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Yesterday Illinois GOP chair Pat Brady began calling Republican legislators to urge them to support the same-sex marriage bill. Today NOM is calling for Brady’s resignation and is vowing to unseat any Republican who heeds his call. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today pledged to form an Illinois state PAC and spend $250,000 defeating Republican legislators who vote in …

In one of the first actions of the 113th Congress, which begins today, the House GOP is pushing to reauthorize the funding for the defense of DOMA.  Reactions below. Freedom To Marry “It’s truly disheartening that, on a day of new beginnings on Capitol Hill, the leadership of the House of Representatives is advancing a measure, through its rules, to …

In a slick move, the Illinois same-sex marriage bill has been withdrawn as a standalone item and will instead be attached as an amendment to a bill that mostly concerns car rentals. The state Senate is expected to vote on the item shortly. Illinois Senators will no longer be voting on the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, a bill …

This Monday the case of Sexual Minorities Uganda Vs Scott Lively will begin in a Massachusetts federal court. The suit alleges that Lively committed crimes against humanity in his campaign urging Uganda to implement harsh persecutions of LGBT people.  The case is the first-ever sexual orientation-related suit brought under the Alien Tort Statute, which is described as a “powerful legal …

“I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with. I’m all about standing up to gay/lesbian/transgender bullying, but it’s also about my little brother. He’s 13 and he gets made fun of because he has a stutter. I just have zero tolerance for …

Wingnut sites like Free Republic are passing around a story claiming that Hillary Clinton was actually hospitalized because she was “severely injured” in a plane crash during a secret mission to Iran. A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State …

Universal Uclick has announced the “retirement” of Maggie Gallagher’s nationally syndicated column. Gallagher has been a nationally syndicated columnist for over 17 years; Universal Uclick launched her first column in June of 1995. She began publishing a column twice a week, but for the last three years has written a column once a week. Maggie is particularly known for writing …

Last night President Obama signed the funding authorization bill for the Department of Defense which includes “protections” against the punishment of military members and clergy who harass gay soldiers. Those so-called protections, sponsored by Rep. Todd Akin, were discussed here last month and were backed by GOP House members opposed to the repeal of DADT.  The president included a signing …