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Karen Handel doubles down on anti-gay adoption views

Karen Handel, the Republican candidate who is trailing Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District race, has doubled down on her deep-seated beliefs that gay people should not be allowed to adopt children. When asked by a Republican voter about the 2010 video of Handel citing her faith as the reason she believes that gay parents do not deserve the same rights as straight parents, the 6th Congressional District candidate simply said, “my faith calls

Better Georgia: Your Voice for Progress

For too long, Georgia’s conservative supermajority has been the mouthpiece of corporations, the ultra-rich and the radical Right. They push legislation intended to strip rights away from gays and lesbians, disenfranchise minority voters and hurt Georgia families. They slash Georgia’s education budget, do nothing as our infrastructure crumbles and block common-sense health care policies. That’s why we created Better Georgia. We know there’s a need to provide a voice for Georgians who don’t have lobbyists

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Gov. Nathan Deal’s Biblical protest of Georgia’s anti-gay legislation

Something incredible just happened. Gov. Nathan Deal just made a strong argument against Georgia’s proposed anti-gay legislation, and put it in Biblical terms. From the AJC: In stark terms, the Republican said he would reject any measure that “allows discrimination in our state in order to protect people of faith,” and urged religious conservatives not to feel threatened by the ruling. He also called on his fellow Republicans pushing for the measure to take a