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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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Apple Removes Exodus’ ‘Ex-Gay’ App From iTunes

OIA Staff — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:24:57 +0000

Apple has removed an app from the “ex-gay” group Exodus International from its iTunes store. The company removed the app on Tuesday after nearly 150,000 people signed onto an online petition sponsored by Truth Wins Out, a group founded specifically to counter the claims of “ex-gay” ministries. via. Read the full article @ Apple Removes [...]

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Boehner Petitioners Arrested

OIA Staff — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:41:06 +0000

House Speaker John Boehner’s office chose to lock out Sean Watkins, Morgan Bonney, Jesse Bonney, Liz Mills and Karay Miller. When they pressed their case and refused to leave until they were given their Constitutional right by delivering a petition to Boehner’s office demanding that he focus upon job creation instead of destroying American [...]

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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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Domestic partnership petition case back in court

OIA Staff — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:15:27 +0000

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that signed petitions calling for a state vote on expanded domestic partnerships for gay couples are barred from public release while he hears arguments on whether to block them for good. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in June that release of the signatures does not violate constitutional rights, but [...]

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Supreme Court on R-71: Names on anti-gay rights petition public

OIA Staff — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:09:54 +0000

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the names of people who signed petitions in an attempt to overturn a new gay rights law in Washington must be made public, a victory for state officials who said the case was a test of open government laws. Justices ruled 8-1 in a case called Doe V. Reed. [...]

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Money Laundering by NOM in Maine Election?

OIA Staff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:03 +0000

Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger sent a letter today warning top Maine election officials of possible money laundering by opponents of same-sex marriage. The organization trying to overturn Maine’s same-sex marriage law, Stand for Marriage PAC recently turned in 100,000 signatures to place the question on the November ballot. These gay marriage foes hope [...]

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Protecting Marrige [sic] on Craigslist

OIA Staff — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:16:53 +0000

One of the petitioners for Referendum 71, the shamelessly homophobic measure trying to repeal the domestic partnership bill, is desperate to gather signatures before the deadline this Saturday. He posted an ad on Craigslist… [ The Stranger ] Read the full article @ Protecting Marrige [sic] on Craigslist Read more articles @ our blogBecome a [...]

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Is Obama A Champion For Gay Americans?

OIA Staff — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:25:31 +0000

President Obama, who has come under harsh criticism from gay rights advocates for not yet acting on many campaign promises on gay issues, Monday afternoon said that his administration has made some progress on behalf of gay Americans and plans to do more. “I know that many in this room don’t believe that progress has [...]

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Group Petitions to Expand 1964 Civil Rights Act to Include LGBT

OIA Staff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:56:52 +0000

This morning, a press conference was held outside New York’s historic Stonewall Inn by grassroots online group The Power announcing its LGBT Civil Rights campaign for full equality. At the presser, the group presented U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler with a signed petition for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to expand the 1964 Civil Rights Act to [...]

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Wal-Mart CEO Signed Anti-Gay Petition

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:33:05 +0000

Why we love to shop at Target: Know Thy Neighbor is reporting that Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke’s signature is among the 80,000 Arkansas residents that signed a petition to ban adoption for same-sex couples. His wife signed also. [ Gay News Blog ] Read the full article @ Wal-Mart CEO Signed Anti-Gay Petition Read more [...]

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