gay rights

Gay rights covers many topics, including marriage, benefits, tolerance, and religion. The issues surrounding gay rights invokes strong viewpoints from people on all sides of the debate. Some of the concerns deal with the line between "hate speech," "hate crimes, " and "freedom of speech."

Politicians on many sides of the issue continue to debate whether or not these matters should be settled at the national level, or if they should be handled by the individual states who continue to run their own ballot measures, initiate legislation, and hash out these arguments in court. Citizens on all sides of the debate feel as though they are fighting for the survival of an ideal society and the future of a nation.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “gay rights”

• Gay activists praise rugby star Gareth Thomass decision to come out

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Speculation is growing that other gay sports stars may follow suit The shock decision by rugby union player Gareth Thomas to announce that he is gay has triggered speculation that other sports stars might come out. Thomas is Waless most-capped player and a former British and Irish Lions captain. The fact that he has ...
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• Just a Matter of Interpretation, Part III

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 126
  When I attended Marygrove College in Detroit, I was like a sponge. Everything was new and unimaginably exciting to me. I was learning about my faith and my God, and I would spend hours lost in reading. I was blessed to have amazing teachers, theologians and biblical experts themselves, who were intent on exposing ...
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• Canada: Inside the "God Squad" in the Prime Ministers Office

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  Darrel Reid used to shoot from the lip. Few Canadian evangelists can match his record for the controversial quote, whether accusing single moms of using welfare to have babies or likening hate crime laws protecting gays and lesbians to Nazi tyranny. Nowadays, not so much. In 2006, with the advent of a ...
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• Civil Rights For All In Washington, D.C. With Gay Marriage

  
  CAFFEINATED POLITICS — Authority: 544
  One step at a time.The nation’s capital city took a major step Friday toward legalizing same-sex marriage. District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty signed a measure recognizing such marriages as legal. The district council overwhelming passed the bill Tuesday, following a similar vote December 1.Fenty signed the ...
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• Band Cancel Gig!!!!!

  
  Braingell Radio — Authority: 151
  Evil Incarnate have had to cancel their appearence at tonights (12/19)  End of Days  festival in Chicago, due to the threat of gay rights activists, who have said they will protest at the venue. This all started after the Gay Liberation Network took issue over a song by the band, that glorifies the bombing of gays ...
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• Feds defy order to provide same-sex benefits

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  SAN FRANCISCO -- The Obama administration refused Friday to follow a federal judges order to provide insurance benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee in San Francisco and said its hands were tied by a discriminatory law. "This issue shows exactly why Congress needs to repeal" the law, which prohibits federal ...
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• The Second Pride Winter Solstice Ball for LGBT Merchants is Tomorrow

  
  EDDI HASKELL'S SECOND LIFE — Authority: 141
  This is from  the Second Pride Site : The Chairmans Winter Ball Dear LGBT Merchant, You are cordially welcome to the Second Pride Winter Solstice Ball, held on Saturday, December 19, 2009, at Noon and 6PM. Our Winter Solstice Ball is both an information session and a business social. During the first part of ...
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• Court sides with lesbian couple in wedding photo case

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 585
  A District Court Judge ruled this week that an Albuquerque photo studio violated New Mexico’s Human Rights Act in 2006, when the owner refused to photograph a lesbian couple’s commitment ceremony—simply because they’re lesbians, the Albuquerque Journal reports. In 2008, the state Human Rights Commission ...
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• Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell to stand down as Green Party candidate for Oxford East

  
  newsjiffy — Authority: 124
  Tireless human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who is one of my heroes,is standing down as Green Party candidate for Oxford East, Pink News.co.uk reports. In a statement, Tatchell said that brain injuries received at the hands of Zimbabwian President Robert Mugabes bodyguards and Russian neo-nazis have seriously ...
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• Hate Crimes on the Rise

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 441
  America becoming post racial?Maybe we need to take a deep breath and start working on it in 2010. So far weve not gotten the hang of it. A recent report says that hate crimes have spiked as we end the first decade of the 21st century.Conservative religious leaders did their best to defeat the federal hate crimes bill ...
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• D.C. mayor signs same-sex marriage bill

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 669
  By GottaLaff Good news time! District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty signed a measure recognizing such marriages as legal. The city council overwhelming passed the bill on Tuesday, following a similar vote on December 1. [...] The measure now goes to Congress for a 30-day review period, but its ...
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• Fenty To Sign Same-Sex Marriage Bill Today

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 589
  ‘well-dressed mayor’ courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ Mayor Fenty is scheduled to sign the same-sex marriage bill approved by the DC council at All Souls Unitarian Church in a public ceremony today. Why sign the bill in a church? All Souls’ senior pastor Rev. Robert Hardies told the Washington Post ...
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• Not much to do with the Bible | Judith Maltby

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Bible can be read in many different ways. The churchs confusion about sexuality has its roots elsewhere The question: Is the Bible anti-gay? Is the Bible anti-gay? Well, yes: it is anti-gay in the same way it is in favour of beating children, capital punishment and slavery. The question does not get us very ...
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• Uganda Begins Anti-Homosexuality Bill Debate, Andrew Cowles Files Formal Complaint Against Jan Moir, Closet Rugby Guy, Stuart Martin, Bruce Weber

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 139
  The Times reports that Friday, members of the Ugandan Parliament will debate the draft of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill , introduced in October by David Bahati; it famously proposes the death penalty for “aggravated acts” of homosexuality. The Bill states that “same sex attraction is not an innate and ...
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• Hey, Newsbusters — Christians DO commit honor murder

  
  Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian — Authority: 540
  We have a DVR and I record NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles because the former is one of my favorite shows and the latter has Linda Hunt, which makes it just interesting enough to tolerate. I also squirrel away various movies for my father, so on Tuesday I recorded “Gone with the Wind,” and something [...]
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• Focus | A move toward equity

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 568
  Kaine proposes employee-benefits policy change Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net The Kaine administration, in a sort of last act as its final days count down, has proposed a change in state policy that would allow state employees to choose between covering a spouse or an “otherwise qualfied ...
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• Batwoman and "Dont Ask, Dont Tell"

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: riff — Authority: 126
  Because I don’t often read comics, it had completely slipped my mind that DC Comics’ Batwoman came out as a lesbian in 2006 . I was reminded while reading a recent blog by Eric Grignol at change.org , which details the superheroine’s gay-rightsy travails with a policy just like "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell."  ...
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• Some Positive News For A Change

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 533
  This past week brought some major news out of Houston, Houston Is Largest City to Elect Openly Gay Mayor . Way to go Lone Star State! The win is impressive, as is the new mayor, Annise Parker. Ms. Parker graduated from a high school in Charleston, SC . Her mom still lives here, though they do not agree on ...
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• How Else Might They Have Spent $9 Million In Maine?

  
  CAFFEINATED POLITICS — Authority: 544
  The whole idea of justifying why civil rights should apply to all, and those rights should not be placed on a public referendum for the average joe to consider at the same time he is watching The Simpsons, should be obvious without saying.  Yet a large targeted series of ads were placed in Maine media to ...
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• BBC web debate: “Should homosexuals be executed?”

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 17, 2009Not exactly sure what the true intent was but the BBC asked on their website: “Should homosexuals be executed?” Followed by “Yes, we accept this is a stark and disturbing question.”Their questioned stemmed from Uganda’s proposed law aimed at eradicating homosexuality by jailing and executing ...
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