Showing posts with label Gay Rights. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

The New Military

June 10, 2015 Army Gen. Randy Taylor , Gay Rights 0 Comments
Army Gen. Randy Taylor Introduces His Husband At Pentagon Gay Pride Event 

By Rowan Scarborough, June 9, 2015, - The Washington Times

A married Army general on Tuesday introduced his spouse at a Pentagon event that featured lots of top brass, including Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as the keynote speaker.

What made this seemingly routine introduction noteworthy is that Brig. Gen. Randy S. Taylor introduced his husband, Lucas.

“My husband Lucas is sitting up front here,” Gen. Taylor said of the man in the same row as Mr. Carter, Army Secretary John McHugh and other senior officials. He said Lucas has subjugated his own career to support the general’s frequent moves over an 18-year relationship.

“We bet everything on my Army career,” said Gen. Taylor, whose 27 years of service spanned an outright ban on gays, then “don’t ask, don’t tell” and finally, the ban’s lifting in 2011.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

A trend?

June 09, 2015 Charlotte Observer , Franklin Graham 0 Comments
Franklin Graham Is Pulling Accounts From Wells Fargo For Featuring Ad With Gay Couple

By Tim Funk, Jun. 8, 2015, Charlotte Observer

Franklin Graham is calling on Christians to boycott corporations that feature same-sex relationships in their commercials. And he says he’ll do his part by moving all the bank accounts for his two ministries out of Wells Fargo because of its ad featuring a lesbian couple.

“This is one way we as Christians can speak out – we have the power of choice,” Graham wrote on Facebook over the weekend. “Let’s just stop doing business with those who promote sin and stand against Almighty God’s laws and His standards. Maybe if enough of us do this, it will get their attention.”

Reached Monday, a spokesperson for Wells Fargo said the bank has proudly supported the LGBT community for a long time – a commitment echoed by the ad.

“At Wells Fargo, serving every customer is core to our vision and values,” said Christina Kolbjornsen. “Diversity and inclusion are foundational to who we are as a company. Our advertising content reflects our company’s values and represents the diversity of the communities we serve.”

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Media Bias Alert!

April 22, 2015 Allen West , Fox News 0 Comments
Gutfeld SLAMS Media “Ask Candidate If He’d Attend Gay Wedding, No Thoughts On Islamic Intolerance”

By Fox News, The Five, Allen West, Apr. 20, 2015

Fox News Insider:

Greg Gutfeld wondered tonight on “The Five” why it took six years for two Army privates shot at the Little Rock Army Recruitment Center to receive their Purple Hearts.

“Pvt. William Long was killed and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula was wounded when a radical Muslim opened fire on them,” Gutfeld explained. “Why did it take so long? Well, the administration thought it didn’t occur in combat, despite the shooter declaring his jihadism, which sounds like combat to me.”

“We prefer damming our own problems instead as though they’re equal,” Gutfeld asserted. “The media asks a candidate if he’d attend a gay wedding, but not his thoughts on Islamic intolerance.”

Gutfeld said that the 2016 race will be more about priorities than politics.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Headed toward SCOTUS

November 08, 2014 Democracy , Equality 0 Comments
Appeals Court Upholds Bans On Same-Sex Marriage For The First Time

Robert Barnes, Nov. 6, 2014, Washingtonpost.com

A federal appeals court panel upheld bans on same-sex marriage in four states Thursday, a break with other federal courts that makes it almost certain the Supreme Court must take up the issue of whether gay couples have a constitutional right to marry.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati ruled 2 to 1 that although same-sex marriage across the nation is practically inevitable, in the words of U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, it should be settled through the democratic process and not the judicial one.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Sir Elton John: Jesus Would Have supported gay marriage --Really?

July 01, 2014 Elton John , Gay Rights 1 Comments
Elton John
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By The Guardian, Jun. 29, 2014, Theguardian.com

Jesus would have been a supporter of gay marriage, Sir Elton John has claimed.

The musician, who plans to marry his civil partner David Furnish next year in a "very quiet" ceremony, said that rules preventing gay clergy from marrying and requiring Catholic priests to be celibate were "old and stupid things".

He told Sky News's Murnaghan programme: "The church hierarchy, the traditionalists, might be up in arms about it but times have changed.

"If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not happen.

"He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together and that is what the church should be about."

Sir Elton said he believed the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was "doing a good job" and Pope Francis was "wonderful".

"He's excited me so much by his humanity," the singer said of the pope.

"He's taken everything down to the humility of faith.

"He's stripped it down to the bare bones and said it's all basically about love and inclusiveness. That has to be encouraged by the Church of England as well."

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Bakery Won't Make Wedding Cakes After Losing Discrimination Case --Would you even trust a cake if made by force?

Bakery Won't Make Wedding Cakes After Losing Discrimination Case --Would you even trust a cake if made by force?

June 03, 2014 Colorado , Discrimination 0 Comments
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Friday, May 16, 2014

ESPN Analyst: Do You Fine A Player For Saying He Doesn’t Like To See Two Men Kissing? --If said in a rap song=ok

May 16, 2014 ESPN , Gay Rights 0 Comments


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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Kardashian Bridal Shower Canceled At Beverly Hills Hotel Over Anti-Gay Laws --What about Islam's treatment of women?

May 11, 2014 Boycott , Eonline.com 0 Comments
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By Mark Malkin, May 10, 2014, Eonline.com
Kim Kardashian's surprise bridal shower today was originally planned for the Beverly Hills Hotel but that's not where it took place!

The hosts of the shower—mom Kris Jenner and sisters Khloe Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashion—decided to change venues because the owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, has implemented a law in his country that includes death by stoning of gay people, sources exclusively tell me.

The cancellation is the latest in a string of celebrity protests against the hotel and other properties owned by the sultan's Dorchester Collection.

"I won't be visiting the Hotel Bel-Air or the Beverly Hills Hotel until this is resolved," Ellen DeGeneres tweeted on April 22.

Jay Leno joined a group of protesters outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Monday.

"I'd like to think that all people are basically good and that when they realize that this is going on, hopefully, they will do something about it...I mean, it's just…I don't know. Berlin, 1933? Hello, does it seem that far off from what happened during the Holocaust?" Leno said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Clive Davis Urges Homophobic Sultan To Sell L.A. Hotels --The heat is on!

May 10, 2014 Clive Davis , Dorchester 0 Comments
Clive Davis
By Richard Johnson, May 9, 2014, Pagesix.com

Clive Davis is heartbroken he will no longer see the devoted staff at the Beverly Hills Hotel, who have been taking care of his needs since 1965. But the chief creative officer of Sony Music is boycotting the Pink Palace as long as owner Sultan of Brunei is imposing Shariah law in his home country.

As of May 1, the citizens of the oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo face fines and imprisonment for minor crimes, such as failure to pray on Friday. The Sultan’s plan calls for whippings and amputations for more serious crimes like stealing — and death by stoning for adultery and gay sex.

“When I learned of the enactment of the penal code, I realized it would be impossible for me to stay there,” the veteran music mogul told me on Friday.

Davis is distraught he won’t be seeing the “fabulous, terrific” staff at the hotel anymore. “They know I like coleslaw, and dark meat better than white, and oatmeal raisin cookies,” he said. Instead of his regular haunt, the New York-based Davis spent the last week ensconced at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Davis hopes the Sultan sells his hotels as soon as possible, before staffers start getting laid off.

The homophobic Sultan not only owns the Beverly Hills Hotel, he also owns the Bel-Air, the Plaza Athénée in Paris and the Dorchester (another Davis favorite) in London.

Clive’s decision had nothing to do with his own sexuality. Davis revealed in his 2013 autobiography, “The Soundtrack of My Life,” that he is bisexual.

“It’s a humanitarian issue. It’s relevant to everybody, every independent-thinking human being,” Clive said. “It’s about right and wrong.”

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Friday, May 9, 2014

While We’re On The Subject, The Orlando Magic’s Owner Is Vehemently Opposed To Gay Rights --Now what?

May 09, 2014 Christianity , Gay Rights 0 Comments
Richard DeVos
By Jake O'Donnell, Apr. 29, 2014, Sportgrind.com

Richard DeVos considers himself a prototypical Christian of sorts, who seeks to reunite two long divided Protestant sects. DeVos is very religious, and lives his life by the word of the Christian Reformed Church, which should mean something like “we are all God’s children and in this thing together.” Apparently not. Judging by this interview, the billionaire Amway co-founder selects his acts of charity for people he deems deserving. Read what he told mLive back in 2009, and let it slosh around in that skull of yours for a while.
[mLive] Q: You gave $100,000 to the effort to defeat the recognition of gay marriage in Florida. Why did you choose to put money behind that cause?
A: Because I believe in it. That’s just a sacred issue of respecting marriage. It was not an anti-gay thing. 
I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan’s first AIDS commission… 
From that point on, that’s when they were hanging me in effigy because I wasn’t sympathetic to all of their requests for special treatment. Because at that time it was always somebody else’s fault. And I said, “You are responsible for your actions, too, you know. Conduct yourself properly,” which is a pretty solid Christian principle. You’ve got to take responsibility for your actions. It went from there to a series of requests for special treatment… 
…Call [gay marriage] something else. Call it anything you want to. But marriage is a sacred document, OK? A sacred sacrament in the church and in the world.Don’t mess with it. 
Go do something else. I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They’re terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live and I’ll live mine and I won’t stick my nose in yours. But don’t keep trying to change things. That’s all.
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Wake Me When Someone 'Comes Out' --- As a Black Republican

March 10, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Davey Lopes 0 Comments
By Larry Elder

Michael Sam appears to be a fine young man. But, no, he isn't the first openly gay male U.S. athlete to play in a major sport. And "brave"? Can we please dispense with the absurd Jackie Robinson comparisons? Wake me when a black collegiate pro prospect "comes out" as a Republican.

A starting senior on the University of Missouri football team, Sam looks like a mid-round draft pick in the NFL. He recently "came out" to his teammates, many of whom said they already knew or suspected. Neither teammates nor coaches had an issue. Most normal people ask, "Who cares?" or "Can he play?"

Some, however, liken Sam's "pioneering status" to that of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play in the modern baseball major leagues. "Michael Sam has the opportunity to be the Jackie Robinson of the NFL," said professor Orin Starn, chairman of Duke University's cultural anthropology department. "Michael Sam is a Jackie Robinson Moment For NFL," according to the editorial headline in the Boston Globe. And then there's Fox Sports analyst Brendon Ayanbadejo who said, "We were there to celebrate his groundbreaking voyage that in many ways is similar to those of Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks."

Where to begin?

First, Sam isn't even the first openly gay male athlete to play in a major American pro sport. That distinction goes to Glenn Burke, who played with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics from 1976-1979. He might well have played longer and been more successful had he not clashed with management — not his teammates — over his sexual orientation.

Burke was "out" to teammates, management and sportswriters. It is not Burke's fault that both media and management preferred to say nothing. Dodger management reportedly offered him money to go through a sham marriage. Burke refused.

Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda, whose son died of AIDS in 1991, allegedly helped engineer a trade of Burke to Oakland because of a friendship between Lasorda's son and Burke. The trade of the popular, outgoing player stunned many Dodgers. Team captain Davey Lopes said, "No one cared about his lifestyle."

Traded during the 1978 season to the Oakland A's, Burke ended up managed by the openly homophobic Billy Martin. The volatile manager, according to a documentary about Burke, "baited" him with gay slurs. Frustrated, and never realizing his potential, Burke left baseball in 1980 and became a drug addict. A former Oakland teammate, Shooty Babitt, said, "They ran him straight out of the game." Burke died of AIDS in 1995. He was 42.

Sam will encounter no Billy Martins. He enters an NFL with a written policy against discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Second, let's discuss Jackie Robinson. Many of his own teammates signed a petition stating they would not play with him. At least one petitioner was traded.

Viciously taunted, and sometimes threatened by players, fans and others, Robinson faced enormous pressure to not only play well, but to do so while restraining the desire to punch somebody in the face. Had Robinson not "succeeded," the path for other black players would have become even more difficult, about which the former UCLA student was quite aware.

The attention and pressure on Robinson makes Sam's future career look like a coronation. Robinson's was a pre-television, pre-Internet, Jim Crow America, where sports fans really paid keen attention to only three sports — boxing, horseracing and America's pastime, baseball. Most everybody was watching, many hoping and expecting him to fail. Robinson played Major League Baseball for 10 years and died early. His death certificate described the official cause as a heart attack. But it might as well have said pressure and stress killed him. He was 53.

Yes, Sam will have some challenges. But tell that to Hank Aaron.
In his autobiography, "I Had A Hammer," Aaron writes about when he and others were the first black players to play the South Atlantic League — a minor league affiliated with the majors — five years after Robinson entered the major league. Southern newspapers, covering the "Sally League," refused to print pictures of the black players. Taxi drivers in places like Florida refused to pick them up. Players, Aaron said, could be arrested simply for being on the street at night.


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