Fed DOMA may leave LGBT couples out in the cold re: health care reform benefits
Pams House blend Nov 05 09Here we go again -- as the House vote on the $894 billion health care reform plan is looming on Saturday, a teensy problem affecting LGBTs seems to have cropped up in the language of the bill that will leave eligibility at the whim and interpretation of the Health Choices Commissioner position. (Wash Blade): [T]he bill, H.R. 3962, uses the terms "family" and "dependent," and advocates say the new Health Choices Commissioner - a position established in the legislation to oversee the insurance exchange - could interpret this language to mean someone's opposite-sex spouse, but not a same-sex spouse. Full story...
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NOM recycles its garbage in New Jersey, Garden State Equality responds
Pams House blend 7 hours agoThis morning I got an email from NOM's Brian Brown stating that NOM had launched a $500,000 voter outreach campaign to make sure "New Jerseyans" know what's going on in Trenton.
Thanksgiving Week Thankfulness For Pam
Pams House blend 11 hours agoIt's Thanksgiving week, so I'd like to express my thanks to Pam and for Pam-- the African-American Lesbian and Head Barista here who embraces the wide diversity within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
Invite From Stonewall Democrats: Sign Our Thank You Card To Pro-Equality Legislators
Pams House blend 12 hours agoJust launched today:
Please add your name to the following message of appreciation to the pro-equality Democrats who have taken a lead in the fight for LGBT equality in Congress.
Will be on Mike Signorile Show today @ 3:30 PM ET to discuss Brian Bond interview
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Tune in to SiriusXM OutQ today at 3:30 PM ET to hear Michelangelo Signorile and I discuss my exclusive on-camera interview with Brian Bond, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement (a.
Shameless family holiday break: UNC Snuggie, Mr. E and the petting farm
Pams House blend 13 hours ago
So here we are in Delaware for Thanksgiving with my brother and family, and we are exchanging gifts since we'll be at the in-laws for Christmas.
Gays in NJ to Democratic leaders: Put up or Shut up!
Pams House blend 14 hours agoIt's on.
Steven Goldstein from Garden State Equality:
"If the Democrats don't enact marriage equality now, after years of telling us to wait, wait, wait, it will cause a huge schism between the state Democratic Party and not just the gay community, but the entire progressive base," he said.Senate Armed Services Committee delays Don't Ask Don't Tell hearings
Pams House blend 16 hours ago
Blenders, I am sick to death of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." I am sick and tired of having no way to keep my family intact through deployments, of having no legal protections for my military family, having to work at not existing, and counting down the days until my family is ripped apart.
Family Research Council caught falsely accusing Congresswoman of religious bigotry
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crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
A story that seems to be under the headlights but very appropriate involves how the Family Research Council got caught inaccurately accusing a Congresswoman of being a religious bigot.Faux News issues ultimatum memo to staff: zero tolerance for on-screen errors
Pams House blend 21 hours ago
Oh so sad. I guess the network will be going off the air if "errors" are now verboten. Here's the memo, courtesy of FishbowlDC.
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