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Bachmann says she doesn’t ‘judge’ gays — except when she calls them ‘part of Satan’
Michele Bachmann, fresh from a victory in the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning, and was again dogged with questions about her anti-gay platform, this time declaring, “I don’t judge gays.”
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Sesame Street: Bert and Erie are not gay, and will not be getting married
Producers of the popular children’s television program “Sesame Street” have issued a statement denying that Muppets Bert and Erie are gay, and said they will not be getting married.
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Rick Santorum: Marriage equality is equal to slavery (when it’s not like a napkin)
Not only has Rick Snatorum used the lackluster comparison of napkins and paper towels as a justification to denying gay couples marriage rights, he is now comparing the 10th amendments guarantee that a state can enact marriage equality if it wants too, to states having the authority to legalize slavery.
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NOM slapped down by the courts while its bus tour is flopping hard
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has again ruled against the National Organization for Marriage’s attempts to challenge the “constitutionality of a Rhode Island election law requiring the reporting of so-called ‘independent expenditures.’”
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Poll: Majority of New Yorkers don’t want marriage equality overturned
Just weeks after same-sex marriage was legalized in New York state, a new poll suggests growing support for marriage equality in the Empire state, and more than six in ten do not want the legislation to be overturned.
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The American values of exclusion and discrimination
The former Secretary of State of Ohio, Ken Blackwell, (now a research fellow at the certified hate group the Family Research Council) wrote at Townhall.com on Monday regarding marriage equality and the diverse nature of those who are supposedly protecting traditional marriage.
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David Barton on pro-gay marriage NY senators: ‘Hang their bloody scalps over the gallery rail’
David Barton, founder of WallBuilders, the Texas-based group “dedicated to presenting America’s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on the moral, religious, and constitutional foundation on which America was built,” is calling for the “scalps” of traitorous New York state senators who voted in favor of marriage equality.
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Santorum: Traditional marriage is like a napkin, gay marriage is like a paper towel
As fictional character Forrest Gump once said, “Life is like a box of chocolates…” And as (some would say, “fictional”) GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum says, “Marriage is like a napkin” … or is it like a glass of water, or a beer?
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Petition launched to get Congress to call out false anti-gay testimony
While there is a need for levity and a desire for all sides of issues involving the gay community to be heard, the constant calling upon of these “morality groups” for Congressional testimony in spite of their irregularities mentioned does present a problem in terms resolving the issues of the gay community in a fair manner.
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U.S. government rips man away from AIDS-afflicted spouse
After some legal wins in the cases of bi-national gay and lesbian couples, this devastating story comes out of San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle reports on Bradford Wells, a U.S. citizen, and Anthony John Makk, a citizen of Australia. The two were legally married in Massachusetts seven years ago and have lived together 19 […]