Several groups that are raising money to support a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota are facing scrutiny and a possible campaign finance complaint over reports released last month that showed $1.2 million was raised to promote the amendment yet only seven individual donors were disclosed.
At a Colorado Senate committee hearing on a same-sex civil unions bill last Wednesday, a series of witnesses battered Republican lawmakers opposed to the bill, suggesting they were confused in their ideology, non-strategic in their thinking, and enslaved to an outdated anti-gay “hateful bigoted mantra.” The harsh criticism came More…
Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list increased to 949 people as of Thursday, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (aka NASTAD).
NASTAD data (.pdf) also indicates that Florida’s ADAP waiting list ranks third in the U.S., with 22 percent of the More…
Denver state Sen. Pat Steadman’s re-introduced same-sex civil unions bill is being heard this afternoon in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Although the bill will be passed easily by the committee’s Democratic majority, the hearing will be the staging ground for this year’s arguments for and against it, drawing the More…
Minnesota’s embattled Anoka-Hennepin School Board voted on Monday to repeal a long-held policy that prohibits discussion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the classroom and replaced it with a policy that directs district staff to “affirm the dignity and self-worth of all students,” including those who are LGBT. More…
Representatives of the National Organization for Marriage made several media appearances over the weekend in the wake of the Washington State Legislature’s vote in favor of marriage equality for same-sex couples and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to overturn California’s Prop 8, which rescinded marriage rights for same-sex More…
A major theme at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., was that the Republican Party should once and for all erase the line between social and fiscal issues and further the argument that conservative social policies benefit the economy.
Same-sex marriage opponents participating in a Saturday panel More…
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