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:Eric Ethington (Author) | February 14, 2011
Arizona – Last year the Arizona Legislature passed a measure stripping same-sex couples of benefits. The bill was overturned in federal court as unconstitutional, but Arizona isn’t giving up. They’ve just filed an appeal of the ruling, trying once again to strip citizens of rights. Same-sex partners of state employees are at risk of losing [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 5, 2011
Salt Lake City Utah – SB 62, which would allow 2nd parent adoptions has been scheduled for the the Senate Health and Human Service Committee for this coming Monday at 8am. Everyone needs to be there! If you can’t make it, follow the instructions below. Current Utah law only allows married individuals to adopt children. [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 1, 2011
Argentina – After the nation became the first Latin-American country to legalize same sex marriage 6 months ago, Argentina has already seen more than 1,300 marriages performed. As expected, the countries economy has also seen the boost associated with more weddings. Every state and country that has legalized gay marriage has seen a rise in every [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 6, 2011
Brazil – The National Association of Doctors has just made a significant change in their rules to allow same sex couples the right to use in vetro. The process to creating whole families just got a whole lot easier! Well done to Brazil, that 20 year old rule barring gay couples from in vetro was [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 27, 2010
Australia – A court has given permission to a church-run adoption agency to continue discriminating against gay couples, even though national law requires that no agency discriminate. Sigh… just one week after the same state, New South Wales (NSW), saw its first gay adoption. Apparently neither the sitting party in NSW or the opposing party have any [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 24, 2010
Vice President Joe Biden went on Good Morning America today and was asked what he thought about the prospects of same sex marriage. His response? The country’s evolving and it’s inevitable. [Insert cheesy clip on "inevitability" from The Matrix Here] Speaking on Good Morning America today, he said he agreed with President Obama’s statement that [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 10, 2010
Baltimore, Maryland – Reports are coming out that thanks to Maryland’s legislature losing a few Republicans and picking up a few Democrats in the last election, a vote on same sex marriage is likely to come before the end of the year! This could be fantastic! Governor Martin O’Malley has already pledged to sign the bill [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 30, 2010
Leading experts and professors are saying that legalizing same sex marriage will drastically reduce the rate of HIV and AIDS by creating stable relationships more of a possibility in the LGBT community. I had this conversation with Utah State Representative Greg Hughes last year. He said he opposes legalizing same gay marriage because so many same sex [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 17, 2010
Australia – At a question and answer with youth in Australia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about same-sex marriage and whether or not she supports it. Her answer? Uh…. no. Watch the video below. In one breath she says she says she wants to end discrimination, but in the next says she only [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 25, 2010
Salt Lake City, UT – Intermountain Health Care (IHC) has announced that they are now adding full benefits for the partners of same-sex couples! 32,000 workers in Utah have been shown that their employer values all people equally and will not tolerate discrimination. Awesomeness! IHC was originally started by the Mormon Church, but became a [...]
"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.