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• Lynn Woolsey: IRS Should Look At Bishops

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 628
  updated below Loving me some Lynn Woolsey today. From Politico : I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill. I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Who elected them to Congress? The role the bishops played ...
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• Smoke Signals from 1600

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 628
  “I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill,” Obama said. “And we’re not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions.” … “I want to make sure that the ...
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• Dem Women Threaten Health Care Passage Over Stupak Amendment

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 628
  updated Although House liberals voted for the bill with the amendment to keep the process moving forward, Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) said she has collected more than 40 signatures from House Democrats vowing to oppose any final bill that includes the amendment — enough to block passage. “There’s going to ...
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• Misinformed College Reporter Screws Over Gay Is Not the New Black Movement

  
  Queerty — Authority: 724
  We do not feel hostility or disappointment or even frustration for Sherri Keaton, a straight black woman. We just feel bad for Keaton, a senior reporter for Central Michigan Life , and (were thus assuming) a student at Central Michigan University. Because the second she wrote a piece titled "Gay isnt the new ...
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• In Pelosi’s House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 628
  expanded from cross-post at Huffington Post The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn’t have a robust public option, but also sells out women’s civil rights . The Republicans acted reprehensibly today, heckling women lawmakers like the chamber ...
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• Nancy Pelosi’s Disgrace

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 628
  updated Because of the limits placed on the exchanges, most of the participants will have some form of premium credit or affordable subsidy. That means most will be ineligible for abortion coverage. The idea that people are going to go out and purchase separate “abortion plans” is both cruel and laughable. If ...
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• Anti- Abortion Democrats Get Vote To Ban Abortion Funding From Obamacare

  
  Wake up America — Authority: 583
  CNN reports: In a late night development, anti-abortion Democrats scored a major victory by persuading Democratic leaders to allow them to offer an amendment during the House health care debate Saturday that would ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in the new so-called ...
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• Welcome to Libertarianism

  
  Cerebrate's Contemplations — Authority: 133
  Deplorable although the results of the gay marriage vote in Maine are, per se , it is nevertheless refreshing to observe the outpouring of outrage at the general concept of putting peoples rights up for a popular vote. (The idea of anything at all being too sacred to put up for a vote seeming to have become such a ...
  6 days ago

• Civil Rights defeat in Maine

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  Maine became the 31st state to block same-sex marriage through a public referendum Some said the loss was a sign that the state-by-state approach favored by the largest gay-rights groups had failed and that the focus should move to repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-sex ...
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• Judge OKs Challenge to Patents on Human Genes

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
  A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.More Articles
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• Bernice King Could Denounce Her Own Anti-Gay Bigotry. Will She?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 724
  Having finally settled what to do with the estate of her father , Martin Luther King Jr.s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, is free to get on with her life. Namely, to become head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the decades-old civil rights organization that her father once led. Late last week. Ms. ...
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• Obama on the "Right to Love"

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 524
  As we reported on Wednesday , President Obama signed the "Matthew Shepard Act" into law last week, expanding the definition of "hate crime" to include acts committed against someone because of his or her sexual orientation or sexual identity. Thats good news in and of itself. But theres something even greater about ...
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• Detention officer tries to explain why he swiped attorneys file

  
  Heat City — Authority: 604
  Video shows Maricopa County sheriffs employees sneaking a document from the file of a defense attorney. A Maricopa County detention officer tried to explain Friday why he and a fellow sheriffs office employee swiped a document from a defense attorneys file in a bizarre scene that was caught on courtroom videotape. ...
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• Big Government in Black and White

  
  UrbanFaith.com — Authority: 418
  Among other controversies, the health-care debate has shined a light on the different ways that African Americans and European Americans think about government in the lives of people. I was recently talking with a European-American friend of mine who is also an evangelical. I am African-American and ...
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• US Military Cuts And A Step Towards Equality

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  Yesterday, US President Obama signed a $680bn military policy bill , which cuts military spending , including $2bn in funding for new F-22 fighter jets. However, the bill also contained the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation , and fulfilled an Obama campaign promise : acts of violence against ...
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• Obama signs first major federal gay-rights law: "No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hands of the person they love."

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation, a milestone that activists compared to the passage of 1960s civil-rights legislation empowering blacks.The new law adds acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transg …
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• Is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Your Next Civil Rights Hero?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 724
  Its a loaded question, well admit that. But since taking over Hillary Clintons U.S. Senate seat, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has not been silent on LGBT rights . Whatever her legislative legacy becomes — will she help kill DADT? DOMA? — she will be known for this Ted Kennedy-esque quality: Continuing to speak up in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Congress Votes To Give Gays Hate Crime Protection

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama.
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• Demanding More from Ourselves

  
  UrbanFaith.com — Authority: 418
  Derrion Albert did not die because of a lack of jobs or social programs. He died because we expect more righteousness and leadership from our civil institutions than we do from each other. As I watched the video of Derrion Alberts beating death , I couldnt help but notice the conspicuous absence of anger or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lesbian Teen Banned From Yearbook

  
  Lemondrop.com — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Weird News If a lesbian wants to wear a tuxedo, let her wear the tuxedo (youd think schools would get this by now), but apparently the principal of one high school in Wesson, Miss., disagreed. Now hes gotten himself into quite a bind with the parents ... and ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email ...
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