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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Original Technorati articles tagged “gay-rights”

• in Politics
  Gay Adoption Bill Without Friends
  The young bill has not yet won over supporters.
  by killfive / on Nov 4, 2009
• in Politics
  Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Now With Double Meaning
  Obama offers more rhetoric in place of action on the topic of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
  by boneinthefan / on Oct 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “gay rights”

• Same-sex marriage closer in D.C.

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  By GottaLaff 11-2 : The Washington D.C. city council Tuesday passed the first of two votes needed to legalize same-sex marriage in the nations capitol . In a couple of weeks, the second vote will take place. Two adults who love each other should be able to get married. Discrimination is wrong. Its that ...
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• Rush Limbaugh Proves Marriage Vows Are Sacred

  
  CAFFEINATED POLITICS — Authority: 440
  Four times up the aisle…………….does Rush Limbaugh have a divorce lawyer on retainer?   Do any of his wives have a dose of self-respect?  (They must have some if they all leave him.) So many questions today.The wedding is rumored to take place on July4th.  Rush loves the holidays: his last wedding was on ...
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• Chinese Activists Upstage World AIDS Day Event, Rick Warren Offers Free Testing And Tacos, New York And Washington D.C. Gay Marriage Vote

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 140
  According to the Associated Press , Chinese AIDS activists, angry over infections from tainted blood transfusions, crashed an official World Aids Day event in Beijing Tuesday demanding access to treatment and a formal recognition from Chinese authorities. The Orange County Register reports that anti-gay ...
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• Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  E-mail and Google expanded from nouns to verbs also. Weblog, like the one youre reading now, transitioned into blog. What about the meaning of gay or marriage? These are just some examples of how daily the vibrant and organic English language changes shapes, as words emerge, die out and take new meaning. Id like ...
  5 hours ago

• Orthodox rabbis take public anti-gay marriage stance in NJ

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  (Lakewood, NJ) The leaders in the local large Orthodox Jewish community go to great lengths to keep out the outside world, discouraging nonbusiness use of the Internet and encouraging strict filters to keep the ungodly out when members must use the Web. But last month, several rabbis and other elders did something ...
  6 hours ago

• Obama Administration Support of Gay Rights Not a Real Thing

  
  The Melon — Authority: 124
  During the 2008 Presidential elections, the Obama campaign rightly identified queer people and their straight allies as a crucial liberal base to be pandered to. Upon taking office, however, the Obama Administration seems much more interested in expending a lot of effort claiming that it has policies that expand and ...
  6 hours ago

• Charles Johnson ‘Breaks’ From the Right

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 686
  In a move that has been coming for nearly two years, Charles Johnson has issued a manifesto explaining “Why I Parted Ways With The Right.”  For those who don’t know, Johnson is the founder and principal author of Little Green Footballs , one of the oldest and most popular blogs.  He’d was an elder ...
  8 hours ago

• What the others are saying about Hotze’s endorsement

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  So here’s the Chron coverage of the Hotze endorsement . Of the many things I find unfathomable about this, here’s the item at the top of the list. Kris Banks, president of Houston’s GLBT Political Caucus, which has endorsed Parker, questioned why Locke did not distance himself from Hotze. “He came to us ...
  10 hours ago

• Gay marriage blocked in Argentina

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Buenos Aires couple set to show up for Latin Americas first gay wedding and plan protest if stopped They had planned a wedding day like Latin America has never seen. But as José María Di Bello and Alex Freyre were being fitted for their tuxedos an Argentinian judge issued an order late last night blocking the ...
  11 hours ago

• The morning coffee is growing meat

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 131
  What will scientists think of next? A team in the Netherlands have grown meat in the lab , which they describe as “soggy pork”. Expect to find Dutch Soggy Pork products on your grocery store shelves by 2015. (by Pieter Hugo ) A lesson in targeted advertising. Protesting against corduroy skirts in ...
  12 hours ago

• Winner Winner Turkey Dinner?

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 485
  Like many people, I gathered around a table and stuffed myself full of the festive autumn essentials alongside family and friends this past week. Thanksgiving used to be a holiday that celebrated and distorted a historic period of American brutality. And while the rest of our beloved holidays have become over ...
  14 hours ago

• If Uganda Executes Gays, Will American Christians be Complicit?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 807
  Filed under: Senate , Religion , Gay Rights , Disputations , Congress , Conservatives A bill currently before the Ugandan Parliament sounds like an absurdist scenario from some liberal nightmare about a theocratic state: Under the proposed law -- which appears to have strong public support -- criminal ...
  16 hours ago

• Texas Makes Ultimate Sacrifice to Defend Marriage

  
  That's Right Nate — Authority: 422
  In 2005, with the liberal and homosexual agendas making huge inroads in Texas, the state found itself in increasing danger of a referendum making gay marriage legal and ending life as they know it in the lone star state forever.   Now Texans, don’t cotton to those kind of changes and they sure don’t take them ...
  17 hours ago

• Argentine judge suspends region’s 1st gay marriage

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 133
  An Argentine judge put a hold Monday on another court’s decision to permit the first gay marriage in Latin America, but supporters of the couple said they would try to go ahead with the ceremony anyway.The official court Web site said national judge Marta Gomez Alsina ordered the wedding blocked until the issue can ...
  19 hours ago

• Anti-Gay Protester Gets Dose Of Her Own Medicine [Pesto Power]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 811
  "I decided that because this woman thought it was okay to make me feel uncomfortable in my home, I would retaliate and make her feel just as uncomfortable, if not more." — Chris Pesto , Syracuse University student [ BoingBoing ]
  23 hours ago

• Ouch! Lady GaGa Takes A Digger (Video)

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 585
  Lady GaGa was busy owning the stage up in Montreal this weekend when she had a major slip.  NO, it was not her nips this time around though.  Poor GaGa slipped while doing her dance routine and landed on her sweet butt….  She is a true professional I tell ya!  She got right up and [...]
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• End the gay blood ban | Peter Tatchell

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Any man who has had sex with a man, even once, even 50 years ago, and even if they test HIV-negative, cannot give blood Pressure is mounting on the Department of Health and the National Blood Service to end the blanket lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood. This sweeping prohibition was originally ...
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• Uganda Determined To Cleanse Country Of Homosexuals, Rick Warren Lies, Christian Loses Appeal, Portugal Gay Marriage, China Opens Gay Bar

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 140
  The government of Uganda has responded to international criticisms regarding a proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill , saying that the process of the bill becoming law would continue unabated, necessary according to Speaker Edward Sekandi, “to do whatever we can to stop” the spread of homosexual unions in the ...
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• Rick Warren Loves Gays Except the Ones He Wants Dead in Uganda

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  When Rick Warren opens his mouth, its usually to put his foot in it.
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• Uganda: Canadian PM Tells Uganda to Nix Anti Gay Bill

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 445
  Ugandas president got an earful from Prime Minister Stephen Harper over the African nations proposed law targeting gays. The Ugandan "anti-homosexuality bill" would imprison and even execute homosexuals. But the proposed law barely drew a mention at this weekends Commonwealth summit in Trinidad and Tobago ...
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