The following letter was written to Illinois' Belleville News-Democrat: I read about the gay pride event in Belleville that was given a blessing by Mayor Mark Eckert, a position I and many others disagree with. He says, "Belleville doesn't have a problem with people celebrating diversity." I've got some news for Eckert, homosexuality is not the same as racial or ethnic diversity. Racial and ethnic origins are something one cannot choose and diversity indeed improves the community. To give the homosexual the same status and Eckert's remarks make me want to throw up. These people chose that lifestyle, a proven fact. The liberal ...

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Michelle Obama last night spoke to Democratic National Committee's Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council at the group's NYC gala, pledging that if elected, her husband will fight against discrimination in all its counterproductive forms: Obama's wife says he'll fight for gay equality [AP via Google] In a related story: We hear that Cindy McCain will today give a speech, wherein she'll support her husband's pro-"Don't Ask Don't Tell," pro-state-level marriage bans, anti-hate crimes legislation, anti-ENDA stances, yet will vow to stop him whenever he wants to fast forward through the parts of "Ugly Betty" that he deems too ...

The new Equality Bill published today includes proposals for all public bodies to promote equality for gay and lesbian people. The bill is intended to be an extension of the current duty on public authorities to actively promote equality into services like fostering, magistrates courts and health clinics, to make their services more accessible to lesbian, bisexual and gay people. "The first equality laws were brought in by a Labour Government more than 40 years ago," Harriet Harman, Secretary of State for Equality, told the House of Commons today. "Progress has been made to outlaw discrimination against people if ...

You know the Alliance Defense Fund, the conservative legal group that argues against gay equality at every turn? The group that argued against marriage equality in California? The outfit that tried to have a "stay" placed on the California ruling until the anti-gay side had a chance the get their constitutional amendment passed at the polls? The group that has issued the following video in which ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence invokes "God and his sovereignty" as a justification for the group's battle against civil equality (which Mr. Lorence liken to the work of Satan): Yea, ...