September 9, 2009 – 3:40 pm
After a few months of legislative hiatus, it looks like Governor Paterson is ready to bring New York’s legislators back together for a session in which, he says, gay marriage will be addressed. We can not wait! More from The Advocate:
“I am anticipating a special session and I am anticipating this is one of the [...]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
