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- Rick Santorum spoke at Greenwell Springs Baptist Church over the weekend with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. While there, he reiterated his support for re-implementing Don’t Ask, Don’t tell.
- Apparently the way audiences respond when a gay kiss interrupts a Santorum rally is to chant, “USA! USA!”:
- Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) believes President Obama is “moving in the right direction” on marriage equality.
- Saturday marked the 100th birthday of Bayard Rustin, mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and New Orleans marked the occasion by declaring it LGBT Civil Rights Equality Awareness Day.
- Joe.My.God. has a slideshow of Irish LGBT protesters in New York City over the weekend.
- Ten same-sex couples rode the “Love Bus” from Missouri to Iowa City to get married on Friday.
- Indiana Republicans found a way to prevent the license plates supporting an LGBT youth group from being distributed.
- A transgender student at Miami University has filed a complaint that he was assigned to a female residence hall.
- A Catholic chaplain abused the privilege of speaking in front of the Kansas House of Representatives, infusing many social political issues into what was supposed to be a non-political prayer.
- The National Organization for Marriage is trying to suggest that “gay billionaires forced same-sex marriage on New Hampshire” and “rich, Republican, Wall Street guys” bribed legislators to pass marriage equality in New York.
- A “Worldwide LGBT Civil Rights March” is set to take place April 21, including Washington, DC and Baltimore.
- Ottawa hockey player Scott Heggart shares his story as coming out to his team as an “openly gay jock.”
- The six students who sued Anoka-Hennepin School District over bullying say, “It Gets Better.”
- The Family Equality Council celebrates 30 years of supporting LGBT parents and their children:
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