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Exclusive: Religious Leaders for Immigration Equality for Gay and Lesbian Couples

By Sarah Posner

…a large number of religious leaders, organizations, and denominations, to sign on to a letter supporting the legislation. As I reported last year, UAFA would correct a glaring inequality in our current immigration law: there are 36,000 bi-national couples in the United States—same-sex couples in which one is a US citizen and the other faces possible deportation if a partner or spouse cannot sponsor them for citizenship—and about half of those cou…

Gay Marriage Measure Dies in Maryland

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nd stood up and told their stories, got involved and built grassroots support to extend the freedom to marry to all loving and committed couples.” It’s frustrating to see the legislation die while there is a governor willing to sign it, of course, but the struggle in Maryland also shows that religious arguments—and big money threats to delegates’ job security—can still convince lawmakers to continue to treat some of their fellow citizens as second…

King Hearings: Right to Attorney = Enabling Extremism?

By Hussein Rashid

…to have a lawyer present when they speak to law enforcement. This is not a sign of duplicity, but of exercising one’s rights. If one is audited by the IRS, do you go in with a tax attorney or accountant? I would, and not because I have anything to hide, but because they are experts in dealing with these individuals. It is my right as an American citizen, and I hold my rights dearly. The objection to these hearings is Constitutional: you cannot sin…

Conservative Christians Get in Touch with Feminist Side in Islamophobia

By Julie Ingersoll

…, not the devaluation itself. Women, and concern for women, are just pawns for the Islamophobes and for the fundamentalist Christian patriarchalists in their efforts to promote their agendas. In fact, both promote the devaluing of women that leads to the very examples they decry….

Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

…lter the way that we tweet, it does prompt us to reflect on the historical significance of this new form of communication. Futures of Futures On Saturday, November 7th, the Guggenheim held a summit to discuss its Åzone Futures Market. The online exhibition, which went live quietly in October, is an eerie online marketplace where users invest and trade in actual futures. Not stock futures, mind you: this is a marketplace for betting on the future o…