The Church of England is once again making international headlines because one of its most senior openly gay cleric is entertaining the possibility of suing for discrimination if he is not promoted to the role of bishop – a role which he believes he is entitled to regardless of his sexuality. Dr. Jeffrey John, the [...]
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The Archdiocese of Hartford has announced their support for parishioners with same-sex partners and those who are seeking a loving, committed relationship with a member of the same gender. Except there is one tiny little thing they require for their acceptance: the partners must abstain from having sex. ab·stain /[ab-steyn] verb (used without object) to [...]
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Cardinal Francis George said in an interview last week, ”You know, you don’t want the Gay Liberation Movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.” Now, after publicly being asked to step down from his position, the cardinal has taken to the mic one ore time…and it doesn’t particularly [...]
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Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis GeorgeTruth Wins Out (TWO) has launched a Change.org petition calling on Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George to resign after his irresponsible comparison of the LGBT community to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The Seattle Lesbian wrote about the story here: Pointy White Hats of Hate. “It is outrageous that Cardinal George would [...]
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Seems there is a concern that the scary gay activists in the country are planning to go after the Catholic Church (for being bigots?) but, for the record, Cardinal Francis George said in an interview, ”You know, you don’t want the Gay Liberation Movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against [...]
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A Los Angeles, CA group called Love Honor Cherish has been given the green light to begin collecting signatures for a measure that would repeal California’s Proposition 8. The group must collect 807,615 valid voter signatures by May 14, 2012 to quality for the November 2012 ballot. This announcement comes on the heels of Equality [...]
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Lambda Legal filed a discrimination lawsuit today in the First Circuit Court of Hawaii on behalf of a lesbian couple rejected by a commercial business establishment, Aloha Bed & Breakfast, because of the owner’s personal anti-gay beliefs. “When you open the doors of your business to the public, Hawaii law absolutely forbids you from discriminating [...]
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Throughout his 31-year career, he has worked with Maya Angelou, Frederica von Stade, Judith Martin (Miss Manners), Bobby McFerrin, Tatiana Troyanos, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Feinstein, Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz Callaway, Marni Nixon, Diane Schuur, Armistead Maupin, Lucy Lawless, Faith Prince, Chely Wright, and Lily Tomlin – to name a few.
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Veteran Bob Garon (L) with Mitt Romney (R)While New Hampshire legislators are currently seeking to reverse the gay marriage law in their state despite public opinion to the contrary (read more about that here), a Vietnam veteran already has his mind made up about presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. United States Veteran Bob Garon, 63, had [...]
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California heard oral arguments Friday in the case brought by Lambda Legal and Morrison & Foerster challenging the constitutionality of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on behalf of Karen Golinski, a federal court employee denied spousal health coverage for her wife. “Throughout this case, [...]
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