Big victory for ecumenical proponents of gay marriage. Also, big reminder from the AP that phrasing makes all the difference.
Obama Drafting an Executive Order on Gay Workplace Discrimination
In a move that indicates he's grown impatient with Congress, President Obama has asked his staff to draft an executive order that would ban workplace discrimination against LGBT employees of federal contractors. This could affect up to 16 million U.S. workers.
Rick Perry Trusts Science on Gay-Conversion, But Not That Climate Thing
Rick Perry, presidential contender and the Republican Party's version of a Very Special Blossom Episode, said today he'd listen to scientific professionals on whether gay-conversion therapy works. Which is weird, since he thinks scientific professionals who study climate or uteruses are basically charlatans.
Bigoted Old Fart Can't Faze These Women Getting Married
Two longtime partners joined Milwaukee's parade of recent newlyweds Wednesday afternoon, and not even a grumpy old curmudgeon trying to block their nuptials could put a damper on the courthouse ceremony.
A tea party House candidate in Oklahoma has endorsed stoning gays to death. It "goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I'm largely libertarian," he says, "but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss."
Military Color Guard Assigned to March in Gay Pride Parade
Conservative culture warriors may want to skip Saturday's big gay pride parade in Washington, seeing as how Dykes With Bikes will be joined by a Pentagon-approved U.S. military color guard—believed to be a first in the nation's history.
There's a megachurch in Texas, 90 percent of whose 4,500 members are LGBT. And it's been officiating gay marriages for like 40 years. Give us that old-time religion!
Rick Santorum Accidentally Helped Pennsylvania Legalize Gay Marriage
Poor poor Rick Santorum. You try to keep America on the moral straight and narrow, and then it all blows up in your face. Like when you fight for the appointment of a tough-as-nails conservative judge who reverses your home state's ban on gay marriage.
A Pennsylvania judge struck down the state's gay-marriage ban on Tuesday, just one day after another judge ruled against Oregon's similar ban.
Staff Sgt. Tracy Dice Johnson, a National Guard soldier whose wife, Staff Sgt. Donna Johnson, was killed in Afghanistan in 2012, has learned that she will receive survivor benefits from the VA, the first same-sex spouse to be afforded that privilege.
According to a new poll, here are a list of qualities that would convince Americans not to vote for a candidate, from least to most offensive: used marijuana; is gay or lesbian; in their 70s; had an extramarital affair; has never held office; is an atheist.
Critics Accuse Obama of Snubbing Troops After Obama Honors Troops
Saturday was Armed Forces Day. How did you celebrate? Oh, you didn't know? Neither did Commander-In-Chief Hussein Obummer. He was too busy celebrating International Day Against Homophobia Or Transphobia. That's according to right-wing bloggers. And they'd never steer you wrong! Right?
S.C. College Forced to Close Gender-Studies Center After Lesbian Play
Amid political pressure over its decisions to put on a "lesbian" play and offer incoming freshmen pro-LGBT readings, an embattled college in the South Carolina public university system has suddenly announced it's closing its gender-studies center.
Will transgender Americans get to serve openly in the military soon? Very possibly, yeah.
An Arkansas judge struck down the state's gay-marriage ban on Friday. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza said the 2004 constitutional amendment is discriminatory, though the state's attorney general is expected to appeal the ruling to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
There's still time for you to vote for the anti-gay marriage ex-drag queen in today's North Carolina GOP primary for Senate. As he puts it: "Regardless of what I did in my twenties—remember to VOTE today—vote conservative and vote after praying." And DANCE after voting. In Lucite platforms!
Lawmaker Is Pretty Sure You Didn't Get His Obamacare-Holocaust Analogy
Seriously, what don't you people get about comparing a government-regulated private-insurance-purchase program with subsidies for workers and the systematic imprisonment and extermination of Jewish humans with trains and ovens and gas chambers?
Lawmaker: "Gay Sex" Involves "One Way Alley for the Garbage Truck"
A GOP representative and nondenominational minister dismayed over challenges to his state's gay-marriage ban penned a pun-filled letter to his local paper criticizing what he perceives as the health hazards of gay male-on-male sex involving "a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down."
Christian College Shuts Down LGBT-Friendly Student Paper
Administrators at Cedarville University, a Baptist institution in Ohio, have openly admitted to confiscating all the copies of an alternative student publication that had recently written in support of gays and lesbians and criticized university officials.
Idaho Bigots Won't Let Elderly Gay Veteran Be Buried With Her Wife
Madelynn Taylor, 74, served six years in the Navy. Madelynn Taylor grew up with the woman she would eventually marry in Oregon, in 1995. Madelynn Taylor is welcome to be buried in the veterans' cemetery in Idaho, where she now lives. But not with her now-deceased spouse, thanks to an anti-gay state law.
