All Posts Tagged With: "Civil Rights"
Happy Birthday, Dr. King
Yesterday would have been Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s 82 birthday. He had a dream………
16Jan2012 | MJ | 4 comments | Continued
The Loss of a Civil Rights Leader
The gay community lost a hero and leader yesterday with the passing of Dr. Frank Kameny. It was fitting that he passed away on National Coming Out Day.
Kameny was the first person to challenge his firing from the Federal government because he was gay in the courts. He was an astronomer with the Department of the Army and was fired in 1957 for being gay. He could have just quietly walked away and found something else to do but he stood and fought, all the way to the Supreme Court. Even though he lost his case, he persevered to fight for what he believed in, equal rights for the gay community.
12Oct2011 | MJ | Comments Off | Continued
What Is A Hate Group?
The Southern Poverty Law Center named 13 anti-gay groups as hate groups. Not to be outdone, the Tea Party Nation made it’s own list of hate groups: the ACLU, the NAACP, the Department of Homeland Security, SPLC and the SEIU.
31Dec2010 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
He Said What?
Rep. Steve King gives his reasons for opposing the USDA settlement to African-American farmers.
1Dec2010 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
DADT Vote Next Week
The Senate will take up the Defense Authorization bill next week, which contains the DADT repeal.
14Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
Terrorism At A Tennessee Mosque
Anti-mosque protests in Tennessee have led to arson and sniper fire at a proposed mosque site.
30Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
Big News: California Prop 8 Overturned
Just breaking now–
A judge in California has overturned California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Big news: According to a source who has seen the 136-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Walker has ruled Proposition 8, the California voter-approved ban on gay marriage, unconstitutional under both the due-process and equal-protection [...]
As DADT Repeal Vote Nears Professional Homophobes Go Nuclear
The American Family Association warns us of gay Nazi deathsquads while Family Research Council warns of an outbreak of gay rape if DADT is repealed.
27May2010 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
MLK Day Commemoration Project at WaPo
The Washington Post is running a project now asking people to share what of Martin Luther King’s words move you the most. They are looking for you to record your response and to upload it to You Tube, where they’ll post up on their website selected entries.
17Jan2010 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Watch Rachel Maddow Eviscerate A Guy Who Claims To Cure Gays
Richard Cohen, head of the International Healing Foundation, an organization that claims to “cure” gay people was interviewed by Rachel Maddow. Richard Cohen’s book Coming Out Straight has been cited by the Ugandan politicians as a reason for the harsh “kill the gays” bill currently in the Ugandan parliament.
Cohen’s 2001 book Coming Out Straight [...]
Military Study Recommends Ending DADT
The death knell is ringing over the DADT policy in the military. A military study is being published which will recommend ending the policy for multiple reasons.
An article in the Pentagon’s top scholarly journal calls in unambiguous terms for lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces, arguing that the military [...]
SB 121 Signing Today
2nd Update: SB 121 will be signed into law by Jack Markell on Thursday, July 2 at 3:00 PM at Camp Rehoboth. Thanks MJ.
Update: The signing is postponed due to Thurman Adams’s funeral. We will update when we know the new date and time.
Today at 2 PM, Governor Markell will sign SB 121 [...]
Alaska’s Crazy-Ass Haters Look Like Delaware’s Crazy-Ass Haters
My Home(r) Girl Shannyn Moore of the blog Just a Girl From Homer compiled pictures of the “Christians” that showed up to protest an ordinance not unlike our SB121. The pictures have been set to music and put in video form. I love that they spelled “straight” wrong on the car window.
19Jun2009 | liberalgeek | 4 comments | Continued
Happy Juneteenth
Juneteenth is a holiday that many people don’t know about. From Wikipedia:
Though the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued on September 22, 1862, with an effective date of January 1, 1863, it had minimal immediate effect on most slaves’ day-to-day lives, particularly in Texas, which was almost entirely under Confederate control. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, [...]
Marriage Equality and Civil Unions
First, the facts
Massachusetts and Connecticut license same-sex marriages. California did until prop. 8 narrowly passed.
New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Vermont license Civil Unions.
Maine, DC, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Maryland, and California offer gay couples “some” legal protections via Domestic Partnership.
New York recognizes same-sex marriages performed legally in other states.’
New York and Rhode Island are currently debating [...]
This is Why We Don’t Believe Them
Whenever the issue of erosion of civil liberties comes up in conversation, someone will invariably pipe in with some line about how much improved our security as a nation is. “Look at how many terrorist attacks we have prevented!”
I have always had this feeling that most of the attacks that we have prevented [...]
hmmmmm, I’m not lawyer but
If the Bush Administration suspended the 4th Ammendment after 9/11 for a few couple teensy weensy hundred days or a year or so
annnnnnddddddddd The Attorney General Says:
Under sharp questioning from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at an Appropriations Committee hearing, Mukasey said that the “Fourth Amendment applies across the board, regardless of whether we’re in wartime [...]
How Does That Work?
The Electronic Freedom Foundation has noticed that a footnote in a John Yoo memo that stated that the Justice Department had recently decided that the 4th amendment didn’t apply to military operations within the United States with regard to terrorism. For those of you that forget what the 4th amendment says:
The right of the [...]
Comment Rescue: My Dad and Dr. Wright
Thank you Von Cracker, for pointing me to this Daily Kos diary entry. The story is one that I think is well worth a read.
26Mar2008 | liberalgeek | 1 comment | Continued
Carper = Spineless Fu@@ers!
Well it’s nice to know how Tom Carper feel about immunity. I can’t think of a better word to describe him other than spineless. The government asks the Phone Companies to break the law and spy on us, they do, subsequently they are breaking the law.
Well I guess the way Carper sees it, that’s ok. [...]
George Bush knows a Democracy when he sees one
Sure we know about the burgeoning democracy Iraq is about to become, we also know that freedom is on the march in Pakistan. But did you know that George called it in Georgia too? No not that Georgia that prays to God for Rain…
The Georgia that President Bush has called a “beacon of democracy” in the [...]
Is the US a Secular Nation?
UPDATE: If you are reading this post you are not in Turkey. Apparently this site is being blocked by their government or someone. We will keep you posted on what we discover….
I was listening to an interview with a Turkish tour guide today. She was asked about the role that Fundamentalist Islam was playing in [...]
Wait, Hang on, Are you saying that, come on, seriously?
Shocking, Shocking news! Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
This quote quite frankly makes me fucking want to puke!
“For over 200 years, this Nation has adhered to the rule of law _ with unparalleled [...]
Patriot Day: Larry Craig, Come Clean!
I would like to explain to you all why Senator Craig will be vindicated and potentially get the Vice Presidential nomination.
He is a secret agent in the culture wars.
Just like any war, it is important to have spys. In order to gather effective information spys sometimes have to go under deep cover. Haven’t the liberals [...]
Gay Marriage Survives in Massachusetts
I brought this back to the top because I think we all need to reflect a bit longer on how the Massachusetts legislature has succeeded in their mission to demolish our hetero marriages. – jason
Today there was a vote in the Massachusetts Legislature that could have put a measure on the ballot [...]
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