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The Chick-fil-A protests appear to be just getting started, with two new campaigns underway. (You didn’t think this controversy was going away anytime soon, did you?)

In one campaign, Marci Alt of Atlanta has posted a petition on Change.org inviting Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy to join her family — including her wife and their two children — for dinner. She wants to offer him a first-hand look at a family being [...]

Ukrainian law will make it illegal to propagate homosexuality in propaganda and media.

KIEV, Ukraine (The Blaze/AP) — While some countries, like the United States, have vastly increased the presence of gays and lesbians in popular media, the situation in Ukraine is unique. If a group of lawmakers have their way, television shows and movies depicting homosexuals could be banned in the Eastern European country.

Last month, six legislators, including President Viktor Yanukovych’s representative in parliament, submitted a law that calls for prohibiting the [...]

VIDEO: Pastor Suggests Building 100 Mile-Long Electrified Fence For Gays So They ‘Die Out’

MAIDEN, N.C. (CBS Charlotte) — A North Carolina pastor has come under fire after calling for gays and lesbians to be killed off by keeping them locked up behind an electrified fence.

During his sermon at the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, Pastor Charles Worley said he figured out a way to “get rid of all the lesbians and queers.”

“Build a great big, large fence – 100 miles long – put [...]

Gay marriage moves closer to Supreme Court

Two big cases addressing marriage rights for gays and lesbians are on track to reach the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as this year, keeping the focus on an issue President Barack Obama reignited with his endorsement this week.

The cases, originating on opposite coasts, go to the heart of a question that has churned for two decades: whether states and the federal government may refuse to recognize same-sex marriage.

How the [...]

Analysis: Obama gambles with gay marriage move

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public opinion about gay marriage has changed so rapidly that President Barack Obama’s historic embrace of it may pose as many political risks to Republicans as to the president and his fellow Democrats.

The president’s dramatic shift on the issue – a watershed moment in U.S. politics, even if many people felt it was inevitable – is the latest sign that Democratic hopes increasingly rest on younger, college-educated [...]

‘Condom Olympics’ and ‘Queer Prom’ takes place at military academy as cadets celebrate first gay pride week since Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was banned

At the beginning of the school year, gay pride events at a military academy with titles like ‘condom Olympics’ and ‘queer prom’ would have been unthinkable.

This week, they’re a reality.

Cadets in uniform at Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military academy, participated Monday in sessions about handling bullying and harassment as part of the school’s first gay pride week.

The events are believed to be the first of their kind on [...]

CA Forces Judges to Identify Sexual Orientation

In order to make sure gays and lesbians are adequately represented on the judicial bench, the state of California is requiring all judges and justices to reveal their sexual orientation. The announcement was made in an internal memo sent to all California judges and justices.

“[The Administrative Office of the Courts] is contacting all judges and justices to gather data on race/ethnicity, gender identification, and sexual orientation,” reads an email sent [...]

Why Gay Parents May Be the Best Parents

By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com

Gay marriage, and especially gay parenting, has been in the cross hairs in recent days.

On Jan. 6, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all. And last Monday (Jan. 9), Pope Benedict called gay marriage a threat “to the future of humanity itself,” citing [...]

Abortion, Immigration Changes Among New 2012 Laws

In this Dec. 12, 2011 photo, Irvis Orozco, 24, a senior studying international relations at the University of California, Davis, poses for a photo on campus in Davis, Calif. A new law that will take effect Jan. 1, 2012, will allow Orozco, who was brought to the country illegally from Mexico when he was an infant, to receive private financial aid at California’s public colleges.

Written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Girls seeking abortions [...]

2012: New laws take effect — 40,000 of them!

Each new law enacted is one more restriction in place on the people of this country. I wonder if one day, the general populace of this country will look around and say “Okay, we have enough laws now, congress… you can all go home..” … of course, by that time, it will be illegal for Americans to say as much…

US to weigh gay rights in foreign aid

From AP:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is announcing a wide-ranging effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality.

In a memorandum issued Tuesday, President Barack Obama directed U.S. agencies working abroad, including the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, to use foreign aid to assist gays and lesbians who are facing human rights [...]

Senate condemns US Embassy function (“gay pride” in our embassy in Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD – The Senate Friday severely condemned the hosting of a gay pride ceremony by US embassy in Pakistan last month and sent the matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs for taking any possible action. The committee will see whether the parliament had the jurisdiction to debate the issue in any of its houses and what kind of action could be initiated [...]

Conservatives begin push to overturn gay history law

SACRAMENTO, California — A family advocacy group is already challenging a new California law that adds lessons about gays to social studies classes.

Paulo Sibaja of the Sacramento-based Capitol Resource Institute said he started the process Friday for a statewide vote to overturn the bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown a day earlier.

Brown, a Democrat, signed SB 48, making California the first state in the nation to teach about gays and [...]

First Lady Praises Botswana As ‘Thriving Democracy’ But State Dept Cites ‘Violence Against Women,’ ‘Child Abuse,’ ‘Discrimination’

(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at the Women’s Leadership Luncheon in Gaborone, Botswana on Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama praised the country for being a “thriving democracy” filled with “kind and generous people.” A U.S. Department of State report on Botswana’s human rights record, however, concludes that the country is still struggling with problems such as violence against women, child abuse, and [...]

Marines get trained on accepting gay recruits

SAN DIEGO – If a Marine spots two men in his battalion kissing off-duty at a shopping mall, he should react as if he were seeing a man and woman. If he turns on the television news to see a fellow Marine dressed as a civilian and marching in a parade with a banner that reads, “Support Gays and Lesbians in the Military!” he should accept [...]

Roommate hit with bias charge in Rutgers suicide

TRENTON, N.J. – A former Rutgers University freshman was indicted Wednesday on bias intimidation and other charges after allegedly using a webcam to spy on a same-sex encounter involving his roommate, who committed suicide shortly afterward in a case that started a national conversation on bullying.

A 15-count indictment was handed up Wednesday by a Middlesex County grand jury against Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, who had [...]

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