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Homeland Security Wants The Shirt Off Your Back

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:13:17 GMT

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"We have notified his company, Paragon, of our position in the matter," Haley said.

A message left with Paragon Security was not immediately returned Monday night.

Gilbert called the guard's actions "shocking."

"As an African-American and a lesbian, I haven't been through one day without facing some sort of discrimination," Gilbert said.

Her mother called police after Gilbert was kicked out, but another security guard escorted her to the front of the Social Security line before officers arrived, the Daily News reported.

According to a police report, a witness described Gilbert as "peaceful and quiet" before the guard told her to leave.

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Woman forced from fed building for lesbian shirt

A woman wearing a T-shirt promoting lesbianism said she was forced the leave a federal building Monday by a security guard who didn't approve of her attire.

Lapriss Gilbert said she was picking up a Social Security card for her son when the guard was offended by her "lesbian.com" shirt and threatened her with arrest.

She was eventually allowed inside after her mother called police, according to a Los Angeles Daily News story.

The guard, whose name was not immediately available, works for Paragon Security, which contracts with the Department of Homeland Security.

Lori Haley, a spokeswoman within the Homeland Security Department, said the guard's actions were inappropriate and unacceptable.

Gilbert said the guard cited a document, the Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property, as proof he had jurisdiction over her clothing. The document does not address what type of clothing is allowed in federal buildings.

Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden believes same-sex unions are inevitable. But he does not support g

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:23:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.proudparenting.com

Joe Biden, a six-term senator, is considered "generally pro-gay". According to The Washington Times, he supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), federal hate crime legislation that includes sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories, and the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." He does not support same-sex marriage but does support civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, the same position held by Obama.

In 2003, Mr. Biden said that lesbians and gays are entitled to the same rights as other Americans, but reaching that point will "be an incredibly difficult thing for America to grapple with."

"We're going to go through a process here that is necessary for this nation in terms of how we deal with the rights and the recognition of gay unions. And I don't think that gets settled by a constitutional amendment. It makes it more divisive."

He also said, "It's going to be something we have to go through as part of the maturation process of the nation."

Sexual orientation laws trump religious freedom, California Supreme Court says

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:23:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

Sacramento, Aug 23, 2008 / 08:47 pm (CNA).- The California Supreme Court’s unanimous Monday decision against two doctors who declined to artificially inseminate a lesbian could have significant implications for religious freedom in the United States. Critics have attacked the decision, which said religious freedom and free speech guarantees do not exempt the doctors from complying with anti-discrimination laws protecting sexual orientation.

Speaking for the California Supreme Court, Justice Joyce Kennard decided the case in Monday’s decision, writing:

“Do the rights of religious freedom and free speech, as guaranteed in both the federal and the California Constitutions, exempt a medical clinic’s physicians from complying with the California Unruh Civil Rights Act’s prohibition against discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation? Our answer is no.”

Taking away the First Amendment rights of healthcare professionals puts at risk the rights of every working American.

Tags: freedom, free speech, religion, discrimination

Russian judge: sexual harrassment is good because it produces children

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:04:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Glad I'm not a Russian woman, is all I can say.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Sexual harassment okay as it ensures humans breed, Russian judge rules

A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race.

The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.

"If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.

According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, 32 per cent said they had had intercourse with them at least once and another seven per cent claimed to have been raped.

Human rights activists say that Russian women remain second-class citizens and are subjected to some of the highest levels of domestic abuse in the world.

Tags: gender, sex, discrimination, civil_rights, law, russia, international, news

ACLU trying to control public prayer

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:23:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I thought the ACLU sought to protect people from the overreaching government and discrimination against religion, race, or creed. I guess I was mistaken.

The mission statement of the ACLU states:

The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:

Your First Amendment rights - freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.

I wonder what changed?

Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to tell private citizens how and what they can pray before meetings of the Cobb County, Georgia, Board of Commissioners.

The ACLU actually suggested to the court that Cobb County officials be ordered to send letters to invited clergy telling them "not to invoke religious messages" in their opening prayers and the commissioners' meetings.

This is religious bigotry; it's anti-free speech; it's everything that they're supposed to be against. The idea that the ACLU would want the government to tell people how they should or should not pray is outrageous."

the fact that the ACLU is trying to use the power of the government to tell people how to pray is just an incredible invasion of freedom, and [it] shows that they are not about freedom and liberty at all. They're about oppression and trying to stamp out religious speech."

Tags: aclu, government, prayer, free speech, religion

Equal opportunities

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:04:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: model equal ops policies to download

Clip Source: www.lvsc.org.uk

Equal opportunities

A downloadable model equal opportunities policy and action plan is provided here, along with information about new age discrimination laws.

Tags: equal opportunities, equal ops, equality

A win against religious bigotry!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:37:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We can no longer allow people to discriminate based on their imaginary friend's rules.

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California doctors lose gay discrimination case

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Doctors in California may not discriminate against gay patients on the basis of their religious beliefs, the state's supreme court ruled on Monday.

The California Supreme Court decision overturned a lower court ruling in favor of two Christian doctors who refused fertility treatment to a lesbian citing religious grounds.

The woman, Guadalupe Benitez, successfully filed suit against the doctors and their medical group in 2004 on the basis that their refusal to treat her violated California's anti-discrimination laws.

However an appeal court in San Diego ruled against Benitez, a decision that led to the supreme court ruling.

In an unanimous decision the justices ruled that Benitez was entitled to be treated like other patients with the same condition, and that constitutional protections for religious liberty do not excuse unlawful discrimination.

Tags: religion, bigotry, discrimination, gay rights

Gays and doctors in CA

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:03:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

California: Gays and Medical Treatment

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: August 18, 2008

The State Supreme Court barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gay men and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination extended to the medical profession. Justice Joyce Kennard wrote that two Christian fertility doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian have neither a free speech right nor a religious exemption from the state’s law, which “imposes on business establishments certain antidiscrimination obligations.”

Tags: homosexuality

Calif top court: Docs can't withhold care to gays

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:29:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Isn't it a wonderful world, when the MEDICAL profession need to be told that by a COURT?

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination extends to the medical profession.

Justice Joyce Kennard wrote that two Christian fertility doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian have neither a free speech right nor a religious exemption from the state's law, which "imposes on business establishments certain antidiscrimination obligations."

In the lawsuit that led to the ruling, Guadalupe Benitez, 36, of Oceanside said that the doctors treated her with fertility drugs and instructed her how to inseminate herself at home but told her their beliefs prevented them from inseminating her. One of the doctors referred her to another fertility specialist without moral objections, and Benitez has since given birth to three children.

Education needed for HIV awareness

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:46:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What would your colleagues do? Do you know risk assessment for HIV + students? IF not find out...Ask for training - to stop discrimination and unwarranted fear

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Discriminating against children with HIV in schools

The Disability Discrimination Act makes it illegal to discriminate against people living with HIV from the point of diagnosis. Despite this legal protection, the National Aids Trust has uncovered cases of children being turned away and excluded from schools after their HIV status was disclosed or discovered. There are fifteen hundred children living with HIV in the UK, one thousand of them are aged under fifteen. One mother talks to reporter Felicity Finch about the dilemma of revealing her daughter’s HIV status to school staff. Should parents disclose their children’s HIV status? Jane discusses the issues with Yusef Azad from the National Aids Trust and Clarissa Williams, President of the National Association of Headteachers.

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Tags: hiv, aids, clarissa williams, discrimination, plagues, psychology

Doctors Can't Deny Lesbians Care on Religious Grounds

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:56:45 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

The California Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that doctors cannot cite their religious beliefs as grounds to deny gay and lesbian patients medical care.

Justice Joyce Kennard ruled that two Christian fertility doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian couple cannot claim a free speech or religious exemption from California's anti-discrimination law.

The ruling extends a state law barring sexual orientation-based discrimination to the medical profession.

In 1999, after a year of surgeries and hormone treatments — all covered by insurance — Benitez was finally ready to get pregnant. But at the crucial moment, her doctor refused to do the procedure for "religious" reasons.

Benitez is a lesbian and sued her doctors under California's civil rights laws, charging that they discriminated against her because of her sexual orientation.

Tags: medical, gay, lesbian, religion, belief, discrimination

Illegal to support a boycott of Israeli goods

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:49:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Since 1977

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

A law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1977 prohibits all U.S. persons, defined to include individuals and companies located in the United States and their foreign affiliates, from supporting the boycott of Israel and provides penalties for those who willingly comply with the boycott

"Conduct that may be penalized under the TRA and/or prohibited under the EAR includes:

Agreements to refuse or actual refusal to do business with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies.
Agreements to discriminate or actual discrimination against other persons based on race, religion, sex, national origin or nationality.
Agreements to furnish or actual furnishing of information about business relationships with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies.
Agreements to furnish or actual furnishing of information about the race, religion, sex, or national origin of another person.
Implementing letters of credit containing prohibited boycott terms or conditions.

Tags: ban, censorship, israel, congress, boycott

"Gay" man sues Bible publishers, part 2

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:40:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

Zondervan says that even if Fowler's claim is credible, he's suing the wrong party. A company spokesman told WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids that Zondervan doesn't translate the Bible or own the copyright for any of the translations but relies, instead, on the "scholarly judgment of credible translation committees."

U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused Monday to appoint an attorney to represent Fowler in the Thomas Nelson case, saying the court "has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims."

Fowler, who is representing himself in both lawsuits, says in his complaint against Zondervan that the publisher intended to design a religious, sacred document to reflect an individual opinion or a group's conclusion to cause "me or anyone who is a homosexual to endure verbal abuse, discrimination, episodes of hate, and physical violence ... including murder."

Whites in Minority by 2042, Ready to Cash In

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:30:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.scrappleface.com

According to the latest U.S. Census data, in little more than a generation minorities will become the majority, thus enabling White Americans to ‘get on the receiving end’ of government cash, jobs and other benefits which they can’t get now because of their unfortunate racial status.

Good jobs without full qualification, contractor set-asides on government projects, easier access to college, and more personal attention from Democrat candidates are among the special favors that Whites can expect to receive starting in the year 2042, experts said.

However, being in the minority may also have its pitfalls.

The National Association for the Advancement of Pale People (known as the N-Double-A P.P.) has already filed incorporation papers

visionary lawmakers have begun to draft an agenda for the Congressional White Caucus

an ACLU source acknowledged that “re-tooling for the new era of fighting discrimination against Whites may have to await the retirement of everyone currently on staff.”

Tags: politics, race, satire, humor

christian 'science' education unacceptable at UC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:07:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Judge says UC can deny religious course credit

(08-12) 17:25 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution.

Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of free expression, U.S. District Judge James Otero of Los Angeles said UC's review committees cited legitimate reasons for rejecting the texts - not because they contained religious viewpoints, but because they omitted important topics in science and history and failed to teach critical thinking.

But Otero said in March that the university has approved many courses containing religious material and viewpoints, including some that use such texts as "Chemistry for Christian Schools" and "Biology: God's Living Creation," or that include scientific discussions of creationism as well as evolution.