President Bush is expected to hold a press conference next week to announce his support for the federal marriage amendment. According to the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, the president will appear in the Rose Garden on Monday to reiterate his support for the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment, a day before the U.S. Senate is expected [...]
President Bush reportedly will hold a Rose Garden press conference on June 5 to press Congress to enact the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. The conservative Weekly Standard reports that Bush will gather supporters of the amendment behind him as he makes his pitch. “President Bush is once again placating extremists [...]
Mormons throughout the country have been told to lobby their senators to support the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the Constitution. The Senate is expected to vote on the proposed amendment next week. In a letter read in all congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on [...]
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to veto a bill passed by the state senate that would add the contributions of gays and lesbians to history textbooks in public schools. The bill, which is currently pending in the state assembly, was authored by lesbian state senator Sheila Kuehl, a Democrat from Santa Monica. “The governor believes [...]
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Countering conservative Christians’ stronghold on the issue of same-sex marriage, an interfaith coalition of Protestant, Jewish, Sikh, and Unitarian Universalist clergy and lay leaders is orchestrating a petition drive in opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment. Clergy for Fairness, which represents some 1,600 faith leaders, announced the effort at a press conference in Washington, D.C., [...]
Five students at Brigham Young University who took part in last month’s Equality Ride protests will be reprimanded but not expelled. During the Soulforce Equality Ride’s stop in Utah, more than two dozen college-age participants in the cross-country gay Christian protest were arrested, along with the parents of ride codirector Jacob Reitan. The BYU Honor [...]
FLORIDA GOVERNOR HEADLINES ANTI-GAY FUNDRAISER Continues Republican Investment in Political Gay Bashing (ORLANDO) Equality Florida is calling on Gov. Bush to reconsider his decision to headline a Friday night fundraiser for the rabidly anti-gay, anti-choice Florida Family Policy Institute (FFPI). The Orlando based organization is one of 34 state chapter-like affiliates of Focus on the [...]
A Senate panel on Thursday advanced a measure that would amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage as the committee chairman shouted “Good riddance!” to a Democrat who walked out of the tense session. “If you want to leave, good riddance,” Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter told Wisconsin Democratic senator Russell Feingold, who refused [...]
British gay rights groups are crying hypocrisy upon learning that the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom, who has publicly expressed opposition to antigay discrimination, apparently fired a staffer for being gay. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the archbishop of Westminster, dismissed press secretary Stephen Noon in 2003 after Noon’s partner visited him [...]