CA Religious Organizing: For the Faithfully Secular
June 26, 2009
The movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality has been slow to adopt a religious strategy. As opposed to the moral imperative, the reason for our equality has been one of civil rights; an important truth, but a strategy that like all strategies knows limits. The taxonomy of the No on Proposition 8 campaign centered on fairness and nondiscrimination.
Continue Reading ►CNN Hate Crime Bill Story Repeats Restricted Speech Lie
June 26, 2009
Our eagle-eyed friends at Media Matters flagged this for me... in a report on yesterday's Situation Room on CNN, reporter Deborah Feyerick repeated a right-wing talking point about the hate crimes bill that has no basis in fact and indeed is repudiated by the actual text of the legislation.
Continue Reading ►GET TESTED
June 26, 2009
Tomorrow, June 27, is National HIV Testing Day -- an important opportunity to combat the stigma around living with HIV and to promote knowing your status through testing. Consider the facts:
Continue Reading ►Hearing on Benefits for Federal Employee DPs
June 26, 2009
We learned late yesterday that the House will hold its first ever hearing on the issue of domestic partner benefits for federal employees on Wednesday, July 8th. The bill at hand is the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBO), a bill President Obama endorsed last week in the Oval Office signing ceremony of his federal employee benefits memorandum.
Continue Reading ►EQUALITY IN THE COURTS: Limits on Searching Youth
June 26, 2009
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the strip search of a 13-year-old student by school officials searching for common pain relievers—the equivalent of two Advil or one Aleve—was unreasonable and unconstitutional. However the Court also found that it was not unreasonable for officials not to know that.
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Today in History: Perry Challenge to California’s Prop 8 Filed in Federal Court
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