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The Business Argument for Full LGBTQ Equality and Rights

The Business Argument for Full LGBTQ Equality and Rights

The quote below is from an amici brief filed regarding the court case in Utah re: same-sex marriage,and pulled from this this story: “State laws and constitutions that deny marriage to gay and lesbian citizens are bad for our businesses …. Our success is dependent upon the welfare and morale of all employees, without distinction. This forced differential treatment – imposed by state law – of similarly situated employees interferes with our business and professional[Read More…]

March 7, 2014 — Comments are Disabled — general, LGBT Discrimination: Exploring Laws and Policies
Who will same-sex marriage help?

Who will same-sex marriage help?

Personally, I think this says less about “gay headline policy priorities” and more about the fact that black LGBTQ’s have not been a visible part of the LGBTQ movement all along, from a political perspective.Therefore, what is seen as “major progress” by some is still seen as very little progress by others. I also disagree with the sentence:

February 11, 2012 — 2 comments — Activism, general, LGBT Discrimination: Exploring Laws and Policies, Same-Sex Marriage

PA Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote on SB 707

The language of the bill would define marriage as between one man and one woman. Backers of the legislation believe that this will make it harder to overturn in the courts, but this really isn’t the case. There are states that have had a constitutional ban, and it has been found as unconstitutional just as easily as a simple law of the state.

March 11, 2010 — 5 comments — general

Writing Discrimination Into the PA Constitution

Whenever same-sex marriage is put up for a vote by the people, opponents can launch a campaign of fear mongering, lies and misinformation that is successful at scaring people to vote “No”

January 29, 2010 — 7 comments — Activism, general, Same-Sex Marriage

Post Election Thoughts

This is more of a rambling post than most of my posts- though you might think they are all rambling.   And most likely this post is less geared towards this Queer Look at the Bible blog, but hopefully as I write, it won’t seem that disconnected- unless I run out of steam or decide I’m not sure what I am saying. As much as it was exciting to see Obama win, it was disappointing[Read More…]

November 5, 2008 — Comments are Disabled — Uncategorized