Arkansas Judge Strikes Down Adoption Ban

| April 16, 2010

Little Rock, AR – One more for the day! An Arkansas Judge has struck down the statewide ban on LGBT citizens from adoption! Act 1, passed by voters in 2008, unconstitutionally burdens non-marital relationships and acts of sexual intimacy between adults by forcing them to choose between becoming a parent and having any meaningful type [...]

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More Trouble In Utah

| July 12, 2009

Below is an article I copied from the Salt Lake Tribune (see here), written by Rosemary Winters.   -Eric E. ———————————————————————————————- Gena Edvalson tried for years to be a mom. So when her partner of six years, Jana Dickson, became pregnant through artificial insemination and gave birth to a boy in March 2006, nothing brought her [...]

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TRANSGENDER JANITOR FACES COMMUNITY WRATH

| February 16, 2009

The American Family Association is up in arms about an elementary school janitor in Massachusetts who is undergoing the transition process from male to female. Below is a copy of their latest article on the issue. “A pro-family advocate says parents in one Massachusetts town were perplexed when they received a letter from the school [...]

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"FAMILY" Groups attack Suicidal Gay Teens

| January 8, 2009

The group “Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays” released an article on Jan 6th saying that a recent study conducted by San Francisco State University on the link between gay teens who turn suicidal when parents reject them is just an attempt to promote “Gay Affirmation.” “The way in which parents or guardians respond to a [...]

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ARKANSAS FEELS THE NOV 4TH BACKLASH

| January 1, 2009

For those who can’t recall anything other than California’s Prop 8, Arkansas also passed an anti-equal rights law on November 4th. Act 1, which passed overwhelmingly banned homosexuals in Arkansas from both adopting and fostering children. But already the Act is being legally challenged. The Act was put together and spearheaded by the Conservative Family [...]

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What Would You Do?

| November 19, 2008

I’ve been speaking with several people over the past month or so about the issue of Equal Rights and Gay Marriage, both through this weblog, and in other places. Being in Utah, I have of course found several people who disagree with my opinions, and the conversation has invariably come down to that they just [...]

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