17-year-old JT Gaskins, who has
been battling cancer since he was a year old, wanted to give back to the
community. When he found out that the sister of a family friend was diagnosed
with cancer, he wanted to grow his hair out for Locks of Love. However, he was
suspended from his school because his hair is too long. (Because you know the
best way to teach a child right and wrong is to suspend them from school for
caring about others.)
Washington State’s marriage
equality bill advanced again yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee. The
Senate version advanced last week and will be voted on tomorrow. The house bill
should follow shortly. Anti-gay advocates are already collecting signatures to
suspend the bill and put it on the ballot.
By a narrow vote of 8-7, the
Virginia state Senate General Laws Committee rejected a bill to add sexual
orientation to the list of classes protected from discrimination in state hiring.
Anti-gay groups testified that the bill was unneeded because there is no proof
that gays are discriminated against. Of course, since it is legal to
discriminate there is nowhere people can go to register a complaint so that is
a totally bogus excuse.
To appease the Crazy Ass Right, NJ
Governor Chris Christie says that openly gay state Supreme Court nominee Bruce
Harris has promised to recuse himself from any cases regarding same-sex
marriage. Because it is a conflict for gay men to decide on marriage rights but
it isn’t a conflict for straight people to decide on marriages.
South Dakota’s House has voted
that all public schools in the state have to include Bible study. Hopefully it
never becomes law.
Martha Boggs, the owner of a
Knoxville, Tennessee restaurant called The Bistro at the Bijou, denied Senator
Stacey Campbell (who proposed the state's ridiculous "Don't Say Gay"
law and said straights don’t get AIDS) entrance into her establishment because
of his remarks. “I hope you understand now what it is like to be discriminated
against for being who you are.”
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