Labels: civil rights, gay civil unions, gay marriage, homophobia
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posted by profmarcus at
11/15/2007
Labels: gay, gay civil unions, gay marriage, homophobia, Larry Craig, Mark Fiore, Peter Pace
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
10/07/2007
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
"If a couple of lesbians or gay men want to get married, and they love each other, they should have the right to do that and enjoy all the legalities in our society that go along with that. I have no problem with that at all."
"I think that people who create these problems of homophobia and the likes of that do us a disservice," Gravel continues. "We are all human beings and one of the things that should motivate us, most of all, is love."
He blasts President Bush's "faith-based leadership," saying, "You can't legislate morality."
Labels: faith-based initiative, gay civil unions, gay marriage, George Bush, homophobia, Mike Gravel
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
5/09/2007
After months of furious debate and threats of excommunication by the Catholic Church, Mexico City's legislative assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to legalize abortion for the first time in the capital's history.
Activists ... fear the vote in Mexico City, a federal district that functions much like a state, will create a domino effect, leading to similar laws elsewhere in Mexico. Last year, after the assembly passed the country's first gay civil unions law, the northern state of Coahuila passed its own civil union law, and a raft of similar proposals are now working their way through other state legislatures.
Labels: abortion, gay civil unions, Joseph Ratzinger, Mexico, Mexico City, Pope Benedict, Vatican
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
4/25/2007
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