Early Treatment for HIV Act - ETHA

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., reintroduced the Early Treatment for HIV Act, a bipartisan bill that will save lives by allowing states to provide Medicaid coverage to low-income, HIV-positive Americans. The bill was introduced with 54 original co-sponsors evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.

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Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell

"Don't ask, don't tell" was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by President Bill Clinton who, while campaigning for the Presidency, had promised to allow all citizens regardless of sexual orientation to serve openly in the military, a departure from the then complete ban on those who are not heterosexual. The actual policy was crafted by Colin Powell and has been maintained by Clinton's successor, George W. Bush.

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Personal Information No Longer Secure?

Under a security agreement reached July 26 between the United States and the European Union, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could obtain personal information about airline passengers flying into the U.S. from Europe, including information about a passenger’s “health or sex life.”

The agreement restricts the collection and use of such information to “exceptional” cases, where the “life of a data subject or of others could be imperiled or seriously impaired,” potentially due to the threat of a terrorist attack.

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The Rev. Ken Hutcherson has launched a personal crusade against LGBT individuals by targeting large corporations that have provisions for LGBT rights. 

Lobbying religious conservatives to purchase stock in said corporations, Hutcherson hopes to strip LGBT protections from progressive corporations through the use of forced issue votes.

Click here now to complete a simple form to voice your concern to Rev. Ken Hutherson.  After completing the "Take Action" form, our website will automatically send a fax on your behalf to Rev. Ken Hutherson's offices in Redmond, Washington.

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As Maryland lawmakers begin to warm to the idea of civil unions, Anti-gay Maryland law maker Del. Don Dwyer is busily drafting legislation that would appose both same-sex marriage and civil unions. 

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Dustin McDaniel, Arkansas' Attorney General took a firm stance on LGBT adoption by approving (for a second time) a proposed ballot initiative that would ban LGBT individuals in addition to unmarried couples from partaking in foster parenting or adopting children.

In its latest form, the initiative notes that married couples are the best people to raise children.

The conservative Christian group that originally launched this effort is now seeking 62,000 signatures (which must be acquired by July, 2008) to ensure that the measure makes its way to the ballot in November of 2008.

Click here now to complete a simple form to voice your concern to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.  After completing the "Take Action" form, our website will automatically send a fax on your behalf to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel's office in Arkansas.