Gay marriage fight makes odd politics
The battle over amending the Indiana Constitution to ban gay marriage is splitting pretty clearly along ideological lines but making for some odd pairings of otherwise partisan foes. Reported by...
View ArticleYogaFit and Lambda Legal Partner to Support Marriage Equality on October 1st...
YogaFit, the world's largest yoga training school has paired up with Lambda Legal in support of their 40 years of civil rights work and quest for marriage equality in all 50 states. YogaFit will be...
View ArticleFox Sports Fires Announcer for Christian View of Marriage
Fox Sports fired announcer Craig James earlier this month after one day on the job for comments he made during a 2012 Texas Republican Senate primary in which he indicated his support for traditional...
View ArticleMary Fallin, Oklahoma Gov., Tells National Guard To Stop Processing Benefits...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has ordered the National Guard to stop processing requests for military benefits for same-sex couples, her office confirmed Tuesday, despite a Pentagon...
View ArticleRed Tape In The Bedroom? Govt Should "Regulate Sexual Relationships,"...
Legal Lifestyle Politics You don’t have to be a conservative to feel that the government has too many regulations. It seems almost every aspect of everyday life comes with some degree of red tape,...
View ArticleNick Clegg's speech to the Liberal Democrat conference: full text
"In the past the Liberal Democrats would eke out an existence on the margins of British politics. Now we hold the liberal centre while our opponents head left and right." Three years ago – nearly three...
View ArticleSome state National Guards block gay partner benefits
At least four state National Guards won’t follow a Pentagon directive to enroll same-sex partners in benefit programs, citing state prohibitions on gay marriage. The refusals likely won’t prevent...
View Article9th Circuit Court Deciding if Gay Juror Can Be Removed from Abbott Antitrust...
Headlines Nation Politics An oft-repeated joke in films and on television is that the best way to “get out” of jury duty is to make oneself an unattractive juror – mostly by saying crazy things or...
View ArticleObama Named A Russian LGBT Rights Movement Hero By Moscow Times
The Moscow Times has named President Barack Obama as one of the five heroes of Russia's gay rights movement, citing his recent meeting with leading human rights and LGBT activists following the G20...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage ban needed to ‘regulate sexual relationships,’ Mich....
Michigan’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is necessary to “regulate sexual relationships,” argued attorneys representing the state and its Republican governor. The ban is needed to...
View ArticleDebunking the Junk Science 'Proving' Gay Marriage Is Wrong
Some arguments are simply not worth responding to. Because of how essentially non-thought-provoking and illogical they are, they tend to internally destroy themselves from their very premise. This...
View ArticleMichigan Gay Marriage Ban Needed To 'Regulate Sexual Relationships': State...
When April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse's case goes to trial in Detroit this fall, it could mean the end of Michigan's ban on gay marriage. But that hasn't stopped the state's top lawyer from pushing back...
View ArticleRuling extends employee benefits to gay spouses
Individuals in same-sex marriages will be entitled to the employee benefits of their spouse even if they live in a state that doesn't recognize their union, the Labor Department said Wednesday. Prior...
View ArticleGay Marriage is 'More Radical' Than Incestuous Marriage, Claims Illinois...
Lifestyle Religion Weird News Illinois Family Institute Laurie Higgins, a researcher for the anti-gay Illinois Family Institute, recently exchanged emails with a pro-gay marriage attorney in Tampa,...
View ArticleConvicted Anti-Christian Domestic Terrorist Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II was sentenced Thursday for his attempted mass shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative Christian organization in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleNew York HIV activists campaign for increased access to 'morning-after pill'
As HIV diagnoses continue to rise among gay men, advocates demand more PEP – a strong combination of drugs usually prescribed for people who already have HIV – treatment options Two years ago, James...
View ArticleCool Pope Francis: Church Is “Obsessed” With Abortion and Gay Marriage
In a 12,000 word interview with Italian Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, Pope Francis furthered his reputation as World's Coolest Pope by correctly noting that the Roman Catholic Church has become...
View ArticleFloyd Corkins II, Family Research Council Shooter, Sentenced To 25 Years In...
WASHINGTON -- A man who planned a mass shooting at the headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group in Washington last year was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for the plot that...
View ArticleHelp This Needy Couple's Parents Attend One of Their Four Weddings
International couple Eric Turner and Morné Coetzer are in a bit of a pickle: They have set a date to marry (January 4, 2014), but because the legalization of same-sex marriage remains globally...
View ArticleLionsgate, OddLot Entertainment Partner for Johnny Depp’s ‘Mortdecai,’ Future...
Lionsgate and OddLot Entertainment have partnered to make movies together for years to come, a pact that includes the upcoming Johnny Depp movie “Mortdecai,” the companies announced on Thursday....
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