Brushing aside a chorus of opposition from evangelical groups, the city council today voted to expand anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals. ...more

November 19, 2009

TAMPA The city council's decision two weeks ago to extend Tampa's anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals was a move long overdue, its supporters say. To the leaders of evangelical Christian groups, the inclusion of "gender identity and expression" as a protected class under the city's human rights ordinance is an assault on their religious values that they fear will sanction sexually deviant behavior. ...more

November 17, 2009

A local businessman is hosting a "tea party" Saturday to urge like-minded people to focus on getting America back to its Judeo-Christian roots. ...more

July 2, 2009

Frank Martin Gill of North Miami is gay and a foster parent. Gill and his partner want to adopt half brothers they've parented since 2004, but Florida law prohibits it. So the couple and the boys, ages 4 and 8, remain in legal limbo, waiting for a court or the Legislature to make them one family legally. ...more

March 18, 2009

The Rev. James Favorite had long favored changing the state constitution to ban gay marriage, but he sharpened his message when the Florida NAACP came out on the opposite side. ...more

November 6, 2008

Hillsborough County Republican Party leaders didn't look far to find a replacement for Anthony "Trey" Traviesa, picking his legislative aide Rachel Burgin as the party's nominee for State House District 56. ...more

August 16, 2008

TALLAHASSEE -- The state Board of Education voted 4-3 to write the teaching of evolution into the state's standards for teaching science to K-12 students -- but qualified its vote by adopting a proposal to add the words "scientific theory of" before the word "evolution." ...more

February 19, 2008