August 11, 2009 – 10:05 am
An interesting piece of anlysis over at Citizen Crain:
There is probably nothing one can say or do that would change the minds of the core people who find either gay marriage or health care reform repugnant. But there is something that can be done to immunize against those lies and help put a firewall in [...]
August 6, 2009 – 12:55 pm
An interesting battle is shaping up between renowned bigot Robert George of Princeton University and Andrew Sullivan, blogger from The Atlantic over a vicious and misleading editorial George published in The Wall Street Journal. The battle is being summarized at USA Today.
The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan is on a tear in The Daily Dish today. He [...]
Brad Pitt spoke to Parade Magazine and during the discussion, pointed out how he feels about marriage equality.
“I have love in my life, a soul mate–absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don’t get married, I replied, ‘Maybe we’ll get married when it’s legal for everyone else.’ I stand by that, although I [...]
August 5, 2009 – 11:04 am
Innovation will be the tool by which marriage equality is achieved in this country.
Students affiliated with Future Majority have created a site called Textbooks 4 Change. Through this site, students can purchase their textbooks at Amazon.com and approximately 7% of their purchase will be directed to the Courage Campaign, an organization dedicated to overturning Proposition [...]
If you read blogs, there’s a good chance that you’re a nerd. If you’re a nerd, there is an even greater chance that you know of or have taken the controls of Samus Aran, a video game character from the Metroid series.
Aran fights aliens, shoots guns, and is one of the gaming industry’s most prolific [...]
August 4, 2009 – 12:16 pm
From the South County Independent:
The comments of the governors of New Hampshire and Maine upon signing their laws reflect a laudatory open-minded and sensitive understanding of the role of government in people’s civil lives. (In Vermont the legislature overrode the governor’s veto.) Initially New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and Maine Gov. John Baldacci opposed gay [...]
From the Washington Post:
The Census Bureau will for the first time publicly release the number of gay marriages reported in a decennial census, as it plans to release raw data about same-sex relationships in the 2010 headcount, according to new guidelines released today.
The decision reverses a Bush-era policy that prohibited the release of the data. [...]
August 3, 2009 – 10:22 am
From The Capital Times:
With some 1,400 to 2,400 same-sex couples living in Dane County, turnout Monday was expected to be robust as couples have their first opportunity to take advantage of the historic piece of legislation signed by Gov. Jim Doyle June 29.
While the registry will now afford same-sex couples some 40 legal protections previously [...]
August 3, 2009 – 10:17 am
Australia has had a notably convoluted relationship between its gay rights activists and its politicians. A post over at Eideard put it all into layman’s terms:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election on a platform that supported the former conservative government’s legal definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Rudd, who [...]
With the recent announcement by the Religious Society of Friends that the church would now allow and officiate same-sex marriages, another wall has been conquered in the fight for marriage equality.
A blog post over at Southwest Libertarians sums it all up pretty well:
I have little doubt that by the time the main stream media wake [...]
