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 – 10:17 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 [...]
A fascinating article in USA Today on a new study by two Columbia University political science professors describes how the proportion of Catholics in a state is a great determinant of how effectively the state defends gay rights.
Want to predict which state might move next to legalize same-sex marriage? You might count Catholics. The higher [...]
A thoughtful editorial from Carlos Ball, a law professor at Rutgers University, at The Huffington Post on the significance of the battle over same-sex marriage within the queer community:
For almost two decades, the organized gay rights movement, led by groups such as the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal, have been pushing hard for marriage. [...]
The guys behind Dabble Post have information on and analysis of the letter written by Former Senator Rick Santorum to donors of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM):
In a sign of the impending battle over the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Monday sent out a letter to its [...]
When referendums come to a vote in any state that are designed to prevent marriage equality, always be suspicious of how such referendums ended up on the ballot. From A Liberal’s Hit List:
While in Port Angeles, Washington, I stopped at WalMart for a quick minute. As I was walking into WalMart, I was stopped by [...]
