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RNC: Taxpayers Must Fund Anti-Gay Discrimination Against Orphaned Children

The Republican National Committee has officially sided against the American people and against the “family values” that they pretend to support. The Republican National Convention has newest “defense” bill (defense of their “right” to discriminate) is the First Amendment Defense Act, a bill which the ACLU has described as “a Pandora’s Box of taxpayer-funded discrimination against same-sex couples…

August 18, 2015
President Obama Calls For End To 'Harmful' Gay Conversion Therapy

On Wednesday night, President Obama formally called for an end to the use of “gay conversion” therapies used by faith groups to force gay and transgender children to adhere to socially constructed gender identities that their parents demand. Hundreds of thousands of Americans signed a petition asking for the President’s support for a bill banning…

April 8, 2015
Watch: That Time Rand Paul Admitted He Doesn't 'Believe' In 'Gay Rights'

To Rand Paul, the concept of gay rights is like the tooth fairy: He just doesn’t BELIEVE in it.

March 31, 2015
Watch: FOX News Compares Gays to Nazis to Justify Indiana's Bigoted Law

In this video clip, FOX News contributor Mike Gallagher took the conservative network’s bigotry to a whole new height when he drew an equivalency between gays wanting to be served at restaurants to “Nazis” seeking to have hate-filled “Swastika signs” made for a “skinhead rally”. Alan Colmes couldn’t stop himself rolling his eyes at Gallagher,…

March 29, 2015
Historic Win For Progressives as Boy Scouts Lift 103-Year-Old Ban on Gay Youth.

In a historic victory for gay and human rights advocates of America and abroad, the Boy Scouts of America announced today that it will propose a measure at May 20th’s National Council meeting to lift the long-standing ban on gay youth members. The move is a response to unprecedented progressive pressure on the BSA exerted…

April 19, 2013