The LGBT News Daily. Andrea Gibson. Frank Ocean. Human Rights Campaign. Out Magazine. MoHo Sapiens. LGBT. Huff Post: Lesbian News. Huff Post: Gay Marriage. Mitch: Paranorman. Obama Wants Same-Sex Immigration Reform, Congress Prefers to Just Argue About It Forever. Obama makes his announcement.via salon.com Yesterday, President Obama made the commonsense yet somehow still controversial announcement that when it comes to immigration, it’s important that “the United States treat same-sex couples the same as other families, meaning that people would be able to use their relationship as a basis to obtain a visa.”
As a Canadian, I find it ridiculous that binational American same-sex couples still don’t have the same immigration rights as heterosexual ones. Under the Family Class of the Canadian Immigration System, a person has been able to sponsor a spouse, common-law, or conjugal partner for immigration without regard to the gender of his or her partner since 2002. Priest Walks Out Of Woman’s Funeral Because Of Her Gay Daughter. The battle in this country between the right and the left is raging.
Since the right has no answers to the economic questions we face, they’ve decided to concentrate on dividing the country on so-called “moral” issues, one of those being the demonizing of gay and lesbian people. Little by little, they are losing the battle, as we see states individually legalizing gay marriage and recognizing that our forefathers intended that ALL are created equal and marriage is an equal right. But that doesn’t stop the right from carrying on their battle. Something terrible happened this past weekend in Maryland and the fact that it was Maryland, a state that has just proclaimed that all are equal and has enshrined that concept into state law, goes to highlight the lengths to which the right will go. In this instance, the right was personified by Father Marcel Guarnizo, who officiated at the funeral of a former family member of mine.