Progress For Gay Rights?

Nov 8th 2007

By: Summer

In: Politics

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Today the House passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which would make it illegal for employers to discriminate in the processes of hiring, firing, promoting or paying an employee due to their sexual orientation. The one thing that this bill did not include was protection for transgendered individuals.
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D,MA) will now introduce comparable legislation [...]

Phelps’ Not That Different From Fundies

Living in Topeka, KS, I am subjected almost daily to the bigotry and hatred of the Phelps’ clan. If you don’t know who they are they are the members and leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka that are in the habit of picketing pretty much anything with day-glo signs graphically depicting anti-gay messages. [...]

The Phelps Pay Up But We All Lose

Nov 1st 2007

By: William

In: Sinners

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Firedoglake.com is reporting that Fred Phelps and family, otherwise known as the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Ks, have been ordered to pay $10.9 Million to the family of slain marine Matthew Snyder. The Westboro Baptist Church has gained international notoriety because of their revolting picket signs and loathsome all around behavior. If [...]

Rudy Panders to Hate

Rudy “9/11″ Guiliani has proven again that you cannot trust Republicans to keep their word because they are willing to sell out everything for a shot at the GOP nomination. Mr. 9/11’s most recent sellout was on the issue of gay rights, which Rudy once supported. I have read today on Bloggernista that [...]

Huckabee Says Abortion is Like Holocaust

Jamie Crawford, CNN Political Ticker, reported that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee likened abortions in America to the holocaust. His exact words were, “Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have [...]

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