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Counterpoint: Obama is keeping his promises on gay lesbian issues

by @dmooney9 on June 19, 2009 · 2 comments

in Gay Rights

Many in the LGBT community are impatient that President Obama has not moved faster to fulfill the expectations they had for him as candidate Obama. Apart from African Americans no single group voted more for Obama than gays. This column takes the POSITIVE side in the argument best summed up by David Mixner who said [...]

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Point: Why are gays becoming increasingly disillusioned with the President?

by @martinschecter on June 18, 2009 · 5 comments

in Gay Rights

or – What’s the matter with Obama?
Quite obviously, Republicans have been quite successful over the past eight years turning gay rights issues into a wedge, and encouraging state-wide initiatives banning gay marriage to help drive conservative voters to the polls. Aside from some stalwart holdouts over at the Log Cabin club, few gays and lesbians [...]

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Rome needs to make a decision- Archbishop Burke and hypocrisy

by @dmooney9 on June 16, 2009 · 3 comments

in Gay Rights, Religion

I’m a Catholic, or rather I was. I made the final turn away from the church in 2004 when Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte, where I was attending church and living at the time, declared his version of a fatwa on Senator John Kerry who was running for President.
In that same year, 2004, according [...]

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NOM Airs Ads In NYC, Albany. Spells Marriage Wrong

by @davidbadash on May 29, 2009 · 0 comments

in Gay Rights

Conservatives often write gay “marriage” as if it weren’t real, as if it were some sort of liberal oxymoron. Maggie Gallagher’s National Organization for Marriage is airing an anti-gay marriage ad on local New York television and radio stations. Here’s a bit more via The Advocate:
“Think same-sex marriage doesn’t affect your family?” asks the narrator, [...]

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Prop 8: Injustice, Inequality, and Civil Liberties

by @Karoli on May 26, 2009 · 11 comments

in Gay Rights, Human Rights

This is the text of a speech my 15-year old daughter wrote and gave to her English class in March of this year. We live in a conservative community that rabidly supported Proposition 8, yet she stood up in her classroom and spoke these words. At the end, she received a standing ovation from the [...]

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Guest Post: Pageant backlash reflects badly on gay marriage advocates

by @mike_ace on May 12, 2009 · 5 comments

in Gay Rights

I work a lot of nights and don’t get to watch a lot of television. I also tend to gloss over a lot of news stories that come across my twitter feed, only clicking on the ones that I find interesting. I’m going to start off by making it absolutely clear that beauty pageants do [...]

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