When American President Bill Clinton took the office in 1993, one of his primary goals was to quickly allow openly homosexual men and women to serve in the armed forces. That didn't happen. Because of tremendous resistance, the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on June 3, 2010 07:53 PM
You may have read our entry about the discrimination against high school student Constance McMillen who wanted to attend her high school prom. Her situation got even worse.Constance wanted to go to her Mississippi high school prom with her girlfriend, but the school refused...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on April 9, 2010 07:11 PM
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Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on March 11, 2010 08:42 PM
A CIA report that was released today (Monday, 24 August 2009) says interrogators threatened to kill the children of a suspect in the investigation of the 11 September 2009 attack.According to the American Justice Department, an official said another Central...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on August 24, 2009 11:33 PM
American President Barack Obama has absolved CIA officers from prosecution for waterboarding, depriving detainees of heat and clothes, and slamming them against the wall. At the same time, Obama released details of the treatment against legally-innocent suspects. The ACLU had fought for the...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on April 18, 2009 01:20 AM
Filmmaker George Kalman tried to register the name "I Choose Hell Productions" with the state of Pennsylvania. It was rejected because of a state law that prohibits names containing profanity or blasphemy.The ever-vigilant ACLU filed a lawsuit based on the...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on February 20, 2009 11:04 PM
Troy Anthony Davis, a quite possibly innocent man convicted of killing a cop, is sentenced to die in Georgia on Tuesday, September 23, 2008. After his conviction, seven of the nine main witnesses against him changed their testimony, some saying...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on September 22, 2008 05:35 PM
Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on Tuesday, Sept. 23. He was convicted of killing a cop on the testimony of nine witnesses with no physical evidence. Davis says he's innocent, and seven of the nine witnesses...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on September 10, 2008 03:06 PM
Marriage has always been the state-recognized union of one man and one woman. Or such is the assumption some would have us make, even though a look through Christian, Jewish and Muslim scripture would show otherwise.Now the California Supreme Court has...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on May 25, 2008 05:03 AM
"The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans." This is from a 9 March 2007 article written by Lara Jakes Jordan of the Associated Press. Jordan also writes, "Attorney...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on March 10, 2007 04:01 AM
We don't believe in Ageism, which is deciding what you can do and can't do based on an arbitary age. (Read The Myth of the Adulthood Fairy for a humorous story about ageism).But this ACLU survey is fun. How old...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on August 10, 2006 05:53 AM
It’s true. Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have agreed that the government should be able to access Americans' conversations and emails without getting an individualized warrant. But that isn’t all they’re after. Under the guise of responding to...
Posted in The Loveshade Family Blog on August 10, 2006 12:27 AM