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Opinion: “A League of Their Own” Joins Biden in Fight for America’s Soul
While far from perfect, A League of Their Own, like Biden’s speech, tries to push the soul of America to embrace a more perfect union.
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California Announces Ban on State Travel to Five More States Over Anti-LGBTQ Laws
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced that California has added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state-funded travel is banned because of laws that discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community. “Make no mistake: We’re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination in this country…
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Opinion: When It Comes To Gender And Sex, Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Wrong On The Science And The Poetry
Poetry can help us do that, as can a science supported by a poetic sensibility that seeks ever to bring us closer to the creative truth of ourselves and our world.
This is the science we can trust.
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Battle to Exclude Undocumented People from Census Exemplifies Trump Agenda: Make Many Lives Not Count
Last Friday the Supreme Court indicated that on November 30 it will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal regarding its efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census numbers used to calculate the apportionment of congressional districts. Last September a federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected the Trump administration’s bid to…
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Decrying Same-Sex Marriage Decision, Justices Thomas and Alito Endorse Trump’s Assault on Civil Rights
Last Monday the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a case brought by Kim Davis, a former country clerk who, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case legalizing same-sex marriage, who refused to issue certificates for such marriages because of her religious objections to…
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Opinion: RBG, Trump Show Us That Only The American People Can Save Us From Autocracy
American romantic poet, philosopher, and diplomat once referred to the U.S. Constitution, in an address to the Reform Club of New York in 1888, as “a machine that would go of itself.” More precisely, in using this phrase, he meant to diagnose a dangerous complacency infecting American political life, one born of the misguided belief…
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Bittersweet Week in Supreme Court Underscores Trump’s Threat to Civil Rights and Basic Humanity
When Donald Trump appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavannaugh to the Supreme Court bench, hopes certainly dimmed substantially for a court majority that would vigorously protect, much less expand, basic civil liberties, especially for women, LGBTQIA people, people of color, and immigrants. Worries abounded, with good reason, that the court might function effectively as…
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Trans Lives Matter, Too: November 2020 Will be a Reckoning on Civil Rights for All
Amidst the recent mass nationwide uprisings, dominated by the sentiments of the Black Lives Matter movement, an effective reincarnation of the Civil Rights Movement, the Trump administration has continued its efforts to deny transgender people civil rights, denying them equal protections under the law. Let’s look at just two recent examples of the Trump administration…
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Cuomo Affirms Support for Transgender People After Trump Administration Rolls Back Protection
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo affirmed his state’s support for the transgender community after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would roll back anti-discrimination rules protecting transgender individuals seeking healthcare. The Trump administration’s announcement came on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the deadliest act of terror against LGBTQ people in American history….
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Human Rights Campaign Will Sue Trump Administration for Revoking Transgender Protections
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced it will file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration after it rolled back anti-discrimination rules protecting transgender people seeking healthcare. HRC noted in a press release that “critical civil rights protections in the rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)” have been impacted by…
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Opinion: “Judicial Modesty” Is The New Legal Fig Leaf For Denying Civil Rights To LGBTQ Americans
While we don’t yet know how the Supreme Court will decide the major civil rights question before it regarding whether or not gay and transgender people are protected under federal legislation that outlaws employment discrimination “on the basis of sex,” the nature of the debates and the questions raised from the bench last week when…
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Republicans Want to Remove LGBTQ Protections From New Trade Deal
First there was the historic provision in the new North American trade agreement providing protection for the LGBTQ community. Included in the proposed agreement is a requirement that the U.S., Canada and Mexico take steps to protect workers against discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity. Then after the LGBTQ provisions…
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Brewer Whines About Checks and Balances When Court Strikes Down AZ’s Ban on Marriage Equality
A Friday ruling that found Arizona’s marriage ban is unconstitutional, and the court’s denial of a request to stay its ruling marked the beginning of freedom for same sex couples in the state.
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Less Than One Million Moms Doesn’t Like What’s Normal
Less Than One Million Moms wants to boycott NBC’s The New Normal, which features two gay parents and a surrogate mother to give them a child
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Under-Mom’d One Million Moms Throws Hissy Fit at GAP
After failing to terrorize JC Penney into submission, One Million Moms threatens to do the same to GAP for showing two men in one t-shirt