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1/26/2011
Labels: discrimination, Don't Ask Don't Tell, gay, military, US Senate
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12/18/2010
Judge Orders Injunction on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, ending the U.S. military's 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips' landmark ruling was widely cheered by gay rights organizations that credited her with getting accomplished what President Obama and Washington politics could not.
U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have 60 days to appeal. Legal experts say they are under no legal obligation to do so and could let Phillips' ruling stand.
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10/12/2010
Labels: American Family Association, gay, homophobia, intolerance, Lewis Black
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
4/15/2008
Labels: Ellen Degeneres, gay, homophobia, Lawrence King
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
2/29/2008
Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention.
They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig's denials, including his famous statement, "I am not gay, I never have been gay." Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now memorialized on a just-released-for-Christmas Talking Senator Larry Craig Action Figure.
Audio clip disclaimer: Some of the audio interview excerpts contain explicit descriptions of sex not appropriate for children and listeners who find such content offensive. The Statesman provides the excerpts so Idahoans can hear these accounts and decide for themselves about accusations against Sen. Craig.
Labels: denial, gay, homophobia, Larry Craig
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
12/02/2007
Labels: Americablog, Barney Frank, ENDA, gay, homophobia, House of Representatives, John Aravosis
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
11/07/2007
Labels: gay, gay civil unions, gay marriage, homophobia, Larry Craig, Mark Fiore, Peter Pace
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
10/07/2007
The Idaho Republican wrote in a sworn statement that he never engaged in "offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous or noisy conduct" in the restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on June 11, when he was arrested in a sex sting that led to demands from many Republicans that the three-term senator resign. Craig has said that if he cannot overturn the guilty plea by a self-imposed Sept. 30 deadline, he intends to step down.
Craig's attorneys filed motions in Hennepin County District Court asking for a speedy hearing and arguing that the plea should be waived because the undercover officer who arrested Craig had promised the senator he would not call the news media -- a major concern to Craig because the Idaho Statesman newspaper had been investigating his sexual orientation after allegations from a gay rights activist.
"Deeply panicked about the events, and based on [the officer's] representations to me regarding the potential outcome, my interest in handling the matter expeditiously, and the risk that protracting the issue could lead to unnecessary publicity, I did not seek the advice of an attorney . . . and I made the decision on that date to seek a guilty plea," Craig said in his statement filed with the court.
Labels: gay, Idaho, Larry Craig, Minneapolis, US Senate
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
9/11/2007
Labels: Civil liberties, civil rights, gay, gay civil unions, gay marriage
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
7/17/2007
Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules.
A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president's budget until Cheney's office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.
Such a step, said Republican Sen. Sam Brownback would set a terrible precedent in relations between the executive and legislative branches of government, which have historically let each other set their own budgets.
"This is going to further erode any sort of working relationship back and forth," Brownback said. "This is a patently bad idea."
The Senate confirmed as a federal judge a woman who attended a same-sex commitment ceremony, overwhelmingly rejecting the concerns of a Republican senator running for the White House.
The vote was 83-4 in favor of elevating Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Janet Neff to federal district court.
Neff in 2002 attended a same-sex commitment ceremony for the daughter of longtime neighbors.
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Labels: 2008 candidates, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Dick Durbin, gay, gay civil unions, Janet Neff, Sam Brownback, US Senate, Vice President
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
7/10/2007
Labels: Don't Ask Don't Tell, gay, Robert Greenwald
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
6/18/2007
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