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Judge’s ruling reinforces Fla. teen’s right to organize gay-straight alliance
OCALA, Fla. — A federal judge on Thursday reinforced the right of a Florida teen to organize a gays-straight alliance at her middle school.
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Illinois governor: Fight for same-sex marriage in Illinois is not over
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn said Friday the fight for same-sex marriage in Illinois is not over.
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BREAKING: Illinois House adjourns without voting on same-sex marriage bill
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Despite urging from President Barack Obama in his home state and fierce on-the-ground campaigning, a legislative measure that would have made Illinois the 13th state to allow same-sex couples to marry didn’t rally enough support from lawmakers in the House.
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Judge: Ind. improperly revoked gay youth group’s specialty license plate
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles improperly revoked a gay-youth advocacy group’s specialty license plate last year and should reinstate that plate by late June, an administrative law judge has ruled.
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Obama issues proclamation declaring June LGBT Pride Month
WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday issued a proclamation by President Barack Obama, declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, saying his administration has been “a proud partner in the journey toward LGBT equality.”
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Va. GOP candidate for Lt. Gov. defends claim that gays are ‘very sick people’
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Virginia’s GOP nominee for Lt. Governor appeared Thursday on Janet Mefferd’s radio program to defend his claims that gays and lesbians are “very sick people.”
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Tampa teen faces hate crime charges in attack on transgender woman
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida teen has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly robbing, then shooting a 22-year-old transgender woman in April.
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Hennepin revises marriage licenses as Minn. prepares for gay unions
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s largest county is getting ready to start taking applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples.
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Polls: Support grows for workplace protections, marriage equality in Calif.
Support for same-sex marriage has reached a record high in California, while a majority of voters support laws to prohibit anti-gay discrimination, according to various state and national polls released this week.
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Gay rights group opposes naming university center for Mormon leader
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah gay-rights organization has started a petition to protest the naming of a new Weber State University center after a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Commentary
The Boy Scouts of America and the irreverent churches
And so it begins — the abandonment of the Boy Scouts of America by churches of the Southern Baptist persuasion, for the lifting of the longtime national ban on admitting openly gay Scouts. At the end of the day, who really suffers here? The Southern Baptist Convention? The Assemblies of God? The Southeast Christian Church? No, of course not. These churches will continue to preach their version of the Bible and continue to discriminate and alienate. And they will do it all in the name of their so-called “loving” God.
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U.S. gay rights cases could trail Obama in upcoming trip to Africa
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa next month may result in a stark juxtaposition between the growing power of the gay rights movement in the U.S. and the criminalization of homosexuality throughout the African continent.
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Life
Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber compares gay adoption to having pets
WASHINGTON — Liberty Counsel’s Mathew D. Staver and Matt Barber, in their daily radio and web broadcast Tuesday, compared adoption by gay parents to having having pets.
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Del. lawmakers introduce bill to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity
DOVER, Del. — Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill outlawing discrimination in Delaware based on gender identity.
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N.J. state Senate delays vote on proposed ban on reparative therapy
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Senate has put off a vote on a bill that would prohibit licensed therapists from performing controversial gay-to-straight conversion therapy on minors.
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Life
‘Former lesbian’ Anne Paulk: Majority of lesbians were sexually abused
Last month, ex-gay poster boy John Paulk announced that he was renouncing the ex-gay movement and ending his twenty-year marriage to his ex-gay wife, Anne. While John has now finally acknowledged that ex-gay conversion therapy doesn’t work and is in fact extremely harmful, his now ex-wife Anne is still a supporter of the dangerous pseudo-science.
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‘Christian’ bakeries are OK with sinful celebrations… but not gay weddings
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two Oregon bakeries who cited their moral principles and religious convictions as the basis for refusing to bake wedding cakes for gay couples, are seemingly selective in which Biblical “sins” they are willing to accommodate.
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Mich. governor sidesteps question on gay marriage, has no personal opinion
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is sidestepping the debate over whether gay marriage should be allowed in Michigan.
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Obama encourages Ill. lawmakers to approve marriage equality bill
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama, appearing at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Wednesday night, encouraged Illinois state lawmakers to approve a pending marriage equality, calling it “the right thing to do.”
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Life
Perry says Boy Scouts will answer to God; Gohmert warns of pedophilia
Rick Perry, who has equated the fight against gays in the Boy Scouts to the fight to abolish slavery, told Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council on Friday’s edition of Washington Watch that the Boy Scouts of America’s delegates bowed to “political correctness” and “money” in ending the ban on gay members under the age of 18.