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:Eric Ethington (Author) | March 31, 2010
In our previous story, the family who sued Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptists for disrupting their private funeral of the dead Marine Son was ordered to pay the hate church $16,000. Bill O’Reilly has offered to pay the fee for them. I’ll be honest, it’s incredibly rare for me to have anything good to [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 31, 2010
Ok.. so we ALL know Fred Phelps and the super-insane Westboro Baptists, you know.. the “God Hates Fags” people. They protested outside the Uganda embassy in the US when Uganda was considering removing the death penalty on homosexuals–Fred and family whined that the death penalty should stay. But the Westboro Baptists are also known for [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 31, 2010
From the NY TIMES this morning: Maryland – Don H. Dwyer Jr., a Republican member of the House of Delegates, plans to bring impeachment charges on the House floor on Wednesday against the state’s attorney general, Douglas F. Gansler. Mr. Dwyer said that Mr. Gansler overstepped his authority in issuing a legal opinion last month [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 30, 2010
From the AP: ALBANY, N.Y. — A gay teenager in upstate New York who had claimed he was relentlessly bullied by classmates while school administrators stood by settled his lawsuit Monday against the school district. Jacob — who is identified as “J.L.” in the lawsuit and doesn’t want his name revealed — sued the Mohawk [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 29, 2010
DC – Congressman Pete Stark, a Democrat from California has introduced a bill dubbed the “Every Child Deserves A Family Act,” which would require any adoption agency which receives federal funding to no longer consider sexual orientation, gender identity or marriage status when placing a child with a family. This new law, which is garnering [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 29, 2010
From Huffington Post: Fifty percent of Americans say they’d support having an openly gay President of the United States, a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll shows. Forty-four percent would be opposed to having a gay president in office. The poll asked respondents how they’d feel about having openly gay contenders in a variety of positions, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 26, 2010
Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe is heading up a massive project to re-write the country’s constitution and says, “Absolutely Not!” to calls for LGBT protections. The new constitution is part of a power-share deal the country has made, and western human-rights advocates are strongly making their feelings known in the African Country. But President Mugabe isn’t [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 25, 2010
Washington DC – An announcment today by Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that the Pentagon is enacting new rules that make it much more difficult to discharge people in the military due to sexual orientation. This new temporary guideline would raise the standard required for evidence to be presented in cases, design to prevent outings by [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 24, 2010
Georgia - The Georgia teen who convinced his school to let him attend the prom with his boyfriend has been kicked out of his home. Derrick Martin was thrilled when his school decided to let him bring his boyfriend to prom. Unfortunately his parents were unaware he was gay until then, and when they heard about [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 23, 2010
COCHRAN, Ga. — An 18-year-old senior at Bleckley County High School has won approval to bring a same-sex date to the school prom. Derrick Martin says he first sought permission in January to bring his date to the April 17 dance at the school. Bleckley County High requires approval in advance for bringing a prom [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.