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Changes to Hungary’s constitution spur thousands to protest
Thousands of Hungarians gathered outside the country’s parliament in Budapest Saturday in protest at changes to the new constitution they say infringe on civil rights. After a demonstration on Thursday, protestors and a number of NGOs including Amnesty International launched a second rally against a package of measures due to…
Biden marches with civil rights leaders in Alabama to commemorate ‘Bloody Sunday’
Vice President Joe Biden marched with black civil rights leaders Sunday in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the “Bloody Sunday” beating of voting rights marchers 48 years ago. State police assaulted the original marchers in 1965 over the protest urging Congress to pass the 1965 Voting Rights Act that struck down…
Fed up with online trolls, author pledges $5 to women’s, LGBT groups for every insult
‘Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit’ will cue rewards for civil rights and LGBT groups by attacking John Scalzi The internet might have given unprecedented freedom to writers, but with it comes inevitable exposure to trolls. Now one US author has decided to tackle online baiting head-on, in a move that could…
New Jersey lawmaker proposes statewide vote on same sex marriage
New Jersey Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D) on Monday introduced legislation to legalize same sex marriage in the state, but fellow Democrats have objected to the proposed bill. Gusciora’s bill would place the issue on the next statewide ballot. Though he believes same sex marriage is a civil rights issue, the…
Transgender activist: Everyone’s civil rights are ‘the civil rights issue of our time’
Responding to remarks Vice President Joe Biden made Tuesday highlighting transgender rights as important, Director of the National Center for Trans Equality Mara Keisling was impressed that the vice president vocalized his support but remembered that civil rights are important for everyone. According to Huffington Post, the vice president huddled…
Coulter: ‘Democrats are dropping the blacks’ for Hispanics
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter asserted on Sunday that Democrats were making a mistake by “dropping the blacks” in favor of Hispanics because rights for LGBT people and immigrants are not true civil rights. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Coulter what she meant in her lasted book, “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the…
Rep. John Lewis links election to civil rights struggle: ‘I don’t want to go back’
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) gave a forceful plea during his speech at the Democratic convention for voters to reelect President Obama, equating Republican-sponsored voter ID laws to Jim Crow-era voting restrictions and urging voters to, “march to the polls like never before.” “Brothers and sisters, do you want to…
Beck: We have a ‘righteous calling’ to lead a ‘new civil rights movement’
Former Fox News personality Glenn Beck said he believed Tuesday morning that he was capable of leading a “new civil rights movement” in America after claiming that fascism was coming to Europe. Appearing on televangelist James Robison’s Life Today show, Beck commented on the popular Occupy Wall Street movement. “We…
NC: Rep. Virginia Foxx claims GOP led on civil rights in the 60s
Ah, it’s pathetically ignorant, perpetually re-elected NC U.S. Congresscritter Virginia Foxx opening her trap again to contribute batsh*ttery to the public discourse and historical record with the ludicrous claim on the House floor that the Republican party had a progressive record on civil rights and Congress passed legislation in the…
Catholic columnist: homosexuality = eating disorder
And the church wonders why its numbers are shrinking? Deacon Keith Fournier’s screed @ Catholic Online, “Should Disordered Appetites be Civil Rights?”, only reinforces the belief that the moral and logical center is missing from the domain of pedophile-enabling Prada Papa Ratzi’s domain. He pulls out all the old saws,…
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