Tag Archives: Mitch McConnell

303 Creative: How bad was it? Depends on who you ask

LGBTQ legal activists say the 303 Creative decision is very narrow and not likely to come do much damage. But others disagree.

Supreme Court’s most pro-LGBT justice dies

The Supreme Court justice with the most supportive voting record for LGBT people, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died Friday. Now, the battle begins over who shall appoint her successor.

Concerns for GOP escalate as Trump sends out mixed message on KKK

The Republican presidential race took a particularly nasty turn this week when frontrunner Donald Trump inexplicably balked at disavowing the support of the Ku Klux Klan and a former KKK leader David Duke.

LGBT support solidly behind Clinton in SC; GOP dividing over Trump

The LGBT community appears to have been solidly behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Saturday’s primary.

Scalia’s legacy included ‘gleeful’ hostility to the civil rights of LGBT people

One LGBT legal activist this weekend recalled U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as “a gleeful and influential political culture-warrior as well as … a towering figure who cast a dark shadow on the law and on the lives of

Senate changes hands and GOP wins governor’s office in three blue states

Republican candidates won enough U.S. Senate seats Tuesday night to take over the majority in both chambers of Congress, but in an even more stunning victory, Republicans took over the governor’s offices in three strongly Democratic states –Illinois, Maryland, and,

Key mid-term race to watch is the Kentucky senate, where prospects for ENDA could hinge on McConnell

Most of the pundits are saying Republicans will take over the U.S. Senate and keep the House in the November 4 elections. If they’re right –and there is some room for doubt—the Employment Non-Discrimination Act will likely have to undergo

Speed Read: Log Cabin attacks Polis

Log Cabin Republicans is running attack ads against an openly gay Congressman. Opponents of Houston's lesbian Mayor Annise Parker's proposed non-discrimination ordinance threaten to launch a recall election against her. North Dakota is left standing as the only state with

Speed Read: ‘Bad for Mississippi’

The Mississippi House Judiciary Committee Tuesday advanced a religious bias bill to the House floor, which could vote on it as early as today. The Kentucky Attorney General announced yesterday he won't defend the constitutionality of the state's ban on

LGBT support for Hagel remains split, but OutServe-SLDN is ‘comfortable’ with nominee

The LGBT community’s position on Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary remains quietly split as Hagel approaches his first key Senate vote, perhaps as early as Thursday, February 6. No LGBT organization, not even the Human Rights Campaign or OutServe-SLDN, has met