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RGOD2: The state of equality is unequal

The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle - SDGLN Contributor
August 10th, 2012

California has been a leader when it comes to protecting the rights of LGBT people and we owe this important transformation to a network of LGBT organizations and allies that have worked tirelessly for the past 50 years.

Over the past 35 years, I have worked in many of these organizations and they have shaped and mentored me. Californians have been generous in digging deep into their bank accounts to fund important legislative and community initiatives that have provided positive results across the country and indeed across the world.

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HRC spending $1 million in marriage ballot measure states

SDGLN Staff
August 6th, 2012

WASHNGTON – The Human Rights Campaign said today that it would invest $1 million in the four states facing marriage-related ballot measures in November – Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.

The new cash infusion brings HRC’s contributions to legislative and electoral marriage issues in the 2011-12 cycle to $4.8 million.

Prop 8 legal defense team seeks millions for Supreme Court fight to uphold discrimination

SDGLN Staff
July 30th, 2012

WASHINGTON – The Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund is offering new insight into how much it costs to continue pushing their discriminatory agenda against LGBT Americans, and the numbers are high.

The organization is soliciting supporters for an additional $2 million to defend Prop 8 before the U.S. Supreme Court, and claims that it’s already spent $10 million on efforts to prevent loving, committed same-sex couples from marrying.

Prop 8 architect named Archbishop of San Francisco

SDGLN Staff
July 28th, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO – Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, one of the leading architects in the campaign to pass the discriminatory Proposition 8 in California, has been named the new Archbishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI.

Broad coalition launches website, toolkit to support Respect for Marriage Act

SDGLN Staff
July 26th, 2012

WASHINGTON – The Respect for Marriage Coalition, comprising 75 diverse organizations dedicated to passing the Respect for Marriage Act, today launched a website, toolkit and materials that will spur grassroots efforts to urge Congress to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage.

The Respect for Marriage Act (H.R.1116 and S.598) would repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which withholds critical federal protections and respect from legally married same-sex couples.

UPDATES: HRC, GLAAD, others disappointed that Boy Scouts will retain anti-gay policy

SDGLN Staff
July 17th, 2012

WASHINGTON – Leaders of the Boy Scouts of America today reaffirmed their ban on gay Scouts and leaders after conducting a secret two-year review.

The unanimous vote, by an 11-member special committee, came despite calls from several national board members who said it was time to be inclusive. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and Ernst & Young CEO James Turley, who serve on the national board, had urged the Scouts to change the policy.

The issue will not be considered by the national board due to the committee's unanimous vote.

Episcopal Church embraces new LGBT policies for same-sex unions, transgender ordination

SDGLN Staff
July 11th, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS – The Episcopal Church, already one of the most LGBT-friendly denominations in the U.S., has taken additional steps this week to embrace equality for all its worshippers.

Reversing course: Prop 8 star witness against gay weddings now supports marriage equality

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
June 22nd, 2012

WASHINGTON – In a stunning reversal, the star witness against same-sex marriage at the Proposition 8 trial in California has come out in support of gay weddings.

David Blankenhorn, founder and president of the Institute for American Values and author of "The Future Of Marriage," said today in The New York Times that he now supports the freedom to marry for same-sex couples, calling it “a victory for basic fairness.”

Senate panel hears testimony on ENDA

SDGLN Staff
June 12th, 2012

WASHINGTON – A Senate panel today conducted a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which is a crucial piece of legislation that would provide workplace fairness and equality.

This morning’s hearing featured testimony from:

* M. V. Lee Badgett, research director of the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

* Kylar Broadus, founder, Trans People of Color Coalition

Chad Griffin expected to build bridges as HRC president

Claire Veyriras - California News Service
June 11th, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- Chad Griffin, a leader in the fight against California's ban on same-sex marriage, will take the reins of the nation's largest gay and lesbian lobbying organization Monday.

Griffin will be sworn in as president of the Human Rights Campaign, just days after a federal court refused to reconsider its ruling overturning California's ban, a development that probably will bring the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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