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‘The View’ — Obama stops short on committing to fight to repeal DOMA

‘The View’ — Obama stops short on committing to fight to repeal DOMA

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
President Barack Obama, appearing on ABC's "The View," declined to say whether he would publicly take up the fight to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), but in a campaign fundraiser later in the day, seemed to imply that repealing DOMA would be a second-term priority.
Virginia GOP lawmakers block judicial nomination over sexual orientation

Virginia GOP lawmakers block judicial nomination over sexual orientation

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
RICHMOND, Va. -- GOP lawmakers in the Virginia House of Delegates, led by virulently anti-gay Del. Bob Marshall (R-Prince William), have blocked the judicial nomination of an openly gay Richmond prosecutor.
Rainbow flag will fly high over San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood

Rainbow flag will fly high over San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Very soon, San Diego's LGBT community will see a colorful symbol of their pride flying high above the Hillcrest neighborhood. On Tuesday, the City Council voted 7-0 to approve a proposal by the Hillcrest Business Association.
In 2006, Romney blasted same-sex marriage as ‘Blow to the Foundation of Civilization’

In 2006, Romney blasted same-sex marriage as ‘Blow to the Foundation of Civilization’

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Prior to launching his first run for president, Mitt Romney in 2006 addressed an event called “Liberty Sunday” at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist Church where he spoke alongside anti-gay activists and attacked marriage equality as harmful to children and civilization itself.
Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy

Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy

Saturday, May 12, 2012
An Iranian court has sentenced four men from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, to death by hanging for sodomy.
In Defense of the Immoral ‘Glee’

In Defense of the Immoral ‘Glee’

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Is Glee immoral? So immoral that progressives should stop watching it? That’s the contention of Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress.org, whose manifesto about the show’s immorality has been flying around the Internet, aided in part by 5,468 of my closest friends who emailed, Facebooked, and Tweeted me the link, asking what I thought...