The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reportedly refused to back down from its decision to sponsor several Gay Pride events this month after it received more than 800,000 e-mails and thousands of phone calls denouncing its involvement in the events from supporters of a conservative political group. Kirk Marusak, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender [...]
A part-time philosophy instructor at Brigham Young University has been fired after publicly criticizing the Mormon church’s opposition to same-sex marriage. In an op-ed piece Jeffrey Nielsen published in The Salt Lake Tribune last week, he called the church’s opposition “immoral,” and the teacher has since been told by the Mormon-owned university in Provo, Utah, [...]
Hoping to generate the same kind of publicity and change enjoyed by the Know Thy Neighbor campaign in Massachusetts, which published on a Web site the names of everyone who signed a petition for a proposed same-sex marriage ban, a church in Florida is launching Know Thy Neighbor Florida on Monday. “When KnowThyNeighbor.org was launched [...]
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In honor of Gay Pride Month, Internet giant Yahoo! has compiled a comprehensive microsite highlighting global pride celebrations as well as LGBT-related services and resources available on the Yahoo! network. The microsite, which is sponsored by online travel company Travelocity, can be found at the URL events.yahoo.com/pride or by performing a Yahoo! search for “gay [...]
BOSTON – Macy’s department store has removed a window display marking Boston’s gay pride week after a group that opposes gay marriage complained it was offensive. The display at the downtown Boston store featured two male mannequins, with one wearing a gay pride rainbow flag around his waist, next to a list of several planned [...]
The Federal Marriage Amendment was defeated this morning when the United States Senate voted not to send the measure to a final vote. The proposal to ban same-sex marriage garnered only 49 votes, well short of the 60 needed to end debate before an official vote could happen—and one fewer than the 50 votes the [...]
Debate continues for a second day today in the U.S. Senate over whether to write discrimination into the Constitution by banning same-sex marriage. But the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment is headed for certain defeat when it comes up for a vote Wednesday because it lacks the necessary support, the Associated Press reports. Still, the prospect [...]
In an open letter released Monday morning, the head of the Log Cabin Republicans takes President Bush to task for supporting the proposed federal marriage amendment, which the U.S. Senate begins debating today. Patrick Guerriero, the outgoing executive director of the gay GOP group, calls the president’s support of the discriminatory amendment “an insult to [...]
President George W. Bush will on Monday meet conservative activists at the White House to underline his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, re-inforcing the message of a weekend speech in which he urged Congress to pass the amendment. His intervention comes as the Senate begins a debate on Monday on an [...]