slog.thestranger.com - 6/13/2009
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They didn't use those exact words, of course, but in a group statement signed by the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Lambda Legal, the ACLU, and other big national organizations—organizations that are typically cautious and concerned about preserving their ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 6/19/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
The Obama Justice Department has reached out to
major gay rights organizations and scheduled a private meeting...
for next week with the groups, in an apparent effort to smooth over tensions in the wake of the controversy over the administration's ...
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Obama Administration Set To Hold Powwow With Big Gay Groups
cbsnews.com - 6/16/2009
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cbsnews.com —
The anger from gay rights advocates toward President
Obama is starting to boil over. On Monday, Joe...
Solmonese, the president of the establishment gay rights group The Human Rights Campaign, sent an angry letter to the president objecting to the ...
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Obama Faces Gay Groups' Growing Anger - Political Hotsheet
content.usatoday.com - 6/17/2009
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content.usatoday.com —
Response from gay rights groups to President Obama's
offer of some federal benefits to same-sex partners of...
government employees: The sound of one hand clapping. Leaders of the gay community are making it clear that the president's action, expected at ...
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Gay rights groups: Obama needs to do more - The Oval: ...
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The President Has Other Matters To Address
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Dan Savage is pissed: Barack Obama's record on gay rights so far: disturbing, unsound, false, discriminatory, damaging, nonsensical. Before today you could argue that the Obama administration was too busy with the economy and the war and health care to focus on making good ...
Ssssshhhhh! President Obama Is Still Backing State Secrets
Political Punch —
... if not angering supporters who also support same sex marriage and were appalled by the comparison of same sex marriage to incestuous ones, the president's lawyers also repeated the Bush administration's national security arguments. The Obama Justice Department on Friday asked the full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to review an earlier appeals court ruling to determine if details about CIA rendition flights coordinated by Jeppesen Dataplan -- a division of Boeing -- should be protected as "state secrets." As a candidate, then-Sen. Obama ...
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