Follow the Money: AIDS Funding and the Bush Administration
AIDS is a window through which we can see the real agenda of those who run our world. Over 500 researchers have had their government funded AIDS research projects cut by direct orders from President Bush. The National Institutes of Health were ordered by Bush to cut $145 million from last year's research on important diseases like AIDS. If we want an AIDS vaccine and better medicines, the best presidential campaign slogan will be - 'Someone Else in 2004.'
Massachusetts Legalizes Gay Marriage
With the United States Supreme Court overturning Texas antisodomy statutes and the consecration of openly gay Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson as a bishop in the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire, the year 2003 turned out to be a signal one for the struggle for gay and lesbian equality. But the decision, which may have the most profound impact on society was the assertion by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to the cosntitutional right of same-gender couples to civil marriage.
Whose Family Values?
The struggle for gay rights is moving into a pivotal moment. Over the past year there have been many victories and much to celebrate. However, each of these victories has come with a price. The ultra right has launched a vicious counterattack on the gay rights movement.
The New Traditional Family
Mommy. Daddy. Susie and John: the age-old nuclear family with a white picket fence and a dog named Spike the radical right simply adores. To them, this is the basis of America, the so-called backbone of the nation – and what they are so determined to get back to.
