TAMPA, Fla. – Kansas secretary of state and Mitt Romney advisor Kris Kobach has compared LGBT people to drug users and polygamists. Kobach made the remarks while debating the GOP platform’s marriage equality language yesterday in Tampa. While arguing against an amendment, introduced by Pat Kerby – a Republican National Convention delegate from Nevada –…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The leader of a conservative Christian organization says she believes that the man charged in a shooting Wednesday at the Family Research Council also targeted her group, and she is citing that shooting in a fundraising appeal. Andrea Lafferty, president of the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), called on supporters Monday night to…
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A petition by some staff and students is calling on the University of Maryland (UM) to kick Chick-fil-A off the College Park campus. The petition on Change.org has collected nearly a 1,000 signatures and asks the university to end its partnership with the chain after its president, Dan Cathy, told a…
WASHINGTON – Reports indicate that the Republican 2012 platform will not only reject marriage equality, but will push for a federal constitutional amendment banning committed gay and lesbian couples from marrying and stripping rights from legally married same-sex couples and call for a vigorous defense of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The platform…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CNN) – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has reacted strongly to statements this week by Family Research Council (FRC) president, Tony Perkins, in which he says the 28-year-old gunman who stormed their downtown Washington headquarters and opened fire was “given license” by organizations like the SPLC. The SPLC has listed the FRC…
MOSCOW (CNN) – Three members of Russian LGBT-supporting feminist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison Friday after they were found guilty of hooliganism for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin in a church. The five months they have spent in detention since their arrests in March count toward…
PHOENIX – As long lines formed at help centers and lawyers’ offices across America, Wednesday with thousands of young, undocumented immigrants applying for relief from deportation, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order directing state agencies to deny benefits – including driver’s licenses – to “Deferred Action” recipients. The Deferred Action program is one…
I’m not sure which word best describes the choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee; obvious, daring and destructive all come to mind and have been used by various media outlets. Most reporting focused on his budget and its impact on independent voters. Less has been said about what the Ryan…
GREER, S.C. (CNN) – The Obama campaign have dismissed Mitt Romney’s revelation that he has paid no less than 13 percent in personal income taxes over the past ten years, saying, “Prove it!” “Mitt Romney today said that he did indeed ‘go back and look’ at his tax returns and that he never paid less…
More than 77,000 people have signed an online petition to reject the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) anti -LGBT policy and reinstate Tim Griffin, The Eagle Scout who was fired by the Golden Empire Council because he is gay. Griffin was the longest-serving employee (8 years) at Camp Winton in Amador County, Calif. The Golden…
