Tag Archives: Salt Lake City

The US Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality was not only a landmark case for the rights of LGBTQ persons to legally wed, but it also effectively wiped out anti-gay adoption laws which sought to favor heterosexual couples seeking to adopt children over identically similar homosexual couples. Kraig Powell, a Utah …

Via Democracy Now: Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, has filed a lawsuit over government surveillance of phone, text and email communications that the Bush administration allegedly conducted during the 2002 Winter Olympics. He argues they put a “surveillance cone” over a broad geographic area and violated …