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Liberal Party vice-president Karina Okotel says the “disturbing” bigotry she has faced for being against same-sex marriage is worse than any racist labels she endured because of her Sri Lankan background. In a split with federal party president Nick Greiner on the same-sex marriage campaign, Ms Okotel will be advocating a No vote in the postal survey. Ms Okotel rebuked Mr Greiner’s claim there were not broader implications to the vote such as freedom of religion and freedom of speech. She said she had been racially vilified for her skin colour but that discrimination paled in comparison to what is levelled at her when she argues that the Marriage Act should not be changed. “I do from time to time experience discrimination on the basis of race,” she writes in The Australian today. Liberal Party vice-president Karina Okotel says the “disturbing” bigotry she has faced for being against same-sex marriage is worse than any racist labels she endured because of her Sri Lankan background....

Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has rejected an attempt by the Organization of American States (OMS) to reach agreements that pro-family activists would lead to the legalization of same-sex “marriage.” “The foundation of Guatemalan society are the families and we will comply with the moral values and ethics that our Constitution demands,” declared the president. President Otto Pérez Molina The topic was discussed during the 43 rd  regular session of the OAS General Assembly held in the city of Antigua, Guatemala , entitled, “For a Comprehensive Policy against the World Drug Problem in the Americas ”. The president refused to sign onto two documents, saying he found within them things “that we do not agree with.” The agreements would have added the term “sexual orientation” to the list of categories protected from discrimination, paving the way for same-sex “marriage” to be legalized in the future. The documents were titled "the Inter-American Convention ag...

An interactive map released this week by U.S. geography students shows what regions in America originate the highest number of racist and homophobic posts on Twitter . The number of tweets with 'hateful' sentiments in a certain area is expressed in a range of colours from light blue to bright red, a style known as a heat map. In this case, the students have called it a "hate map." Hate Map - where most Homophobic, Racist tweets come from. users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate…  http:// pic.twitter.com/eFxp7xfOzB CHRIS PIRILLO @CHRISPIRILLO · 4 DAYS AGO REPLY RETWEET FAVORITE Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., incorporated data from 150,000 tweets, focusing on 10 hateful words, as part of a larger project called "G eography of Hate ." The students read each tweet individually to make sure the content was indeed an expression of hatred, and not some other use of the key words investigated. However, it is the stu...