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Gay marriage takes next steps

Submitted by ONE Community on November 20, 2012 - 9:30am
Gay marriage takes next steps

Gay activists are preparing to quickly use the momentum from this year’s election to try to legalize marriage in at least seven new states and force Congress and the president to make major changes in discrimination laws.

Advocates have identified Oregon, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, Colorado, Hawaii and New Jersey as states where they believe that as early as 2014 they’ll see gay marriage legalized through ballot measures, court decisions or state legislative action.

And the U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide next week whether to consider legalizing gay marriage. Read more »

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Wisconsin, a Republican Haven, Finds Itself Split

Submitted by ONE Community on October 12, 2012 - 11:52am

PEWAUKEE, Wis. — In the battle for control of the Senate, this state would seem to have everything Republicans could dream of: a shift to red up and down the ballot in 2010, a Republican governor who decisively survived a recall effort a few months ago, and a local son turned vice-presidential nominee.

Yet with Election Day fast approaching, Representative Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat who has been rated among the most liberal members of Congress, finds herself about even in the polls with the Republican candidate, former Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, who once ran for president, and who not long ago was widely presumed to walk away with the open Senate seat here. Read more »

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Rainbow Over the White House: Could Americans Elect an Openly Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual President?

Submitted by ONE Community on April 18, 2012 - 12:20am

From The Huffington Post:

In an era when neither race nor gender, Catholicism nor Mormonism, seem to be insurmountable obstacles for presidential aspirants, could American voters ever elect an openly lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) president? The question has certainly been asked before, and no less a presidential expert than Jimmy Carter argued in late 2010 that this could happen "in the near future," based on rapid pro-gay shifts in public opinion. But several formidable hurdles, and one in particular, still remain. Read more »

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DP bill called smart business move for gov't

Submitted by ONE Community on October 18, 2009 - 11:32am
Senate looks at expanding rights for gay federal workers By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade Oct 15 2009, 4:44 PM A Senate bill that would extend domestic partner benefits to LGBT federal workers was touted as a way to make the federal government more competitive with the private sector during a congressional hearing Thursday. The Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee heard testimony on the Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act, which would make the same-sex partners of federal employees eligible for the same benefits as the spouses of straight workers. Sen.
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