“I’d like to be an equal citizen in my own country.” Leo Varadkar, openly gay Health Minister of Ireland saying he’d like Ireland’s May 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage to pass. Varadkar thinks same-sex marriage is necessary for him to…

Friday, March 6, 2015 will be an important day in the legacy of U.S. President Barack Obama. On that day, for the first time, Obama’s administration has filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of nationwide same-sex…

“Germany is exercising an almost solitary power.” Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, writing in an Italian newspaper. Source Reference Britain’s EU retreat means German hegemony warns Prodi

Pope Francis met with Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan and his wife in the Vatican. They discussed the Catholic Community in the country of Azerbaijan and initiatives for inter-religious and intercultural dialogue. They also discussed the nation’s regional and…

“It is simply unthinkable that the EU can survive as a reconstituted Holy Roman Empire governed from Berlin,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, writing in the Telegraph, explaining that Germany has almost solitary control of the European Union. Source Reference Britain’s EU retreat…

Republican Ben Carson, who is considering a run for president of the United States, apologized for saying that being gay is a choice. He had cited prisons as evidence. “In a recent interview on CNN, I realized that my choice…

“I’d do it again in a minute.” Dick Cheny, former Vice President of the United States, on whether he would again authorize the CIA interrogation methods condemned in a new US Senate report saying they were brutal and ineffective. Source…

“Defending and promoting the human rights of LGBT persons is at the core of our commitment to advancing human rights globally — the heart and conscience of our diplomacy,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry was referring to…

“Marriage equality is an idea whose time has come.” Eric Holder, US Attorney General in an op-ed for USAToday in support of same-sex marriage. Source Reference Eric Holder: Taking the side of equality

Angela Merkel met with Pope Francis for the second time in a private audience at the Vatican on February 21. The 40-minute discussion focused on the fight against poverty and international crises, including the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the role…

“Just as a warring (European) continent found peace through unity by creating what became the EU, Arabs, Turks, Kurds and other groups in the region could find relative peacs in ever closer union.” Mohamed “Ed” Hussein, adjunct senior fellow for…

“The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.” The warehouse, known as Homan Square,…