The 11 most pro-gay Senators

[pnwmom]

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/07/03/510108/the-11-most-pro-gay-us-senators/?mobile=nc

Senators Daniel Akaka (D-HI), John Kerry (D-MA), and Patty Murray (D-WA), tied for the honor of most pro-LGBT Senator:they put their names on 13 of the 16 bills each. Akaka, a fourth-term Senator who will retire at the end of 2012, authored the Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2012 (a bill to improve tracking of health data for LGBT people and other minority groups). Murray, a fourth-term Senator, spells out on her LGBT issue webpage that “Equal protection under the law is a fundamental right in our country. No one should suffer discrimination because of their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.” And Kerry, now in his fifth term in the Senate, is chief sponsor of the Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act of 2011 (which seeks to help at-risk LGBT youth) and the HOME Act of 2011 (which protects LGBT citizens from housing discrimination).

Eight other Senators — seven Democrats and one independent — signed on to at least 10 pro-LGBT proposals, putting them just behind Akaka, Kerry, and Murray. They are:

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[longship]

1. Here are the rest.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)

And, of course,

Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT)

Republicans who supported bills on the list (see link in OP) are Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mark Kirk (R-IL).

If you are going to post something like this on DU, at least give us bandwidth challenged people a complete summary, which I do here for other BW limited people.

Please, think about us before you post.

BTW, the article is worth clicking through to.

[pnwmom]

3. Can't bandwidth challenged people follow links?

[longship]

5. No!!!! No!!!!! No!!!!!

I can stay on DU for hours without reloading my cache. DU caches very well. But when I go off site it often takes many minutes and many reloads to get to an off site link. Plus, if there are active content or many pics, the site may not load at all.

For Christ sakes, is everybody here totally ignorant about how Web browsers work?

When you post on DU, include some content and context.

[pnwmom]

6. I plead almost total ignorance about how web browsers work.

I also plead a very stressful day. I'd posted this while waiting for my son to finish in the bathroom so we could go to the vet and pick up our sick dog. Then we returned home where my brother, the one with the broken back, was waiting for me to make dinner.

If you can stay on DU for hours, good for you. I squeeze it in between other things.

"When you post on DU, include some content and context."

I DID. Sorry it didn't meet your standards.

[longship]

7. Well, if there are 11 Senators, cite them

Dont make us BW limited have to click through. As it turns out, the click through wasn't too bad, which is why I completed what you should have.

But us BW limited folks generally don't click through to other sites. Just think of us when you post. There are more of us than you imagine. For instance, there is ZERO broadband where I live. None. Nada. Zero.

Even if I had money to spend on it, I couldn't get it.

[pnwmom]

8. There are no "should haves" here, other than the Terms of Service.

But a little bit of empathy is always appreciated.

[politicasista]

2. Sounds good

Senator is LGBT friendly, yet people still berate him? He didn't do anything to them or the POTUS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=49433

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Thanks; hadn't been aware of these ratings.