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UT: GOP Representative Would Ban Gays & Lesbians from Public Programs

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

A Utah legislator introduced a bill Wednesday that would require all publicly funded programs, laws, and regulations, to ensure they exclude families headed by gay and lesbian couples.

Rep. LaVar Christensen writes in the bill’s language that “marriage and family predate all governments and are supported by and consistent with the Laws of Nature and God, the Creator and Supreme Judge of the World, affirmed in the nation’s founding Declaration of Independence.”

It also says, “families anchored by both a father and a mother, fidelity within marriage, and enduring devotion to the covenants and responsibilities of marriage are the desired norm.”

Full Story fromSheWired

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NM: GOP Lawmaker Introduces Gay Marriage Ban

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Nora EspinozaYesterday Tea Party-backed GOP state Rep. Nora Espinoza introduced a state-level version of DOMA. Equality New Mexico reports on their Facebook page:

This very concept of creating less equal classes of people has been fought against for generations in New Mexico and is contrary to our state’s proud traditions of providing equal protection and opportunity for her citizens from every background and community.

Similar legislation was defeated last year when it was tabled in the Senate Rule Committee. This year, however, promises greater challenges given the much more conservative make up of both our state legislature and governor’s office.

Full Story from Joe.My.God

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Gay Republican Launching Bid for Presidency?

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Sen. Jim DeMint has never been one to hide his disgust for gays and lesbians. He wants to deny them marriage licenses and ban them from teaching. But that isn’t enough. Last December, DeMint told Bloomberg News that he “cringes” at the thought of a gay president. “It would be bothersome to me just personally, because I consider it immoral,” DeMint said at the time.

Senator, prepare to be bothered. Gay Republican Fred Karger announced earlier this year that he’s exploring a presidential run in the GOP primary, and it was clear last week in an interview that Karger is moving ever closer to officially announcing a campaign.

Karger is a longtime Republican operative who worked with Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He came out publicly four years ago and led a challenge to California’s Proposition 8, a ballot measure that outlawed gay marriage by a narrow margin in California in 2008. Karger has also brought the fight to anti-gay groups like the Mormon Church and the National Organization for Marriage.

Full Story from the Charleston City Paper

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Michael Signorile Asks Why Some Gays Voted Republican – Video

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

Two days after Election Day 2010, for the last hour of the show, I asked those LGBT people who voted Republican to call in to the show and explain why. The phones lit up with people calling from all across the U.S.

Exit polling shows gay, lesbian, bisexual voters cast a ballot for Republicans in double the numbers from 2008: from 19% to 31%. True, the sample is small, and any such polling should be taken with a grain of salt. But it’s undeniable that many LGBT voters were disappointed with the White House and Democrats, and it’s plausable that many stayed home or voted for another party.

And yet, the Republican takeover of the House and many statehouses means there will be no votes expanding gay civil rights protections, in Congress and in most of the states that went GOP (and there likely will be antigay votes, such as in Minnesota where Republican pledge to push a marriage amendment), which begs the question of why gay people would vote Republican in this election. The phones were jammed with people who voted GOP who wanted to offer their explanations for casting votes for politicians like David Vitter in Louisiana, for Rand Paul in Kentucky, for Rick Scott in the governor’s race in Florida, and for various other, Senate, House and local races.

Full Story from Signorile.com

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NH: Republicans Win Veto-Proof Majorities in Both Houses, Could Repeal Gay Marriage

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

New Hampshire Gay MarriageAmong the more dismal losses in Tuesday’s results was the one in New Hampshire, where Republicans won a veto-proof majority in both the state House and Senate. That means that, while Democratic Governor John Lynch retained his seat – and the position to veto any of the legislature’s pending bills to repeal the state’s marriage equality law – there are enough votes now in both chambers to overturn that veto.

It gets worse. Republicans took over the majorities in both chambers of the state legislatures in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Alabama – states which had both houses dominated by Democrats going into Tuesday’s votes.

In Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where only one chamber had a Republican majority, now both are dominated by Republicans. The Maine Senate, too, has switched from a Democratic to Republican majority, with Republicans holding a hefty 21 to 13 margin that would not likely approve a new marriage equality law. The Democratic-led Maine Senate passed such a bill in 2009 by a 20 to 15 margin but the law was overturned by voter referendum later that year.

Full Story from Keen News Service

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IA: Anti Gay Republican Wins Iowa Governorship

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Iowa Governor Terry BranstadFormer Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is returning for a fifth term after a 12-year break. Voters elected the Republican on Tuesday over first-term Democrat Chet Culver, whose loss made him the first incumbent Iowa governor to lose election since 1962.

Branstad campaigned on promises to rein in government spending and cut business taxes. He called for making Iowa more friendly to entrepreneurs and told voters he’d create 200,000 jobs within five years.

Those pledges played well in a state with unemployment of nearly 7 percent, the highest Iowa has seen in decades.

Full Story from the Washington Post

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HI: GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Wants Stronger Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Republican gubernatorial candidate James “Duke” Aiona has promised to back an amendment banning gay marriage in the Hawaii Constitution. In 1998, voters approved a constitutional amendment granting the state Legislature the power to reserve marriage as a heterosexual union. Civil unions remain an option. The decision overruled a 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that favored gay marriage advocates.

Aiona, who currently serves as the state’s lieutenant governor, said if elected he would will propose a constitutional amendment in 2012 to ask voters whether marriage should be defined as a union between one man and one woman, the Star Advertiser reported.

Lawmakers last session narrowly approved a bill that recognizes gay and lesbian couples with civil unions, but Republican Governor Linda Lingle vetoed the measure.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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CA: 27 GOP Assemblymembers Ask Schwarzenegger to Defend Prop 8

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Republican lawmakers are urging Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to defend California’s gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. Twenty-seven members of the Assembly’s Republican caucus wrote to Schwarzenegger asking the governor to appeal a federal ruling that struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional.

Schwarzenegger, a Republican, and Attorney General Jerry Brown, a Democrat who is running for governor, refused to defend the law and have said they would not file an appeal.

“It does not matter whether we, the Attorney General, or you supported or opposed Proposition 8, or whether we believe it should or should not be the law of California,” the lawmakers wrote. “The people of the state of California themselves decided this issue on November 4, 2008.”

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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CA: Outed Republican Roy Ashburn Calls on GOP to Support Gay Rights

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

State Sen. Roy Ashburn, the Bakersfield Republican who came out as gay earlier this year after a drunk driving arrest in Sacramento, has penned a bold column on why his fellow GOPers should wholeheartedly support civil rights for gays and lesbians.

In the piece published on the website gaypolitics.com, run by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund that supports gay and lesbian candidates for office, Ashburn writes, “Gay people being treated with respect and having the same opportunities for a good life regardless of sexual orientation should not be topics of political debate. How can it possibly be that there is a partisan political divide over equal rights in America?”

Ashburn had one of the Legislature’s strongest records of voting against bills to expand rights for LGBT Californians, but he says he deeply regrets those votes and wrote, “I look back now knowing there is so much more I could have done to inform the public about LGBT people and to fight for equal rights under the law. Regrettably and selfishly, I took another path in my life and political career – I chose to conceal who I truly am and to then actually vote against the best interests of people like me. All this was done because I was afraid – terrified, really – that somehow I would be revealed as gay.”

Full Story from SF Gate

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Montana: GOP Platform Includes Criminalization of Homosexuality

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

The Montana Republican Party is following in Texas’ footsteps by also creating a party platform to ban homosexual acts. This continues the theme I’ve long argued that Republicans don’t just oppose gay marriage or gay rights – universally – but they oppose gay existence. They often believe that homosexuals engaging in consensual sexual relations with one another should be punished with jail sentences.

The United States legalized sodomy in 2003, so this recent push really doesn;t threaten the Supreme Court decision Lawrence v Texas. However, it’s worth taking a minute to explore the different countries that have already legalized sodomy that don’t have to ongoing debate about it.

Turkey legalized sodomy in 1858. That’s right – a muslim country legalized homosexuality about 150 years before we did! Does Muhammed hate gays as much as Jesus? Great question. I think it depends on who you ask. Some believe that Muhammed prefers to stone to death any homosexuals, whereas a handful of Christians blame 9/11 on the gays. In the end, Turkey might not be a very open and accepting country for the LGBTs, but it did beat us to the punch on the most fundamental of gay rights.

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