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Former SF Mayor Gavin Newsom Today’s decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stands as a victory for the fundamental American principle that all people are equal, and deserve equalrights and treatment under the law. This is the biggest step that theAmerican judicial system has taken to end the grievous discrimination against men and women in same-sex relationships and …

AGAIN. By a 2-1 vote. More in a moment!

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The Christianists who want it to be legal for their children to assault and harass LGBT kids have now focused their ire on Rolling Stone, who last week published a lengthy expose of a Minnesota school system. According to Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute, teachers should not be allowed to intervene when gay children are being beaten: Teachers …

Susan Komen vice president Karen Handel today resigned in the wake of the Planned Parenthood funding debacle. Handel, a former Georgia Secretary of State, is infamously anti-gay. From her resignation letter: “I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it. I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to …

The Minnesota Rabbinical Association has come out in opposition to the state’s pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The rabbis’ statement says the amendment “seeks to continue the practice of leaving individual families within the LGBT community vulnerable and unprotected by the law. To honor an individual is to fight against discrimination in society for any reason, including race, religion, …

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The Hill reports: “Influential conservative blogger Erick Erickson said he would endorse the ‘sweet meteor of death’ over any of the current GOP candidates, but would back the party’s eventual nominee in the general election against President Obama.”