The U.S. House voted Tuesday to restrict demonstrations at military funerals, a measure aimed at a Kansas church group that has carried its anti-gay message to the last rites for those killed in Iraq. Congress is moving to stop anti-gay protests at the funerals of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. “We will not allow [...]
The Palm Beach County, Fla., school district has blocked student access to numerous Web sites that promote gay rights and support gay youths while allowing access to a host of sites that oppose equality and denounce homosexuality, the Palm Beach Post reports. Many Web sites are off-limits to Palm Beach County students because they promote [...]
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean admitted Thursday that remarks he made about the Democratic Party platform during a Christian Broadcasting Network interview that aired Wednesday on The 700 Club were incorrect. “The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman,” Dean said during the interview with Pat [...]
Gay television company Here Networks has purchased Hyperion Interactive Media Corporation, creator of such Web sites as GayMonkey.com and the print magazine GayWebMonkey. The acquisition was announced Wednesday and includes all of the more than 20 portals and Web sites owned by HIM, which will now be called Here Interactive Media. “The HIM Corp. properties [...]
Although senators Bill Frist and Rick Santorum have vowed to bring the Federal Marriage Amendment to a Senate vote the first week of June, a new poll shows that Americans don’t think the issue should be a priority. The poll, conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Human Rights Campaign, shows that an [...]
A federal appeals court on Friday sidestepped whether it was unconstitutional under federal and state law to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry, leaving the issue to state courts to decide. The case, brought by two gay Orange County men who were denied a marriage license, leaves Massachusetts as the only state allowing [...]
New polls show that using same-sex marriage as a wedge issue may not work for Republicans in this fall’s mid term election. A Peter D. Hart poll shows that a proposed amendment to ban same-sex marriage is at the bottom of voter concerns. Surveys taken for the major networks show that immigration reform and rising [...]
The American Family Association is mounting a campaign against Kraft Foods for its sponsorship of the Gay Games. The AFA is urging its supporters to call Kraft and express their anger at the sponsorship. “Kraft is ignoring emails. Please make a personal phone call to Kraft and tell them to pull their financial support from [...]
Former U.S. senator John Danforth says a conservative push to ban same-sex marriage through a federal constitutional amendment is silly, calling it the latest example of how the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the GOP. Danforth, a Missouri Republican and an Episcopal priest, made the comments in a speech Saturday night in Washington, [...]