(CNN) — Potential changes which could end the ban on gay boy scouts signal “a challenge to the Scouts’ very nature,” conservative activist and former Sen. Rick Santorum wrote Monday. His column, published online on the right wing website World Net Daily, comes as the Boy Scouts of America prepares to discuss changing their longstanding…
HRC announces more stringent criterion to earn 100 percent on Corporate Equality Index – companies giving to BSA will not be eligible for perfect score WASHINGTON – In the face of mounting national opposition to institutional discrimination, the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America is debating a policy which would end its nationwide ban…
National lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations, including the National Center for Lesbian Rights, today released a joint statement reiterating the call for a comprehensive immigration policy that ensures fair and just treatment for all those currently impacted by our failed immigration policy. It comes as a bipartisan group of U.S. senators today…
(CNN) — The Boy Scouts of America is considering changing its longstanding policy against allowing openly gay members, according to a release from the organization. The organization, which has 2.7 million members, is “potentially discussing” doing away with its policy after months of nationwide protest, including hundreds of angry Eagle scouts renouncing their hard-earned awards…
(CNN) — For Gen. Martin Dempsey, Thursday’s move to open combat units in the U.S. military to women had its roots nearly a decade ago, on the streets of Baghdad. Dempsey took command of the Army’s 1st Armored Division in June 2003, when Iraqi insurgents were starting to target American troops with sniper fire, grenades…
NEW YORK –The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), today joined Eagle Scout Will Oliver and Scouts for Equality to urge National Geographic Channel to denounce the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) ban on gay scouts and scout leaders. The channel, which is set to debut the new series, Are You Tougher than a…
Lorena Gonzalez has been endorsed by Assemblyman Henry T. Perea, her campaign announced today. Perea is chairman of the Assembly Committee on Insurance and the Assembly Moderate Caucus and a key leader in policy dealing with job creation in California. His endorsement is the latest significant benchmark of support for Gonzalez, who has racked up…
LONDON (CNN) — A British Christian woman suffered religious discrimination when British Airways told her not to wear a visible cross over her uniform, a top European court ruled Tuesday. However, three other British Christians lost related religious discrimination claims at the European Court of Human Rights. British Airways violated the article of the European…
(CNN) — A group of former service members who left the military because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy will get the full separation pay they were denied, according to a recent $2.4 million court settlement. The settlement was announced this week by the American Civil Liberties Union who sued the U.S. government on…
(CNN) — It apparently takes more than a few good men, according to the U.S. Marine Corps. It takes all kinds of people to support military families, including same-sex spouses of service members. San Diego LGBT Weekly published a story this week about a woman married to a female lieutenant colonel at North Carolina’s Fort…
