Posted in legislation on Oct 23rd, 2009
The Senate cleared a historic hate crimes bill Thursday for President Obama’s signature, approving new federal penalties for attacks on gay men and lesbians.
The legislation, which was attached to the conference report for the bill outlining the Pentagon’s budget, marks the culmination of a years-long fight by civil rights groups to codify the expanded protections.
The [...]
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Posted in abortion, legislation on Oct 12th, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from having an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what the fetus looks like.
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Oklahoma County District Court, the Center for Reproductive Rights says that the [...]
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Posted in health, legislation, women on Sep 19th, 2008
By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and CECILE RICHARDS
LAST month, the Bush administration launched the latest salvo in its eight-year campaign to undermine women’s rights and women’s health by placing ideology ahead of science: a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services that would govern family planning. It would require that any health care [...]
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Posted in 2257, legislation, sex on Jun 7th, 2008
CANOGA PARK, Calif. – The U.S. Department of Justice today issued proposed regulations for Section 2257A, an addition to the 2257 federal record-keeping law which applies to those who produce images of simulated sexual activity.
The proposed regulations appear at pages 32262 through 32273 of volume 73 of the Federal Register and on the Free Speech [...]
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Posted in 2257, legal, legislation, pornography on May 5th, 2008
by Alan R. Levy, April 28, 2008
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Section 2257 of title 18 of the U.S. Code requires that “producers” of photographs and films of “actual sexually explicit conduct” create and maintain records documenting the age of the performers depicted in those performances. The statute’s purpose is to ensure that the performers are not [...]
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Posted in legislation, orgy on Dec 8th, 2007
DUNCANVILLE, Texas – The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock’s split-level home, which has a group sex room and attracts as many as 100 people to swinger parties featuring “Naked Twister” nights.
But the festivities could soon be over. In response to neighbors’ complaints, the city has outlawed sex clubs in residential [...]
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Look, kiddie porn and terrorism are bad. Obvious. But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties? After all, what self-respecting member of the US House of Representatives would vote against legislation called Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online, or SAFE? Only two, it turns out (Rep. [...]
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Posted in gays, glbt, legislation, lesbian, military on Nov 30th, 2007
Marking the 14th anniversary of legislation that allowed gay men and lesbians to serve in the military but only if they kept their orientation secret, 28 retired generals and admirals plan to release a letter on Friday urging Congress to repeal the law.
“We respectfully urge Congress to repeal the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy,” the [...]
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Posted in legal, legislation on Oct 23rd, 2007
How Appealing reports that a court has struck down age verification requirements for porn sites, as a First Amendment violation. Here is the ruling (PDF). While the average reader here has never been to such a site, porn has been a driving force in the economics and technology of the Net. The age verification requirements [...]
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Posted in legal, legislation on Sep 9th, 2007
The comment period for the H.R. 4472, the proposed regs for 18 U.s.C. 2257 ends tomorrow. I posted the action alert earlier in the week.
Have you written the DOJ to tell them how you feel about providing personal information to an adult website, and being regarded as a “secondary producer?” Are you comfortable with having that [...]
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Posted in legislation on Sep 6th, 2007
The comment period for the proposed regs for Section 2257 ends in just 4 days. From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:
While many of the regulations pertain to companies that produce adult entertainment magazines and videos (and are extremely burdensome), they would also affect anyone who uses an adult social-networking site. Here’s how:
The regulations [...]
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Posted in gay, legislation, lesbian on May 3rd, 2007
(AP) Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law.
The House legislation, passed 237-180, also makes it easier for federal law enforcement to take part in or assist local prosecutions involving bias-motivated attacks. Similar legislation [...]
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Posted in Florida, legislation on Feb 23rd, 2007
One of the craziest library bills of all time was reintroduced in the Florida Legislature yesterday.
S1804 GENERAL BILL by PoseySexual Offenders/Public Libraries; prohibits certain specified sexual offenders whose victim was under age of 18 from entering public library without immediately notifying employee of public library of sex offender’s presence & intent to [...]
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