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Marc Morial President and CEO National Urban League “No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” Voting Rights Read More… Hear Ye Hear Ye Justice Scalia – Voting is a Right As part of an ongoing effort in support of comprehensive immigration reform that includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) immigrants and their families, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, has released a statement of principles entitled Comprehensive & Inclusive Immigration Reform: Nine Problems Deserving Solutions. There are an estimated Read More… Human Rights Campaign Makes Comprehensive & Inclusive Immigration Reform Organizational Priority On April 1st, the House overrode Governor Mike Beebe’s veto of new voter ID legislation, 52-45. The veto was overridden in the Senate, 21-12, on March 27. The legislation will become law in 2014. ”Our elected officials owe their constituencies continued and expanded access to the ballot,” stated Arkansas NAACP State Conference President Dale Read More… NAACP Responds to Voter ID Veto Override in Arkansas The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, celebrated the announcements by Sens. Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware, and Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois, that they support marriage equality. Kirk is the second current Republican Senator to support marriage for gay and lesbian couples and with Read More… 50th Sitting Senator, Republican Mark Kirk, Endorses Marriage Equality The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, yesterday released a modified red version of its logo in anticipation of arguments at the Supreme Court on two marriage equality cases. The logo, which ordinarily features a yellow equal sign in front of a blue background, Read More… Human Rights Campaign Turns the Internet Red for Marriage Equality The NAACP released the following statement in response to the passage of a bill repealing the death penalty by the Maryland House of Delegates. From Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP: “Today we accomplished a milestone that the Maryland NAACP has worked toward for more than a century,” stated Benjamin Todd Read More… NAACP Celebrates Passage of Death Penalty Repeal in Maryland The latest ABC News/Washington Post pollshows a record high of 58 percent of registered voters nationwide supporting marriage equality. Additionally, voters overwhelmingly say that the U.S. Constitution should be the basis for deciding if gay couples can marry rather than leaving the decision to individual states (64 to 33 percent). “There can be no Read More… Americans Support Marriage Equality by Historic Margin in New Poll In a Washington Post op-ed column, President Bill Clinton who signed the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act into law in 1996, called on the Supreme Court to overturn the ban on federal recognition of legally married same-sex couples, saying the law was “incompatible with our Constitution.” The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Read More… President Clinton Urges End to DOMA in WaPo Op-Ed The NAACP’s Arkansas State Conference condemns the Arkansas House of Representatives’ passage of controversial legislation requiring voter ID for all Arkansas voters. The bill passed 51-44 in the House. It will now move to the State Senate for a final vote. “Strict voter ID legislation, without proper allowances and implementation, has the potential to Read More… NAACP Takes Stance Against Arkansas Voter ID Measure National Organization for Marriage (NOM) Board Chairman John Eastman referred to families with adopted children as just “second best” in remarkshe made to the Associated Press. Eastman made the remarks in reference to Chief Justice John Roberts, who has adopted two children with his wife. Eastman, who argues that families headed by a man Read More… Myth versus Fact: Anti-Gay Opposition Can’t Get Its Story Straight on Adoption |
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