Equality

Senate Set to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Legislation

12.18.2010

Senate votes for cloture to send the repeal of the DADT policy to a final vote this afternoon. It’s about time.

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Lame Duck Congress Could Still Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy

11.18.2010

To help support the Senate in repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, email Sen. Harry Reid to let him know that you’re one of the majority of Americans who wants to see the discrimination end.

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Stay

10.20.2010

Obama Administration seeks stay in the overturning of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law. The District Court judge stands her ground.

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What Do Canada and Mexico Have that the United States Doesn't? Equality

08.13.2010

For being the self-proclaimed “land of the free,” the United States sure has gone out of its way to deny freedoms to a minority group of Americans with so many states pushing legislation to ban same sex marriages.

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Supporting Gay Marriage: It's Not About the Children. Seriously.

08.05.2010

California’s Proposition 8 has just been overturned. While a huge victory for marriage equality, with many in favor of equality rejoicing in this, the opponents of gay marriage continue their failed arguments that make sense to their personal beliefs but don’t reconcile with the Constitution. Even after logic, reason, and the law showed that their [...]

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D.C. Catholic Church Backs Down

12.18.2009

The Washington, D.C. Archdiocese has its bluff called. When will opponents to same sex marriage finally realize that it affects no one other than those couples who wish to bind their love just like some heterosexuals choose to do?  It doesn’t impede upon religion or cause some slippery slope into depraved pedophilia or other nonsense [...]

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D.C. Takes Big Step Forward in Same Sex Marriage Battle

12.15.2009

The D.C. Council voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that will legalize same sex marriages.  It next will go to Mayor Adrian Fenty who is expected to sign the bill by the end of next week. This is a big step forward in the marriage equality movement and I applaud the 11 members of [...]

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The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans

12.02.2009

From the New York Senate, where the legislature just voted against marriage quality: “When I walk through these doors, my Bible stays out.” – Sen. Eric Adams, D-Brooklyn “That’s the wrong statement. You should carry your Bible all the time.” – Sen. Ruben Diaz, R-The Bronx How is this total breach of church and state [...]

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Huckabee: Broken Record on Same Sex Marriage

11.26.2009

Leave it to potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to repeat old rhetoric in his battle against same-sex marriage. Huckabee panders to the Christian Right and alienates everyone else with his flawed slippery-slope argument that if same-sex marriage were legalized, that just about any form of union would end up being permitted.  Namely, that polygamy [...]

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"God's Mandate" Belongs In Church

10.08.2009

Take a look at this latest ad against gay marriage.  We’ll discuss afterward. Sigh. God’s mandate?  Really?  This is secular law.  It has nothing to do with any one god’s so-called mandate.  What a slap in the face to anyone of any other faith besides Christianity.  How arrogant and insulting.  As tough a pill it [...]

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