President Obama Agrees: Love Can’t Wait
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President Obama Agrees: Love Can’t Wait
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/president-obama-agrees-love-cant-wait?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Watch Obama Say Exactly What The Supreme Court Needs To Do About Marriage
Just in case you weren’t paying attention, President Obama is now super-on-board with marriage equality. He endorsed it in 2011 before the last election, he had the Justice Department submit an anti-DOMA amicus brief in 2013, and he even said that married gay couples are “America at its best” during his State of the Union.
And now he’s gone even further, by explaining his position to a YouTube personality, which is pretty much the most official proclamation a sitting president can make.
In a conversation with GloZell Green, a YouTube celebrity who is, like all YouTube celebrities, inexplicably popular, Obama made his position clear. “I’m hopeful the Supreme Court will come to the right decision,” he said. “My hope is they go ahead and recognize what a majority of people in America now recognize. Two people who love each other and treat each other with respect, and aren’t bothering anybody, why would the law treat them any differently?”
He also pointed out that his administration has done a lot to create a climate in which marriage equality is possible. “We’ve done a lot to push it along,” he said. “We argued against the Defense of Marriage Act,” which is no small thing. And although he didn’t mention it, they’ve also reformed immigration policy so that married non-resident spouses can stay in this country.
Considering that the last guy in the White House wanted to put a marriage ban in the U.S. Constitution, it’s pretty nice to hear the president talk this way. Now, hopefully the next guy (or gal) to get the job will be just as good.
Here’s the video:
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S-WET Celebrating LGBT History month February 2015 Spa party Event
Celebrating LGBT History Month Spa party launch event February 2015.
Nashville Christian School Rejects Two-Dad Family
The school quoted policy saying homosexuality is an example of ‘lifestyle conduct’ it does not accept.
Stevie St. John
www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2015/01/23/nashville-christian-school-rejects-two-dad-family
Emma Watson Says Women's Potential Is 'Astonishingly Untapped' In HeForShe Davos Speech
Emma Watson followed up her September 2013 HeForShe address with another equally impassioned speech — this time at the World Economic Forum.
On Jan. 23, the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador took the stage in Davos, Switzerland to speak about the HeForShe campaign, the influence it has had on her own life and the new initiative Impact 10x10x10. “Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented — their potential astonishingly untapped,” she told the crowd.
The HeForShe campaign encourages men to join the movement towards achieving gender equality. As the campaign’s website reads, it “brings together one half of humanity in support of the other half of humanity, for the benefit of all.”
In her speech, Watson describes the far-reaching impact the launch of the HeForSpeech campaign had. Her remarks from the September conference were watched over 11 million times, created 1.2 billion social media conversations and encouraged men from almost every country in the world to sign the HeForShe commitment.
Watch Watson’s full speech at Davos here (story continues below video):
The campaign has inspired many celebrities including Desmond Tutu, Hillary Clinton, Prince Harry and many more.
“It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments and in our workplaces,” she said. “And they know that the world is being held back in every way because they are not.”
Instead of engaging people on an individual level, like HeForShe’s original campaign, Impact10x10x10 is taking on bigger groups. The initiative is a one-year project that will engage businesses, universities and governments, and encourage them to make real commitments in order to achieve gender equality.
.@EmWatson launched #HeforShe IMPACT 10x10x10 initiative! More+her full speech+images: t.co/zbFjELTZHU #wef15 pic.twitter.com/GzCmnp7rr8
— UN Women (@UN_Women) January 23, 2015
Watson addressed different groups of people throughout her speech, including CEOs of big businesses: “CEOs: Have you implemented the women’s empowerment principles in your own company? What change have you seen? Are you someone persuading men to become HeForShes and collecting their signatures for our website? How many have you got?” she asked. “We want to know. We want to hear from you.”
“I’ve been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going,” she said. “And that they want to make sure their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have parody, economically and politically.”
For Patrick Stewart, standing up for gay rights was a natural
‘There was never a moment where I made an intellectual choice that I would be a supporter of gay civil rights’
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www.gaystarnews.com/article/patrick-stewart-standing-gay-rights-was-natural230115
HRC Mourns the Death of Lamia Beard
Thirty-year-old Lamia Beard of Norfolk, Va., a transgender woman of color, was shot in the early morning of January 17.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/hrc-mourns-the-death-of-lamia-beard?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
“My Husband’s Not Straight” Perfectly Lampoons TLC’s Mormon Reality Show Nightmare
You don’t have to be a clinical psychologist to peer past the nonsense of TLC’s sideshow spectacle My Husband’s Not Gay, wherein men who are admittedly attracted to men try their darnedest to convince themselves and their wives (and now America) that they’re perfectly content suppressing their true identities.
But for argument’s sake, let’s say there was a shred of believability to their pious reformation. All it takes is a little role reversal to squash any measly remnant of legitimacy.
What if it were same-sex couples where one of the partners is actually straight? That’s the premise of this hilarious video from George Takei. The sad part is that the participants in TLC’s reality show don’t realize they come off as equally ludicrous.
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News: Supergirl, DNC 2016, Chris Pratt, Skymall, TLC, Taylor Swift
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has died at the age of 90. Via NYT: “The king’s death adds yet another element of uncertainty in a region already overwhelmed by crises and as Saudi Arabia is itself in a struggle with Iran for regional dominance. The royal family moved quickly to assure a smooth transition of power in a nation that is a close ally of the United States, the world’s largest exporter ofoil and the religious center of the Islamic faith. In a televised statement, a brother of Abdullah, Crown Prince Salman, announced that the king had died and that he had assumed the throne.”
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Chris Pratt looking good in Daddy mode on a bike ride in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon.
Duck Dynasty-loving One Direction singer Liam Payne really wants to be a humanitarian (but only when he’s drunk).
Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicts the Internet will one day become so synonymous with everything around us that it will “disappear”.
Diplo says Taylor Swift fans are the worst people in the world, claims there’s “scary stuff” going on in the pop star’s life.
Can you guess which Miss Universe contestant this is?
Governator offspring Patrick Schwarzenegger and Miley Cyrus are still going strong despite the fact that Miley can’t spell “Schwarzenegger”.
Everyone’s favorite in-flight rag Skymall is filing for bankruptcy, meaning flyers may soon have to search elsewhere for giant Bigfoot lawn statues.
An half-kilometer asteroid called 2004 BL86 will fly by Earth Monday – zooming past about 745,000 miles away. It will be the closest known asteroid this large to pass near Earth until 2027.
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