http://www.mygayonline.com A Gay Blog....Just Two Gay Women Giving Our Opinions...Very Exciting Stuff;) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:04:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Church of England priest is under fire after calling for gays to be forcibly tattooed with a sodomy warning. The Rev. Peter Mullen, who is chaplain to the London Stock Exchange, made that remark and other incendiary homophobic comments on his internet blog. Mullen said the forced tattoos would be similar ... http://www.mygayonline.com/uk-priest-tattoo-sodomy-warnings-on-gays.html Senator Biden supports providing benefits for same-sex couples. In an Obama-Biden administration, there will be absolutely no distinction from a constitutional standpoint or a legal standpoint between a same-sex and a heterosexual couple. Biden then moved beyond benefits to detail the rights he and Sen. Barack Obama believe gay couples should have. ... http://www.mygayonline.com/biden-palin-debate-same-sex-marriage.html Four organizations are demanding that the Museum of Broadcast Communications retract its decision to induct Focus on the Family founder James Dobson into its hall of fame. The groups are urging supporters to contact the Chicago-based museum to share their disapproval, and to participate in a protest against the induction. Truth Wins ... http://www.mygayonline.com/radio-honor-for-antigay-james-dobson-causing-uproar.html IGLTA International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association It’s the world’s leading travel trade association.  It’s committed to growing and enhancing its members’ gay and lesbian tourism business through education, promotion and networking. Travelers can search, contact and utilize our members around the world for all your travel needs. Businesses can join IGTLA association ... http://www.mygayonline.com/iglta-is-the-gay-lesbian-traveler-portal.html A woman was granted joint custody of two children she and her former lesbian partner adopted, a Montana judge ruled Monday. "To discriminate further because of her sexual preference in this day and age is no different than telling a person to go to the back of the bus because of ... http://www.mygayonline.com/montana-judge-grants-custody-to-lesbian.html Richard Grenell was appointed spokesperson for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by President Bush more than seven years ago and became the longest-serving public servant to hold that post. But when it came to having his partner of six years listed alongside the spouses of other U.N. diplomats, his ... http://www.mygayonline.com/gay-bush-appointee-loses-appeal-for-fair-treatment.html A proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand federal protections for health care workers' religious beliefs could threaten the care that patients receive, several organizations are arguing. LGBT people are at particular risk if the proposed "provider conscience" regulation goes into effect, the groups assert, because ... http://www.mygayonline.com/proposed-provider-conscience-regulation-threatens-lgbt.html San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co. said Thursday that it will co-chair with Pacific Gas & Electric a group designed to encourage opposition to California's gay marriage ban within the business community. According to the Associated Press, the move is in step with the philosophy of Levi Strauss, the first Fortune ... http://www.mygayonline.com/levi-strauss-pairs-with-pge-to-fight-proposition-8.html A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA has found that providing domestic-partner benefits to federal employees in a same-sex relationship would add $43.5 million to the federal budget in the first year of coverage and about $675 million over the course of the next decade. The Senate Committee of ... http://www.mygayonline.com/senate-holds-hearing-on-new-study-cost-of-federal-domestic-partnership-benefits.html Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is reportedly launching a "Faith, Family, and Values Tour" next week that will include Catholic legal scholar Douglas Kmiec as one of the campaign's surrogates. Kmiec wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle this summer in which he urged support for passing California's marriage ban, ... http://www.mygayonline.com/obamas-faith-tour-includes-supporter-of-prop-8.html