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Justice Department Issues New Rules on Sexual Assault of LGBT Inmates
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 18, 2012 3:00 PM |This is a big deal. The US Justice Department released a new set of rules on Thursday in conjunction with a new Memorandum from President Obama to address the epidemic of sexual assaults in prison that particularly impacts LGBT inmates. Read More
The Return of the Man from Bain
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 18, 2012 2:00 PM |It looks like the Man from Bain is back. The truth is, he never left. Obama and the Democrats have every reason to make sure he sticks around for the duration of the campaign.Read More
Black Pastors: Getting On the Right Side of History
Filed by Viktor Kerney | May 18, 2012 10:00 AM |After President Obama made his gay marriage announcement, it seemed that everyone looked to the black churches for their reaction. As some pastors shrugged it off and went about their business, several pastors and church leaders fell into the classic stereotypical trap.Read More
GOP Bigotry Against Tracey Thorne-Begland Bites VA Governor
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 16, 2012 5:30 PM |Taliban Bob worked hard over the years constantly kissing up to the Christian Right and pushing the backward thinking, theocratic agenda of Pat Robertson and The Family Foundation. Now that it's biting him in the ass, I cannot find a single tear to shedRead More
America Is 'Evolving' Towards Justice
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2012 2:00 PM |President Obama nearly cost me five bucks. In the build-up to his historic interview, a co-worker announced that he would bet $5 that Obama would end of his evolution on same-sex marriage and announce his support of marriage equality.Read More
Booker!
Filed by Bil Browning | May 16, 2012 12:00 PM |Who says Republicans and Democrats can't get along? Chris Christie and Cory Booker's comedy routine for the New Jersey Press Association Legislative Correspondents Club is damned funny. Too bad gridlock isn't.Read More
Obama Should Appoint an LGBT Cabinet Member in 2nd Term
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 15, 2012 3:30 PM |When President Obama told the story of former California State Sen. Hilda Solis, now Secretary of Labor, a flashing neon light went off in my brain: the same message applies to LGBT people. It's time to appoint an LGBT Cabinet member! Read More
President Obama Will Repeal DOMA in Second Term
Filed by Viktor Kerney | May 15, 2012 12:00 PM |During last night's fundraising event at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, President Obama announced he will repeal DOMA in his second term.Read More
Obama's Gayloed & Romney's Rewarded: Both Satanic to Evangelicals
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 14, 2012 4:00 PM |While both Obama and Romney have been lauded by their base for their respective stances on marriage equality, one evangelical leader vows they are both tools of Satan. He's urging his follower to "vote for Jesus."Read More
Reince Priebus: Marriage Is Not a Civil Rights Issue
Filed by Bil Browning | May 14, 2012 11:45 AM |The Republicans continue to show why they are so out of step with the average American on civil rights and progressive issues.Read More
Are Log Cabin Republicans Influencing the GOP?
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 13, 2012 4:00 PM |A memo to GOP insiders and operatives warns that if Republicans continue their rhetoric and attacks on gay people after President Obama announced his support for marriage equality - they could well render the party irrelevant.Read More
Bad Blood in the South
Filed by Leslie Robinson | May 11, 2012 5:00 PM |Mississippi is ready to fight over North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue's recent statement on the passage of a marriage amendment.Read More
Indiana Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Favors Marriage Amendment
Filed by Bil Browning | May 11, 2012 3:30 PM |Flying in the face of the national trend in favor of same-sex marriage, Indiana Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg announced his support of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages and civil unions on the same day President Obama announced his support.Read More
The Continued Myth of 'God's Creation' of Marriage
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 11, 2012 1:30 PM |You have to hand one thing to the Christianists and their political whores in the Republican Party - they are some of the most consistent liars one might ever meet.Read More
The Pothead or the Bully
Filed by Bil Browning | May 11, 2012 12:30 PM |Taiwanese company Next Media Animation has come out with their latest video short about LGBT rights in America. This time they contrast President Obama's recent stances on marriage with Mitt Romney's bullying of a gay student at a prestigious prep school.Read More
