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Anti-Gay Amendments Dropped from Defense Bill

OIA Staff — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:11:54 +0000

According to a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference committee report released, several anti-gay amendments have been dropped from the Defense bill. The report drops language from the House version introduced by Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) and Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) related to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), chaplains’ participation in same-gender marriage ceremonies, [...]

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Senate Passes Defense Funding Act

OIA Staff — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:27:51 +0000

The Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act without any infamous DOMA repeal attachment. The version already passed by the House also does not include a DOMA repeal. Instead it contains anti-gay amendments banning the military from allowing same-sex weddings, among other things. via. Read the full article @ Senate Passes Defense Funding [...]

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FBI Hate Crimes Stats Show Many Anti-Gay, Few Anti-Christian Crimes

OIA Staff — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:42:20 +0000

The FBI has released the 2010 Hate Crimes Statistics. There is something startling within those statistics, that is if you actually believe the rot pushed out by the Roman Catholic Church. Of the incidents of hate crimes, the top three- in order- are racist, anti-religious, homophobic. What they found was that: 47.3 percent were racially [...]

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Ohio Youth Charged in School Assault

OIA Staff — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:29:05 +0000

A 15-year-old Ross County boy was charged this morning with a delinquency count of assault in the videotaped beating of a fellow high-school student that sparked fresh calls to protect gay kids from bullying. Sever is accused of assaulting 15-year-old Zachary Huston at the high school on Oct. 17, with the victim’s mother contending he [...]

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UK Will No Longer Aid Anti-Gay Nations

OIA Staff — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:19:59 +0000

One of the basic underlying tenets of modern international law is that industrialized countries only give aid to developing nations with a strong track record on human rights. Unfortunately, this isnt always true. The United States, for instance, has given an average of $2 billion per year to Egypt since 1979, even though Egypt has [...]

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Voters Less Likely To Support Anti-Gay Presidential Candidates

OIA Staff — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:26:42 +0000

Voters are less likely to support presidential candidates who favor gay marriage bans, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll found. Forty-two percent of respondents said they would be less likely to support a candidate who favors a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, while 25 percent said they would be more likely to support such a [...]

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Texas Judge Hands Down Anti-Gay Custody Injunction

OIA Staff — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:51:34 +0000

It’s a story from Rick Perry’s Texas: A judge who not only sits on the bench in Houston but is also an official with the Texas Republican National Committee has, without cause, told a gay divorced father that he may not leave his children alone with any man who is not a relative either “by [...]

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A Touch of the Divine in Florida – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:19:57 +0000

Whether or not you’ve heard of Jerry Buell, in a few minutes you’re going to find it hard to forget him. Buell is a high school teacher in Mount Dora, Fla., who posted on Facebook that he “almost threw up” when he heard about New York’s legalization of gay marriage. He said same-sex unions were [...]

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Florida Teacher Suspended for Anti-gay Facebook Posts

OIA Staff — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:52:19 +0000

Jerry Buell has been suspended from the classroom and reassigned while the Lake County School Board investigates Facebook messages in which he said he “almost threw up” when he heard about NY’s marriage equality, which he also said was part of a “cesspool.” via. Read the full article @ Florida Teacher Suspended for Anti-gay Facebook [...]

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Republican Phillip Hinkle Outed

OIA Staff — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:59:52 +0000

It should not be a surprise that another married, self-loathing, closeted, homophobe Republican is forced out by a rent boy. Yes it is the same Modus operandi, anti-gay legislator, hiring an alleged professional sex toy with no remorse. According to 18 year old Kameryn Gibson he was approached on Craigslist by Indiana State Representative Phillip [...]

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Sign the Petition So Antigay Groups Don’t Profit from Sales at 600 Companies

OIA Staff — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:35:02 +0000

Christian Values Network raises money for a wide-range of religious groups from the purchase of over 600 companies’ goods and services. There’s just one small wrinkle: among the groups that CVN funnels money to are five groups so virulently antigay that the Southern Poverty Law Center has declared them hate groups–Focus on the Family, Family [...]

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Tennessee Senate Approves ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill

OIA Staff — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:32:39 +0000

Tennessee’s Senate has approved Stacey Campfield’s hideous “Don’t Say Gay” bill which would forbid discussion of homosexuality in classrooms, WMCTV reports: Under the proposal approved 19-11 on Friday, any instruction or materials at a public elementary or middle school will be “limited exclusively to age-appropriate natural human reproduction science.” Republican Senate sponsor Stacey Campfield of [...]

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Newt Gingrich Showered With ‘Gay’ Glitter

OIA Staff — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:10:38 +0000

At a campaign stop in Minnesota on Tuesday, gay rights activist Nick Espinosa dumped “gay” glitter on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, ABC News reported. Gingrich and his wife Callista were participating in a book signing in Minneapolis before attending a benefit for the Minnesota Family Council, a group that opposes gay rights. “Feel the [...]

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The Nuptial News – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:19:12 +0000

On these shores, the struggle for same-sex marriage has been as wobbly as a tipsy bride. Look at Rhode Island. Hopes were high that Little Rhody would become the sixth state to allow gay marriage. But House Speaker Gordon Fox announced the legislation wouldn’t pass the Senate, so he was backing civil unions instead. Rhode [...]

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Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill Dropped from Agenda

OIA Staff — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:37:21 +0000

Uganda’s parliament appears to have dropped plans to debate a controversial anti-gay bill after global condemnation. The anti-gay bill was first proposed in late 2009 but it wasn’t debated until last Friday. The bill had been scheduled to be debated again on Wednesday but was dropped from parliament’s updated schedule. via. Read the full article [...]

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Anti-Gay Okla. Lawmaker Disparages Blacks, Women

OIA Staff — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:47:04 +0000

An Oklahoma lawmaker who gained national notoriety with an anti-homosexual rant in 2008 disparaged blacks and women during a debate this week on an affirmative action bill, prompting the head of the state NAACP chapter to demand her resignation. Republican state Rep. Sally Kern, of Oklahoma City, said Thursday she was sorry for remarks she [...]

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Rachel Maddow on Senator John Ensign’s Resignation

OIA Staff — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:33:39 +0000

Last night, Rachel Maddow talked with journalist Jon Ralston about Ensign’s resignation. Yesterday, anti-gay “family values” Senator John Ensign announced he would resign in 12 days. Ensign’s resignation comes nearly two years after the 52-year-old Ensign said he had an extramarital affair with a former staffer, an acknowledgement that has been surrounded by ethics allegations. [...]

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The Fabric of Our Lives – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:07:19 +0000

We Americans like to express ourselves with our chests. I’m not speaking of Jane Russell, or even Arnold Schwarzenegger. I’m talking about our proclivity for wearing T-shirts with slogans on them. Americans have been human billboards for decades. The slogans on T-shirts celebrate, advocate, advertise, unify, decry and polarize. Americans have lots to say—on shirts [...]

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Investigation Reveals Depth of Chick-Fil-A’s Ties to Anti-Gay Causes

OIA Staff — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:40:36 +0000

When two Missouri organizations, the Clayton Chamber of Commerce and FOCUS St. Louis, decided earlier this month to cancel a presentation by Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy over his company’s controversial affiliations, they made the right decision. Although Cathy has unequivocally denied being anti-LGBT and claimed that he and the company have “no agenda against anyone” and “will not champion any political [...]

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The Word Is Out – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:28:50 +0000

At Wayne State University in Detroit, the Word Warriors wave the banner on behalf of the English language’s neglected words. Last year the Warriors released a list of words they hoped to rescue from disuse. As the obliging type, I wanted to assist the restoration effort. So I tested all 15 words to see if [...]

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Target Changes Policy following Gay Protest

OIA Staff — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:45:45 +0000

Target’s policy on political contributions changed six months after receiving criticism for endorsing an anti-gay politician, reports say. The policy now mandates that an executive committee be responsible for balancing business interests with other important considerations. Target spokesman Jessica Carlson said that “these changes are reflective of that perspective that we gained over the 2010 [...]

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$159 To Fax Every Lawmaker About DADT?

OIA Staff — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:17:33 +0000

Gordon Klingenschmitt, an ex-Navy Protestant chaplain dishonorably discharged and court martialed in 2006 for refusing to stop wearing his uniform at a White House protest, has remade himself as a leading anti-gay voice who says things like “homosexual sin will always be a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God, an abomination which God condemns [...]

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UPDATED: Chick-fil-A Partners With Rabid Anti-Gay Group

OIA Staff — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:13:03 +0000

You might like the tasty pickles that they put on their chicken sandwiches, but if you’re eating at Chick-fil-A, you’re also eating at an establishment that partners with some of the most ferocious anti-gay groups around. Take a look at an event scheduled for February 2011, co-sponsored by Chick-fil-A and the Pennsylvania Family Institute, the [...]

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Anti-gay attack reported on 4th Street in Austin

OIA Staff — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:47:51 +0000

A 26-year-old gay man says he and a friend were the victims of a hate crime outside the bars on 4th Street in downtown Austin early Sunday morning. Bobby Beltran said he and his friend had just left Rain, a gay bar, at about 1:30 a.m. When they hugged each other goodbye on the sidewalk, [...]

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Target Continues to Donate to Anti-Gay Politicians

OIA Staff — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:49:55 +0000

The donations to anti-gay candidates that landed Target in such hot water this past summer did not stop. That is in spite of assurances from Target PR and CEO Gregg Steinhafel that he would “take a leadership role in bringing together a group of companies and partner organizations for a dialogue focused on diversity and [...]

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Two Plead Guilty to Anti-Gay Hate Crime in NYC

OIA Staff — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:56:16 +0000

Two men have pleaded guilty to robbery as a hate crime in the brutual beating of a gay man last year. The men admitted to taunting Jack Price and yelling anti-gay slurs before punching and kicking him in October 2009. VIA. Read the full article @ Two Plead Guilty to Anti-Gay Hate Crime in NYC Read [...]

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Family Research Council, American Family Association Named As Anti-Gay Hate Groups

OIA Staff — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:23:20 +0000

Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center added five more groups to its list of anti-gay hate groups, including some names that are long overdue. The new groups are: American Family Association Americans for Truth About Homosexuality Dove World Outreach Center Family Research Council Illinois Family Institute This brings the total of anti-gay hate groups to [...]

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National Organization for Marriage Poured $5M into Campaigns of Fear But Lost More Than It Won

OIA Staff — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:37:34 +0000

Today, the Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign released a report card on the political activities of the so-called, anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) that shows a mixed outcome this election cycle despite pouring an estimated $5 million into federal and state campaigns in the 2009-2010 election cycles. NOM endorsed at least 29 [...]

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George Takei: Clint McCance Is A ‘Total Douchebag’

OIA Staff — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:43:07 +0000

George Takei’s hilarious response to anti-gay bully Clint McCance, former Arkansas school board member who called for more gays teens to kill themselves. VIA. Read the full article @ George Takei: Clint McCance Is A ‘Total Douchebag’ Read more articles @ our blogBecome a fan on FacebookFollow us on Twitter

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LGBT Wins and Losses on Election Day

OIA Staff — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:07:34 +0000

NATIONAL: Overall, the Republicans landed enough victories to retake control of the House of Representatives from the Democrats, but not enough to take control of the Senate. It remains to be seen what a GOP-controlled House will mean for pro-LGBT measures, like passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, lifting the Defense of Marriage Act, or repealing of Don’t Ask, Don’t [...]

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Bishop Long Responds: They Called Me ‘Daddy,’ I Bought Them Cars, But There Was No Sex

OIA Staff — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:03:11 +0000

Bishop Eddie Long has always said he’d fight the sexual molestation lawsuits from accusers since they came forward last month. But in a court filing yesterday, he went even further and categorically denied all charges against him for the first time. Long, though, said in the four separate documents that he often encouraged his New [...]

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Clint McCance Resignation after anti-gay tirade on Facebook

OIA Staff — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:02:03 +0000

Clint McCance, appearing on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN this evening, announced that he will resign from the Midland School Board. The controversy erupted when McCance unleashed an anti-gay tirade on Facebook in response to a rash of bullying-related suicides. VIA. Read the full article @ Clint McCance Resignation after anti-gay tirade on Facebook Read [...]

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Arkansas Department Of Education Condemns Anti-Gay Remarks Made By School Board Member Clint McCance

OIA Staff — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:25:43 +0000

The Arkansas state Department of Education has issued a statement denouncing the anti-gay remarks made by local Independence County school board member Clint McCance, who used Facebook to celebrate the suicides of LGBT teenagers and the deaths of gay people from AIDS. VIA. Read the full article @ Arkansas Department Of Education Condemns Anti-Gay Remarks [...]

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Arkansas School Board Member Clint McCance Wants ‘Fags’ Dead

OIA Staff — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:38:45 +0000

Midland School Board Member Clint McCance’s Facebook page really speaks for itself. Says McCance in a status update responding to last week’s Spirit Day in memory of gay and lesbian youth who killed themselves over bullying: “Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide. The only way im wearin it for [...]

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Judge dismisses anti-gay marriage ad suit

OIA Staff — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:00:21 +0000

A federal judge has rejected a challenge to New York’s election law brought by an anti-gay marriage group that’s drafted political ads in support of Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor. The Washington, D.C.-based National Organization for Marriage argued last week it wanted to run ads for Paladino without reporting donors’ names or adhering [...]

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NH paper won’t print gay marriage notices

OIA Staff — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:13:25 +0000

New Hampshire’s largest newspaper is defending its decision to refuse to publish marriage notices for gay couples after one couple getting married tried to include their announcement. The New Hampshire Union Leader of Manchester says it has a constitutional right to choose what to print. The full statement: “This newspaper has never published wedding or [...]

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Florida Anti-Gay Adoption Ban Comes to an End

OIA Staff — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:07:12 +0000

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that he will not appeal last month’s ruling by a state appellate court striking down a state law barring gay people from adopting. Governor Charlie Crist and the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) had already announced that they would not appeal the decision. Attorney General Bill [...]

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Gay councilman Joel Burns on the Today Show

OIA Staff — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:54:33 +0000

Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns’ moving public statement detailing his own experience being bullied as a gay child is now viral – and was covered on the Today Show this morning. He tells Matt Lauer that he decided to tell his story after hearing that a youth in Oklahoma – 19-year-old Zach Harrington – [...]

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Facebook works to remove anti-gay hate speech

OIA Staff — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:20:35 +0000

Facebook is working with a gay-advocacy group to reduce the amount of hate speech and bullying on the online social hub. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) says it reached out to Facebook last week after Internet bullies flooded a page it set up to honor teens who recently killed themselves in response [...]

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Gay Okla. Teen Kills Self – Parents Blame ’Toxic’ Anti-Gay Attitudes

OIA Staff — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:36:55 +0000

A gay teen in Oklahoma killed himself following a “toxic town meeting he attended at which residents debated a resolution naming October “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History Month.” The rhetoric spouted at the meeting was “toxic,” the family of 19-year-old Zach Harrington says. They maintain that the anti-gay remarks were so hurtful to the [...]

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What’s Up with All This Gay Bashing?

OIA Staff — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:01:36 +0000

Numerous horrifying stories of anti-gay harassment in the New York area have burbled up in recent weeks. First, we had the tragic suicide of college freshman Tyler Clementi, who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after his roommate outed him publicly by posting a live video feed of Tyler’s intimate encounter with [...]

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KKK Plans Protest For Anti-Gay Student Jennifer Keeton

OIA Staff — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:28:55 +0000

Well here’s something unsettling: members of the Ku Klux Klan have decided to stage a rally in honor of Jennifer Keeton, the former August State University counseling student who sued for not being able to tell potential patients that homosexuality’s an “identity disorder.” VIA. Read the full article @ KKK Plans Protest For Anti-Gay Student [...]

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Celebrities Combat Anti-Gay Bullying On ‘Larry King’

OIA Staff — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:18:07 +0000

Larry King dedicated his entire CNN show to homophobic bullying last night, and invited gay celebrities like Lance Bass, Chely Wright, Tim Gunn and Nate Berkus to share their stories. VIA. Read the full article @ Celebrities Combat Anti-Gay Bullying On ‘Larry King’ Read more articles @ our blogBecome a fan on FacebookFollow us on [...]

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Two arrested in anti-gay beating at famed New York City gay bar

OIA Staff — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:43:50 +0000

A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias attack over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Two men were arrested in the early Sunday beating, which came little more than a [...]

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HRC penalizes Target, Best Buy in latest Corporate Equality Index rating

OIA Staff — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:37:34 +0000

Retailers Target and Best Buy, along with 3M Corporation, all based in Minnesota, have been stripped of their perfect scores in the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 2011 Corporate Equality Index. HRC said in a statement Moday: “Fifteen points were deducted from the otherwise perfect scores of Target, Best Buy and 3M for failing to respond [...]

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New Survey: 8% Gay, 7% Lesbian

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:47:36 +0000

In the “largest nationally representative study of sexual and sexual-health behaviors ever fielded,” a just-released survey commissioned by Indiana University says that 8% of adult American men self-identify as gay or bisexual, with 7% of women identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Those numbers are almost triple the percentages claimed by some anti-gay groups. VIA. Read [...]

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Federal Court Dismisses National Organization for Marriage Lawsuit Challenging Disclosure Laws

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:17:55 +0000

A federal court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) filed last month in Rhode Island. NOM, the leading anti-LGBT force in the country, argued that it should be able to run ads on behalf of Rhode Island Republican gubernatorial candidate John Robitaille, who strongly opposes marriage equality, without having to [...]

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HRC & Courage Campaign Reveal the Real National Organization for Marriage

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:09:14 +0000

As the National Organization for Marriage, or NOM, embarks on a fall election campaign to defeat candidates who support full marriage equality, the Human Rights Campaign, in collaboration with the Courage Campaign, unveiled “NOM Exposed,” a live, interactive website which reveals NOM’s deep anti-gay affiliations, its long connections to the Mormon and Catholic churches and [...]

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Anti-Gay Christianists Attempting Sioux City Government Takeover

OIA Staff — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:22:49 +0000

According to the Des Moines Register, anti-gay Christianists are getting themselves appointed to the Sioux City Human Rights Commission and then suing pro-gay advocates for religious discrimination. VIA. Read the full article @ Anti-Gay Christianists Attempting Sioux City Government Takeover Read more articles @ our blogBecome a fan on FacebookFollow us on Twitter

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Anti-gay Atlanta megachurch pastor Long caught up in gay sex scandal

OIA Staff — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:04:10 +0000

The prominent pastor, Eddie Long, of a 25,000-member megachurch outside Atlanta denies allegations in a lawsuit that he coerced two young men from the congregation into a sexual relationship, his attorney said. “Defendant Long has utilized his spiritual authority to coerce certain young male members … into engaging in sexual acts and relationships for his own personal [...]

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