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Same-sex marriage backers, foes hold dueling rallies at Utah capitol
SALT LAKE CITY — A little more than a month after a surprising federal court ruling overturned this conservative state’s ban on gay marriage, the battle over the issue hit the Capitol building Tuesday as hundreds of opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage held twin rallies.
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The year in homophobia: Ten of the worst anti-LGBT stories of 2013
By all accounts, 2013 was a banner year for the gay rights movement: The Supreme Court struck down the worst part of the Defense of Marriage Act, nine new states legalized marriage equality, polls showed Americans backing gay rights in ever-growing numbers, anti-gay crusader Ken Cuccinelli was defeated in his bid to become Virginia’s governor, the Boy Scouts loosened their discriminatory policies, and the “ex-gay” movement began to self-destruct.
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NOM refuses to release tax documents as required by law
WASHINGTON — Representatives from two LGBT advocacy groups were told Friday and again Monday by staff at the National Organization for Marriage’s Washington D.C. office, that its required federal tax returns for 2012 were not available.
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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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NOM’s Brian Brown may have violated U.S. law, says LGBT activist Fred Karger
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Prominent LGBT rights activist and former GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger alleged Tuesday that National Organization for Marriage (NOM) president Brian Brown may have broken federal law after a secret trip to Russia to lobby for a bill that banned Russian children from being adopted by countries where same-sex marriage is legal.
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Globalizing Homophobia: ‘Today the whole world is looking at Russia’
On June 13, 2013, just days after the Russian Duma passed laws banning on gay “propaganda” and actions that “offend religious feelings,” a delegation of five French Catholic anti-gay activists – at least one with ties to the far-right Front National party – traveled to Moscow at the invitation of the Duma committee on family, women and children to discuss, among other issues, Russia’s plans to tighten its ban on adoption by same-sex couples abroad…
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The LGBT community desperately needs to confront anti-gay propaganda
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.”
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Iowa ethics board to investigate National Organization for Marriage
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board voted Thursday to investigate whether a national group that opposes gay marriage violated state law.
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National Organization for Marriage ‘outraged’ by ‘illegitimate’ court rulings
WASHINGTON — The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Wednesday said it was “outraged” at the U.S. Supreme Court’s actions to dismiss Proposition 8 on procedural grounds, and for invalidating a key element of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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NOM President Brian Brown touts honorary degree from non-existent university
National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown is touting an honorary degree he’s received from a non-existent university.