WASHINGTON (CNN) – Seven weeks before voters decide on their next president, a secretly recorded video threatens to further undo Republican candidate Mitt Romney by portraying him as out of touch with ordinary Americans. Taped with a hidden camera at a private fund-raising event in May, the video shows Romney telling his donors that nearly…
A coalition of more than 30 national religious leaders gathered by Gaylesta, an LGBTQ psychotherapy association that provides mental health services including therapist referrals, education and consultation and Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, faith work director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund and convenor of the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, have endorsed Senate Bill 1172,…
Poll numbers released today show Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin has surged to a 3 point lead over Republican candidate Tommy Thompson among likely voters in Wisconsin. This poll, the second to show Baldwin leading since the August Republican primary, shows the momentum is on Baldwin’s side – with 90 percent of likely voters now…
Washington (CNN) – Mitt Romney told an interviewer Monday that he has never met with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect of tough immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona who says he has been counseling Romney for years. Univision America Radio host Helen Aguirre-Ferre asked Romney, who spent Monday making a push for…
LOS ANGELES – The first academic study of the effects of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) has found that the new policy of open service has had no overall negative impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, recruitment, retention or morale. The University Of California Los Angeles Palm Center released the study, the first academic…
Six Flags Magic Mountain’s annual “Out on the Mountain” (LGBT) Night returns in 2012 this Friday, September 21. Alexis Jordan, Shangela, DJ Ray Rhodes, Daniel Joseph Baker, Ingenue and DJ Steve Oaks star in a night of entertainment, as the entire the park “goes gay” for the night. “Out on the Mountain” is the creation…
Zach Wahls – Nationally-Noted Advocate and Author of “My Two Moms” to Lead Event Addressing Anti-LGBT Policies of the Boy Scouts of America; Suggested Donation: $10 ($15 at the door) Advancing Compassion Project presents Zach Wahls and “Scouts for Equality” in San Diego on Sept. 23rd to discuss the impact of the Boy Scouts’ ban on Gay Scouts and…
A church group has produced what they describe as “a simple flyer for your older grade school or middle school children about homosexuality?” Mission: America, a Christian ministry, publication and Web site founded by Linda Harvey, has produced the new “guide” to teach parents on how to talk to kids about homosexuality. Authored by Harvey,…
(CNN) – Conservative legal scholar Ted Olson has been tapped to play the role of Vice President Joe Biden in Paul Ryan‘s debate prep sessions, Mitt Romney‘s campaign said Saturday. The two men participated in their first mock debate session last week. Olson is one of the fiercest legal minds of his generation and successfully…
JOLIET, Ill (CNN) – A Joliet area priest removed from ministry over a sexual abuse allegation has been reinstated. Reverend F. Lee Ryan allegedly had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy in the 1970s. The now-52-year-old accuser said he and Ryan had a relationship for more than a year. The man confided in Ryan that…
