As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Proposition 8 has been declared unconstitutional! While the ruling will be appealed, perhaps as far as the United States Supreme Court, this decision is still a huge achievement in the fight for marriage equality.
The latest right-wing complaints focus on the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, a provision added by Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) that creates 20 new offices in federal agencies to regulate diversity in hiring and employment.
Target and Best Buy, two companies with reputations for being progressive and pro-LGBT rights, have given $150,000 and $100,000 respectively to MN Forward, a political action committee (PAC) that supports Tom Emmer, anti-LGBT rights candidate for Minnesota governor.
Abortion rights supporters cheered when President Obama lifted the Global Gag Rule during his first week in office, allowing international family planning service providers to reinstate funding lost during the Bush era. But from that first week we appear to have slipped into a period of more restriction on abortion rights, not less.
On July 21, the American Association of University Women cheered a court decision announcing that cheerleading is not a sport.
