Gay Rights

Sarah Sanders complains about not being served in Restaurant after Urging same Treatment of Gays, Immigrants

Sara Sanders complained on Twitter about not being served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. WaPo reports that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, insisted that patrons uphold standards of honesty and compassion, and that Sanders flacks for an “inhumane and unethical” administration, defending Trump’s “cruelest policies.” Wilkinson’s grounds for not serving the White House […]

Donald Trump

Trump “Religious Freedom” Order Opens Way for LGBT Bias

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Human Rights Watch | – – License for Actions Harmful to Women, LGBT People (Washington, DC) – An executive order issued by President Donald Trump on May 4, 2017, opens the way to overriding regulations that protect women’s health, Human Rights Watch said today. While media attention has largely focused on the order’s efforts to […]

FBI

Did the FBI Tell Orlando Shooter’s ex-Wife Not to reveal He Was Gay to Media?

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TeleSur | – – In an interview with Brazilian TV, the ex-wife of Omar Mateen claimed the U.S. agency told her to keep quiet about his homosexuality. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation told the former wife of the Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, Sitora Yusufiy, not to speak of his homosexuality or the fact that […]

Gay Rights

Three LGBTQ Muslims offer their thoughts on the Orlando shooting and dismiss right-wing attempts to Appropriate their cause.

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AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Three LGBTQ Muslims offer their thoughts on the Orlando shooting and dismiss right-wing attempts to pay lip service to their cause.” AJ+: “Gay And Queer Muslims Dismiss GOP Attempts To Woo Them After #Orlando”

Featured

Top 7 ways to tell if Someone is lying about being a ‘Salafi Jihadi’

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Regulars at Pulse Nightclub are saying that Omar Mateen, the alleged shooter in the early Sunday morning massacre there, was himself a regular! The Orlando Sentinel writes, “‘Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would […]

Domestic Terrorism

Omar Mateen and Rightwing Homophobia: Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism?

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as “domestic terrorism.” I don’t think it probably was terrorism in any useful sense of the term. I used to know what domestic terrorism was, before the term became politicized in the past decade. […]

African-Americans

What if Kim Davis Refused to License Marriages of Inter-Racial Couples?

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis was released from prison on Tuesday after having been jailed for 5 days for contempt of court because she will not issue marriage licenses to her gay constituents. Her release was turned into a circus by Mike Huckabee, seeking a way […]

Constitution

Actually, Davis was jailed because she forbade other Clerks to marry Gay Couples

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WLKY News Louisville | (Video News Report) | – – WLKY News Louisville: “5 of Kim Davis’ deputies to issue marriage licenses, Davis still jailed”

Constitution

Kentucky Christian mini-caliphate still denying Gay Marriage Licenses in Name of God

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AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Kim Davis, a clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples one day after the Supreme Court told her she had no legal ground to stand on.” AJ+: “Same-Sex Marriage Licenses STILL Denied By Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis”