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Udall joins growing list of lawmakers in support of marriage equality

By | 08.22.11 | 10:22 am

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall at a gay-rights event this weekend in Denver said he supports marriage equality for all Americans. Udall joins a growing list of lawmakers who have gone on record in support of ending the era where the federal Defense of Marriage Act and where constitutional bans like Colorado’s Amendment 43 blocked LGBT couples from the legal protections and advantages provided by the state through marriage. Udall is the 18th sitting U.S. Senator to state publicly that he supports efforts to make gay marriage legal.

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Bachmann dodges questions on past anti-gay statements

By | 08.15.11 | 10:31 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann was grilled by the hosts of several Sunday morning talk shows about her views on gay and lesbian Americans. When pressed about her past statements about LGBT issues, she repeated “I am running for the presidency of the United States,” several times in lieu of answering the question. “I’m not anyone’s judge.”

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VIDEO: Teen confronts Pawlenty on marriage equality, says discrimination against gays ‘hurts’

By | 08.13.11 | 11:17 am

At a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday, a member of the audience grilled Tim Pawlenty on his views about rights for LGBT people. Gabe Aderhold, a senior at Edina High School, asked Pawlenty why he has “not had the courage to stand for me and my friends. You are discriminating against me and it hurts.” Pawlenty said he will never be at the point “where I’ll say that every domestic relationship is the same as traditional marriage.”

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VIDEO: GOP presidential candidates fundraise for anti-gay groups

By | 08.11.11 | 2:09 pm

A number of Republican presidential candidates are raising money for family policy councils, state-based religious-right groups affiliated with the Family Research Council, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center says is an anti-gay hate group.

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In Denver, Knights of Columbus reaffirms opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion

By | 08.05.11 | 3:28 pm

Delegates setting the resolutions for the Knights of Columbus (K of C) again voted to defend traditional marriage and the “sacredness of human life” at the group’s 129th Supreme Convention held in Denver this week. With both controversial issues seen as the most important topics to many of the delegates, some secular and Catholic groups are concerned their agenda is a step in the wrong direction for civil rights.

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Obama announces support of bill to end DOMA

By | 07.21.11 | 5:11 am

The White House announced this week that President Barack Obama was throwing his support behind legislation which would effectively kill the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

California Prop 8 gay marriage trial concludes today

By | 06.16.10 | 10:29 am

In San Francisco today Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will hear closing arguments in the trial that will decide whether or not the ban on gay marriage imposed by California voters through the ballot measure known as Proposition 8…

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