Next Wednesday marks the anniversary: one full year of President Obama in office. Yet despite grassroots pressure and a fair-minded president, Congress hasn’t moved legislation to make it illegal to discriminate in the workplace and the military. And meanwhile, the right wing is emboldened: last week, New Jersey rejected marriage equality after the National Organization [...]
Today, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith N. Macaluso issued a ruling [pdf] rejecting the arguments in a case brought by anti-marriage equality activists and backed by thirty-nine forty-nine* Republican members of Congress that argued the D.C. Board of Elections was wrong to prevent a ballot initiative defining marriage as only between a man and a woman. Marriage equality [...]
This update on our continuing organizing around the Employment Non-Discrimination Act comes from David Hurley, currently in New Jersey: This past Sunday I was invited to speak to Skylands Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to talk about ENDA and the faith community’s responsibilities to speak up and take action in support of fair workplaces on behalf of our [...]
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