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Alabama government agency prays against gay marriage
The Alabama Public Service Commission kicked off a meeting on power rates last week with a prayer against gay marriage and reproductive rights. John Delwin Jordan, who was at the meeting to testify on behalf of the Prattville Tea Party, opened up the meeting in prayer after receiving a laudatory introduction by Twinkle Cavanaugh, the head of the PSC.
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Ala. pastors ban Boy Scouts from church over support of ‘sinful lifestyle’
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Some Alabama pastors say Boy Scout troops will no longer be allowed to meet in their churches after the Boy Scouts of America voted to allow openly gay scout members.
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The worth of your child in Alabama Public Schools: $2,655
The Lauderdale County Board of Education in Florence, Ala. has decreed that Queer students, racial minority students, overweight students, or any students that do not meet the standards of normalcy of the local community are worth precisely “2 weeks suspension without pay.” For the average teacher in Alabama this comes to roughly $2,655.
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Alabama high school coach suspended following anti-gay classroom rant
The Alabama public school high teacher and football coach who was secretly recorded in a classroom setting making derogatory comments about gays and First Lady Michelle Obama, has been suspended.
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Alabama high school teacher slurs gays, First Lady in classroom rant
ROGERSVILLE, Ala. — An Alabama high school teacher and football coach has been secretly recorded in a classroom setting launching verbal tirades directed at First Lady Michelle Obama and LGBT people.
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Teen ‘white supremacist’ arrested in plot to bomb school in hate crime attack
PHENIX CITY, Ala. — Derek Shrout, a 17-year-old self-proclaimed white-supremacist, was released on a $75,000 bond Monday evening after being arrested Friday for planning to kill six students and a teacher in a bomb plot. Five of the intended victims were African-American, while one was gay.
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Victim in Thanksgiving beating disavows statement released on her behalf
The attorney representing Mallory Owens, the Alabama woman who claimed that she was brutally beaten by her girlfriend’s brother on Thanksgiving Day, has quit without after Owens told a local television station that the statement released Friday on her behalf was mostly fiction.
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Gay Eagle Scout charged with murder of man in Alabama trailer park
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Zachary Stirewalt, a 21-year-old openly gay Eagle Scout and former student at Appalachian State University, has been charged with murder of a man with whom he was staying at the time.
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Victim in Thanksgiving Day beating says attacker ‘intended to kill me’
MOBILE, Ala. — Mallory Owens, the 23-year-old Alabama woman who claims that she was brutally beaten by her girlfriend’s brother on Thanksgiving Day, has released a statement as said she believes her attacker intended to kill her.
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Victim of Thanksgiving Day attack says beating was not a hate crime
MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama woman who was allegedly beaten by her girlfriend’s brother on Thanksgiving Day, says the attack was not a hate crime, and is now recovering at the home of her attacker’s parents where the assault occurred just days ago.