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Opposition to the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), which is pending in the House and the Senate, is growing among conservative thinkers, according to a story on the Gannett News Wire. Conservative pundits including Chuck Muth, George Will, David Brooks, Ward Connerly, Jonah Goldberg and Ann Coulter are all opposed to amending the U.S. Read More… Conservative Opposition Grows To Anti-Gay Amendment On December 16th, The Human Rights Campaign cautioned President Bush not to join attacks on American families by supporting a discriminatory anti-gay amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The measure currently pending in Congress would bar any state from granting marriage rights and could permanently deny any legal protections to same-sex couples – including civil On December 23rd, The Human Rights Campaign applauded Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm for signing an executive order that bans state employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, making Michigan the 11th state with such a policy. "Most people already agree that an employee's performance should be measured on the job they're doing, not any bias Read More… HRC Applauds Michigan Governor For Ban On Anti-Gay Employment Discrimination Recently, four ostriches were rescued by the Houston SPCA and brought to The Fund for Animals' Black Beauty Ranch in Texas. Neighbors called the Houston SPCA to report that there were animals in a neighboring yard who appeared to be abandoned. No one knows why the animals were being kept there because the owner Read More… Four Rescued Ostriches Arrive At Black Beauty Ranch As the winter snowmobile season begins today in Yellowstone National Park, The Fund for Animals and Bluewater Network praised last night's federal court decision that cuts the number of snowmobiles allowed in the park by half, invalidating a Bush Administration decision that had overturned a Clinton-era rule, which had resulted from The Fund's 1997 Read More… Court Rules On Yellowstone Snowmobiles, Impacts To Wildlife On Monday December 7th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1006, the Captive Wildllife Safety Act. Since this is the same version of the legislation passed earlier by the Senate, the bill now goes to President Bush for his signature into law. Once enacted, the Captive Wildlife Safety Act will ban the interstate Read More… Captive Wildlife Safety Act Heads To President’s Desk According to the Associated Press (11/14), Girl Scout troops in Alaska are learning how to trap and kill wildlife. It's part of the "Take a Kid Trapping"program set up by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. So far, members of Troop 34 have reportedly killed and skinned two beavers and plan to turn Read More… Girl Scouts Promoting Trapping On Tuesday (December 9th, the New York Times ran a strong Op-Ed against canned hunts, reminding readers that New York Governor George Pataki had vetoed popular legislation that would have banned canned hunts of exotic mammals in his state (for more info, go to www.PitilessPataki.com). That same day, Vice President Dick Cheney went Read More… Vice President Cheney Participates In Canned Hunt In a landmark victory for animals, on Tuesday December 30th the USDA issued a ban on the slaughter and marketing of downed animals. The ban comes one week to the day of the first confirmed case of Mad Cow disease was reported in the U.S., and after more than a decade of lobbying by Read More… Huge Victory For Downed Animals The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the Bush Administration's and Makah Indian Tribe's request to reconsider last year's ruling that effectively put a stop to the hunting of gray whales off the coast of Washington. The government and tribe had asked the court to rehear the case "en banc"–by Read More… Court Won't Reconsider Makah Whaling Ban |
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