Post Tagged with: "DOMA"

Legislated Homophobia Dying A Slow Death: LGBT Community Wins A Victory In Florida

Yes, there are roads to fix and children to feed, but Hillsborough County, Florida realize granting civil rights to ALL its citizens is also an important role of local government.  Image @WatermarkOnline

Yes, there are roads to fix and kids to feed, but Hillsborough County, Florida realized granting civil rights to ALL is also an important government duty.

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Father Puts 6-Week-Old Daughter In Freezer; Meanwhile, Catholics Say Gays Can’t Parent (VIDEO)

Tyler Deutsch on the day of his daughter's birth… six weeks later he tried to kill her@KOMONews

A father puts his baby in a freezer, proving good parenting isn’t exclusively the realm of heterosexuals. Can fundamentalists now readjust their thinking?

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Anti-Equality Group Condemns LGBT Hate Crimes, Cardinal Responds With Calls For Anti-LGBT Sermons

Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Image from www.cathnewsusa.com.

Despite a recent wave of hate crimes, Cardinal Dolan wants all Catholic dioceses to preach hate and ‘traditional marriage’ until July.

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TX Judge Uses ‘Morality Clause,’ Threatens Lesbian With Losing Kids For Living With Her Partner

How about some Texas ‘pride’ people… it’s 2013! ; image@Dallas Voice

A cohabitating lesbian couple raising well-adjusted, happy kids has provoked a ‘morals clause’ from a judge who seems hell-bent on adjudicating morality.

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Christian Pastor Blames Gays For North Korea War Threat (VIDEO)

Christian Pastor Blames Gays For North Korea War Threat (VIDEO)

He looks at the timing of the Supreme Court considering the marriage equality decision with the threats from North Korea…’could the two be connected?’

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Bill O’Reilly, Bible Thumper, Attacks Marriage Equality Opponents For ‘Bible Thumping’

Image from screen capture of Bill O'Reilly ranting on Fox News.

But in 2005, Bill O’Reilly claimed that marriage equality would lead to people being able to marry a goat. In 2009, he flip-flopped and said the animals in question were ducks, turtles, and dolphins.

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Top Ten Most Ridiculous Republican Anti-Gay Comments, Including Justice Scalia (HUMOR)

Top Ten Most Ridiculous Republican Anti-Gay Comments, Including Justice Scalia (HUMOR)

It was tough to narrow it down to just ten homophobic GOP comments, but here are some of the worst.

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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Will Have To Face Lesbian Cousin During Marriage Equality Hearings

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Will Have To Face Lesbian Cousin During Marriage Equality Hearings

The Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments on two cases regarding gay marriage, and Chief Justice Roberts’ cousin, Jean Podrasky, will be in attendance.

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Ohio Poll Shows Majority Regret Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Want It Repealed

Ohio Poll Shows Majority Regret Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Want It Repealed

It’s only a matter of time before marriage equality supporters wield the significant political power needed to bring about change.

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President Obama Suggests States Banning Gay Marriage Is Unconstitutional (VIDEO)

President Obama Suggests States Banning Gay Marriage Is Unconstitutional (VIDEO)

President Obama has been the catalyst for progressive change, which is what we asked of him when we elected him.

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Illinois GOP Rep. Says Gay Relationships Are ‘Disordered’ And Her NO On Equality Is ‘Courageous’

Illinois GOP State Representative, Jeanne Ives; @PinkNews.com

‘They’re trying to weasel their way in to acceptability so they can start to push their agenda down into the schools…’

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Obama Vs. House Republicans On LGBT Equality – Part 2

Obama Vs. House Republicans On LGBT Equality – Part 2

The briefs filed to the Supreme Court on DOMA provide starkly contrasting visions of the extent to which the Constitution should work to ensure that all Americans receive the same rights.

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Illinois GOP Split On Whether To Fire Chairman Over Support Of Gay Marriage

Illinois GOP Split On Whether To Fire Chairman Over Support Of Gay Marriage

The Illinois GOP recently canceled a meeting intended to decide whether to fire their chairman, Pat Brady, for his support of gay marriage

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Obama Vs. House Republicans On LGBT Equality – Part 1

Obama Vs. House Republicans On LGBT Equality – Part 1

Reading the court briefs filed by the president and the House of Representatices provides a telling case study of just how differently progressives and conservatives view the U.S. Constitution.

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Bill Clinton: It’s Time To Overturn DOMA

Bill Clinton: It’s Time To Overturn DOMA

The president who signed the controversial and discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into law is now saying that it is time to get rid of it.

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Prominent GOPers Send Message To SCOTUS: Affirm Gays’ Right To Marry

Prominent GOPers Send Message To SCOTUS: Affirm Gays’ Right To Marry

The basic argument contained in the brief is that acknowledging the validity of same-sex marriage promotes the conservative values of limited government and individual freedom.

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Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Overturn DOMA

Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Overturn DOMA

In a Friday filing, the Obama administration called the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional.

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NOM Founder: Marriage Equality Not As Important As Religion’s Freedom To Discriminate

NOM Founder: Marriage Equality Not As Important As Religion’s Freedom To Discriminate

Basically, they contend, groups like Catholic Charities should be free to single out people they dislike without anyone objecting.

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House GOP’s Case For Marriage Inequality Revealed And It’s Laughably Bad

House GOP’s Case For Marriage Inequality Revealed And It’s Laughably Bad

You would think with the millions of taxpayer dollars the GOP is throwing away on defending inequality, they’d put more effort into it.

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Gay Marine Proposes At White House And Makes History

Captain Matthew Phelps and Ben Schock after proposal at White House;  ABC News

Captain Phelps emphasized that the proposal was only possible because of the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.’

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