August 25, 2009 – 8:54 am
Looks like the next session of the New Jersey legislature, set to meet on November 3rd, will begin debate on a marriage equality bill, a great step that will, we believe, add New Jersey to the list of states that recognize all marriages. The story at Queerty:
When a door closes, a window opens. Or that’s [...]
August 19, 2009 – 10:58 am
In today’s New York Times:
While Mr. Olson came to the case by a serendipitous route that began late last year with Rob Reiner, a Hollywood director widely known for his Democratic activism, he said his support of same-sex marriage stemmed from longstanding personal and legal conviction. He sees nothing inconsistent with that stance and his [...]
August 19, 2009 – 9:09 am
The city council of Durham, NC, the home of Duke University, has put together a resolution that is very favorable to marriage equality. More from WUNC:
The city of Durham joins Chapel Hill and Carrboro in its support of civil marriage rights for same-sex couples. The Durham city council voted unanimously Monday night in favor of [...]
August 17, 2009 – 11:35 am
On Real Time with Bill Maher. Jump to the 2:20 mark.
August 17, 2009 – 9:32 am
From the Daily Beast, with information from a report by Human Rights Watch, a tragic story about the rising tide of violence against gay men throughout Iraq. It’s enough to make your stomach turn.
Bodies have appeared by the dozens in hospitals and morgues. How many have been killed will likely never be known; the failure [...]
August 14, 2009 – 2:58 pm
Jonathan Rauch, a personal favorite, has a moving piece in the National Journal on the “Moral Crossroads” that Republicans face as gay marriage goes mainstream. When public opinion reaches critical mass in favor of civil marriage equality, as it most assuredly will, and bigotry towards homosexuals becomes as socially unacceptable as racism, what will Maggie Gallagher have to say for herself?
Peter Sprigg [...]
August 14, 2009 – 10:39 am
It used to be that newspapers were the bastions of progressive and civil righteousness in our society. They spoke the truth and provided the weakest of groups the same platform as the dominant forces.
That time has now passed, if the example set by The Spectrum of St. George is to be believed.
The paper initially accepted [...]
August 13, 2009 – 9:36 am
From Wonkette:
La Jolla hotel developer Doug Manchester put up $125,000 to collect signatures for Prop 8, California’s absurd anti-gay-marriage initiative intended to overturn Caifornia’s legal gay marriages just to ruin people’s lives, because why not, wingnuts is special. But now richie-rich Mr. Manchester, who previously claimed he was bankrolling the Prop 8 signature effort because [...]
August 12, 2009 – 11:47 am
Looks like Rick Santorum is prepared to reinvigorate his raging homophobia in the hopes of getting into the White House. From Politico:
POLITICO has learned Santorum will visit first-in-the-nation Iowa this fall for a series of appearances before the sort of conservative activists who dominate the state GOP’s key presidential caucuses.
The Pennsylvanian, who lost his 2006 [...]
August 12, 2009 – 10:09 am
There is a debate occurring within the marital equality rights community of whether an effort to overturn Proposition 8 should be executed in the November of 2010 or the November of 2012.
A summary of the battle at the San Francisco Chronicle:
Several California ACLU chapters have suggested waiting. So has the Alice B. Toklas Democratic [...]
