Members of the media refer to him as a “stunt candidate.” He didn’t appear on stage in South Carolina last week for the Republican presidential debate because he failed to hit the required support threshold– 1 percent in five national polls. He won’t pull down financial backing from the conservative More…
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is scheduled to hold a briefing Friday on bullying and “peer-to-peer” violence in K-12 public schools. Specifically, the commission will concentrate on students targeted due to their race, national origin, religion, disability, gender or LGBT status and on what the appropriate federal response should More…
Sen. Al Franken is the sponsor of legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate late last week that would give binational same-sex couples the same rights as married couples for immigration purposes. The Uniting American Families Act is authored by Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont and is sponsored by 18 other More…
Legislation that could fight discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in Florida has stagnated, according to state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando. Randolph introduced House Bill 361 in an effort provide Florida’s LGBT community with the same protections currently afforded to individuals against unfair treatment based on More…
Denver Archbishop Chaput asked Notre Dame University Catholics this weekend to press for Church policy that would deny communion to U.S. Catholic politicians who support pro-choice or pro-gay rights positions. The speech comes in the wake of surveys that show most Catholics don’t agree with Chaput on the issues. More…
Updated April 14 at 12:08 p.m. EST with a correction to a quote that was previously misattributed.
Updated at 11:00 p.m. EST with a video clip of Ryan Sorba explaining his views on the word “gay.”
The first step for Christian conservatives to win the war against the More…
The Virginia Legislature passed a health care bill Wednesday that bans private insurance providers from covering abortions if they participate in a state health care exchange mandated under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to the Associated Press.
The bill passed the Senate with a tie-breaking More…
On Wednesday, Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly will try to quash Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell’s proposed amendment to ban state insurance exchanges created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from paying for abortions. This includes private insurance providers that participate in the exchanges.*
The General Assembly earlier this More…
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, one of a handful of national anti-gay groups that lead the effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices, wrote on his blog Thursday that not only did the country’s founders not intend for the First Amendment to protect Islam, butMore…
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll adds to the pool of evidence that despite assertions from legislators stating that the vast majority of Americans oppose same-sex marriage, it is actually beginning to enjoy wide mainstream acceptance for the first time in American history.
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