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Mike Pence’s anti-LGBTQ employer is leading the push for voter suppression
“In some cases, we actually draft [the bills] for them,” said the organization’s executive director in a leaked video.
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Republicans hatch plan to enact radical agenda through Constitutional amendments
The far right believes it has a winning strategy to go after the social safety net and social progress, including same-sex marriage.
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Brown: Gay marriage deconstructs ‘the very nature of what it means to be a human’
The marriage panel at Friday’s Values Voter Summit — which featured Tony Perkins, Brian Brown, Ryan Anderson and Jennifer Marshall of the Heritage Foundation — spent most of the time equating support for same-sex marriage with a loss of free speech for marriage equality opponents.
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Human rights groups urge public officials not to attend ‘Values Voter Summit’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A coalition of human rights groups is calling on public officials not to attend this week’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because its host, the Family Research Council, has spread demonizing lies about the LGBT community, and because one of its co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has linked homosexuality to the Holocaust.
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New political ad targets U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s anti-gay comments
CHARLESTON, S.C — A new political ad is emphasizing U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s previously stated belief that LGBT people shouldn’t be allowed to teach in schools has angered DeMint supporters because, they claim, it falsely portrays the Senator as anti-Semitic.
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Senate GOP blocks appointment of LGBT ally as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday blocked efforts to confirm Mari Carmen Aponte, a Washington D.C.-based attorney, as the permanent ambassador to El Salvador, because, according to one source, Aponte is an LGBT advocate who has previously called for the “elimination of prejudices” against LGBT people.
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Sen. Jim DeMint reaffirms position that gays are unfit to teach in public schools
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), an emerging Tea Party hero, told a crowd of supporters in South Carolina Friday that he will continue to recruit like-minded Conservatives across the nation to run for Congress and pastors to join the fight to “take our country back.”
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Sen. DeMint: gays immoral, gay marriage destructive to society
In a recent interview with Bolomberg’s Al Hunt, Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said he cringes at the idea of an openly gay president. “It would be bothersome to me just personally because I consider it immoral,” DeMint said. The South Carolina Republican, who has become the face of the Republican purity movement, goes right on […]