Discrimination

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• News: London Cloud, Rock Hudson, United Airlines, Annise Parker

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 739
  Signorile on Congress and Obamas LGBT agenda: Why is the "low-hanging fruit" still hanging ? And heres the checklist . Architectural "cloud" proposed in London . Americas Next Top Model s Miss J is the father of a 7-year-old boy : "A French lesbian had asked if we would be sperm donors. "So we ...
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• Mormon Church Backs Gay Rights Laws in Salt Lake City

  
  Blog Out - Just Out Newspaper — Authority: 142
  The Mormon Church may still not be ready for gay marriage, as evidenced by their role in California’s Proposition 8; but they’ve put their support behind Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment as of a Tuesday vote in the city council.“The church supports these ...
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• Mormon Support of Gay Rights Statute Draws Praise

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Gay rights groups commended the Mormon church for supporting a Salt Lake City ordinance banning discrimination in housing and at work.
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• Mormons back homosexual affirmative action

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  Excerpt from “Salt Lake OKs gay rights laws with Mormon backing”: The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment. The Utah-based ...
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• Ed Schools

  
  Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher — Authority: 483
  Most of them teach pablum, or worse. Joanne quotes E.D. Hirsch with a statement with which I can only concur: He attacks the education school as “theological institutes where heresy is viewed as an evil that its members have a civic duty to suppress. The anti-curriculum movement’s sense of righteousness, of ...
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• Are Colleges Discriminating Against Women?

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 822
  NPR reports that the US Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether colleges are violating Title IX by favoring male applicants . But is such favoritism necessary to keep colleges from becoming "overwhelmingly female?" Law professor Gail Heriot says, "I had seen articles that suggested that some colleges and ...
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• Wednesday Link Love

  
  The Feminist Texican — Authority: 500
  I usually leave my video love for the end of these posts, but it’s been a rough week for womankind.  We could all use some some serious Awesome in our lives.  Enter Sonya Renee at the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Finals: No Border Wall: As we celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, border walls are ...
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• Ft. Worth City Council Passes Inclusive Non-Discrimination Policy

  
  jaysays.com | — Authority: 422
  The Fort Worth City Council listened to several hours of comment on the recommendation of the Diversity Council to add transgender language to the citys non-discrimination policy.The GLBT community was present with well over a hundred representatives. Many spoke in support of the new change in law, including ...
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• Alabama Prom: No Lesbians Allowed

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 128
  Cynthia Stewart, a junior at Tharptown High School in Franklin County, Alabama, is a lesbian.  She is also an active student who has been involved with the planning of her school’s prom, which is coming up in March.  She came up with the idea for the prom’s theme and helped raise over $200 for it.  ...
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• Don’t Forget to Honor Our Veterans Today

  
  The 'Ville Voice — Authority: 508
  We always have the opportunity to give back. A penny here, an hour there. Just do it. [ Metro United Way ] Local band My Morning Jacket will be on American Dad November 22! [ My Morning Straightjacket ] Did you know? Gay bars used to be “underground” and subversive. Now they’re so mainstream with ...
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• Mormon leadership comes out in support of (some) basic rights for (some) LGBT Utahns

  
  Main Street Plaza — Authority: 125
  Video from the public hearing, featuring Michael Otterson, Eric Ethington (local blogger/activist and genuinely nice guy), Deeda Seed, and Jonas from the all-Brazilian America Forever bigot brigade: Text of LDS statement after the break. Transcript of remarks by the managing director of LDS Public Affairs, ...
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• Are You Ready for GINA?

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 469
  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) goes into effect November 21 . Are you ready? In short, GINA imposes strict confidentiality rules on genetic information and prohibits: discrimination based on genetic information; employers from collecting genetic information, with very narrow exceptions; ...
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• WHY DID I KNOW THIS?

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 522
  I just KNEW that when Barack HUSSEIN Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm) showed up at Fort Hood there would be no way that weasel would be able to speak to the crowd with his teleprompters. All I had to do was wait a bit and someone would have a picture. Pamela did.     It should show the level of disregard, disrespect ...
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• Sexist City boss brings prostitutes to business meetings

  
  Guru — Authority: 125
  Details have emerged at another Sex in the City employment tribunal about boss from hell Mark Lowe - chief of agency Nomos Capital. According to Jordan Wimmer, a former employee who is claiming all kinds of discrimination against the firm, Lowe repeatedly told sexist and offensive and made them attend strip clubs. ...
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• National Briefing | South: South Carolina: License Plates Ruling

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A federal judge ruled that the state cannot issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase “I Believe.”
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• Fort Worth approves transgender protections

  
  Instant Tea — Authority: 557
  The Fort Worth City Council voted tonight, by a 6-3 margin, to amend the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance to include protections for transgender people. The vote came shortly before midnight, following about four hours of public comment on both sides of the issue. Watch for details later on this blog and in ...
  18 hours ago

• Chicago race rally canceled after venue search falls short

  
  Student Life — Authority: 602
  Senior Class President Fernando Cutz told the student body in an e-mail this week that a Chicago rally, planned in response to the recent incident of alleged racial discrimination against six students at the Original Mothers bar in Chicago, will no longer occur. “[We] worked for a while with the city of Chicago so ...
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• NY Senate Will Vote On Gay Marriage, Canberra Same Sex Ceremony Statue, LDS Aids Anti-Discrimination Bill Pass, Rent, RI Governor Secures Spot In Hell

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 137
  New York State Governor David Paterson announced late Tuesday evening that an agreement has been reached that will allow gay marriage to be debated and voted on in the Senate “at a date not certain between now and the end of the year.” The Australian Central Territory Legislative Assembly passed a bill ...
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• Epic truce in Utah culture war: LDS Church backs SLC NDOs

  
  Grand Divisions: News and Comment on TN Politics — Authority: 411
  As Ive said before, you shouldnt go into a fight assuming who your enemies are. What few would have predicted has happened. The LDS Church endorsed a couple of Salt Lake City non-discrimination ordinances that provide protection from discrimination in housing and employment. And then the City Council unanimously ...
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• Prejean: Media Attacks Conservative Women

  
  Patricks Place — Authority: 478
  Appearing Tuesday morning on NBC’s Today show, former Miss California Carrie Prejean told Meredith Viera that the liberal media attacks conservative women.Prejean said she has been the target of attacks for the past seven months, since answering a question about same-sex marriage in the wake of Vermont legalizing ...
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