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TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
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Rubio: Gay marriage advocates often show 'intolerance' toward opponents
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Wis. AG tells appeals court same-sex marriage isn't a fundamental right
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Colo. judge again refuses to stop Boulder same-sex marriages
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N.Y. agencies collecting data on gender identity to improve LGBT services
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Report: Marriage equality would add $181 million, new jobs to Texas economy
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State appeals court asked to lift stay in Fla. same-sex marriage ruling
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GLAAD film industry report card reveals lack of LGBT visibility
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Attorney asks judge to bypass trial and issue ruling in N.D. gay marriage case
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Federal judge likely to strike down Colo. gay marriage ban, but considering stay
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Exxon Mobil to follow new LGBT anti-bias rules for federal contractors
Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel is a non-profit public interest law firm and ministry that promotes “Christian religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, and the traditional family,” and is headed by attorney Mathew D. Staver. [ Wikipedia ]
Liberty Counsel devotes much of its time to fighting against same-sex marriage, civil unions, and adoption by LGBT parents. It opposes efforts to prohibit employment discrimination against LGBT workers, and opposes ‘the addition of “sexual orientation,” “gender identity” or similar provisions’ to hate crimes legislation. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Liberty Counsel as being one of twelve groups comprising an “anti-gay crusade.”
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Dear Matt Barber: Calling yourself a Christian does not make it so
ALVIN McEWENAuthor, "How They See Us:
Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America" | Monday, July 21, 2014
Calling yourself a Christian does not give you special privileges in this country. Calling yourself a Christian does not make you a better American than me. And calling yourself a Christian does not absolve you from rights and responsibilities that all Americans have. This is not, nor has it ever been, a Christian nation, and the rest of us who don’t practice your beliefs do not exist here for your will and pleasure.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Calif. law banning ‘gay cure’ therapy
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for enforcement of a first-of-its-kind California law that bars psychological counseling aimed at turning gay minors straight. The justices turned aside a legal challenge brought by supporters of so-called conversion or reparative therapy. Without comment, they let stand ...
Mat Staver struggles to defend allowing businesses to discriminate against gays
Testifying before a House committee today about supposed threats to religious freedom in the U.S., Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver struggled to defend his support for allowing businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Seven more groups now designated by SPLC as anti-gay hate groups
ALVIN McEWENAuthor, "How They See Us:
Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America" | Monday, March 3, 2014
The Southern Poverty Law Center has added seven more anti-gay organizations to its list of anti-gay hate groups. No doubt the standard whine of these groups will be the same one offered up by the Family Research Council when SPLC named it as a hate group a while back, i.e. “we are being attacked because we don’t believe in gay marriage, we are trying to preserve Christian morality, we are being silenced.” That whine was a lie then and is still a lie...
Religious right leaders rail against Virginia marriage equality ruling
A federal judge’s decision to strike down Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriagehas unsurprisingly stoked the ire of conservatives.
Calif. conversion therapy ban put on hold pending Supreme Court review
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's ban on conversion therapy for minors, the controversial practice that aims to turn gay youths straight, will remain on hold while opponents of the ban ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn it.
Meet Janet Mefferd, the go-to radio host for anti-LGBT hate mongers
Janet Mefferd has become one of talk radio's most relentless purveyors of homophobia, using her eponymous program to provide a platform to fringe anti-LGBT activists and to spout her own bigoted, occasionally conspiracy-minded views.
‘Ex-gay’ therapy advocates threaten Va. colleges over lack of resources
RICHMOND, Va. -- The "ex-gay" group, Voice of the Voiceless, is urging LGBTQ resource centers at universities in Virginia to provide ex-gay therapy and resources on changing sexual orientation. The group sent a letter to all Virginia state colleges late last month threatening legal action,...
The LGBT community desperately needs to confront anti-gay propaganda
ALVIN McEWENAuthor, "How They See Us:
Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America" | Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The LGBT community has deceived itself into thinking that if we just sidestep the lies and distortions and solely focus on “telling our stories” as ordinary people seeking fairness under the American system, our problems with those who oppose our right to equality will dissipate. It’s high time that the LGBT community realize that this belief is a false bill of goods that serves as a pitiful Band-Aid to a problem that requires more than stories designed to yank at the heart strings; indeed, such efforts make it look as if we are begging for “tolerance.”
Opponents promise legal challenges to new laws protecting LGBT youth
Two recently approved measures creating protections for LGBT youth -- one expanding rights for transgender students in California public schools, and another prohibiting gay conversion therapy on minors in New Jersey -- have opponents promising to launch legal challenges to overturn the laws.
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