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USA: Federal court rules gay rights are civil rights, discrimination is illegal

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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act , which bans discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, also covers homosexuality. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit , which handles cases in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, decided 8-3 that discrimination on the basis of "sex" also means discrimination on the basis of " sexual orientation ."   The ruling is significant because it recognizes special protections for LGBTQ status in existing law, making gay activists’ attempts to create LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws unnecessary. Progressives hailed the ruling. Vox  called it  "the biggest pro-gay rights legal decision since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality." Lambda Legal , which handled the case,  said , “This decision is game-changer." "It’s the first federal appeals court decision to rule that anti-gay discrimination is banned ...

Archbishop rebukes US gvmt official’s claim that religious liberty is just ‘code’ for ‘homophobia’

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The head of the U.S. Bishops’ committee on religious freedom challenged recent charges of hypocrisy leveled by the chairman of a federal civil rights commission against religious Americans concerned their faith is under attack in society. Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore issued a  statement  calling accusations of bigotry against people of faith by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Martin Castro irresponsible and said the comments show deep disrespect for the basis for Castro’s own work on the Commission. “He makes the shocking suggestion that Catholic, evangelical, orthodox Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim communities are comparable to fringe segregationists from the civil rights era,” the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty said. “These statements painting those who support religious freedom with the broad brush of bigotry are reckless and reveal a profound disregard for the religious found...

Same-Sex Marriage as a Civil Right — Are Wrongs Rights

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We should have seen it coming. Back in 1989 two young activists pushing for the normalization of homosexuality coauthored a book intended to serve as a political strategy manual and public relations guide for their movement.  In After the Ball: How America Will Conquer its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s, authors Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen argued that efforts to normalize homosexuality and homosexual relationships would fail unless their movement shifted its argument to a demand for civil rights, rather than for moral acceptance.  Kirk and Madsen argued that homosexual activists and their allies should avoid talking about sex and sexuality. Instead, “the imagery of sex per se should be downplayed, and the issue of gay rights reduced, as far as possible, to an abstract social question.” Beyond Kirk and Madsen and their public relations strategy, an even more effective legal strategy was developed along the same lines. Legal theorists and litigators began to ...

The inequality of ‘equality’

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Words have meaning. Well, until we decide to strip that meaning from them by expanding their definition to suit our ideology. “ Equality ” is a concept that is thrown about all the time.  Ensuring it has become a religion with the devout willing to do anything to force it upon everyone. Recently, homosexual “rights’ groups  continued their attacks  on TLC ’s  Duggar family  for supporting our First Amendment freedoms by encouraging the repeal of an intrusive and unconstitutional  Chapter 119   city ordinance . Just one provision from the ordinance tells you how far LGBT activists will go to muddle reality: “ Discriminate , Discrimination or Discriminatory  means any act, policy or practice that has the effect of subjecting any person to differential treatment as a result of that person’s  real or perceived  race, ethnicity, national origin, age (if 18 years of age or older), gender, gender identity , gende...

Obama administration says Title IX anti-sex discrimination law covers transgender people

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 In the latest of a series of moves to  promote the transgender political agenda  through the use of  executive powers , the Obama administration has said  that the federal Title IX civil rights provisions intended to stop discrimination against women programs apply to transgender people. Designed to prevent discrimination on the “basis of sex,”  Title IX funding  – formally known as Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education – came into being in 1972. The funding has been used to prevent sexism in hiring, college athletics, and all other areas where sex discrimination could potentially occur. Transgender advocates proclaimed the administration's decision as a major move. Harper Jean Tobin, Policy Director for the National Center for Transgender Equality , said that the "announcement is a breakthrough for transgender students, who too often face hostility at school and refusal by school officials to accept them for who they truly are."...

Is Homosexuality a class of people like African-Americans?

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Is there a difference between skin color and sexual behavior ? Why should we classify people because of what they desire to do sexually?  Homosexuals want to be considered a class of people by depicting themselves as victims who, like blacks, have been denied civil rights . That way, they can make the unsuspecting public think that those who oppose their political agenda are discriminating against them rather than their behavior. According to them, conservatives are all bigots on par with racists—we are opposed to fairness itself.  But all of that is nonsense. First, the comparison of homosexuality to race is completely invalid. Skin color is benign, but sexual behavior is not. Having a certain skin color does not hurt anyone, but homosexual behavior can and does hurt others. Furthermore,  sexual behavior is always a choice; race never is.   You will find many former homosexuals, but you will never find a former African-American.  Second, homosexuality is not...

City of Venice to ban ‘mother’ and ‘father’ terms on official forms

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VENICE, September 4, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The municipal government of the city of Venice, Italy has passed a law banning the terms “mother” and “father on forms parents must fill out to gain a place for their children at publicly funded day care and kindergartens.  The “ civil rights and anti-discrimination ” policy was introduced by city councilor Camilla Seibezzi, who said that such changes to language are a fundamental objective to combat stereotypes. “The [linguistic] construction forms a category of thought, a daily practice,” she said.  The newspaper,  Corriere del Veneto , reports that the terms will be replaced by “parent 1” and “parent 2”. The change has not been popular, however, and Seibezzi has lodged a complaint with police against comments posted to a social media platform that she says were threatening.  Seibezzi told the Venetian daily La Nuova that “rainbow families” that are not recognized in Italian law are “the reality of our ...