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Fired teachers seek audience with Pope over Catholic Church’s anti-gay stance
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday delivered a letter to the Vatican on behalf of nine teachers who have lost their jobs at Catholics schools for either being LGBT, or supporting an LGBT family member.
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Seventh Mississippi town passes resolution recognizing LGBT citizens
WAVELAND, Miss. — The city council in Waveland City Council has passed an anti-discrimination resolution recognizing the “dignity and worth of all city residents” — including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
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HRC kicks-off campaign for LGBT equality laws in three southern states
JACKSON, Miss. — The national LGBT advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign, plans to seek anti-discrimination state laws to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
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HRC plans three-year LGBT rights campaign in three Deep South states
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organization is launching a three-year, $8.5 million campaign to promote LGBT equality and push for new legal protections in three Southern states dominated by conservative politics and religion and known for resistance to change: Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Book ignites media slugfest over history of marriage equality movement
To say there’s been a flurry of discussion around the release of a new book Tuesday on the legal case that challenged California’s Proposition 8 would be an understatement. The book, “Forcing the Spring,” by The New York Times writer Jo Becker, has been thoroughly pilloried by many plugged-in LGBT activists and journalists this week, both publicly and privately.
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HRC official to join Conn. senator’s office as chief of staff
HARTFORD, Conn. — A government relations chief for the Human Rights Campaign is joining Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy’s office as his chief of staff.
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Biden calls on Congress to pass LGBT inclusive workplace discrimination bill
LOS ANGELES — Vice President Joe Biden called on Congress Saturday to pass a measure to outlaw workplace discrimination against gays, saying it’s outrageous that the country is even debating the subject.
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Chelsea Clinton: LGBT rights are ‘the unfinished business of the 21st century’
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton said Sunday that the gay-rights cause made “incredible progress” on political and legal fronts in 2013, but progress should not be mistaken for success.
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Ohio advocacy groups split on support for marriage equality amendment
COLUMBUS, Ohio — As it works to educate Ohioans on the need for marriage equality, a coalition of state and national advocacy groups says it opposes another organization’s effort to win Ohioans marriage equality at the ballot box this fall.
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Groups organizing ballot push to repeal Nevada same-sex marriage ban
LAS VEGAS — Several groups are organizing a push to get the Legislature in 2015 and voters in 2016 to change the Nevada constitution to allow same-sex marriages, while a federal court prepares to hear a legal challenge against the state’s constitutional ban.