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#FakeNews: Another religious right claim of persecution just got debunked
It’s another big defeat for Kim Davis’s conservative Christian lawyers, Liberty Counsel and another huge win for love.
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Sentenced: Florida man who murdered two intended male sex slaves
Authorities say Scott Paul Schweickert met Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz, both 26, at a gay nightclub in Tampa.
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Man charged in transgender woman’s slaying in Tampa
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office reported in a news release that 18-year-old Keith Lamayne Gaillard is being held on a first-degree murder charge in the death of 25-year-old India Clarke.
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Slain transgender woman remembered as loving, confident
Mourners for 25-year-old India Clarke gathered Wednesday at University Area Community Park.
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Florida newspaper calls Pam Bondi a ‘modern-day Anita Bryant,’ names her ‘loser of the year’
The Tampa Bay Times cites Bondi’s “relentless defense” of the state’s same-sex marriage ban, which has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge and four state judges.
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Fla. county adds sexual orientation, gender identity to human rights ordinance
TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough County commissioners on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of expanding the county’s human rights ordinance to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. The 7-0 vote reversed a former board’s action in 1995 to strip gays and lesbians from the groups protected under the ordinance…
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Columnist: Disney is ‘indoctrinating’ children with ‘pro-gay agenda’
A conservative columnist for the Tampa Tribune criticized the Walt Disney Co. for allegedly pushing a “pro-gay agenda,” asserting that the company is using its programming to “indoctrinate” children about “gay lifestyles and gay marriage.” In his August 12 column, Douglas MacKinnon – a former aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush – charged that Disney …
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Fla. church abruptly cancels funeral after learning deceased man was gay
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida woman says her Tampa church cancelled her son’s funeral after the pastor learned the deceased was gay and his obituary listed a surviving “husband.” Julie Atwood says she was told by New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Tampa, Fla., that it would be “blasphemous” to hold the services at the church because her son, Julion Evans, 42, was gay…
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Eighth GOP member of Congress announces support for marriage equality
U.S. Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.), a Tampa Bay-area Republican, said Monday he supported last week’s ruling by a Monroe County, Fla., judge who said Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage is discriminatory and violates gay people’s right to equal treatment under the law. “As a matter of my Christian faith, I believe in traditional marriage,” Jolly said in a statement. “But…
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Charlie Crist wages populist campaign for Florida governor
MIAMI — When former GOP Gov. Charlie Crist announced he’d run for his old job as a Democrat in 2014, party leaders rejoiced at the prospect of a pragmatic candidate able to win back centrist Republicans and independent voters who had soured on incumbent Rick Scott.