All Posts Tagged With: "gay rights"

Gay Marriage Demonstrators Move to L.A. Cathedral, Saddleback Church

‘What a lot of religious people of all faiths did to us on last Tuesday was just wrong and it’s unfair,’ says one protestor. About 200 gays and lesbians upset over the voter- approved ban on gay marriage marched from East Los Angeles to the downtown Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Sunday. [...]

10Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay equality should be part of nation’s change

In his uplifting victory speech, President-elect Barack Obama told the story of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta and the remarkable changes that have transpired during her lifetime. Born just one generation after slavery, when people like her were barred from voting both because of the color of their skin and their gender, she saw [...]

10Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gays prefer to be called LGBTs

Homosexual behaviour is illegal in over 80 countries, and India is one of them. But, of late, a PIL in Delhi High Court, health minister Ramadoss’s progressive views on gay rights and PM Manmohan singh’s advice to the home and health ministers to sort out their differences on the issue, the gay rights are now [...]

28Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘Equality Ride’ returns to Miss. College to promote gay rights

Soulforce, a national organization promoting gay rights that last year protested at Mississippi College, is making a return visit Sunday and Monday. The organization issued a news release today saying that the Soulforce Q Equality Ride bus tour will come to the private Baptist college at 8 p.m. Sunday for a candlelight vigil on College [...]

14Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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