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		<title>Stupid Things People Say About Gays &#8211; The American Dream Doesn&#8217;t Apply &#8211; Deshon Porter for City Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that everyone should have a chance at the American Dream?  So Does Deshon Porter, a may-be candidate for Boston City Council in 2011.  Well, he believes he should have a chance at the American Dream, at least.  In fact, Deshon Porter is running around the web looking to garnish support for his candidacy for Boston City Council in 2011.


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		<title>Radical Racist Extremists Infiltrating U.S. Armed Forces – It’s ok… they are straight.</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/radical-racist-extremists-infiltrating-u-s-armed-forces-its-ok-they-are-straight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, priorities are difficult to establish, particularly when dealing with issues of national security.  For example, when airplanes begin crashing into buildings, it's sometimes difficult to choose between disappointing a room full of school children by not finishing a story or racing to action to defend whatever attack is happening.

A similar sort of decision was faced by the Obama Administration when forced to choose between having well-trained qualified soldiers serving our country or discharging them under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy. 


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<li><a href='http://jaysays.com/2010/06/2010yearlesbianparent/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2010 – The Year of the Lesbian Parent.'>2010 – The Year of the Lesbian Parent.</a></li>
<li><a href='http://jaysays.com/2010/07/i-hereby-command-you-but-will-i-defend-you/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: I Hereby Command You&#8230; (but Will I Defend You?)'>I Hereby Command You&#8230; (but Will I Defend You?)</a></li>
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		<title>Federal Hate Crimes Case Illustrates Christian Myopia</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/federal-hate-crimes-case-illustrates-christian-myopia/</link>
		<comments>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/federal-hate-crimes-case-illustrates-christian-myopia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 3:00 p.m., Federal District Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington heard Attorney General Eric Holder’s Motion to Dismiss in the Glenn v. Holder matter.  The case is the first court challenge to the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

To date, the Judge has not entered an Order granting or denying the motion. 


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		<title>A Little Perspective for the National Organization for Marriage</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/nomtour10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent video put out by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), an organization devoted to preventing equal protections for certain citizens of the United States, a woman with tears in her eyes tells the story of how she was bullied and intimidated by LGBT rights activists during the hate fest.  What was the crime?  The protesters blocked her view with their signs! 


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		<title>TABC Commissioner and Texas Vice Chair of the Republican Party Defends Anti-Gay Platform</title>
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		<comments>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/tabc-commissioner-and-texas-vice-chair-of-the-republican-party-defends-anti-gay-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you've heard about the Texas GOP Platform and it's anti-gay tirade.  Perhaps you've even read through all 25 pages of the Platform and noted the harsh stance on immigration, the inclusion of God in society, the importance of protecting symbols over individual freedoms and other heinous "conservative" propaganda.

Now, the Texas Republican Party Vice Chair, Melinda Fredricks, has spoken out in defense of the Platform's views that homosexual acts should be re-criminalized claiming that the radical homosexual agenda is to blame.


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		<title>DADT Survey Focuses on Discrimination Against Gay Service Members and Living Quarters</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/dadtsurvey/</link>
		<comments>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/dadtsurvey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Defense has sent surveys to roughly 400,000 active and reserve service members to obtain information on how a repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell will affect them, their unit and the readiness of our nations military.  Of note is the fact that no such survey was done to implement the discriminatory policy.


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		<title>Stupid Things People Say About Gays, &#8220;I Just Can&#8217;t Work With F*gs.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/stpsagworkfg/</link>
		<comments>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/stpsagworkfg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow gay news as much as I do, you've likely been overwhelmed with the plethora of happy endings happening all over the country: New York state passed anti-bullying legislation; in the Gill case, the Federal Court ruled that Section 3 of DOMA; two proteins were isolated that makes a cure for HIV/AIDS much less fantasy and much more plausible...


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<li><a href='http://jaysays.com/2010/06/endaaction/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: You Have the Right to be Fired'>You Have the Right to be Fired</a></li>
<li><a href='http://jaysays.com/2010/06/accd-discrimination/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Community College District Won’t Discriminate – Except in the Bathroom'>Community College District Won’t Discriminate – Except in the Bathroom</a></li>
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		<title>I Hereby Command You&#8230; (but Will I Defend You?)</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/i-hereby-command-you-but-will-i-defend-you/</link>
		<comments>http://jaysays.com/2010/07/i-hereby-command-you-but-will-i-defend-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Uniform Code of Military Justice applies to members of the armed forces.  The Code sets out the laws that each member of the services is bound to follow.  It enumerates offenses and punishments much like the Penal Code does for non-military citizens, and includes Article 92, which criminalizes the failure to obey an order or regulation.


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		<title>Texas GOP Official Platform Calls for Imprisonment of Homosexuals and Supportive Heterosexuals</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/06/texas-gop-official-platform-calls-for-imprisonment-of-homosexuals-and-supportive-heterosexuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not a big fan of Democrats right now.  In fact, I'm so upset with their negotiations to be bi-partisan, I actually considered not voting for a single democrat this November and instead voting for an independent or abstaining my vote altogether.  Many LGBT people have made calls for a boycott of the democrats - no money and no votes.  But I live in Texas and that changes things for me.


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		<title>Community College District Won’t Discriminate – Except in the Bathroom</title>
		<link>http://jaysays.com/2010/06/accd-discrimination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The San Antonio LGBT Community has been petitioning the Alamo Community College District, which oversees 5 community college campuses in the San Antonio area, to amend its existing policies to include sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.  After two meetings and many conversations with the Board, the ACCD has agreed to vote on a policy which would include sexual orientation, but not gender identity/expression.


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