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Tag: Nondiscrimination

The real origins of the religious right

May 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Media & Culture

The real origins of the religious right “They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation,” writes Randall Balmer in

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Harry Reid denounces Republican filibuster of Paycheck Fairness Act

April 9th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Economic Security

For reasons known only to them, Senate Republicans don’t seem to be interested in closing wage gaps for working women. — Senate Majority Leader Harry

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Arizona business groups overwhelmingly opposed to SB 1062

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

The state already is known as being discriminatory… This would muddy the water and give Arizona a more terrible reputation. — Howard Fleischmann, majority owner

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Jan Brewer inundated with calls to veto anti-LGBT bill

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Jan Brewer inundated with calls to veto anti-LGBT bill Pressure is mounting on Arizona’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, to veto Senate Bill 1062, which would

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Jeff Flake: Jan Brewer should veto anti-LGBT bill

February 24th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Party Politics

I hope Governor Brewer vetoes SB 1062. — U.S. Senator Jeff Flake on Twitter, publicly expressing his hope that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will choose

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Fundamentalist Republican national committeeman doesn’t see that he’s hurting his own party with his bigoted remarks

February 18th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Party Politics

What happens is big money and big power goes to individuals and says you will come against Dave or I’m going to make sure you

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Haven’t seen Ellen Page’s moving coming-out speech yet? It’s worth watching!

February 17th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Courtesy of the Human Rights Campaign, here is Ellen Page’s moving coming-out speech at HRC’s Time to Thrive Conference.

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April 18th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

It cannot be argued that marriage between people of the same sex is un-American or threatens the rights of others… On the contrary, it seems

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