No Excuses: South Dakota Meetings
September 2, 2009
Special thanks to Karen Mudd and everyone at Equality South Dakota for helping to organize these meetings. Last Wednesday, fair-minded South Dakotans visited Congressional offices in Rapid City, Sioux Falls and Aberdeen to discuss the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).
Continue Reading ►Moving Toward Equality in the Land of Lincoln
September 2, 2009
The new Chief Executive Officer of Equality Illinois, Bernard Cherkasov, visited with some of HRC’s field team yesterday to introduce himself and to discuss working together to help pass federal legislation as well as partnership recognition legislation in Illinois.
Continue Reading ►Anti-Marriage Equality Candidate Supported by NOM Loses in Iowa
September 2, 2009
No Excuses: Representative Cuellar Meeting
September 1, 2009
Last Friday six HRC members from Seguin, Texas went to visit one of the district offices of Representative Henry Cuellar to meet with the Congressman’s district staff. Carol Gates, Ginny Balter, Mark Gonzales, Whitney Bischoff, Susan Jennings, Bob Harloff, Kathy YandellCarol sent in this report: “It was a great meeting and we all had the sense that Mark Gonzales, Cuellar’s Outreach Director , was really listening. He asked questions, and took many notes. After thanking Mark for the Congressman’s vote in support of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act I spoke about repealing the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
Continue Reading ►I LOVERMONT!
September 1, 2009 by Marty Rouse
Gay and Lesbian couples in Vermont will be able to legally marry in the Green Mountain state effective today. It was only nine years ago that the term civil unions was created in a Vermont legislative committee room by Vermont House members seeking a way to give gay and lesbian couples equal marriage rights but not calling it marriage. That then-historic move, making Vermont the first state to grant significant benefits to its gay and lesbian couples, is now just that, history.
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