It looks as if things seem to be getting even more heated in Birmingham over the Central Alabama Gay Pride Week Parade controversy. On August 26, the Birmingham-based GLBT right organization, Central Alabama Pride, Inc., has filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court in Birmingham against the City of Birmingham and the Mayor on the basis of violation of constitutional rights by not allowing city workers to hang banners in preparation of the 20th Annual Gay Pride Parade on June 7th. According to the Birmingham News, this was after a last minute attempt to by the group to prevent court action with a letter to the Mayor on June 18th. Full story...
Someone better head to confessional.
The Times Online is reporting that the Vatican has come out strongly against a United Nations declaration formally condemning anti-LGBT discrimination, saying that the declaration would lead to the decriminalization of same-sex unions.
A half-gay wedding, anyway. Impact Florida plans to stage a protest at the Dec. 12 wedding of Republican Gov.
The Los Angeles Times has a piece up this morning entitled Broader medical refusal rule may go far beyond abortion.
You knew this was coming -- it was only a matter of time before the emotion and outrage in the LGBT community after Prop 8 would be turned into a rampaging mob of heathen homosexuals persecuting Christians.
John @ Americablog posted the current SCOTUS bench, noting only two were nominated by a Dem:
John Paul Stevens, 88 (Ford) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75 (Clinton) Antonin Scalia, 72 (Reagan) Anthony Kennedy, 72 (Reagan) Stephen Breyer, 70 (Clinton) David Souter, 69 (GHW Bush) Clarence Thomas, 60 (GHW Bush) Samuel Alito, 58 (GW Bush) John Roberts, 53 (GW Bush)
The Bushes added relative youngsters on the bench, all save Souter are firmly on the conservative side of the spectrum.
January 20 cannot get here soon enough. I've had it with these brain-dead bigoted tools of the Bush Admin who reach high up in their posteriors to pull out BS like this to justify discrimination.
Doesn't it bite to be Faux News these days? After the GOP propaganda media outlet rode the wave of easy access to the Bush Admin, the president-elect has given the news channel the cold shoulder.
Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th Congress can turn the broad call for "change" across the country into specific policies.
In an article on The Blend today, Autumn Sandeen asked the question, "How diverse should a call be for a "gay contingent" in the Inaugural Parade?"
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that the comments for this topic strayed into the issue of "appropriate" dress for the LGBT people who may attend the event.
The boob finally figured out that the buck stops here -- his total destruction of the country just might have had a hand in a change at the top, according to Bush.
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