Homosexuality
1/11/2012 | Homosexuality
DC Council Considering Gay Divorce Bill
Associated Press
The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would make it easier for gay and lesbian couples who marry in the nation’s capital to get divorced.
The bill would let gay couples who married in Washington get divorced even if they no longer live in the district, provided they live somewhere that would not recognize their divorce. Under current law, one member of the divorcing couple has to live in Washington for six months before starting divorce proceedings.
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US to use foreign aid to promote gay rights
Associated Press
The Obama administration is announcing a wide-ranging effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality.
In a memorandum issued Tuesday, President Barack Obama directed U.S. agencies working abroad, including the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, to use foreign aid to assist gays and lesbians who are facing human rights violations. And he ordered U.S. agencies to improve protections for gay and lesbian refugees and asylum seekers.
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White House Aide: Obama Should Concentrate on Transgender Issues ‘In Whatever Time We Have Left’
CNS News
President Obama “has been pretty clear” in his support for big-ticket items on the homosexual activist agenda – like trying to repeal the "so-called" federal Defense of Marriage Act -- according to a top White House liaison to the LGBT community.
But now, “in whatever time we have left” in office, the White House has an opportunity to concentrate on lesser-known items on the LGBT activist agenda – including HIV/AIDS and helping homeless transgendered teens, Gautam Raghavan, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, said Tuesday night.
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Girl Scouts Allow 7-Year-Old Boy to Join Because He is ‘Living Life as a Girl’
CNS News
The Girl Scouts of Colorado are allowing a 7-year-old boy to join a local troop because he is “living life as a girl.”
“We make the distinction that if a child is living life as a girl and the family brings the child to us and says my daughter wants to be a Girl Scout, we welcome her,” Rachelle Trujillo, vice president of communications with Girl Scouts of Colorado told CNSNews.com.
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Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryAlex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical SeminaryJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com9/21/2011 | Homosexuality, UN
‘We Must Stand Up for the Rights of Gays And Lesbians Everywhere,’ Obama Tells U.N.
CNS News
In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, President Obama called for “open societies” that “empower their citizens,” including homosexuals and women.
“No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere,” Obama said one day after the United States started allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the U.S. military.
In a reference to women, Obama said, “no country can realize its potential if half its population cannot reach theirs.”
Obama noted that the United State this week signed a new Declaration on Women’s Participation. “Next year, we should each announce the steps we are taking to break down economic and political barriers that stand in the way of women and girls. That is what our commitment to human progress demands.”
Elsewhere in his speech, the president mentioned poverty that punishes children. “We must act on the belief that freedom from want is a basic human right,” he said.
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Major Eric Egland, Author, The Troops Need You, America: Six Ways to Help...Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USABishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchCliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryAlex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical SeminaryJeff Myers, Incoming President, Summit MinistriesDavid Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com9/20/2011 | Homosexuality, U.S. Military
"Don't ask, don't tell" consigned to history
Associated Press
After years of debate and months of final preparations, the military can no longer prevent gays from serving openly in its ranks.
Repeal of a 1993 law that allowed gays to serve only so long as they kept their sexual orientation private took effect Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. EDT.
Some in Congress still oppose the change, but top Pentagon leaders have certified that it will not undermine the military's ability to recruit or to fight wars.
The Army was distributing a business-as-usual statement Tuesday saying simply, "The law is repealed," and reminding soldiers to treat each other fairly.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, scheduled a Pentagon news conference for later Tuesday to field questions about the repeal. And a bipartisan group of congressional supporters of allowing openly gay service planned a news conference on Capitol Hill.
Gay advocacy groups planned a series of celebrations across the country.
CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports President Bill Clinton first tried to repeal the ban on gays, but ran into the objections of then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell. A generation later, President Obama had the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on his side. Mullen was the decisive voice calling for policy's repeal.
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Upset Win: Republican Takes Weiner’s Seat GOP upset win in NY portends challenge for Obama
Associated Press
It sounded improbable on the surface that a New York City congressional district where Democrats have a 3-1 registration edge and have held office for nearly a century could even come close to electing a Republican to the U.S. House.
But voter frustration over the sour economy and President Barack Obama's policies made the improbable a reality, as a Republican political novice, Bob Turner, scored an upset victory in a special election Tuesday over David Weprin, a Democratic assemblyman from a prominent local political family.
The surprising results in the Brooklyn and Queens-area district portend a perilous national environment for Obama as he prepares to seek re-election next year.
Turner said as much when he stepped before cameras to claim victory Tuesday night.
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White House proudly supports repeal of DOMA
OneNewsNow
On Tuesday, the White House made clear its intentions to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama "is proud" to support what is being called the "Respect for Marriage Act" -- a bill (S. 598) sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California). The legislation, as Carney put it, "would take the Defense of Marriage Act off the books once and for all."
In response, House Speaker John Boehner described DOMA as "the law of the land" -- and vowed that the House will continue in its effort to ensure that DOMA's constitutionality "is determined by the courts rather than by a unilateral action by the Obama administration." Maggie Gallagher, chair of the National Organization for Marriage, called Obama's endorsement of Feinstein's bill "political theatrics," stating there is "zero chance that Congress is going to repeal [the law] anytime soon."
The administration has refused to defend DOMA in the several challenges currently making their way through federal courts.
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Obama Administration Youth Summit: Gov’t ‘Has Finally Come Out of the Closet'
CNS News
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at the first “Federal LGBT Youth Summit” on Monday after being introduced by a homosexual on her staff, who said the secretary “gets us” and is “tireless” in her support of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender youth.
“Your federal government has finally come out of the closet in support of LGBT youth,” said Pam Hyde, HHS administrator for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services.
“It’s great to see so many young faces out there, all gay and proud,” Hyde said.
Sebelius congratulated the teens and 20-somethings for attending the summit and said the goal of the summit was to “really tackle the issues facing the LGBT youth in our country.”
The LGBT Youth Summit was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is being held at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. on June 6 and 7.
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Marshall asks Richmond Fed to remove rainbow flag honoring gay rights
Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, is asking the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank to remove the rainbow flag flying below the American flag outside of the building, calling its presence “a serious deficiency of judgment by your organization, one not limited to social issues.”
In a letter to Richmond Fed President Jeffrey M. Lacker, Marshall says the homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the American economy” and is a class six felony in Virginia.
“The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is rejected by 6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching,” writes Marshall, who is among the General Assembly’s most conservative members and has long been outspoken on gay-rights issues. “You want the American people to trust your [judgment] in economic matters when your spokesperson celebrates an attack on public morals?”
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Homosexual influence = 'tyranny of the minority'
OneNewsNow
According to one researcher's findings, a small segment of the population seemingly has overwhelming influence over the rest of America.
California demographer Gary Gates has done the math and estimates that roughly four million adults claim they are homosexual, which equals about 1.7 percent of the population.
Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, says the findings fly in the face of "the 'ten percent' myth -- that somehow ten percent of the population [is] gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender," which he points out has been touted by radical activists for decades. "This shoots a major hole through that propagandist nonsense," he decides.
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Obama Administration Presses Its Homosexual ‘Rights’ Agenda on Other Nations
CNS News
The Obama administration is pressing the rest of the world to join the U.S. in “advancing the human rights of minorities and the marginalized,” a category that it says includes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
On Tuesday, the United States joined 84 other countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council in a joint commitment to end acts of violence and human rights abuses on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Apple pulls ‘ex-gay’ app from iTunes App Store
Mac Daily News
Apple has pulled the Exodus International app from their iTunes App Store.
Recently, Jeff Buchanan, Exodus International’s Senior Director of Church Equipping & Student Ministries, told The Christian Post, “In no way shape or form is our message about trying to cure or do we try to promote that type of methodology or message… This is a label (gay cure app) that has been put forth by opponents to the application to serve as propaganda in order to stigmatize and really label the application in a false way and provoking a response such as you are seeing with the application.”
Katherine T. Phan reports for The Christian Post, “Over 107,477 people have petitioned Apple to remove the Exodus app from the iTunes store. The petition, launched by Truth Wins Out, a LGBT rights group, calls Exodus’ message ‘hateful’ and ‘bigoted.’ On Monday, Truth Wins Out, whose name is a play on words of Exodus’ Love Won Out conferences, urged more people to sign its petition.”
In addition to releasing a video on why Apple should remove the app, the LGBT rights group also pledged to continue pressuring Apple until the app is removed, even promising to hold a press conference featuring victims of ‘ex-gay’ programs in front of the company’s offices if their demands are not met,” Phan reports. “We are disheartened at the fact that there are activists who are rising up to silence our voice on the Exodus iTunes platform,” said Buchanan. “We want to ask that there would be fair and equal representation of religious belief on this platform as is already existing. We would like the spirit of diversity and tolerance that is so valued within the LGBT community.”
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California bill to foist acceptance of 'gay' lifestyle on kids
In California, a bill that will mandate public school textbooks to be rewritten to contain information about the lesbian, "gay," bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement will go before lawmakers this month.
On March 23, the first hearing and vote for Senate Bill 48, proposed by homosexual Senator Mark Leno, will proceed. Pro-family activists are urging lawmakers to vote against the bill, which would encourage open discussion on the LGBT lifestyle in classrooms of all ages. Under S.B. 48, textbooks must highlight key LGBT figures who were contributors to the history of the United States, as well as details about the homosexual movement.
Dr. Scott Lively, president of Defend the Family International, tells OneNewsNow that now is the time for Christians to voice their concern.
"And politics is a part of every church, it's part of every family -- and frankly, the reason we're suffering the consequences that we are is because the church has abdicated its responsibilities to be stewards of civil society."
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Redefining marriage at issue in England
OneNewsNow
Though liberal-leaning, England is fighting the effort of homosexual activists who are trying to get the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to force homosexual "marriage" on the country.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Roger Kiska, who is in Europe, does not believe Peter Tatchell's campaign to force same-sex marriage and heterosexual civil partnerships on Britain will gain a favorable decision.
"This case is your typical judicial activism-style case where there is little merit but a lot of risk," he explains. "Thankfully, the European Court of Human Rights recently said in a case against Austria that the European Convention of Human Rights does not contain a right to so-called same-sex marriage."
Roger Kiska (ADF)He adds that this situation has other weaknesses, including the fact that other domestic remedies have not been exhausted. However, it does mean that traditional marriage is being challenged once again -- this time on an international level.
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House votes to repeal ban on open homosexuals in military
Associated Press
Despite warnings from military leaders and from pro-family and conservative groups, the U.S. House voted Wednesday to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that for 17 years has banned homosexuals from serving openly in the military.
The 250-175 vote propels the issue to the Senate for what could be the last chance for now to end the 1993 law that forbids recruiters from asking about sexual orientation while prohibiting soldiers from acknowledging that they are gay.
It's "the only law in the country that requires people to be dishonest or be fired if they choose to be honest," said Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo.
Democratic leaders in the Senate say they are committed to bringing the bill to the floor before Congress adjourns for the year. But they are challenged by opposition from some Republicans and a daunting agenda that includes finishing work on legislation to fund the government and ratifying a nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
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Wicker: What's the emergency on repealing the ban?
OneNewsNow
The House plans to vote today on a stand-alone bill to repeal the military's ban on homosexuals. A former member of the House, now a U.S. senator, admits he's worried House Democrats may be successful this time around.
The repeal has twice been included in a Defense Authorization Bill that Senate Republicans managed to keep from coming up for a floor vote. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) vows there will be a vote today (Wednesday) on a new bill to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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Republicans Pledge to Oppose ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Repeal
CNS News
The Republican leadership in both the House and the Senate have said that they will continue to oppose any attempt to repeal the legislative ban on homosexuals serving in the military.
Spokesmen for both Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Republican leader John Beohner (R-Ohio) said that their caucuses would continue to oppose any attempts by Democrats to try and repeal the ban in the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress.
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White House: Obama to Push Bill That Would End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in Lame Duck Congress
CNS News
In the lame duck session of Congress, which follows the Nov. 2 elections to when the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2011, President Barack Obama will push the Senate to pass a bill that includes an amendment to end the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prevents homosexuals from openly serving in the military, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
While “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) is a directive in Defense Department rules, it stems from a federal law (10 U.S.C. 654) enacted by Congress in 1993, which prohibits homosexuals from serving in the military. Under DADT, military officials are not supposed to ask, and soldiers are not supposed to disclose whether they are homosexual.
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US gay rights leaders headed to Utah
Associated Press
National gay rights activists tell The Associated Press they will descend on Salt Lake City's Mormon church headquarters to deliver more than 100,000 letters asking a senior church leader to recant recent anti-gay statements.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay civil rights organization, this week called for Boyd K. Packer to correct statements that homosexuality is unnatural and can be overcome.
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