Progressives are up in arms over the Obama transition team’s announcement that the Reverend Rick Warren has been selected to deliver the invocation at his inauguration in January. Warren, the founder and senior pastor of California’s Saddleback Church, was a vocal supporter of Prop. 8. Moments after the announcement was made, Huffington Post went wild [...]
LGBT leaders are meeting with members of the Obama transition team to push for appointing an out cabinet secretary and brief them on LGBT policy. Though no promises have been made, activists are hopeful more gay appointees will be added to the list.
President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for education secretary supported a proposal this year for a Chicago public high school that would be geared to gay students. Arne Duncan, the Chicago school superintendent, approved plans for the Pride Campus of Social Justice High School, which was set to be voted on by the school board in November, [...]
New York Governor David Paterson has issued a directive requiring the Health Department to allow a gay couple to have both partners’ names added to a birth certificate. What a momentous statement! Finally! A step toward the adoption of children by gay couples! So, what is so great about gay adoption? Think about it! Gay [...]
The Reverend Richard Cizik spoke in support of gay civil unions during a December 2 broadcast of Fresh Air on National Public Radio and said his attitude toward LGBT people is shifting. The evangelical organization was quick to distance itself from Cizik. He has become an increasingly outspoken opponent of some of the association’s positions [...]
A Democratic aide has confirmed to The Advocate that President-elect Obama will be naming Los Angeles deputy mayor Nancy Sutley, who is gay, as a senior member of his environmental team, as reported Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times. Sutley, who currently serves as deputy mayor of energy and the environment, will be named chairwoman [...]
The Iowa supreme court is ready to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a gay marriage case that USA Today reports “could echo throughout the nation and be far more difficult to challenge at the ballot box than a high-profile ruling in California, legal experts say.” If Varnum v. Brien is decided in favor of the [...]
New York State senate Democrats may have secured control of their chamber by bargaining away marriage equality. Democrats won a two-seat majority in the chamber after decades of Republican rule, three conservative members of the caucus had threatened to defect to the GOP unless they received more power. But a handshake deal in New York [...]
When Gov. Charlie Crist legally weds his longtime girlfriend Carole Rome on Dec. 12, St. Petersburg’s First United Methodist Church will be packed with cheering family members, friends and the most inside of Florida insiders. Outside the church, in nearby Williams Park, hundreds of supporters of equal marriage rights—the outsiders of the Nov. 4 vote [...]
The Vatican has come out against a United Nations resolution that calls on all governments to decriminalize homosexuality. The resolution, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said, would “add new categories of those protected from discrimination” and could lead to the decline of heterosexual marriage, Reuters reported Tuesday. “If adopted, they would create new and implacable discriminations,” Migliore [...]