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Aug 17th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News
Seven months after the New Jersey Senate failed to pass a gay marriage law, and nearly a month after the New Jersey Supreme Court refused to hear a gay case, speculation runs rampant through the state and the nation. Senator Lesniak (D) blamed his own party as being without a moral compass. Others blamed the Governor, the first Republican to win a statewide election in New Jersey in 12 years.
Tags: Garden State Equality, Marriage Equality, New Jersey Family Policy Council, New Jersey Senate, New Jersey Supreme Court, State of New Jersey Posted in Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News |
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Aug 15th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News
A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation while others are calling it outright genetic engineering.
Tags: Anti-Gay, Genetic Engineering, ILGA, International Lesbian & Gay Association (ILGA), United Nations, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations World Health Organization Posted in Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News |
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Aug 10th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: International News, United We Stand News
Felipe Calderon, president of the United Mexican States and his opposition to legalize gay marriage and calling it “unconstitutional” was overruled on Thursday, August 5, 2010 when Mexico’s Supreme Court sanctioned the landmark law. On Monday it will review the gay adoption clause. Washington, D.C. legalized gay marriage earlier this year after a District Superior Court rejected a citizens anti-gay marriage referendum.
Tags: Argentine Republic, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Don't Ask Don't Tell (DoDT, Marriage Equality, Organized Religion, Roman Catholic Church, State of Hawaii, The District, United Mexican States, Washington Posted in International News, United We Stand News |
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Aug 8th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News
WFPL News reports that Kentucky Senate President David Williams was busy during the weekend, making speeches and taking about Republicans taking additional seats in the Kentucky Senate. No pro-LGBTI legislation has made it through the Republican controlled Senate.
Tags: 2010 Election, Kentucky Senate, Kentucky Senate President Posted in Around the Commonwealth, United We Stand News |
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Aug 4th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News
A federal judge declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional Wednesday, saying that no legitimate state interest justified treating gay and lesbian couples differently from others and that “moral disapproval” was not enough to save the voter-passed Proposition 8. The California Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that gays and lesbians were entitled to marry under the state Constitution in a historic ruling in May 2008. Voters passed Proposition 8 six months later, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Tags: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Anti-Gay, California Supreme Court, California's Prop 8 Trial, State of California, U.S. Supreme Court Posted in Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News |
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Aug 4th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News
California gay marriage decision announced today. The decision will be posted online between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., Pacific time, and will be written by Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker. Walker, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, heard myriad witnesses testify about the history of marriage, the nature of homosexuality and the degree of power gays and lesbians possess in the political system.
Tags: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Anti-Gay, California's Prop 8 Trial, State of California, U.S. Supreme Court Posted in Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News |
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Jul 27th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News
New Jersey Supreme Court will not consider whether the state’s civil union law provides equal rights to gay couples before the case is heard in a lower court. The court said yesterday that it could not consider the merits of the claim by six same-sex couples that New Jersey’s civil union law is unconstitutional, until there is a trial record.
Tags: Garden State Equality, New Jersey Family Policy Council, New Jersey Senate, New Jersey Supreme Court, State of New Jersey Posted in Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News |
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Jul 8th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act’s denial of federal rights and benefits to lawfully married Massachusetts couples “offends” the notion of states’ rights as enshrined in the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Tags: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, U.S. Supreme Court Posted in Lead Story, National News, United We Stand News |
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Jun 19th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Kentucky Political News, Lead Story, United We Stand News
The president of the anti-gay American Family Association of Kentucky, Dr. Frank G. Simon, is also in charge of the Louisville Tea Party, though not endorsed or recognized by the national Tea Party movement. Dr. Rand Paul, is scheduled to speak at Kentucky Freedom Fest 2010.
Tags: American Family Association of Kentuck, Kentucky Equality Federation, Libertarian Party of Kentucky, Louisville, Louisville Fairness Campaign, Louisville Tea Party, Tea Party Movement Posted in Kentucky Political News, Lead Story, United We Stand News |
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Apr 25th, 2010 |
By United We Stand Contributors & Staff |
Category: Around the Commonwealth
The mother of a gay teenager says her daughter won’t return to Jackson County High School after an incident in which she claims three other girls tried to kill her. In an e-mail to Jackson County schools officials on Friday, the Kentucky Equality Federation disputed statements that the incident was a prank and asked for assurances of safety for gay students.
Tags: Anti-Gay, Hate Crimes, Jackson County High School, Kentucky Attorney General, Kentucky Equality Federation, Kentucky State Police Posted in Around the Commonwealth |
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