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Party rhetoric
Last Saturday, conservative pundit Glenn Beck held a tea-party rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on the anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington. Beck claimed he didn’t s...
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Race, religion and discrimination
Recently, there have been a lot of heated discussions on race, religion, discrimination and hate speech — some well-informed and some not so much — spanning incidents from Dr. Laura invoking the N...
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Friends and foes in the right wing
Well, if it isn’t progress sneaking up on us. This week, several conservative pundits took some (tentative) steps toward tolerance and inclusion, while others remained firmly entrenched in bigotry...
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Boiling over
Recently, two gay men garnered media attention after very publicly expressing dissatisfaction with their employment situations, in very different ways and with very different outcomes. The first i...
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Unanswered questions
DeFarra Gaymon, a prominent CEO from Georgia, made a trip north last month to attend his high-school reunion in New Jersey, an event he spent countless hours planning over the past year. He neve...
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Et tu, Target?
On July 27, Target Corp. chief executive Gregg Steinhafel said the company’s support of the gay community is “unwavering.” This came after the Associated Press reported on a $150,000 donation the ...
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Truthiness, or something like it
This week, the head of the Department of Agriculture, Ted Vilsack, fired a black employee after a video clip made its way around the Web of the civil servant seemingly admitting to racism. As of W...
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Awkward legal positions
There are three cases right now in which the Obama administration has to defend laws that it has vocalized opposition to: two cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act and a case challenging t...
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Politics, pride and progress
Gay Pride events take many forms and iterations. It could be a parade and festival, it could be a five-minute march in defiance of a ban, it could be a weeklong celebration with street closures, s...
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Scouting limbo
Last week, the jury in the Boy Scouts case challenging the city of Philadelphia’s effort to evict them from a city-owned building handed down a mixed verdict, with the city prevailing on two point...
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