Obama Publicly Condemns Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Legislation: It Is An ‘Odious’ Bill

Written by Amanda Terkel Friday, 05 February 2010 08:02

OBAMA: We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are, whether it’s here in the United States or as Hillary mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

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Prop 8 Trial + DADT Debate = Death Rattle of the Right Wing

Written by Rick Jacobs Thursday, 04 February 2010 06:21

The time has come for the courts to rule that discrimination is un-American. As lives continue to be ruined across our country, that decision to make full equality the law of our land can't come a moment too soon. And the time has long past for us to realize that Tony Perkins and his shrinking band of hysteria is as fantastical as the Mad Hatter's swirling tea cups at Disneyland.

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Task Force to Co-Host Counter-Protest to National Prayer Breakfast at Creating Change Conference

Written by Inga Sarda-Sorensen Thursday, 04 February 2010 06:08

What: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is co-hosting the American Prayer Hour to protest the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 4. It is among other American Prayer Hour events occurring nationwide in response to Uganda's "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" - which would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment or even death.

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Telling the Stories of Those Impacted by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Written by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Wednesday, 03 February 2010 08:21

The Don't Ask Don't Tell Story Project will introduce Americans to some of the brave men and women who have been harmed by this unjust policy. So far we've posted the stories of 10 former servicemembers, all of whom were affected by DADT in some way. We also ask the thousands of other men and women who have been dismissed under DADT to share their stories.

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Gayle Haggard Tells The World That Her Husband Ted Is Completely Heterosexual!

Written by Bill Berkowitz Wednesday, 03 February 2010 07:54

On the "Today" program, Gayle Haggard declared that her husband was "cured" of his homosexual inclinations. "Ted was dealing with certain compulsions that were unwanted," she said. And while she allowed that not everyone could rid themselves of homosexual "compulsions," her husband was successful in doing so. Gayle told Meredith Vieira that "In Ted's case, he had had some experiences as a child that kept replaying themselves in his mind. Once he went to therapy he was able to identify that and was given the tools to deal with it. Because of that, he no longer has those compulsions. That's not true for everybody. That's his story."

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