Search results for "equality act"
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GOProud Goes Big at CPAC
The people stopping by to talk were mostly young, almost exclusively white and unabashedly conservative. Almost all, however, were just as excited to be welcoming...
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Court Sides with City
As expected, a request to delay marriage equality from becoming District law on March 3 was tentatively denied today, Feb. 19, in D.C. Superior Court....
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The Jackson Jive
Despite his being so dark and masculine, I am tempted to call Bishop Harry Jackson the White Queen after the character in Through the Looking-Glass...
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Push for Parity
The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus last week made a fresh push for immigration equality in a letter to five national leaders. In the Feb. 2...
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Moving Forward
On Aug. 28, 2008, I listened to Sen. Barack Obama outline his soaring vision for America. I felt like he was speaking directly to me...
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Washington Post poll suggests racial disparity continues over gay marriage in DC
Responses to a Washington Post poll of 1,135 adults in the District of Columbia (Washington Post): 22.On another subject, do you think it should be...
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Maryland ditches anti-gay marriage bill: Vote blocks Emmett Burns bill, 12 to 8
”Members of a Maryland House committee on Wednesday shot down a bill that would prohibit Maryland from recognizing gay marriages validated by other states or...
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Webb Noncommittal on DADT Repeal
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is the only area senator who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Webb, who served as secretary of the Navy...
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''Raw Sex'' and Rev. Evans
There was no suspense at the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) hearing on Jan. 27, which concerned the proposed referendum on the recently...
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More than Words
We often complain that promises made to our community are ''just words,'' palliatives designed to make us feel that something is being done without any...
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Family Feud
Full Equality Now DC (FENDC), a group evolved from the local host committee of October's National Equality March, are turning their activist aim at The...
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CBS fumbles with rejection of two gay ads during Superbowl, yet accepts conservative group’s ad [video]
”CBS Standards and Practices has reviewed your proposed Super Bowl ad and concluded that the creative is not within the Network’s Broadcast Standards for Super...
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Utah Congressman Takes Aim at D.C.
The ranking Republican member of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia filed legislation on Tuesday, Jan. 26, disapproving...
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A Nation's Priorities
Noting that one in 10 Americans are without work and that millions will lose their health insurance this year, President Barack Obama gave his first...
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Lots of Argument, No Proof
SAN FRANCISCO – In the waning hours of the historic trial challenging the constitutionality of a state ban on same-sex marriage, the federal courtroom in...
