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Attorneys Support Phil Robertson's Right to Express his Religious Convictions PLANO, Texas, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Liberty Institute, the largest legal organization dedicated solely to defending religious liberty in America, issued this statement...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins released the following statement in response to A&E Network's suspension of Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson because he expressed his religious belief that homosexuality is a...

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LIGHT, the state-of-the-art nightclub by Cirque du Soleil and The Light Group at Mandalay Bay, has announced the nightclub's first LGBT event, EXPOSURE, on Sunday, January 19, 2014. This extended nightlife event welcomes guests to an evening...

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(Albuquerque, NM - December 19, 2013) - The New Mexico Supreme Court today ruled that denying same-sex couples the ability to marry violates the Equal Protection Clause of the New Mexico constitution. The ruling came in Greigo v. Oliver, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of New Mexicoand the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).

For gay athletes in America and around the world, the White House drew a critical line in the sand with its announcement Tuesday night that the president, the vice president, and the First Lady will not attend the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in Russia, a country the administration has sparred with over policy and criticized for human rights issues, including its anti-gay laws.Â

Barack Obama's decision to place a substantial number of openly gay and lesbian athletes on the official US delegation to Sochi is a brilliant bit of political posturing. It sends a clear measure of disapproval of Russia's idiotic ban on "gay propaganda" while retaining just the barest pretense of deniability (the people in question are not randomly selected members of the LGBT community, but ...

The court ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.

We know that both Catholics, despite their leadership, and young people, despite grownup baggage, tend to support equality in heightened numbers. Here's what those truths look like when they come together at one Washington high school:

The Uganda Parliament just passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009, which allows for life imprisonment of people convicted of "homosexual acts." Dr. Frank Mugisha, who has been at the forefront on the right side of the fight, sums it up: Some...

Can't say I agree with much else he wrote. However, I am glad to see David Limbaugh stepping up as the first conservative I've seen to note the obvious about that weird an wacky reality TV situation we've all been...

Like virtually all of their weekly "prayer targets" this year, the Family Research Council is closing out 2013 with yet another knee-based plea for God to stop LGBT people's basis rights and protections: [FRC] By opposing ENDA, FRC is supporting...

Exceedingly anti-gay Family Research Council president Tony Perkins surely doesn't see the hypocrisy in this. I trust that you will: "Phil Robertson has been targeted simply because he expressed his religious beliefs but there is a clear double standard that...

I'm just getting the word. Check back for updates. **UPDATE: Here's the decision, which seems to have just made NM our seventeenth state: NM Supreme Court marriage opinion

I'm proud of this one: Bob Newhart bows out of gig with anti-LGBT organization [GLAAD] Love this man; love this decision. **ICYMI: My initial post exposing Legatus' anti-gayness: Bob Newhart, don't become the next Kirk Cameron! [GLAAD}

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