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AFA Dropping Big Bank To Remove Iowa Judges Over Gay Marriage Ruling

According to Right Wing Watch, American Family Association (AFA) has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in a campaign to remove three Iowa Supreme Court Justices who ruled in favor of gay marriage.  The three judges are up for retention vote on the Nov. 2 ballot in Iowa.

Right Wing says AFA is literally running the Iowa For Freedom, the org set up to oust the judges.  Teabagger Bob Vander Plaats (who by the way heads Iowa For Freedom) made a run for the GOP nomination for Governor in Iowa as some of you may recall and lost. After that failed effort, he’s turned his full attention onto having those three gay marriage ruling Supreme Court judges removed.  Recently Vander Plaats was interviewed on conservative Brian Fischer’s radio program where they discussed the significance of ousting the judges.  Here’s what Vander Plaats had to say:
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Fidel Castro Apologizes For Persecution Of Cuban Gays

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro told La Jornada the persecution of gays, who were rounded up at the time as supposed counterrevolutionaries and placed in forced labor camps, was a “great injustice” that arose from the island’s history of discrimination against homosexuals, according to Reuters.

This is what the former Cuban president had to say:
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GOP Top Dogs Line Up To Attend Log Cabin Event

From The Atlantic

Suddenly, it’s becoming less of a stigma for bigwigs to associate with gays in the Republican Party. Not only has former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman’s 9/22 fundraiser for gay marriage rights attracted numerous high-octane Republican donors and activists, but Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Rep. Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee will help the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group, raise money for its political action committee. (Part of this storywas first reported last month.)

A glossy pamphlet advertising the Log Cabin Republicans’ national dinner at the Capitol Hill Club highlights an hour-long cocktail gathering with the two party committee chairs, both strong opponents of gay rights. But their attendance will add to the coffers of the LCR’s political action committee, which endorses Republicans who support gay rights.
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Uganda LGBT Activists Focus Of Documentary: Breaking the Chains

Ugandan gay activist Abdallah Wambere aka Long Jones. Photo courtesy of Xtra, unrelated to documentary.

From Gaelick.com

The only thing holding the Anti-Homosexuality Bill back, right now, is Museveni, who is afraid of losing support from Western donors. If there was a vote on it tomorrow, it would pass almost unanimously. To vote against it would be political suicide in Uganda. ~NPR

A year ago, three American Evangelicals traveled to Uganda for a conference on “the gay agenda” to speak about curing homosexuality. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill was proposed just a few months later and introduced some of the harshest punishments in the world for homosexuals. It calls for lifetime imprisonment for all LGBT people, death to homosexuals who are HIV positive and prison for any Ugandan who fails to report LGBT Ugandans within 24 hours of the Bill passing.
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Roy Ashburn Clashes With Mark Leno, EQCA, Over Gay Marriage Bill

There's poor overwhelmed Leno in the background while crazy as loon Ashburn daydreams over plans to redo the whole gay marriage scenario in Cali.

We’re beginning to like this Ashburn guy. We like his ballsy-ness. According to On Top Magazine, California Senator Roy Ashburn sent a letter last week to CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to veto the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act bill, a pet project of Senator Mark Leno and EQCA.

His reason? Ashburn feels the bill will just create second-class marriages for gay folks.

The Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act says religious organizations could not be stripped of their tax-exempt status if their clergy refuse to perform any civil marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his or her faith.

Ashburn says he agrees that religious freedoms should be protected, but notes such protections are already in place under existing state law and the U.S. Constitution. Here’s a segment from the letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger:
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Kenya: LGBTI Activists Showcase Fight For Human Rights, Strategies On HIV/AIDS Prevention

IGLHRC Staff Members Chivuli Ukwimi and Cary Alan Johnson, Nigerian Activist Ifeanyi Orazaulike, and Georges Kanuma at Pre-Conference workshop on LGBT and HIV Programs, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

From Kenya Imagine

Written by Keguro Macharia

On May 17, 2010, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) arranged a reception at the Kenyan National Museum to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO).  Attendees included members from the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) and other members of Civil Society. This event, the first of its kind, was a public declaration by KHRC that LGBTI rights are human rights.

Prior to this event, KHRC had listed LGBTI rights as a concern on their website. And in 2007, KHRC hosted a special conference that focused onLGBTI rights. However, this reception was in a publicly designated physical space: it was a coming out that wedded sexual rights to human rights at an institutional level.
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