RALEIGH, N.C. -- Millions of dollars have been amassed by groups for and against North Carolina's proposed constitutional amendment to ban civil unions and marriage equality.

Christian Action League has raised $312,000 and the anti-gay hate group National Organization for Marriage has donated $303,000 to top the list of supporters of passing the amendment. Other major donors include tax software executive Phil Drake ($250,000), Roman Catholic dioceses ($100,000) and North Carolina Values Coalition ($66,000). A total of 26% of the $1.2 million raised came from individuals.

WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign today released an issue brief framing many of the issues set to be discussed at today’s White House LGBT Conference on HIV/AIDS in Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and Dr. Kevin Fenton of the Centers for Disease Control will deliver remarks at this conference. It is the fourth in a series of such conferences hosted by the White House.

WASHINGTON -- The Human Rights Campaign is calling on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to immediately reject the endorsement of the National Organization for Marriage, one of the nation's leading anti-gay groups that
uses racial exploitation for its own political gain.

WASHINGTON – At a campaign event at a bowling alley in Wisconsin on Wednesday, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball: “You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We're not gonna let you do that. Not on camera.”

Santorum went on to say “Friends don’t let friends use pink balls.” The comments were tweeted by Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.