(CNN) — Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who rose to GOP fame in recent months, apologized Friday for appearing to equate homosexuality with the criminal acts of pedophilia and bestiality. “I love gay people. I love straight people. So this was really, I think, on my behalf, somewhat insensitive and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone,…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia can now add musicals to the growing list of state-sponsored efforts to help curb the spread of homosexuality in this largely Muslim country. The Guardian is reporting that Asmara Songsang (Abnormal Desire), written and directed by Rahman Adam, 73, aims to teach younger members of the LGBT community about the evils of their…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Supreme Court is toiling over a decision on two landmark cases involving same-sex marriage. But many companies have already decided to support them. Last week, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz publicly told off an investor who complained that the coffee giant’s support of same-sex couples was hurting profits. “It’s a free…
While Supreme Court coverage over two potentially decisive blows to the anti-gay marriage movement continues to spill over, the Atlantic.com has unearthed some amazing video from a same-sex marriage protest from 1971. The video, posted in three approximately ten-minute segments on YouTube, shows the Gay Activist Alliance (GAA), one of two major gay organizations to…
Planned Parenthood supports marriage equality Dear Editor, Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in defense of and opposition to marriage equality. Among the issues addressed were the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban approved by voters in 2008. Why is Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of reproductive and sexual…
As the Supreme Court hears arguments on pivotal same-sex marriage cases this week, TIME releases two separate covers — “Gay Marriage Already Won.” — each featuring an intimate portrait of a committed gay couple: one male, one female. TIME Managing Editor Rick Stengel writes, “Whatever the Supreme Court decides, it seems clear that the majority…
SAN DIEGO, UT TV Primetime – National gay rights activist Sean Sala took on and debated Jennifer Thieme from the ‘Ruth Institute’ an affiliate of the National Organization for Marriage, An organization that endorses that being a gay man leads to being a pedophile, same sex relationships are incest and gays cannot adopt. Watch…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The question of same-sex marriage went again before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in the last of two oral arguments this week in separate appeals. This session dealt with the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress in 1996. It said, in part, that legally married same-sex couples cannot enjoy the…
Here’s the latest on Wednesday’s Supreme Court session on the Defense of Marriage Act: [Updated at 1:20 p.m. ET] “I’m very optimistic that DOMA will be struck down. It has no rational basis for being,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said just now. Pelosi was at the Supreme Court to hear arguments over DOMA and…
(CNN) — Edith Windsor, who filed the original case that could upend the Defense of Marriage Act, says just getting the case to this point is a kind of victory. “We’ve made a huge step forward and a huge difference in how people look at us,” she said. “And so, it’ll happen. Another year if…
