Tag: LGBT Issues

In different ways, both sides are to blame. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Beltway Confidential

A new study shows the Left and the Right want to purge the First Amendment

Tom Rogan · October 31, 2017 7:14 pm

Special guests Mayor Mark Stodola and Congressman French Hill join Tim Young.

Manafort, Papadopoulos, and Kevin Spacey … What a news day

Washington Examiner Staff · October 31, 2017 12:03 am

In response to allegations he sexually assaulted a minor in 1986, actor Kevin Spacey released a statement Monday that can be summed up thus: I may or may not have sexually assaulted a minor, but in my defense I was probably drunk. Also, I'm officially gay now. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Who’s covering for alleged sexual predator Kevin Spacey?

Becket Adams · October 30, 2017 9:29 pm

The decision granted a request by a group of transgender troops who are suing Trump, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other top defense officials to temporarily halt implementation of the president's order. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

National Security

Federal judge blocks implementation of Trump’s ban on transgender military service

Travis J. Tritten · October 30, 2017 5:20 pm

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi led a coup in 2013 that overthrew the elected Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi. Under Sissi, the Egyptian legislature is likely to pass a law criminalizing homosexuality. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

White House will ‘check into’ Egypt criminalizing homosexuality before condemning

Steven Nelson · October 27, 2017 7:36 pm

Ford Models, whose clients have included the likes of Ryan Lochte, Lindsay Lohan, and Christy Turlington, announced they were signing their first transgender model, Andreja Pejic. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

It’s dangerous to celebrate transgender models

Nicole Russell · October 26, 2017 3:51 pm

A Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty study shows Obama-era policy contributed to a decrease in suspensions in Wisconsin public schools, subverted local control over disciplinary policies, and made schools and teachers less safe. (iStock photo)

Betsy DeVos should reverse Obama’s failed school discipline policy

Natalie Goodnow, Will Flanders · October 26, 2017 4:01 am

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is the embodiment of the worst stereotypes and he will absolutely be tied around the GOP's neck as a giant, cowboy-hatted albatross. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee sidle up to the anti-liberty Roy Moore

Becket Adams · October 25, 2017 1:00 pm

This is not the first time Moore has commented on same-sex relationships. In a 2005 interview, he told CSPAN that "homosexual conduct should be illegal." (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Roy Moore: Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage ‘worse’ than Dred Scott ruling upholding slavery

Naomi Lim · October 24, 2017 3:56 pm

There should be protests, debates, and dialogue being protected and encouraged across the spectrum. By upholding Love Saxa's funding, Georgetown University ensured this debate can continue to occur. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Beltway Confidential

Georgetown students try to drum group off campus for espousing Catholic teaching on marriage

Gabriella Munoz · October 23, 2017 9:19 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., was taped earlier this month during an address at a benefit gala in New York City saying she would "take out" President Trump. Waters clearly wasn't suggesting she felt like killing the president, but plenty took it that way.

Beltway Confidential

Left and Right roles reverse on moral outrage after Maxine Waters comments

Becket Adams · October 23, 2017 8:57 pm

President Donald Trump holds up a pen he used to sign one of various bills in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in on March 27. From left are, Sen. Tom Barrasso, R-Wyo., Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Vice President Mike Pence. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Trump the deregulator

adam-gustafson · October 23, 2017 4:01 am