VICTORIA WILL FINALLY BAN "GAY CONVERSION" THERAPISTS
… conversion” or “ex-gay” therapies, which have included prayer groups, counselling, and exercises that resemble exorcisms, have been debunked and condemned as harmful by psychological associations in Australia and around the world. “We have …
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Live Chat With An Australian Mars One Candidate Right Now!
Live Chat With An Australian Mars One Candidate Right Now!
What would you ask someone who’s volunteered to spend the rest of their life on Mars? To celebrate the Blu-ray/DVD release of The Martian, one of Australia’s Mars One expedition candidates, Josh Richards, has started a five-day five-day public …
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PA man sentenced for kidnapping, jewelery store robbery in CT
PA man sentenced for kidnapping, jewelery store robbery in CT
Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut … Hennix, William Davis, Christopher Gay and Jeffrey Houston, all of whom were wearing masks and gloves and two of whom were armed with handguns, broke into an apartment on Gravel Street …
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Canadian Authorities Use Homophobic Law to Charge Gay Pastor, LGBT Rights Activist
Canadian Authorities Use Homophobic Law to Charge Gay Pastor, LGBT Rights Activist
Hawkes performed Canada’s first same-sex marriages in 2001 … including a hunger strike to protest police raids of gay bathhouses in 1981. In a milestone for the LGBT community, Hawkes officiated the state funeral of former National Democratic …
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Donald Trump softens stand on gay rights: 'We're going to bring people together'
Donald Trump softens stand on gay rights: 'We're going to bring people together'
We have to bring all people together,” the Republican presidential candidate said. He further said the status of gay rights now in the United States is already a “mess” and will continue to be such if not addressed. “If we don’t, we’re not gonna have a …
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Live chat now: The latest from the Legislature
Live chat now: The latest from the Legislature
Join our state politics team — Matthew DeFour, Molly Beck, Mark Sommerhauser and Mark Pitsch — for a live chat at noon about the current legislative session and Gov. Scott Walker’s recent efforts to rehabilitate his image. Tap the “Comment” button below …
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FBI Steps Up Pursuit of Terror Threats on Social Media
FBI Steps Up Pursuit of Terror Threats on Social Media
Counterterrorism experts say the approach—which relies on informants, as well as undercover agents who monitor chat rooms and target suspects—is often the best chance at disrupting terrorism before it is too late. The attacks in San Bernardino …
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Rona Ambrose brands Liberal changes to ISIS mission 'shameful'
Rona Ambrose brands Liberal changes to ISIS mission 'shameful'
Canada will also provide hundreds of millions of more dollars … This is a group of people that enslave women and children, that throw gay people off of the top of rooftops to their death and that burn people alive in cages. There’s no reasoning with …
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Texas Prisons Expand Hormone Therapy Treatment To More Transgender Inmates
Texas Prisons Expand Hormone Therapy Treatment To More Transgender Inmates
The news comes almost a year after the Department of Justice confirmed that denying hormone therapy for transgender prisoners is cruel and unusual punishment.
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In New Hampshire, Rubio Tells Married Gay Man to Get the Legislature to Approve his Marriage
In New Hampshire, Rubio Tells Married Gay Man to Get the Legislature to Approve his Marriage
Today, HRC released the following statement after video emerged of Marco Rubio telling a married gay man who was sitting with his husband that he believed marriage should be between “one man and one woman.” After the voter tells Rubio that his opinion is not shared by half the country, Rubio callously tells the man he should “have the law changed by the legislature.” Memo to Marco Rubio: Not only did New Hampshire enact civil unions through the legislative process in 2007, it legalized marriage equality by the same process in 2009.
“Let’s dispense with this fiction that Marco Rubio is a moderate. He knows exactly what he’s doing when he telegraphs his desire to allow discrimination in last week’s debate, and then tells a married gay man to have the legislature vote on his Constitutional rights,” said JoDee Winterhof, HRC’s Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs. “Marco Rubio’s so-called ‘New American Century’ is one in which LGBT people are treated like second-class citizens, where they remain at risk for being fired or denied a job because of who they are or who they love, and where they could lose the right to get married. He’s threatened to revoke, repeal, and overturn the gains made on LGBT equality during President Obama’s two terms in office. Rubio would be a disaster for LGBT Americans, plain and simple.”
The campaign trail exchange unfolded as follows:
Man: “I’m a gay man, already married. I’m already married, have been for a long time. And you want to say that we don’t matter.”
Rubio: “No, I just believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.”
Man: “But that’s your belief. Not half of the country’s.”
Rubio: “Well I think that’s what the law should be. I think you should have the law changed by the legislature. I believe that – [cut off]”
Man: “But the law already happened.”
Rubio: “I respect your opinion.”
Man: “Yeah, yeah. Typical politician. Marco Rubio…”
Throughout his campaign, Rubio has committed to reversing nationwide marriage equality by appointing judges who would reverse the Supreme Court’s ruling and committed to the so-called “First Amendment Defense Act,” which would enable more Kim Davis-like discrimination.
Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has reported that a 75 percent majority of New Hampshire residents support the right of same-sex couples to marry. Nationally, polling by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for HRC has found that a 55 percent majority of voters are less likely to support a candidate for president who opposes allowing same-sex couples to marry.
