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Paul Ryan hates you by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer
Total investment in state campaigns up to $3 million
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The national marriage equality advocacy group Freedom to
Marry announced on August 13 that it would make up to $500,000 in matching funds available to Washington United for Marriage for the Approve Referendum 74 campaign. The contribution to the Approve R-74 campaign means Freedom to Marry âhas met its initial 2012 goal of raising and investing $3 million in three key states where marriage is on the ballot in November,â the group said in a statement announcing its contribution. âFreedom to Marry now intends
Representative Paul Ryan (RWis.), selected last week as Mitt Romneyâs vice presidential running mate, has one of the most anti-Gay voting records in Congress. To call it dismal would be charitable. According to the ACLU, Ryan âholds almost uniformly harmful views on five key civil liberties issues including a humane immigration policy, LGBT equality, reproductive rights, torture and indefinite detention, and fair voting access.â The HRC gave Ryan a zero rating on its most recent Congressional Scorecard, indicating no support whatsoever for pro-LGBT legislation. Ryan has worked long and hard to earn his reputation as one of Congressâs most anti-Gay members. In 1999, during his first term, Ryan voted to bar same-sex couples from adopting children in the
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Freedom to Marry adds $500k to Approve Romneyâs VP pick is one of the worst homophobes in DC R-74 campaign
Mitt Romneyâs choice for Vice President, Rep. Paul Ryan
Security guard shot at Machinists union endorses anti-Gay groupâs HQ marriage equality Suspect in Family Research Council shooting had volunteered at LGBT community center AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
FBI agents outside the Family Research Council in Washington after a security guard at the lobbying group was shot.
by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor On August 15, police say, a man who had been a volunteer at an LGBT community center walked into the lobby of the Family Research Council (FRC), a political organization with views differing from the LGBT communityâs, pulled out a gun, and opened fire. Police and the FBI were investigating why the armed suspect, 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins II of Herndon, Va., did this. âThe suspect made a negative reference about the groupâs work and what it stands for before shooting,â said a law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to the Washington Post. Corkins also allegedly had a bag full of sandwiches from ChickFil-A, a fast-food chain that some members of the LGBT community are boycotting due to comments by its CEO disparaging same-sex marriage. see shooting page 20
Boeing local also makes donation to Approve R-74 campaign
campaign. The union also put its money where its mouth is, donating $2,500 to Washington United for Marriage. IAM 751 represents some 45,000 active and retired Boeing workers, plus workers in a number of other occupations including transit workers, deby Mike Andrew livery workers, regional disposal workers, workers at Grand Coulee SGN Staff Writer Dam, auto mechanics, heavy-duty The Boeing machinistsâ union mechanics, machinists, welder/ â District 751 of the International fabricators, refrigerator repairers, Association of Machinists and building maintenance workers, Aerospace Workers (IAM 751) â has endorsed the Approve R-74 see union page 21
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