Gay Rights Ideas

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  • 214 Votes
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    Count Everyone – Queer The Census!

    Every 10 years the census collects essential information to answer critical questions about our strengths and vulnerabilities as a nation.  But the census fails to ask questions about sexual orientation and gender identity even though the government admits LGBT ...

  • 119 Votes
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    Immigration Equality - Uniting American Families Act - Binational Gay Couples

    Binational couples are couples in which the partners come from different countries. Nineteen nations allow their citizens to sponsor their same-sex partners for immigration benefits. Unfortunately, the United States does not. Because of the Defense of Marri...

  • 99 Votes
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    Insist on National Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

    Whether it takes a constitutional amendment or a personal plea from Obama to congress; we must insist on equality. Love between two adults ought to be recognized and encouraged by all, not shunned, and not ignored. The refusal of Americans to allow same-sex couples t...

  • 44 Votes
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    Unconditional Constitutional Equality for All Americans

    Americans constitutional rights must be unconditional, and never depend on the approval, acceptance, agreement, tolerance, respect or understanding of any tyrannical voting block based on who they love, their religious or political beliefs.  It is time to stop b...

  • 38 Votes
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    Make Gay Rights a National Right and Amendment

    In the bill of rights, we are told that we are guranteed all basic rights given to us at birth. Why is marriage not one of those then? America prides itself on its liberty for all. America needs to become even more equal and accepting by allowing same-sex marriage. W...

  • 28 Votes
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    Secure Equality for All Americans

    Full citizenship rights should not be dependent and contingent upon one’s sexual orientation. American history has chronicled the painful and unjust suffering of women (gender discrimination), Native Americans and African-Americans (race discrimination). The pl...

  • 22 Votes
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    marriage equality for gays and lesbians

     This change is important because it will give same sex couples the same rights, privileges and benefits legally as heterosexual couples

  • 22 Votes
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    End DOMA and DADT

    Ending DOMA to cause the Federal Government to recognise same-sex marriages and thus ending an unequal burden on same-sex couples. This is important to me: becxause of the extra tax burden I have to pay over the years, I have been unable to buy a house! Ending DADT ...

  • 16 Votes
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    Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – Pass the Military Readiness Enhancement Act

    There are an estimated 66,000 gay, lesbian, and bisexual patriots currently serving in the U.S. military. Unfortunately, these brave men and women must serve in silence under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – the only federal law that forces an ...

  • 13 Votes
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    Let churches decide!

    On the issue of marriage, I believe that states should not decide who has the right to marry and who doesn't. Love and commitment should not be something regulated by "the state", but decided by indivual couples and churches. If 2 two people, of legal consenting age...

  • 6 Votes
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    Accept all gays in any form they may come

    for hundreds of decades gays have been discriminated against racism against race is not the only problem. we need to be accepting to EVERYONE no matter what.

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    Regulate the Cellular Phone Industry

    Break up the new "Ma Bell" of the 21st century. Cellular phone and data companies all charge the same and it's too much--far more than it costs to maintain a network. With the ubiquity of cellular phones in contemporary America, we could help so many struggling to pa...

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2009 Winners

During the first annual Ideas for Change competition, the following 10 ideas were selected by popular vote after more than 7,500 ideas were submitted and 650,000 votes cast. We encourage you to find out more about the organizations who partnered with each idea below.

*Note that to provide the opportunity for new ideas to gain visibility, the winning ideas from the 2009 competition are not eligible to win again in 2010. However, winning idea creators can post new ideas if they wish.*

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