Lesbian Wins Multi-Million Suit Against Goodyear

Link An out Washington state woman has scored big in a nasty fight against the giant tire company. ENDA aside, in some states it's already illegal to discriminate against employees due to their orientation, and Goodyear got the smackdown.

Scumbag Reverend Phelps Gets Bu$ted

Link Rotten Reverend Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps has at last been successfully sued -- and slapped with a $10.9 fine -- over his hate-filled funeral protests. Seems some states have reacted by making laws that prevent protests from being within a certain distance of a funeral, and Fred's "church" violated that law in the Cornhusker state. Break out the bubbly and let's hope that trend continues until his sorry ass is shut down!

ENDA Not Dead Yet

Link The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a potential federal law which calls for banning job discrimination based on sexual orientation, was saved from oblivion in a House committee vote on Friday when four Republicans jumped the conservative fence and voted for it. The ENDA goes up for a full House of Reps vote this week, so keep the pressure on your reps to pass it!

Lambda Legal Joins Fight Against UPS

Link Lambda Legal's investigators have found the smoking gun in the UPS vs same-sex couples insurance case: a document that clearly spells out UPS's idea of the difference between marriage and civil unions. The shipping company is using that distinction to prevent couples from acquiring insurance and other benefits that married hetero couples get automatically.