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Sacrificial goats must keep fighting
The right wing scapegoats LGBTs, sacrificing our rights on their altar of power. The goats have to keep fighting back if we want equality HARDY HABERMAN | Flagging Left Land of the free and home of the brave? Maybe not. … Continue reading
What’s Brewing: Boehner defends House hearing on ‘defending marriage’; civil unions in Delaware
Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea: 1. A U.S. House subcommittee is holding a hearing this morning on “defending marriage.” Republican House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday defended the hearing as a “legitimate” use of government resources. Those scheduled … Continue reading
UPDATE: Maryland marriage bill dead for the year
An Associated Press article posted online by The Washington Post is saying that the decision in the Maryland House of Delegates today send to send the Civil Marriage Protection Act back to the House Judiciary Committee has effectively killed the … Continue reading
Posted in Instant Tea, news
Tagged civil marriage, final vote, house judiciary committee, house speaker, legislation, marriage bill, marriage equality, maryland house of delegates, maryland marriage, michael busch, opponents, press article, protection act, speaker michael, victory, Washington Post
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Texas House committees and pro-LGBT bills
DANIEL WILLIAMS | Legislative Queery Texas House Speaker Joe Straus has finally announced the committee assignments for the 82nd Texas House. As I predicted last month the partisan breakdown of the committee chairs roughly reflects the distribution of party control … Continue reading
Posted in Community Voices, Instant Tea
Tagged bill zedler, birth certificates, criminal jurisprudence, Daniel Williams, hate crimes act, homophobes, house committees, house speaker, Joe Straus, joint committee, last session, lois kolkhorst, mark strama, pete gallego, queery, r austin, rob eissler, same sex parents, sodomy law, water bearer
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Oklahoma lawmakers spar over how conservative to be
After sweeping into power in November’s election, state’s ultra-conservative Republicans take aim at moderate House leader Sean Murphy | editor@dallasvoice.com OKLAHOMA CITY — As Republicans in control of the Oklahoma House opened two days of meetings to set their 2011 … Continue reading
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Tagged Caucus, GOP, house speaker, kris, legislative session, legislators, Oklahoma City, oklahoma voters, republican majority, social issues, state budget, state rep
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