News + Politics
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Tea Party and Bengal Tigers
Right Wing Watch, part of People for the American Way, is bringing attention to an email from Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips sent today...
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House Democrats Urge DHS To Recognize Same-Sex Couples
Democrats on Capitol Hill today urged the government to recognize binational same-sex relationships in deportation cases. In a letter sent to the Department of Homeland...
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Support For Marriage Equality Unchanged Since Obama Endorsement
Although gay-rights advocates greeted President Obama’s historic declaration of support for marriage equality with jubilation in May, a new poll suggests his support has had...
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Chef Art Smith Challenges Chick-fil-A in Chicago Sun-Times
When we cook for people our intention is to nourish them, not to give them our opinions or judge them. As I always say,...
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Maryland Signatories Subjected to Spotlight
Bernard Bundy Jr. had a bad feeling in his stomach the morning of July 25. Bundy, who lives in Alexandria but was raised in Maryland,...
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Another Court Rules Against DOMA
Another federal judge has ruled against the Defense of Marriage Act. An appointee of President George W. Bush, U.S. District Court Judge Vanessa Bryant today...
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Partisan Pride?
For the first time since the end of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'' active-duty servicemembers were granted permission to march in full uniform in an LGBT...
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Democrats Take Big Step Toward Marriage-Equality Platform
The Democratic Party is poised to officially adopt marriage equality as part of their national platform at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in...
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Cheney Says Support for Marriage Equality Has Never Changed
Despite running on the Republican Party platform in 2004 that supported a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, Dick Cheney told ABC News that he supported...
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Catholic Church’s Peter Kearney spews bile about Scotland’s pending acceptance of same-sex marriage
“e would believe that same-sex relationships are profoundly harmful both physically, biologically, mentally, emotionally and I have to say spiritually to those involved. No society...
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Studying Sex Workers
Delegates to AIDS 2012 were given the opportunity to listen to the latest research on sex workers, their behaviors, and risk of acquiring HIV. Among...
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos gives $2.5 million to gay marriage effort in Washington state
According to a press release from Washington United for Marriage, $2.5 million dollars has been donated toward the fight for marriage equality by the head...
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Court Declares Civil Unions Equal to Marriage
Massachusetts’s highest court declared civil unions to be the “equivalent of marriage” in a ruling Thursday that was hailed by marriage-equality advocates. The unanimous declaration...
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Florida’s Lt. Governor apologizes for lesbian stereotype
Florida’s Lieutenant Governor, Jennifer Carroll, has issued an apology for an earlier remark she made about women who engage in lesbian relationships. GLAAD reposted a fax...
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Scotland’s move to legalize same-sex marriage gets (mostly) positive reaction
A sampling of the reaction to the Scottish government’s decision to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. Hazel Marzetti, NUS Scotland: “Thousands of students contacted the...
