Guest Columns

After legalizing same-sex marriages last month, New York State now has joined Massachusetts in challenging the federal governments Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

About a dozen protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., gathered outside of Manhattan Clerks office this morning to protest the legalization of marriage equality in New York State.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) this week indicated that he would not bring up the “Respect For Marriage Act” up for a vote in the House of Representatives.

In a sharply worded email, Iowa House Republican Speaker Pro-Tempore Jeff Kaufmann rebuked former gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats, asserting that he quickly losing political credibility.

The Durham, N.C. City Council on Thursday passed a resolution stating its opposition to a proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The resolution, sponsored by Councilman Mike Woodward, was passed unanimously by the seven member council.

The Miami-Dade school district — the fourth largest in the nation — on Thursday joined other districts across the state of Florida in protecting students from bullying based upon gender identity or sexual orientation.

Though LGBT people are already deemed criminals in the West African nation of Ghana, it seems that persecution of gays and lesbians is only slated to get worse, as police services in the western portion of the nation have been ordered to round up all suspected homosexuals.

The Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minneapolis — Minnesota’s largest school district — is being sued in federal court by five gay and lesbian students over its policy regarding the teaching and discussion of sexual orientation in the classroom.

Microsoft Corporation on Thursday removed its online store from the “Christian Values Network” after more than 500 people signed a Change.org petition asking the software company to stop allowing the funding of anti-gay “hate groups.”

I read that James Edward Belcher, a preacher, is prosecuting his abuser, a grandmother, for abusing him with unwanted advances in public. It shows me how preachers are created — abusers make them somehow become preachers to try to shake off the abuse.