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Chuck Schumer will force Republicans to vote on same-sex marriage before midterm elections
Schumer’s plan could help turn scores of voters against anti-gay Republicans in November.
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Schumer slow-walks marriage equality vote before midterms
Political momentum will be a determining factor in Senate leader Chuck Schumer’s calculations about whether to bring the Marriage Equality Act up for a vote.
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GOP senator announces opposition to same-sex marriage bill because taxes
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) is worried that groups that oppose same-sex marriage “will be challenged on their tax policy and will immediately become a target of this federal government.”
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Abortion rights bill fails in Senate as every LGBTQ member of Congress supported it
Out Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has often opposed Democrats’ major initiatives. But not this one.
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Kyrsten Sinema’s fashion is getting defended by her fellow women Senators
The New York Times published four articles about the bisexual Senator’s attire. Senators say it is “unfairly sexist,” while the woman behind some of the articles stands behind them.
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Senate confirms Beth Robinson, the first out lesbian U.S. circuit court judge
Republicans opposed her appointment, grilling her in a hearing with questions like “How many biological sexes do you believe there are?”
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How much more will it take for Democrats to recognize that bipartisanship is dead?
The trap that Democrats keep falling into is thinking of the Republican Party as a normal political entity. It is not.
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Lisa Murkowski’s GOP primary challenger is an anti-LGBTQ zealot opposed to medicine & vampires
She believes people can pray away their gay and pharmaceutical drugs are a product of witchcraft.
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Republicans argued the Equality Act hurts women & then voted against women’s rights bills
House Republicans didn’t seem to get the memo that the GOP is now the party of women’s liberation when they voted against the ERA and the VAWA.