The American College of Physicians, the largest group of internal medicine doctors in the US, came out Monday in support of policies it says will improve the health of the country's "LGBT people." Those policies include support for "gay marriage," opposition to reparative therapy and support for "transgender" healthcare services.
The Texas Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to allow clergy members to refuse to perform marriages that violate their religious beliefs, as top Republicans move to further shield the nation's largest conservative state from a possible U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing sodomite couples to "wed".
Oregon is expected to join California, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia in enacting a ban on sexual orientation change efforts therapy for "gay" minors. The Oregon Senate voted 21-8 Thursday to pass HB 2307, the so-called "Youth Mental Health Protection Act" and Democratic Gov. Kate Brown is expected to sign it into law.
Former HP CEO and only GOP female presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says that she supports "gay" civil unions and religious liberty—and that "government shouldn't discriminate" about benefits. Fiorina also said she would not support an amendment to overturn the decision that the Supreme Court will make this summer.
The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro sponsored a blessing ceremony Saturday for sodomite couples on an island where "gay marriage" remains illegal. Nearly two dozen sodomite couples held hands or embraced, some crying, as Protestant clergymen from the U.S. and Canada blessed their unions.
Controversial megachurch leader and author Rick Warren raised concerns Wednesday after joining hands with sodomite singer Elton John during a speech before a congressional hearing on AIDS funding, and joked what would happen if the two kissed. “It would be the kiss heard ’round the world,” he said.
New Utah laws will take affect Tuesday, including a ban on housing and employment discrimination against "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender" residents. Another law will allow people not to perform "gay marriages" if it is contrary to their religious beliefs — but will also require county clerks to provide someone to perform them.
Conservative groups in Texas are pushing hard for state regulations to blunt the expected decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that states have to recognize "same-sex marriage." One of the measures being pushed would allegedly protect pastors and churches that don't want to participate in "same-sex weddings."
Denny Burk points out that absurd scenarios could develop as a result of an all-female college's attempt to accept "transgender" students. Burk observes that "willing progressives are forced into contradictions as they try to realign their institutions to accommodate transgenderism."
Senator Paul Gazelka has introduced a 'freedom of conscience' bill to the Minnesota legislature that would allow businesses employing 20 or fewer people to refuse to participate in "same-sex weddings" under most circumstances.
A recent survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News has found that more Americans would be comfortable with a gay or lesbian president (about 61 percent of respondents) than they would with an evangelical Christian president (only 52 percent).
Jim Obergefell, the primary plaintiff behind the "same-sex marriage" case recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court (known as Obergefell v. Hodges), will speak at the University of Guam's spring commencement ceremony on May 25.
Crowdfunding company Continue to Give has been drawn into the debate over "gay marriage" by hosting a fundraising effort in support of a cake shop that refused to make a "gay wedding" cake in the state of Oregon. Last week, GoFundMe shut down their own campaign for Sweet Cakes due to public criticism.
The Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote next week on a religious freedom bill that was passed by the House last month. The bill is supposed to bring clarity to current law and give judges the right to refuse to issue a marriage license to any couple based on religious freedom.
Hours after Rick Santorum said that Bruce Jenner "is a woman," he began walking back his statements. "My comment affirmed Jenner as a person, made by God in His likeness as we all are," Santorum wrote on his Facebook page. "It was meant to express empathy not a change in public policy."
The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear appeal from a male convicted murderer who is seeking a "sex change" operation behind bars and to be transferred to a women’s prison facility.
Michael J. Kruger criticizes Bonauto's pro-"gay marriage" arguments, which she gave during the recent court hearing, pointing out that "the logic being used to promote same-sex marriage could be used to support a variety of other sexually questionable forms of marriage."
Influential conservative Christian writer and radio personality Dr. James Dobson has declared that if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down "gay marriage" laws, it will have created a new Roe v. Wade, and the decision "will be one of the most momentous rulings in U.S. history."
"Gay rights" activists in Cuba will hold a symbolic "mass gay wedding" this weekend, in a country where "gay marriage" is still not recognized. The activists will be led by the daughter of President Raul Castro, Mariela, who is a leading "gay and transgender rights" campaigner.
"Transgender" inmates in Delaware prisons will soon be allowed to seek name changes based on their gender identity under new legislation backed by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell. This comes two years after gender identity was added to Delaware's anti-discrimination list.
A recent poll found that 58% of Americans would like to see the Supreme Court rule in favor of the 16 sodomite couples challenging "same-sex marriage bans" in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee; compared with 37% who don't want the court to undo those state laws.
Bob Wickers, the veteran GOP pollster and strategist and the top consultant to Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, has stepped back from an outspoken role in support of "same-sex marriage" as he prepares to lead the evangelical icon’s campaign.
The popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe has changed its policy to ban fundraising for those merely accused of engaging in “discriminatory acts” just days after it shut down two fundraising campaigns for persecuted Christian businesses.
Officials in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are allowing "transgender people" to use the bathrooms of their "gender identity" in city and county-owned facilities. The move comes after the Charlotte City Council refused to adopt a policy earlier this year that would have required such an approach by private businesses.
Auto shop owner Brian Klawiter received death threats and had his shop vandalized after he announced last month that he wouldn't provide service for sodomites. "Under the Christian sexual ethic, it is immoral, and harms the individuals engaging in it, and the society that tolerates it," he said about homosexuality.