February 2012
22 posts
“Today, the House of Delegates voted for human dignity. Love is an unalienable...”
– Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), following House passage of the state’s marriage equality bill
“Since Stonewall, we have been on a 40-year journey toward our freedom. Today,...”
– Garden State Equality Chair Steven Goldstein, on the New Jersey legislature’s passage — and Gov. Chris Christie (R)’s expected veto — of a marriage equality bill
“I keep thinking that this is just the death rattle of this version of American...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry, in Metro Weekly
“I know we disagree on this.”
– former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) to Log Cabin Republicans executive director R. Clarke Cooper, about the Defense of Marriage Act
Grassley Opposes LGBT Protections in Anti-Violence...
From The Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel:
“In a Feb. 2 hearing, [Sen. Chuck] Grassley [(R-Iowa)] said he backs [Violence Against Women Act] reauthorization, but he could not support the Leahy-Crapo version, in part because of the aforementioned provisions on LGBT individuals, immigration and tribal authority.
“‘The substitute creates so many new programs for...
