I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The national gay rights organization, Freedom to Marry, has released a pretty interesting study that shows that elected officials who support marriage equality and oppose anti-gay legislation do not suffer at the polls as a result of those votes.
The legal battle over whether or not to allow Proposition 8– a measure that would change the state’s Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman — is heating up in California. California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a motion with the Calif. Supreme Court Friday arguing that the amendment should not [...]
The New Jersey Civil Unions Review Commission released a strongly worded and unanimously approved report Wednesday morning calling on New Jersey’s legislature to amend the state’s marriage laws to allow same-sex couples to be married. The 13-member commission was appointed as part of the law which authorized same-sex civil unions to review the legal, social, [...]
A national poll by Harris Interactive for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation shows most adult Americans support the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community’s political agenda. The poll, conducted by phone with 2008 adults 18 years of age or older, was conducted Nov. 13 – 17. The poll found the following results:
Californians Against Hate, a pro-gay rights group, is exposing the major contributors to that state’s Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California. Among those on the list is Elsa Prince, mother of Blackwater founder Erik Prince and matriarch of one of the wealthiest and most powerful conservative political families in Michigan.
Anthax attack suspect linked to AFA, Missouri elects a gay to office, “Oops, I’m straight,” and more
Colorado transgender teen murdered because she was an “it” Police have arrested the alleged killer of an 18-year-old transgender Colorado woman. Angie Zapata, who was born Justin Zapata, was found beaten to death in her apartment last week. According to report in the Greeley Tribune, police arrested Zapata’s boyfriend, Allen Ray Andrade, 32. According to [...]
[COMMENTARY] Well, marriage equality for homosexuals has arrived in California. Now all those flamin’ queers in the land of Reagan can strut their stuff with a piece of paper that recognized their relationships as just that, a social contract between two people, “to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, ’til death do [...]
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