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The Mormon Church is once again inserting itself into the fight over marriage equality, filing an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court urging the court to uphold DOMA. On Top Magazine reports: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) is urging the Supreme Court to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act […]
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“I trust the Constitution,” Edie Windsor told BuzzFeed reporter Chris Geidner in an interview for his recent profile of the 83-year-old whose lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the Supreme Court this March. “Sometimes there’s a mistake, but mostly we move forward. I think
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It is shocking that we are still shocking people! Forty years ago, in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association announced that homosexuality was not a mental illness. “Conversion or Reparative therapy” has been rejected by the World Health Organization, the American Psychological Association and almost every other professional therapeutic group in America to date. When a
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A man who has written about and advocated using religion to stop same-sex attraction was discovered to be using the gay hookup app Grindr. Christian Post blogger Matt Moore was first spotted on Grindr by Huffington Post blogger Zinnia Jones, who received a tip from a reader of her page atFreethought Blogs. Moore eventually confirmed that it was his
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In less than 24 hours after his appointment was announced, it was discovered that the Georgia megachurch pastor chosen to give the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration preached antigay sermons over a decade ago. The Reverend Louie Giglio took quite a public lashing from progressives around the country and was quickly replaced by the
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Prominent anti-gay advocate Gary Bauer admitted on Wednesday that his party cannot keep up with the change in public opinion on marriage equality, according to an interview with the conservative religious organization LifeSiteNews. Bauer, a former president of the Family Research Council who remains influential in certain evaneglical and Republican circles, ran a super PAC
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Gay marriage may well be the defining social and legal issue of our time. After receiving the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts, President Obama delivered a monumental speech in which he became the first President in history to use the word “gay” in an inaugural address. In unveiling an unmistakably progressive agenda,
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The FRC, in its amicus brief to the Supreme Court on is rehashing one of its old claims on marriage equality and the gays, Think Progress reports: FRC claims that gays and lesbians do not deserve nondiscrimination protections because of their sexual orientation, but adds that even if they did, the Court could still rule
More than perhaps anyone else in America, David Blankenhorn personifies the struggle so many have experienced over same-sex marriage. First he was agnostic, then he was against it, now he’s for it. This is to say that Blankenhorn — a long-standing opponent of same-sex marriage — has shifted his energies to saving the institution of
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Lots of news today, too, on the DOMA/Prop 8 front. To start, There’s a great column by Ted Olsen (one of the Prop 8 case attorneys) over on the AFER site on the Prop 8 and DOMA cases: “The best outcome of those two cases is that once and for all–and maybe this is too
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