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- Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck - Fox News. Glenn Beck is anti-gay rights.
- Update: DADT has been repealed. President Obama has kept his promise!
- Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida!
- Boycott Arizona the home of "hater" - U.S. Senator John McCain. Arizona's Hateful anti-Immigration Law - encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities. A remedy: Demand Republicans to support Immigration Reform (The Dream Act). Further, Senator McCain voted against ending DADT and Blocked Immigration reform!
- Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
- Boycott Target, Best Buy, Gold's Gym - for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations. Update: (12/26/2010): Target is continuing to donate to anti-gay groups/causes/politicians.
- End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.
- Pass ENDA (Employee Non-Discrimination Act). ENDA would prevent employment discrimination of LGBT workforce.
- Remember David Kato, Gay activist - Uganda, who was slain because he is gay!
- Support our friend Kieth Olbermann who is no longer on MSNBC, now joining "Current TV." Check with your cable provider or go to the Current website.
- Boycott "Chick-fil-a" for sponsorship of anti-gay marriage group events.
- Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
- BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS- to include their products: Angel Soft toilet paper / Brawny paper towels / Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups / Mardi Gras napkins and towels / Quilted Northern toilet paper / Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper / Sparkle napkins / Vanity fair napkins / Zee napkins / Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes / All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products (INVISTA Products) / Lycra / Stainmaster Carpet. The billionaire - Koch brothers are ultra republican - tea bag founders/supporters that do not support causes of the LGBT community.
- Boycott Arizona the home of "hater" - U.S. Senator John McCain. Arizona's Hateful anti-Immigration Law - encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities. A remedy: Demand Republicans to support Immigration Reform (The Dream Act). Further, Senator McCain voted against ending DADT and Blocked Immigration reform!
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Supreme Court ruling protects anti-gay protests at military funerals
By David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times / Mar 2, 2011
WASHINGTON -- In a ringing endorsement of free speech with an outcome that almost no one liked, the Supreme Court said that anti-gay protestors who picket the funerals of U.S. soldiers with signs like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" cannot be sued.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., who has championed the First Amendment over five years, cited past rulings that shielded offensive words and outrageous protests. He pointed to the decision that freed protesters who burned the U.S. flag and another that protected a Hustler magazine cartoonist who portrayed the Rev. Jerry Falwell in an outhouse.
Last year, Roberts spoke for the court in striking down on free-speech grounds a law that made it a crime to sell videos of illegal dog fighting. He also joined the free-speech majority that gave corporations and unions a right to spend unlimited sums on campaign ads.
"The bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment," Roberts said in quoting the flag-burning ruling by liberal icon William Brennan Jr., is that the government cannot punish words or ideas "simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."
The 8-1 decision Wednesday drew protest from Justice Samuel Alito Jr., a conservative like Roberts, who said the man who sued the protestors, the father of a dead Marine, was "not a public figure" who would be expected to tolerate such an onslaught but a private person who sought to "bury his son in peace.
"Our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case," Alito wrote. "In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims."
But Roberts said that when the disputed words "address matters of public import on public property" and when the protest is conducted "in a peaceful manner, in full compliance with the guidance of local officials," they are protected.
The outcome might well be different, the chief justice said, if a private person had sued another for a "purely private" posting of outrageous and hurtful words.
The justices threw out an $11 million jury verdict against Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kan. He and his family gained national attention -- and stirred deep anger -- for using solemn military funerals as a backdrop to proclaim an anti-gay and anti-military message.
Five years ago, Albert Snyder, a Maryland father, sued Phelps and his daughters after they picketed near the funeral service for his son who died in Iraq in 2006. Police had kept the picketers at least 200 feet from the funeral procession. They held signs that said "Thank God for IEDs" and "God Hates Fags."
Also on Tuesday, the Westboro Baptist Church said that it will picket San Jose's Gunderson High School on Friday evening. The school is presenting "The Laramie Project," a play about the aftermath of the 1998 killing of Matthew Shepard, a gay university student, in Laramie, Wyo..
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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