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• SC: Charleston Passes Nondiscrimination Laws

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  The city of Charleston, South Carolina has passed two ordinances prohibiting housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender expression, according to The Advocate. The passage of the laws is a sign of real progress in a mostly anti-gay rights state. Charleston is the second ...
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• TATCHELL’S LETTER TO COMMONWEALTH LEADER

  
  Gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV Gay TV, gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV — Authority: 137
  Copy of Peter Tatchell’s letter to the Commonwealth Secretary-GeneralKamalesh SharmaCommonwealth Secretary-GeneralMarlborough House, Pall Mall,London SW1Y 5HX020 7747 6500secretary-general@commonwealth.int19 November 2009Your Excellency,I am writing to inquire what the Commonwealth is doing to defend the human ...
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• Hate Crimes Spike: Religion, Race, Sexual Orientation Are Main Targets

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 811
  Filed under: Disputations , Hate Crimes Conservative religious leaders were some of the sharpest opponents of the federal legislation passed in October that expanded federal hate crimes law to include protections for homosexuals. But during the debate, none of them raised the idea of revoking the existing ...
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• ‘The Three Most Important Issues’?: What the Manhattan Declaration Gets Wrong

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 659
  As I said in my previous post , I can find things to applaud in the recent Manhattan Declaration along with things to dispute. But I don’t think Chuck Colson got it quite right when he spoke about the statement to the…
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• Gay City News writer misleads readers about my stance on Uganda

  
  Warren Throckmorton — Authority: 528
  At least that is how it seems to me. Maybe I am sensitive about this, but this piece by Paul Schindler does not report well the stance and action I have taken regarding the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Here is the part that concerns me: Nath argued that just as the existing sexual conduct prohibitions in place in ...
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• Hate Crimes Spike: Religion, Race, Sexual Orientation Are Main Targets

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 811
  Filed under: Disputations , Hate Crimes Conservative religious leaders were some of the sharpest opponents of the federal legislation passed in October that expanded federal hate crimes law to include protections for homosexuals. But during the debate, none of them raised the idea of revoking the existing ...
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• Dannii Minogue cleared in ‘X Factor’ probe

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 24 (ANI): Aussie singer Dannii Minogue has been cleared of any wrongdoing following an investigation into accusations she had made fun of a contestant’s sexuality during a recent appearance on The X Factor.Minogue, 38, had commented on wannabe singer Danyl Johnson changing the lyrics of Jennifer ...
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• NEWS: Religion and Workplace Discrimination

  
  Religion Compass Exchanges — Authority: 116
  The European Commission has demanded that the British government amends its legislation relating to discrimination in the workplace. Although discrimination in the workplace was outlawed within the European Union in 2000, Britain did not enshrine this in law until 2003. Furthermore, the British government believed ...
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• FBI Reports 11 Percent Increase in Victims of Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Today the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued hate crimes statistics from 2008 showing the number of victims of bias-motivated crimes based on sexual orientation increased by 11 percent that year — the third year in a row reported hate crimes against LGBT people have increased.  Hate crimes based on sexual ...
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• Schlumbergera’s ability to lift spirits

  
  My journey with AIDS — Authority: 112
  From my holiday letter of 1998:My Christmas cactus hasn’t bloomed this year. Alas, I don’t think I can attribute that to the strange weather. I “pruned” it last summer and I think I must have killed it, ironic given the fact that the fellow, from whose giant cactus I spliced it fifteen or twenty years [...]
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• David Huebner Confirmed as Third Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Karen Ocamb reports at LGBT POV that on Friday the U.S. Senate confirmed David Huebner as the next American Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.  He follows Jim Hormel and Michael Guest to be the third openly gay man to represent the United States abroad as an Ambassador.  Said Ambassador Hormel upon Huebner’s ...
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• College of Prayer, the Ugandan Parliament and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill

  
  Warren Throckmorton — Authority: 528
  Many observers have speculated about U.S. influence in Uganda, particularly relating to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 . The obvious trigger for legislation this year was the ex-gay conference held in Kampala in March. Organized by Ugandan Stephen Langa, the conference featured presentations by Scott Lively, ...
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• LA, Glendale hate crime report: decrease but problem remains - Armenians, Jews, gays targeted in 2008

  
  Unzipped: Gay Armenia — Authority: 426
  Hate crimes decrease Race motivated most in county, followed by sexual orientation and religion By Veronica Rocha November 20, 2009 Glendale News Press LOS ANGELES — Religious hate crimes, including a tagging incident at Glendale’s St. Peter Armenian Church, increased last year throughout Los ...
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• European Commission tells UK to change Equality Law

  
  Maman Poulet — Authority: 468
  According to today’s Observer, the European Commission has told the UK Government that it must change a new Equality Law as the exemption proposed for Religious bodies contravenes ‘an EU directive prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of a person’s sexual orientation.’ The law allowed religious ...
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• Thanksgiving as "System Justification"

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Thanksgiving has many associations -- struggling Pilgrims, crowded airports, autumn leaves, heaping plates, drunken uncles, blowout sales, and so on. At its best, though, Thanksgiving is associated with, well, thanks giving. The holiday provides a moment when many otherwise harried individuals leading hectic lives ...
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• Christian leaders declare war on gay marriage, abortion

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  At least we finally have it in writing… A group of religious leaders representing various denominations released a 4,700 word manifesto today called the Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience , which formally declares their opposition to gay marriage and abortion, among other things.. The document ...
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• The Obama-Care Health Bill’s Stealth Homosexual Agenda

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 622
  Already the homosexual activists are boasting that Obama-care is advancing their agenda. As sure as the push for  “gay marriage” follows homosexual special rights laws, federal socialized “health care” will lead ultimately to taxpayers funding transsexual “sex-reassignment surgeries” (read: ...
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• National Adoption Month: Duane and Regi’s Story

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  “Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Family” is a series of conversations and blog posts celebrating National Adoption Month . This post in the series comes from Duane Taylor. Duane and his partner Regi adopted three children from foster care six years ago. Perhaps you’ve seen the HRC’s All Children – ...
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• HRC Responds to Misleading Claims by Organizations Seeking to Discriminate

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Today 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders released the “Manhattan Declaration” — a document indicating that they will not cooperate with laws that conflict with their beliefs, including those recognizing same-sex couples. The document also references the federal Employment ...
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• CA: LA County Sees 20% Increase in Hate Crimes Against LGBT Community

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Los Angeles County saw an overall 4% drop in hate crimes last year, while crimes against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people increased, prompted in part by last Novembers highly charged Proposition 8 initiative, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California, according to a report released ...
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