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Asst. Michigan Attorney General terrorizes gay student president; Michigan Governor gets involved

Oct 1st, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, National News

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm called on Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to terminate an assistant attorney general who has been on an internet vendetta against gay University of Michigan student body President Chris Armstrong.



Prop. 8 supporters argue that U.S. appeals court exceeded jurisdiction

Sep 18th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, National News

If last month’s ruling overturning Proposition 8 survives, same-sex marriage should be available only to the two homosexual couples who challenged the ballot measure and should remain barred for the rest of the state’s gay and lesbian population, sponsors of the measure told a federal appeals court.



National anti-gay goes on alert over the military DATA policy

Sep 14th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, National News

Liberty Counsel, one of many national anti-LGBTI groups issued an alert today about the U.S. Senate’s pending vote on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” which was recently struck down by a federal judge.



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

Aug 23rd, 2010 | By Guest User 3 | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, National 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 [...]



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

Aug 17th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National 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 Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National 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 Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National 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 Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National 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 Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National 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: Kentucky Guardian News, National 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.



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