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Last week the first marriage equality lawsuit in Indiana was filed on behalf of four same-sex couples. Today we learn that Lambda Legal has filed a suit of its own. Via press release: On Monday, in the United States District Court Southern District of Indiana, Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three same-sex couples who seek the …

Via press release: The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Florida have filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of eight same-sex couples and SAVE, an LGBT rights organization based in South Florida, challenging the state’s refusal to recognize the couples’ marriages, which were performed in other states and recognized by the federal government. One of the …

CNN reports: An intoxicated driver fleeing police plowed his car into a crowd at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, killing two people, authorities said early Thursday. The man and woman killed were riding their light motorcycles, said Art Acevedo, chief of the Austin Police Department. At least 23 others were hospitalized, some with multiple internal injuries. A suspect …

Students at the National University of Ireland staged a sit-in protest yesterday after an anti-gay marriage group placed posters on their campus. A lunchtime demonstration by members of a Mayo-based family of Christian activists faced oppostion from students who took down and binned two posters opposing same-sex marriage. The family (understood to be a father with his three sons and …

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The search for bodies and possible survivors continues at the site of yesterday’s explosion in Harlem. Residents of one of the destroyed buildings say they had complained to the landlord about a gas leak for weeks. One of the victims was identified as 44-year-old Griselde Camacho, a public safety sergeant at Hunter College. The second victim was identified as 67-year-old …

Equality Case Files has posted the full transcripts from Michigan’s marriage equality trial, which concluded last week. Among those testifying were discredited social science researcher Mark Regnerus and other noted anti-gay activists. Click and read their feeble responses while being grilled by the attorney for the plaintiffs. The judge is expected to issue his ruling soon.

Tony Perkins writes via press release: At the U.S. Air Force Academy, jets aren’t the only thing taking off. So is a campus-wide rebellion against the forces of political correctness. Frustrated by the school’s decision to scrub a Bible verse from one of the dorm whiteboards, cadets decided to take matters into their own hands. In a show of defiance, …

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