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Ann Coulter dropped from right-wing speaking gig for headlining gay Republican event

Aug 23rd, 2010 | By Guest User 3 | Category: National News, United We Stand News

Conservative speaker Ann Coulter, the woman who says you cannot say the word “fagot” without going to rehab, claims Jews need to be “perfected,” and calls people in the Middle East “Camel Jockeys,” has been asked to step down as a keynote speaker at WorldNetDaily’s “Taking America Back National Conference”.
Coulter is an American constitutional attorney, [...]



New Jersey Gay Marriage Supreme Court Case; Democrats and Republicans Blamed

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.



Genetic Engineering; A Cure for Homosexuality? Would anyone want it? Share your thoughts!

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.



Federal Judge sides with the California Supreme Court; Prop 8 is unconstitutional

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.



California gay marriage decision announced today; massive anticipation builds on gay marriage ruling scheduled for today

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.



New Jersey Supreme Court rejects gay marriage case

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.



Shaky 51% support same-sex marriage, poll finds

Jul 22nd, 2010 | By United We Stand Webmaster | Category: National News, United We Stand News

Although a majority of California voters say they support same-sex marriage, that endorsement is as tenuous as it was two years ago when voters told pollsters that they approved of the idea but still voted to ban the marriages.



Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D) Issues Employment Protections to Gay Employees

Jul 20th, 2010 | By Tony Begley, Contributor and Literary Editor | Category: National News, United We Stand News

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D) signed Executive Order 10-24 at the National Conference of the NAACP in Kansas City prohibiting employment discrimination in Missouri Government because of sexual orientation.



Virginia Governor’s Transgender former brother-in-law fights against him at the Capitol

Jul 16th, 2010 | By Trevor Ashley, Contributor | Category: National News, United We Stand News

Robyn Deane, dressed in a red raincoat, jeans and heels, glanced at her handwritten notes before peering at the crowd gathered outside Virginia’s Capitol to promote the rights of gay and transgender state workers. For years, Deane, a man who is in the process of becoming of woman, had considered revealing her lengthy but largely unknown connection to Governor Robert F. McDonnell (R).



Federal Judge rules DOMA Unconstitutional in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States

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.



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