama applauded the U.S. Senate for advancing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act Monday evening, telling supporters at a fundraiser that progress is being made...
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Senate advances ENDA toward final vote
The U.S. Senate voted 61-30 to invoke cloture on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) Monday evening, setting the stage for a final vote on the...
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Republican Sen. Dean Heller comes out in support of ENDA
Hours before the first Senate vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in 17 years, the bill gained its latest Republican supporter Monday. Sen. Dean Heller...
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White House urges undecided senators to vote yes on ENDA
With a Monday evening vote on the horizon in the Senate, the White House expressed its strong support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act today, urging...
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Hagel orders full National Guard compliance for same-sex benefits
Nearly two months after several states began blocking requests for benefits by members of the National Guard with a same-sex spouse, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel...
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While Senate readies ENDA vote, uphill House push remains
For the first time in 17 years, a landmark piece of legislation that would prohibit employers from anti-LGBT workplace discrimination is on its way to...
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ENDA secures support of all Democratic senators
A major LGBT-rights bill that would prohibit most employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity will be supported by every...
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Nelson backs ENDA, leaving two Senate Democratic holdouts
Sen. Bill Nelson became the latest to put his support behind the Employment Non-Discrimination Act on Monday, inching the LGBT-rights bill one vote closer toward...
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ENDA to be considered by Senate before Thanksgiving
Legislation that would protect LGBT people from workplace discrimination will reach the floor of the Senate before Thanksgiving, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday....
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Tom Ridge torpedoes tea party era at Log Cabin dinner
Tom Ridge lit into the modern-day Republican Party in a fiery speech Wednesday night that called for the GOP to embrace inclusion or face indefinite...
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Chris Christie’s gay rights gamble
There are multiple reasons why social conservatives have never quite warmed to Chris Christie. On Monday, he gave them another. After vowing to challenge the...
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Lawsuit filed challenging Tennessee same-sex marriage ban
The same day New Jersey became the 14th state, plus D.C., to recognize same-sex couples’ right to marry, advocates in Tennessee filed the latest in...
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Christie drops appeal of New Jersey gay-marriage ruling
Hours after same-sex couples began marrying in New Jersey, shortly after midnight on Monday, Republican Gov. Chris Christie announced he would abandon his fight over...
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules same-sex marriages to begin Oct. 21
Same-sex weddings will begin in New Jersey Oct. 21, the state’s highest court ruled Friday in a decision that refused to delay a lower court’s...
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CDC urged to stop denying cancer screenings to transgender women
Two national LGBT-rights organizations are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to re-evaluate a discriminatory policy that denies cancer screenings to...
