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Hungary officials recently passed a new pro-family law, despite receiving harsh criticism that the legislation would infringe on gay rights and abortion.

The new law, which protects the "traditional family," states that married heterosexual couples that wish to raise children is an "Autonomous community...established before the emergence of law and the State" and that the "Embryonic and fetal life shall be entitled to protection and respect from the moment of conception, and the state should encourage 'homely circumstances' for child care," reported the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute in a Jan. 26 article. Read more »

From GayPolitics.com

The nation’s largest voting block appears to be pretty comfortable with openly gay political candidates, according to new a poll.

Public Policy Polling finds 71 percent of Independent voters say they could vote for an openly gay political candidate.  In fact, 8 percent said that fact would make them more likely to vote for the candidate, while 63 percent said a candidate’s homosexuality wouldn’t make a difference to them.  Just 29 percent said it would make them less likely to vote for a candidate. Read more »

by Rachel La Corte - Jan. 21, 2012 10:06 AM
Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The last time same-sex marriage was debated in the Washington state Legislature, lawmakers voted to ban it. Fourteen years later, the issue is before the Legislature once again after a multiyear effort that has incrementally increased rights to gay and lesbian couples in the state.

And this time around, it looks like Washington could very well become the 7th state plus the District of Columbia to legalize same-sex marriage.

Gay marriage has won the backing of several prominent Pacific Northwest businesses, including Microsoft Corp. and NIKE, Inc., and just this week a conservative Democrat who once opposed same-sex marriage said he will now vote for it. Read more »