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:Eric Ethington (Author) | April 30, 2010
Here we are folks! The end of another great week, here’s what happened! Monday, April 26th We took the day off – sorry! Tuesday, April 27th CA Passes Bill To Stop Trying To “Cure” Homosexuality Pelosi Promises Vote On DADT This Year Study Reports Gay Men LESS Likely to be Pedophiles…no duh Gay Man Almost [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 30, 2010
Vancouver – Lisa Reimer, a music teacher at a Catholic High School was told to start working from home once the school found out that she is in a same-sex relationship. In December, Ms. Reimer requested Parental Leave from the school because her partner had just given birth to their new baby. The school denied [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 30, 2010
Washington DC – Defense Secretary Robert Gates has told Congress to hold off on repealing DADT for now. In a strongly worded letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Gates told a House committee on Friday that forcing policy changes on the military before it’s ready “would send a very damaging message to our men and [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 30, 2010
Washington DC – A new amendment into the already controversial Immigration Reform bill is being considered. The new amendment will effect people with same-sex partners. Senator Harry Reid’s immigration reform bill is already taking heat from the usual nutjobs, but now a new amendment is being proposed which will influence the LGBT community as well. [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 30, 2010
Hawaii – The State Legislature has passed a controversial bill which will allow same-sex couples the rights to Civil Unions! In a close vote of 31-20, the bill has now gone to the Governor for signing. This is a great step for Hawaii, who is still suffering from the bigoted anti-equal marriage law which passed [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 30, 2010
KY – Charges have been reduced on the two high school girls who kidnapped and tried to kill their openly-lesbian classmate due to her sexual orientation. Cheyenne Williams filed charges against her classmates after they through her in the back of her car last month. They drove her to a local cliff and threatened to [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 29, 2010
FL – A bill is up again to make it illegal to have sex with animals, but it isn’t likely to pass. Wait… why again can’t I get married there?? The bill would make it a 1st degree misdemeanor to have sex with an animal – punishable with up to 1 year in jail. This [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 29, 2010
A new website has been created by an anti-gay LDS family in pleasant grove called “Standard of Truth.” In it, the site encourages parents to never accept their LGBT children…among other things. PRIDE In Utah reader Mark Lawrence tipped us off to the website, standardofliberty.org, which was created by Steve and Janice Graham who claim [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 29, 2010
Washington DC – Mayor Adrian Fenty has apologized over his decision to honor the head of PFOX, the notorious ex-gay program which attempts to “rehabilitate” LGBT people. The award shot red flames through the DC community as the city just recently became the most recent place in the country to allow same-sex marriage. Fenty’s statement [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 28, 2010
Ceara Sturgis, a top student at Wesson Attendance Center in Mississippi, has been purged from the yearbook. She attended the school for 12 years, but she’s also a lesbian, and so they made her an un-person. “They didn’t even put her name in it,” Sturgis’ mother Veronica Rodriguez said. “I was so furious when she [...]
"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.