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Town council accepts mayor’s apology for Facebook rant, gay slurs
WEST UNION, S.C. — Officials in a small South Carolina mountain town say they’ve accepted the mayor’s apology for a Facebook rant that included gay slurs as she criticized same-sex couples for applying for marriage licenses in a nearby county.
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Former S.C. GOP official: Transgender people are ‘disgusting freaks’
The former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party, says transgender people are “disgusting freaks” and should be rounded up and “put in a camp.”
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S.C. mayor: I don’t want ‘queer’ marriage ‘rammed down my throat’
WEST UNION, S.C. — A small town mayor in South Carolina has come under fire for a Facebook rant in which she derided gay rights and marriage equality, and repeatedly referred to gays as “queers,” using the term in a derogatory manner.
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Lawsuit alleges anti-gay bullying by Charleston, S.C. high school teacher
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A high school math teacher in South Carolina bullied a student so mercilessly as “gay” that the boy tried to kill himself, the teen and his mother claim in court.
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Gay couple sues over S.C. ban on same-sex marriage
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A legally married gay couple living in South Carolina is suing to have the state’s ban on gay marriage overturned.
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S.C. advocacy group, ACLU launching same-sex marriage effort
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group in South Carolina is teaming up with the American Civil Liberties Union to explore legal options for same-sex couples.
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Miss S.C. pageant gets its first openly gay contestant
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Analouisa Valencia isn’t the typical pageant contestant in a lot of ways. Her family doesn’t have a lot of money, she is biracial and bilingual and, in what may be a first for the Miss South Carolina and its parent Miss America pageants, she is openly gay.
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Parents sue S.C. hospital over child’s gender assignment surgery
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A couple filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of South Carolina for what they say was an unnecessary sexual assignment surgery performed on a toddler they later adopted.
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South Carolina lawmaker to introduce LGBT non-discrimination bill
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill protecting all workers from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity will be introduced in the South Carolina House of Representatives next Tuesday, according to staff at a state LGBT equality group.
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Former S.C. Governor Mark Sanford: No gays on the Appalachian Trail
Mark Sanford perfectly encapsulates the particular sanctimony the Right reserves for homosexuality. Republican politicians perfected this selective intolerance back when gay people were a convenient political punching bag – an unfamiliar other with whom the majority could not immediately identify. Since then, gay people have come out of the closet in droves and most Americans have come to embrace gay rights. But the GOP is sticking with its reflex condemnation of gay people. Does it trouble Mark Sanford or give him any pause at all as he goes from being the ambassador of international love back to his embrace of a position that is now laughingly hypocritical?