In a third report of a religious right organization and/or religious right media outlet, LifeSiteNews has reported on the Rhode Island Governor’s veto of bill 2010 S 2055 in their Again, a religious right media organization connected this veto to same-sex/same-gender relationships and same-sex/same-gender marriages. From the LifeSiteNews article:

[Rhode Island Governor Donald L.] Carcieri, who is ineligible to run for another term as governor, vetoed a bill in November 2009 that would have allowed domestic partners – upon proving that they have had a relationship with the deceased for the duration of at least one year – to manage the funeral arrangements of the deceased partner.

While he was vilified in the press for his veto, Carcieri observed in his veto message that the Assembly should reconsider the law’s requirements because “many casual relationships last for longer than a year.”

He emphasized that a one-year relationship was hardly sufficient to establish a lasting bond that should trump the rights of the deceased’s traditional family members to determine the funeral arrangements.

“This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of the incremental erosion of the principles surrounding traditional marriage, which is not the preferred way to approach this issue,” noted Carcieri.

Despite this, the Assembly refused to reconsider the bill, and overrode the governor’s veto in January.

It appears to me that the anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender), “pro-family” agenda is at play here.

Assuming for a moment that the religious rights’ claim of an overarching Gay Agenda® is in play — an agenda that includes transgender civil rights, it would be an agenda that isn’t universally embraced. Many LGBT civil rights organizations and many LGBT media seems do support such a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) agenda — but not all.

But in the same way that there could be an LGBT agenda that includes freedom, equality, and civil rrights for a number of organizations and media outlets in the LGBT community, there does also seem to be a religious right organization/religious right media ebraced Anti-Gay Agenda®/Anti-LGBT Agenda in play too. One can see this in how religious right organizations and religious right media outlets — such as LifeSiteNews (and repeated in the Christian Telegraph), Focus On The Family/CitizenLink, the National Organization for Marriage, Rhode Island (NOM R.I.), and the Family Research Council (FRC) — are against hate crime protections for transgender people (as well as against hate crime protections for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people) and marriage equality.

One way we can tell that there is an LGBT community is that those who would deny freedom and equality to transgender people would equally deny freedom and equality to lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, tying our issues together in a bow. We are pushed together as community if for no other reason than those on the religious right push us together. One can see it in how these religious right, Anti-Gay Agenda® folk apparently don’t separate the adding transgender people to the protected classes of hate crimes’ statutes from marriage equality. Any freedom, equality, or civil rights issue that effects any subcommunity of the LGBT community is seen as being part of an overarching agenda.