Courts in states across the country have rejected the National Organization for Marriage’s efforts to hide their donors, as they’re trying to do in Minnesota, saying the group provided no credible evidence of threats or violence.
On its website, Demand Progress, a progressive group, says they have one goal for the ad: “We need to embarrass a key lawmaker to set an example for others, and make it clear that it’s not okay to shill for the entertainment industry.”
It’s one of the first times a chapter of the powerful environmentalist group has backed an LGBT rights issue. The group declined to get involved in California’s Prop 8 battle in 2008 and Maine’s Question One in 2009.
Democrats won some big ballot issues on Nov. 8 against laws that would have taken away collective bargaining rights of public workers and further redefine abortion, but Republicans also have some reasons to be optimistic.
Two polls show that the amendment might get defeated while two others show a slight lead for anti-gay marriage activists.
Franken says repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act won’t make straight people gay, but that DOMA will continue to harm LGBT couples if it isn’t repealed.
The following is a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board against Jimmy John’s shops in Minneapolis for illegally firing and threatening workers who supported a union.
The complaint was filed on Nov. 9, and will be followed by a…
Boisclair titled his press release for the ad, “Christian challenges Muslim for congressional seat.”
The Human Rights Campaign said the law firm has “established a clear pattern of knowingly taking on anti-LGBT organizations as clients, even after we and others in the community expressed concerns.”
If the International Workers of the World and Jimmy John’s don’t reach a settlement, the case will go to an administrative judge in January 2012.
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