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Monday, February 8, 2010
Frank Rich: Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet
A funny thing happened after Adm. Mike Mullen called for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military: A curious silence befell much of the right. If this were a Sherlock Holmes story, it would be the case of the attack dogs that did not bark. The more bigotry pushed out of the closet for all voters to see, the more likely it is that Americans will be moved to grant overdue full citizenship to gay Americans.

Thursday, January 21, 2010
A Sad Obituary, Conservative Supreme Court Kills Uncle Sam by Ferguson Foont
(3 comments) A Sad Obituary, Conservative Supreme Court Kills Uncle Sam. "It is with deep sadness that I note the passing, on the morning of January 21, 2010, of American Democracy. It died in Washington, D.C., in the chambers of the United States Supreme Court, after a long and painful illness, as five of the nine justices finally pulled the plug. This is a day to mourn the final passing of mankind's greatest idea, American democracy."

Monday, November 16, 2009
720 brutally murdered as 'gay cleansing' continues unchecked in Iraq -by Kelvin Lynch
An organization dedicated to securing asylum for LGBT refugees from Iraq estimates that over 720 LGBT men and women have been murdered by extremist militias in the last six years. London-based Iraqi LGBT reports the Iraqi government has largely been absent in pursuing the roaming "death squads" in Iraq who seek out LGBT victims, likely due to extremist Shia religious parties that are calling for a moral cleansing.