WASHINGTON – Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and OutServe-SLDN are calling on the Pentagon to remove anti-gay pastor Greg Laurie from the program of events at its National Day of Prayer on May 2.

The groups have also launched a petition for Americans to urge the Pentagon to remove Laurie, who has a long vitriolic history of using anti-LGBT rhetoric and insists that being gay is a sin.

WASHINGTON – Brian Brown, president of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, hit a new low Wednesday, responding to the passage of a marriage equality bill in the Rhode Island state Senate by proclaiming:

"It's bad enough when families break down through divorce or death, but it's unconscionable when a state encourages this through policies that deprive children of the love of both a mother and a father. This is a very sad day for Rhode Island."

Ivan “Max” Flores Acosta, 26, of New York City is the poster boy for what’s wrong with immigration reform in the United States, particularly in how it pertains to the LGBT community.

Acosta is one of an estimated 1 million LGBT adult immigrants living in the U.S. and he is one of an estimated 333,000 LGBT adult immigrants who are undocumented; the figures are provided by the Human Rights Campaign. Many of these immigrants are natives of nations where gays are discriminated against, persecuted, or even imprisoned, tortured or killed by homophobic regimes.

WASHINGTON – Supporters and opponents of marriage equality are busy making final plans for large rallies in Washington, D.C., during the last week of March when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments on two high-profile cases involving California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).