Tampa City Council Protects Transgender Citizens

Tampa is the latest city in Florida to add "gender identity" to its human rights ordinance that bans discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation.
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Item: Federal benefits measure passes in key House committee

   ::: The Domestic Partnerships Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 passed out of committee Wednesday, Victory Fund’s GayPolitics blog reports.
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Religious Freedom And Marriage Equality

Mark Thompson counters Dreher:[T]he conflict here is definitively not between gay marriage and religious liberty.
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Tampa Approves Transgender Protections

City leaders in Tampa, Florida have decided in favor of outlawing transgender discrimination
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BREAKING NEWS: Tampa Adds Gender Identity Protections

The Tampa City Council should be commended for expanding non-discrimination protections to those who live, work and visit the city.
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Utah State Sen. Buttars Sponsored Gay Marriage Ban. But He Wants Us Protected?

Utah State Sen. Chris Buttars was the sponsor behind his state's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
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Utah Homophobe Senator Chris Buttars Doesn't Want Gays 'Stuffin' It Down His Throat All The Time'

The Mormon Church's endorsement of a Salt Lake City anti-discrimination ordinance that would protect gays and lesbians in matters of housing and employment has caused one of the state's biggest homophobes to ease in his positions on statewide rights for.
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Today's Quote, and something to think about

If they can so easy pass laws to ban us from Marriage, none of our rights can be taken for granted. If community standards are, reason enough to Legislate anti-anytype discrimination, the backside of our freedom as begun I beg you to take a good look at the election result from around the country, get in touch with your anger, and put it to work.
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No Public Vote on Civil Rights in Washington DC

Looks like the Catholic diocese of Washington DC will be denied at least one opportunity to foster discrimination.
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DC Board of Elections declares no popular vote on gay marriage rights

From a press release:   (Washington, DC)  Civil rights triumphed over another failed attack from advocates of discrimination when today, the D.
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Religious Liberty and Equality Can Mix

"I think we can have religious liberty and still treat people equally. Words do matter, and the words of this ordinance say that no discrimination will be tolerated.
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10-year old won't pledge allegiance to a country that discriminates against gay citizens

Via Queerty comes a story from the Arkansas about brave Will Phillips, an elementary school student who refuses to say the pledge of allegiance in school because of discrimination against gay people:

"I've always tried to analyze things because I want to be lawyer," Will said.
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Another Bill to Pass

"Voters understand discrimination and don't want to see it allowed in the Commonwealth. Legislators seriously underestimate their constituents if they think voters don't get this.
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“Gay people need to believe in change”

“Gay people are expecting to be protected in case of discrimination, they want to have something to look forward to in the form of civil unions … they want to lead a quiet life free of bullying and homophobia.
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Steve Marmel: The Mormon Church Takes a Baby Step

The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.
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New Poll Confirms Overwhelming Support for T Equality in MA

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition has the details, including links to the poll and Lake research Partners' analysis of the poll.
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Australian bill to ban same-sex couples from accessing surrogacy

Opposition deputy leader Lawrence Springborg has attempted to derail the Government's stance on surrogacy, as it relates to gay couples.
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Adios Amigo – Don’t Let the Door Hit You!

Dobbs slowly became increasingly influenced by crazy right-wing extremists. If there was a conspiracy theorist questioning the president’s birth certificate, a gun-toting protester at an Obama event, or a white firefighter alleging “reverse discrimination,” Dobbs was there to defend them.
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Focus on the Family Defends Antigay Efforts to Undermine Public Health

Focus on the Family yesterday criticized the American Medical Association for spelling out, in detail, the plain truth: Christian Right discrimination against LGBT couples and gay servicemembers negatively impacts public health.
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DC Catholic church says it won’t help poor if it can’t discriminate against LGBT people

St. Mathhew’s Cathedral, Washington, DC Flickr photo by MVI

The Roman Catholic church threatened Wednesday to shut down the social service programs it runs for the District of Columbia if the DC city council adopts a marriage equality law in its current form.
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