"It's an unholy marriage of the immigration debate and the same-sex marriage debate," he said. "It's very combustible."
Lown's decision last month brought the issue to an unlikely place, a town of 90,000 where ranchers and roughnecks from the vast open lands come to do their banking and send their kids to the regional state college. The town's only other recent brush with national fame came last year when it housed the hundreds of children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch in nearby Eldorado.
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Immigration laws force some gay couples to leave US
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USABound 1079 days ago
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Pro Marriage Equality Candidates
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UnitedByLove 1079 days ago
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I’m sure this isn’t a first, but it’s great to see candidates like Jennifer Brunner who are running for national office and not running away from supporting really progressive gay rights positions. Brunner, who is now Ohio’s Secretary of State, has a piece on Huffington on why she supports marriage equality and why understand the opposition. Further, she makes the great point that once marriage equality is law, lots of other issues become resolved. We can legislate each issue individually, or we can do it in one sweeping move. Bills like the Uniting American Families Act, which deals with immigration issues that international gay couples face, would be unnecessary and would free up the time of legislators to focus on the bigger issues rather than my rights on a piece-meal basis.
Yasmin Nair Eat This Or How to Leave Comments Without Going up In Flames
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uluckidog 1101 days ago
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I recently began my stint as a regular contributor on queercents.com. The blog, devoted to queers and money, has a tagline that reads: "We're here, we're queer, and we're not going shopping without coupons." My first post was about the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), widely touted by many in the gay community as the gay immigration bill. I work on and write about immigration a lot, and it made sense that a subject so intimately connected to labor issues should be discussed on queercents. To date, there has been no widespread discussion on UAFA. Instead, like gay marriage, UAFA has been thrust down our collective queer throat as something we should all support. My piece, to the best of my knowledge, is among the very, very few to explicitly critique UAFA. The immigration scholar Eithne Luibhéid has written about UAFA in a special issue of GLQ (14:2-3), but it's not available to a g
A Philippines-born lesbian mother ordered to leave the country next month for overstaying her visa will likely be allowed to stay through next year thanks to intervention from U.S. Sen.
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