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Rep. Sally Kern could be getting some interesting company in the Oklahoma State House.
You might recall that in 2008, Kern was caught on tape in an ugly tirade against LGBT people. We broke the news here on Gay Politics, but it was quickly picked up by blogs, the mainstream media and even Ellen Degeneres, who [...]
Oklahoma state senators yesterday voted overwhelmingly to block federal law enforcement officials from investigating hate crimes in the state. The move is a reaction to enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, passed by Congress last year, which added sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to existing federal [...]
Democratic and Republican members of the House and Senate have teamed to introduce resolutions condemning Uganda’s so-called “Kill the Gays” bill now pending in that country’s legislature, according to a report in the Advocate:
Democratic senators Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Ben Cardin of Maryland, with Republican senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Susan Collins of [...]
In light of the election of Annise Parker as mayor of Houston, the Southern Political Report analyzes the growth in the number of openly LGBT officeholders in the South, concluding, “Parker…is only part of the story of what has been happening, almost unnoticed, across the South as well as the nation in the past decade [...]
Oklahoma State Sen. Steve Russell plans to introduce a bill in the spring session that would exempt Oklahoma from adhering to the recently passed Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Russell argues that the bill oversteps the bounds of the federal government and infringes upon free speech, according to The Oklahoma [...]
