Eric Ethington
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Utah’s LGBT rights bill is a trojan horse for the religious right’s agenda
There were both cheers and tears as many in the Utah LGBTQ community celebrated the passage of a workplace and housing nondiscrimination law, but behind closed doors, I suspect it’s actually the leaders of the Religious Right who are cheering the hardest.
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The Religious Right’s campaign to strip all citizens of religious freedom
Turn on any cable news show and you’ll hear conservatives, particularly the Religious Right, giving long tirades about religious freedom and how the Left is seeking to strip it away from good God-fearing Americans. But if you watch how the Religious Right works in court, you know that it’s actually the other way around. Religious freedom has been a strongly held belief in America since the very beginning…
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The PR campaign to whitewash the right’s anti-gay Uganda history
As a communications person myself, I can really appreciate a good PR campaign, and the best I’ve seen in a long time is the new effort by U.S. right-wing evangelicals to completely whitewash their own history of involvement with Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality law. For the last five years, human rights advocates around the world been discussing how U.S. conservative figures were integrally involved in the creation of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (originally called the “Kill the Gays Bill”).
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Gay Mormon, excommunicated from his church, commits suicide
Bryan Michael Egnew, 40, spent the last decades of his life building up the courage to come out to his family and Mormon church. Once he did his life, family and religion were stripped away from him, and he committed suicide within a matter of weeks.
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Colorado state Senate passes civil unions bill in first of two votes
The Colorado State Senate on Wednesday passed a bill legalizing Civil Unions for gay couples. This is one of two votes required by the Senate, and if it passes again, the bill will go on to the House before being signed into law.
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Indiana Senate committee advances amendment to ban same-sex marriage
The Indiana state Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7-3 — along party lines — this week to advance a constitutional amendment which bans both gay marriage as well as civil unions.
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West Virginia House fails to pass non-discrimination bill — again
For the third time, the West Virginia state House has failed to take up the bills outlawing housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, despite heavy support in the state Senate.
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Newt Gingrich funneled $350,000 into anti-gay hate groups
Former House Speaker, and likely presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich has been caught funneling over $350,000 into anti-gay hate groups in the past year.
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New report highlights discrimination against bisexuals by both gays and straights
A new report released by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission highlights the demonization of bisexuals from both the lesbian and gay community, as well as the straight community.
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California lawmaker proposes anti-bullying law named for gay suicide victim
An openly gay California state Assemblyman is proposing a new anti-bullying law design to reduce bullying of LGBT teens. The bill is named in honor of Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old gay teen who committed suicide last year.
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GWU attacker charged with ‘hate crime’ on straight man he thought was gay
A heterosexual student at George Washington University was beaten to within inches of his life earlier this week, after another heterosexual student mistook him for being gay.
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Colorado civil unions bill passes second Senate committee
DENVER — A second state Senate committee approved the Colorado civil unions bill on Thursday evening. The Senate Finance Committee approved the measure 5-4, and as expected, the vote was down the party lines.
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Washington state House approves bill to recognize out-of-state gay unions
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Lawmakers in the Washington state House of Representatives have passed a bill which would allow same sex marriages performed in other states to now be recognized.
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Maryland delegates ready to vote on gay marriage bill; NOM mailers spread fear
Two Maryland delegates holding out on a gay marriage vote are now back on board, but the 48 hour delay has opened a window for gay marriage opponents to launch a new campaign aimed at weakening other Democrats from supporting the bill.
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Bill banning recognition of gay unions rejected in Wyoming Senate
The Wyoming Senate late Wednesday voted to reject House Bill 74, which would have banned out-of-state gay marriage from being recognized. The bill is now dead for the remainder of this year’s legislative session.
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Wyoming House committee passes bill to invalidate out-of-state gay marriages
In the final minutes of the day, a House committee voted 4-2 on Tuesday to approve a bill which would invalidate same-sex marriages performed out-of-state. The bill has until Thursday to pass both the House and the Senate.
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Justice Department still defending now-repealed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
On the same day that the Obama administration announced that the Justice Department would stop defending portions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court, we learn that the DOJ is still defending “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in court […]
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AG Holder sends letter to Speaker Boehner explaining DOMA decision
Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to House Speaker Boehner on Wednesday explaining in further detail why he and President Barack Obama have made the decision to stop defending the Defense Of Marriage Act in court. Full text […]
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High school newspaper editorial condemns homosexuality, same-sex dating
A Wichita high school newspaper has published an editorial by one of their student reporters calling for a ban on same-sex dating, calling homosexuality a disruption and that it should be kept out of school.
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NOM testimony against Maryland marriage equality has unintended effect
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s Senate Judicial Proceedings committee heard 7 hours of testimony on Tuesday on whether or not to legalize same-sex marriage, and testimony from at least one marriage equality opponent has had an unintended consequence.
