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These 7 GOP Lawmakers Just Introduced Some of the Most Vile, Hateful Anti-LGBTQ Legislation We’ve Ever Seen, in Kansas
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 5 years ago
“Think again if you believe the GOP isn’t coming to remove LGBTQ rights, or that same-sex marriage is a settled issue.”
Kansas GOP state Representatives Randy Garber, Owen Donohoe, David French, Cheryl Helmer, Ron Highland, Steve Huebert and Bill Rhiley introduced a set of vile and hateful legislation on Wednesday. The legislation seeks to ban same-sex marriage, legally deny the existence of transgender people,...
Gay dads make great dads: UQAM study
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 5 years ago
“Researcher hopes his work helps dispel stereotypes about gay fathers, and contributes to opening up adoption possibilities for gay parents. ”
Gay men make excellent fathers, according to a groundbreaking study from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). “It’s the first study of its kind,” noted Éric Feugé, who over seven years observed 46 families, including 92 gay fathers and 46 children ages one to nine, for his doctoral thesis....
NYT’s Trump Interview: Money for Nothing and Clicks for Free
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago
“Finally, Peter Baker gets Trump to admit something amazing over and over, but it doesn’t make the final argument. Trump says the Trump Tower deal...”
The NYT has an article this morning it purports to be from an interview with the President. Here’s what it says about the Russian investigation: Addressing a wide range of subjects, Mr. Trump brushed off the investigations that have consumed so much of his presidency, saying that his lawyers...
The Trump Administration Quietly Changed the Definition of Domestic Violence and We Have No Idea What For
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 5 years ago
“A domestic violence relationship rarely begins with physical violence, much less violence that rises to the level of a crime. If you were punched...”
Without fanfare or even notice, the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women made significant changes to its definition of domestic violence in April. The Obama-era definition was expansive, vetted by experts including the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National...
Anonymous FBI agents air shutdown grievances in association's report
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 5 years ago
“The anecdotes in the report are vague and include claims that forensic interviews of child victims are being delayed, that sources in...”
One FBI special agent said the partial government shutdown has "eliminated any ability to operate." Another said the job has "never been so hard or thankless." A third said agents cannot "protect and serve the American people." The anonymous testimonials came in a report Tuesday by the FBI...
Republican Congressman: Trump’s Border Crisis Is a ‘Myth’
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 38 Comments • 5 years ago
“A conversation with Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who knows the border better than most of his colleagues”
WASHINGTON — Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is an increasingly lonely voice in the “build the wall” Republican Party of Donald Trump. A 41-year-old former undercover CIA officer, Hurd represents one of the largest congressional districts in America, Texas’ 23rd, a vast expanse of land roughly...
Outrage as non-Native youth wearing #MAGA hats taunt and disrespect Native elder
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 199 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Nathan Phillips, Omaha, is a Vietnam Veteran who hosts a sacred pipe ceremony at Arlington, was taunted in D.C. ”
Native Twitter has gone ablaze as a Native American elder singing the AIM Song in Washington DC during the Indigenous Peoples March was ridiculed, taunted and mocked by a group of non-Native youth. The video, which was posted by YouTube account holder KC NOLAND, was also screen captured and...
Evangelical group wants gays removed from anti-lynching bill
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago
“Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver opposes including the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in a federal anti-lynching bill.”
The U.S. Senate last month unanimously passed a bill that would explicitly make lynching a federal crime. Not everyone, however, is pleased with passage of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. Liberty Counsel, an evangelical nonprofit that opposes gay rights, and its chairman, Mat Staver,...
U.S. Ambassador Visits American Who Was Arrested In Russia On Suspicion Of Spying
Via: Dulay • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 5 years ago
“Whelan reportedly could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage.”
Whelan served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1994-2008, during which he deployed to Iraq twice and rose to the rank of staff sergeant, serving as an administrative clerk and chief. But he was discharged for bad conduct "on several charges related to larceny," according to an account of his...