Alabama Legislator Seeks to Block Benefits for Same-Sex Couples

Posted on Nov 16, 2009 at 01:47 pm

The Associated Press
November 16, 2009
Alabama state Rep. DuWayne Bridges (R-Valley) said he has prepared a bill for the legislative session beginning in January that would prohibit public universities from receiving state funds if they offer benefits to domestic partners of gay employees. [Link]

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UAB Offers Health Coverage to Same-Sex Partners

Posted on Oct 22, 2009 at 11:35 am

The Birmingham News
October 22, 2009
The University of Alabama at Birmingham will extend health insurance benefits to partners and children of gay employees beginning Jan. 1, in a move officials said was designed in part to help it compete with top medical schools when recruiting faculty. [Link]

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Video: Freedom to Marry Voice for Equality, Congressman John Lewis, Delivers Eloquent Pro-Marriage E

Posted on Sep 22, 2009 at 11:02 am

Pam's House Blend
September 20, 2009
Pam Spaulding: Rep. Lewis, the civil rights legend who shed blood for equality, delivers a message that the LGBT community should never stand down, should keep forging ahead, should cast aside fears, and should not listen to calls to 'wait.' He states with conviction that marriage equality is a human right. [Link]

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ALABAMA VOICES: Equal Rights Issue

Posted on May 11, 2009 at 10:09 am

Montgomery Advertiser
May 11, 2009
History is repeating itself. Once again some states are denying equal rights to a minority group of their citizens. Before, the denial of equal rights was based upon race. This time the denial is based upon sexual orientation. [link]

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OP-ED: ‘Gay Marriage’? Not in the South

Posted on Sep 16, 2008 at 09:50 am

USA Today
September 16, 2008
Ironically, Southern states were the main battleground in another fight for civil rights 40 years ago. Well before her death in 2006, civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, an Alabama native and the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., began speaking out for gay rights and the freedom to marry. Few acknowledge this part of her legacy. [Link]

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EDITORIAL: Marriage goes beyond the ballot

Posted on Nov 09, 2006 at 02:34 pm

The Boston Globe
November 9, 2006
To those who would argue that the people should decide this issue by vote, I also value and defend the right to vote. Generations of my African-American brothers and sisters in the United States — and my own ancestors in Haiti — died for the right to vote. However, I know too that there are some issues that should never be decided by a majority. The abolition of slavery and the right for women and blacks to vote are but a few examples. [Link]

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Charles Barkley runs for Gov, supports marriage equality

Posted on Aug 31, 2006 at 02:33 pm

365Gay.com
August 31, 2006
Charles Barkley was his usual outspoken self during a television interview in which he said, among other things, that he advocates marriage equality. [Link]

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OP-ED: Hope not lost for gay Alabamians: Struggle for equality will continue

Posted on Jun 04, 2006 at 02:30 pm

The Anniston Star
June 4, 2006
"I am hopeful because for every hateful, misguided, naive word uttered about gay people by anti-gay extremists, there are more and more fair-minded Alabamians coming to understand the desire of the gay community to love and to live that love in freedom." [Link]

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Gay acceptance growing deep in Dixie

Posted on May 19, 2006 at 02:28 pm

365Gay.com
May 19, 2006
"What Americans see increasingly is there's no negative impact on their own lives to have gays and lesbians living out in the open," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "They go from an abstract idea to a real person with a real name and a real story. That makes all the difference." [Link]

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