Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via the Associated Press: The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Friday on its online docket that it has rescheduled oral arguments for both states’ appeals of federal court decisions for Aug. 26. Federal judges in Indiana and Wisconsin overturned each state’s gay marriage ban in separate rulings. When both states appealed, the 7th Circuit Court combined the cases …

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Via press release from Lambda Legal: The Alaska Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the same-sex partner of a person killed on the job should have access to the protection of Alaska’s workers’ compensation law. This is a wonderful ruling for same-sex couples in Alaska who have built lives and raised families together but were at risk because they were …

Via Michigan Live: Legislation introduced last week by state Rep. Adam Zemke, D-Ann Arbor, seeks to ban gay conversion therapy for minors. House Bill 5703 would amend Michigan’s mental health code to prohibit health professionals from attempting to change the sexual orientation of anyone under 18 years old. “The evidence shows you cannot change sexual orientation, so the legislation was …

Via Politico: According to a CNN/ORC International poll released Friday, 33 percent of Americans think the president should be impeached and removed from office, compared with 65 percent who say they don’t support impeachment. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans say they support impeaching Obama, compared with just 35 percent of independent voters and 13 percent of Democrats. When asked about when …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: During a Wednesday appearance on the conservative radio show “Faith & Liberty,” Rep. Michele Bachmann accused the “gay community” of pushing “deviancy,” “tyranny” and child rape. The Minnesota Republican warned that the gay community will “abolish age of consent laws, which means we will do away with statutory rape laws so that adults …

Yesterday the Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the Indiana marriage case that is due to be heard jointly with the Wisconsin case.  The brief hits all the usual hater points: Regnerus, AIDS, anal cancer, procreation. blah, etc, blah. Also filing briefs are the attorneys general of ten states and the United …

“When Christians tell me that homosexuality is ‘socially constructed’ and therefore not a ‘real; permanent feature of human existence, I generally respond ‘I know gay people exist the same way that I know that Methodists exist. I’ve met them.’ In other words, not all categories that are real are founded on fixed unchangeable essences. Sexual orientation as a concept is …