Iconic TV host Dr. Ana Maria Polo joins HRC’s Americans for Marriage Equality campaign (VIDEOS)

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has released two web videos featuring Dr. Ana Maria Polo, host of the renowned Telemundo show “Caso Cerrado,” for the organization’s Americans for Marriage Equality campaign.  In the videos – one in English and one in Spanish – Dr. Polo speaks out in support of the right for committed gay and…

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HRC: CWA’s top ‘concern’ is stopping LGBT equality

WASHINGTON – Concerned Women For America (CWA) claims to be the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization bringing supposedly “biblical principles” into all levels of public policy. Espousing an un-American brand of anti-equality viewpoints, that many people of faith consider “unbiblical,” they have fabricated a “defense of family” position as one of their top concerns….

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GOP quick to condemn President Obama’s immigration reform

GOP lawmakers were quick to condemn President Barack Obama’s plan to dramatically increase deportation relief for an estimated 4.4 million undocumented immigrants, announced Thursday. In his speech Obama said, “The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past…

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The Gambia: UN High Commissioner Zeid criticizes harsh legal amendment, violence and arrests targeting gay men and lesbians

GENEVA — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday criticized a recent amendment to the Criminal Code of The Gambia that creates a broad and vague offence of “aggravated homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment. He also expressed alarm at reports of a wave of arbitrary arrests and detention of individuals…

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