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Beyond Marriage, Other Gay-Rights Challenges Loom [Gays Demand More, More, and Much More!]
Guardian (UK) ^ | October 11, 2014 | DAVID CRARY

Posted on 10/11/2014 10:15:53 AM PDT by Steelfish

Beyond Marriage, Other Gay-Rights Challenges Loom October 11 2014 DAVID CRARY

Even as they celebrate epic victories in the push for marriage equality, gay-rights activists acknowledge that other difficult issues remain on their agenda. There's the persistent high rate of HIV infections, the struggles to expand transgender rights, and the striking fact that even in some states allowing same-sex marriage, people can lose their job for being gay.

For many activists, the top priority after marriage is federal legislation that would outlaw a broad range of discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. There's no such federal law now, and more than half the states do not ban discrimination by employers or public accommodations based on sexual orientation.

"There's absolutely no good reason if you can get married why you should be denied a hotel room or a job," said Fred Sainz, a vice president of the Human Rights Campaign. "There will be a fair number of states where you can get married and be fired the same day for having gotten married."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 10/11/2014 10:15:53 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Question— I see what they are saying that theoretically you can be fired for being gay. But is anyone nowadays actually terminated for that reason? I think if they had, we would have seen lawsuits on the subject.


2 posted on 10/11/2014 10:19:48 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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3 posted on 10/11/2014 10:20:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Steelfish

The goal posts will always keep moving. Once they get 50 state homosexual marriage, they will then be pissed off about something else they perceive as unfair.


4 posted on 10/11/2014 10:21:30 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Steelfish

“Can you say reparations, Brucie?”


5 posted on 10/11/2014 10:31:25 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Steelfish

There is no such thing as “enough”. You know that.


6 posted on 10/11/2014 10:32:07 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Steelfish
Sodomite power comes from their membership in a coalition of Sodomites, blacks, Mexicans, single women, Asiatics, Non-Christians etc. This coalition is conquering the people that formed and governed the nation up to 2009 A.D. The "Fundamental Transformation" is really a conquest leading to the sack of the wealth accumulated by Americans due to their success over the centuries. Concurrent with the ongoing sack of our wealth are insult, discrimination, assault and the eventual enslavement of Americans. California is gone it is a province of Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas are going into Mexican dominance. In California the coalition will repeal proposition 13 which placed a limit on property taxes. The repeal is now being openly talked about. Once the repeal is accomplished property taxes will become so high most middle class people will be required to sell their homes to foreigners-usually the Asiatics forming part of the coalition.

The conquest is ongoing due to American youth devoting their lives to a philosophy of eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels, snoring and tickets to "The Games." America as an idea and Nation is almost dead. People cannot even protect themselves against a virulent disease, they cannot even resist assaults by black coalition members. In short we are in that stage mentioned by Spengler where we will die to provide amusement for others.

7 posted on 10/11/2014 10:36:06 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Churches. They are going to go after churches.


8 posted on 10/11/2014 10:36:56 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Steelfish
All we want to do is be able to come out of the closet and live our lives in peace.

Now the only way for us to have peace is to crawl into the closet they abandoned!

This is wearing awfully think folks.

9 posted on 10/11/2014 10:44:51 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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...awfully thin folks!


10 posted on 10/11/2014 10:45:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: Salman

Faggies’ demands are like Muslim demands - they are tides that are always coming in.


11 posted on 10/11/2014 10:50:27 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am now a radicalized infidel.")
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To: virgil

I hope they don’t go after churches. But we will see. Is there ANY mainstream denomination which allows homosexual marriage?


12 posted on 10/11/2014 10:51:37 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Once they get 50 state homosexual marriage

Oh my bad, I thought they were going for 57 state homosexual marriage...
13 posted on 10/11/2014 10:53:02 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
It will be churches not going along and opening their doors to perform marriages. They will force churches to perform homosexual marriages or they will lose their tax exempt 501C3 status. Then Christians that object to their church closing their doors, will then be ostracized, forced from their jobs and their homes.

It is coming, make no mistake. Evil and debauchery are pervasive in our culture now and Believers are not taking bold stands against these forces of evil.

It was not homosexual immorality that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was the government endorsing it.

14 posted on 10/11/2014 11:04:37 AM PDT by thirst4truth (Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.)
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To: Steelfish

Bullets are the only solution


15 posted on 10/11/2014 11:08:58 AM PDT by Viennacon (Obola is a muslim terrorist & his viral illegals need to be deported NOW!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I found this on the web about a "gay" teacher being fired from a Catholic school in PA:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/gay-catholic-school-teacher-fired-married/story?id=21141075

I know that there was a similar situation here in WA State a while back. However, in secular society, I don't think this can happen. Americans no longer have 1st Amendment rights as regards religion (my opinion), so to say no to a "gay" person or couple is to invite a giant law suit.

Also, the situation in the Seattle area was very depressing, as the Catholic school tried to fire the teacher, and both students and parents protested vigorously. Why are they in a Catholic School in the first place if they disagree with a crucial teaching of the Church?

16 posted on 10/11/2014 11:21:04 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: elcid1970

The goal posts are always moving. Now they are going for transgendered rights. I believe that this will never end. If they get 50,state homosexual marriage that won’t end it. It will only set the stage for more and more demands for “equality” and fighting alleged “discrimination”.

Or put another way, they will find something else to be pissed off about once they achieve 50 state homosexual marriage.


17 posted on 10/11/2014 11:26:39 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: virgil
Churches. They are going to go after churches.

I agree that, that will be the end game. I have actually been waiting for quite some time for the first "gay" couple to go into a Catholic Church and demand to be married. Law suits, huge media coverage favoring the "gays", and copitulation of the SCOTUS. The Constitution will be amended, for all intents and purposes, without a convention of the states; and, our 1st Amendment rights to practice our religion in our everyday life will be gone.

18 posted on 10/11/2014 11:26:40 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: LibertarianLiz

It has happened in Great Britain. Don’t know if it has happened here yet, but it will. No doubt in my mind.


19 posted on 10/11/2014 11:32:22 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Travis McGee

no doubt, it is an intellectual attack against free speech in the name of sexualmfreedom.

No one can force me to hire or approve some activity that I disapprove within my premises.

We should not be forced to fund raise for things we do not approve, let alone be trolled about it.


20 posted on 10/11/2014 12:22:09 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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