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The Republicans in Colorado’s state house killed a bill that would have made gay marriage a lot like straight marriage. This was expected, and it will become a campaign issue as Democrats attempt to take the Colorado State House in November. Republican Rep. Don Coram, whose son is gay, cited his reasons for voting against [...]
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Freedom
May 14th, 2012 
Greg Laden People have been throwing around the ‘Freedom’ word a lot lately, i.e. in relation to letting Nazis have their speech, etc. etc. Now let’s talk about some Freedom that actually matters:
Same Sex Marriage is the Issue of the Day…through November
May 12th, 2012 Greg Laden Why would it be that about half of Americans want to deny same sex couples the right to marry? Indeed, why would conservatives want to let same sex couples get away without the legal features that Marriage provides to protect the rest of society with respect to debt and other responsibilities?* It was not long [...]
Senator Peter Brunstetter = White Supremacy + Anti Gay Marriage
May 2nd, 2012 Greg Laden Or so we hear, from his wife. Senator Brunstetter is a Republican in North Carolina. He introduced an anti-gay marriage amendment. He should have been more careful about having the little lady keep her mouth shut becuase … well … There is a transcript here. I am so confused. I have heat stroke. Do you [...]
Ooops: Mitt Romney speaking off camera with Sean Hannity
April 11th, 2012 Greg Laden This is interesting. A Fox Employee has started releasing secret videos. Here’s one:
Your Support of Bill C-279 is Urgently Needed Now
March 23rd, 2012 Greg Laden “We don’t have a ‘Bill of Rights’ in Canada. We don’t need one.” A colleague from Canada told me that once. I was pretty sure she was more or less wrong, but I was working in a lab of mainly Canadians at the time and I know that as an Ugly American I had no [...]
Maryland Bill Passes Senate
February 23rd, 2012 Greg Laden The Maryland house recently passed their same-sex marriage bill, and now, moments ago, the Senate has done the same thing. Governer Martin O’Malley is expected to sign it. Go Marry-Land! Details Maryland would join the District and seven states in allowing same-sex marriages. Supporters have cast the bill as a major advance in equal rights. [...]
How To Make Diversity Happen
February 22nd, 2012 Greg Laden There are several very basic misunderstandings of how things work when it come to engendering and encouraging diversity, and I’d like to make a few comments with the aim of clearing them up, at least partially. One example of a misunderstanding came up a while back when some of us were complaining about the number [...]
Washington to become Seventh State with Marriage Equality
February 13th, 2012 Greg Laden Later today, Washingtong Governor Chris Gregoire will sign the recently passed marriage equality bill. The Associated Press reports that the governor will sign the bill, recently passed by state House and Senate lawmakers, at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time in the state capitol’s reception room. It will be livestreamed here.
Sexually Abnormal Daytime TV Host Is Ruining America
February 10th, 2012 Greg Laden You know who I’m talking about. This is Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association. He is correct: Decades ago, homosexuality was considered abhorrent behavior and a violation of the laws of nature but people don’t think that as much any more. But he seems to have problem with that:
The More Than Men Project
January 20th, 2012 Greg Laden The More than Men Project is an effort initiated by the Women Thinking Free Foundation to develop a space where men, often white and/or straight and/or Of Priv, could spend a little time and energy telling their fellow Hetero-occidentaloid-Y-chromosomists something useful or interesting about diversity, and to encourage the promotion of said diversity. When I [...]
Gays to Koch: “We are sorry for ruining marriage”
December 22nd, 2011 Greg Laden Amy Koch was the highly placed Minnesota legislator who recently resigned from her leadership post when it became clear that she was about to be, or was being, accused of/caught doing a staff member. Koch issued an official statement yesterday about the situation: Amy Koch apologized late this afternoon for “engaging in a relationship with [...]
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Tags: Amy Koch, Gay marriage, GLBTA, Republicans, Tea Party 
8 Comments »Michele Bachmann will be President of Gay Americans
December 20th, 2011 Greg Laden Because they are, after all, Americans. This is old but someone just pointed me to it and I thought you would enjoy it. Or hate it, or whatever:
Mayor Janice Daniels, Troy Michigan…
December 16th, 2011 Greg Laden Posted this on her facebook page:
Americans For Truth About Homosexuality’s LaBarbera mad at Obama
December 9th, 2011 Greg Laden … and other matters. You will be stunned to learn that Americans For Truth About Homosexuality president Peter LaBarbera isn’t happy either, asking, “Who knew that when President Ronald Reagan spoke idealistically about America becoming a ‘shining city on the hill,’ that city would turn out to be Sodom?” LaBarbera said that Obama and Clinton [...]
School District Rethinking Policy on Gender Orientation and Identity Issues
December 8th, 2011 Greg Laden Over the last two years, six students in the Anoka-Hennepin County Schoool District committed suicide, it is believed, after being bullied or harassed for their gender orientation. This is the largest school district in the state of Minnesota. Up to this point, the district has had a strange kind of “don’t ask don’t tell” policy [...]
Clinton on LGBT rights
December 6th, 2011 Greg Laden This is her Human Rights Day speech before the United Nations:
Benson v. Alverson Update
November 27th, 2011 Greg Laden An Update from August Berkshire: There have been three recent developments regarding Benson v. Alverson, the court case in which Minnesota Atheists has filed the sole amicus curiae (friend-of-the-court) brief on behalf of the Appellants. As you may recall, the case involves three same-sex couples (collectively known as “Marry Me Minnesota”) who are trying to [...]
Sunday Connect The Dots
November 20th, 2011 Greg Laden … … And now a musical interlude …
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