“[DOMA] clearly violates the constitution.” So this lawyer says so clearly that this law violates the constitution! How amazing is that; yet the GOP is still considering appealing the cases and defending DOMA.
A bartender at Dee’s Cafe in Pittsburgh’s South Side refused to serve several women because she believed they were lesbian. This is in violation of the City Human Relations Ordinance.
When questions of the constitutionality of same-sex marriage come up, this judge’s willingness to create rights that do not exist, while at the same time ignoring the clear meaning of the First amendment surely matter.
Received this information in an email today from Ted Hoover of the Persad, Community Safe Zone Project: I’m excited to tell you about two new organizations coming together in Westmoreland County which promise to have a great positive impact on the LGBTQ-and Allies community. Concerned folks from around the county, along  Persad Center’s Community Safe Zone project and many other organizations, have spent the last several months accessing the needs of the Westmoreland LGBTQ community[Read More…]
I’ve written a number of times about how the Christian Right wishes to replace our democracy with a Christian theocracy. They don’t mind that people get to vote, but only within the confines of a Christian limited set of rights, wrongs, policies and ideals. Very similar to Iran, except that for Iran, the confines are Muslim instead of Christian. On the surface, this story is yet another illustration of the conflation of Christianity with American[Read More…]