gay marriage

Apparently Washington D.C is considering a bill that would allow same-sex marriage. This does not sit well with the Catholic Archdiocese in D.C., so the Church has warned (threatened?) the the City that it will discontinue its charity work with homeless, adoption, etc.. in D.C. if the...

Jesse Ventura was on Larry King and he remarked (in reference to Maine's voting no to legalize same sex marraige) that: "If you put it up to a vote by the people, we'd have slavery again". :faint:

Sign Galileo on marriage law petition By Pat LaMarche http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/107994.html It's nice to know that after 400 years, the ideas of Galileo are still important for our civil liberties.

We are down to only one or two gay marriage threads so I decided we needed to start another one. So in practice how has the attempt at linguistic fiction by differentiating marriage from civil partnerships worked out? Did they create to fully equal institutions or not? In what ways are they...

This is something that could be cross-posted, but because of the (somewhat) religious angle, I've put it here. A reporter from Georgia was forcibly removed from near Air Force One, after trying to give a letter to President Obama, urging him to preserve traditional marriage. The kicker? She...

"In Massachusetts, where more than 10,000 same-sex couples have married since 2004, the courts don't keep a breakdown of gay and heterosexual divorces. But Joyce Kauffman, a member of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, said probably more than 100 gay divorces have been granted in...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/20/new.hampshire.same.sex.marriage/ It's a bit too early for me to say what's going on with this, but I'm having a hard time believing what I'm reading. The New Hampshire legislature passed a gay marriage bill, and the governor promised to sign it, but only...

In an article in today's Boston Metro, the NOM (National Organization for Marriage) - An Anti Gay Marriage group, recently thanked Steven Colbert for his spoof of their 'Rainbow' ad against Gay Marriage. Question to the Peanut Gallery: Do you think Colbert's spoof will help or hurt the NOM...

If gay marriage is legalized, who will be harmed and in what way? (Sorry for starting yet another gay marriage thread but someone really needs to answer this.)

The Governor's veto was just overridden by the Vermont Legislature. Vermont was the first state to approve civil unions, and now is the fourth to approve same sex marriage. What is of significance is that this is the first state to approve same sex marriage WITHOUT a court ruling. This was...

Iowa, declared to be the "land of the sodomite damned"... Now it's official. Today our state supreme court overturned the ban on gay marriage. It's good to be damned.

...becuse it doesn't matter what people want, the courts will magically find a "right" to gay marriage in the Constitution. Since it is crystal clear the courts simply do not care, and will simply decide any law against gay marriage is "unconstitutional", the only way for the people to have...

Over a year ago I was at a meeting with the legal/political organizations in Illinois working for gay rights. They said that they had a bill for gay unions and they were working behind the scenes on getting votes. Well, this year that bill has officially died. Rep. Greg Harris, openly gay and...

Prop. 8 campaign can't hide donors' names I think this is quite ridiculous. Concomitant with the freedom to speak is the freedom to remain anonymous when you do, for the very reasons this lawsuit was filed in the first place: the possibility (and in the case of Prop 8 the very real risk) of...

... In 1996. Linky. So, as many speculated because of his vague dodging of why he opposed same-sex marriage, it seems he actually supported it until it became pragmatic to not. So even though he agreed that "marriage is a basic human right", he decided that fundamental human rights are...

Split from here. People hate perversion. It's only natural human behavior. Rapists, murderers, homosexuals, and child molesters, engage in perversion. People will always reject perverts and their lifestyle. The recent vote in Califorina backs this up.

The goal of Peter Irons is to bring the personal element to the Supreme Court cases we know only by "this v. that." He is successful in spades, readers learn the back-story to cases from the first days of the Constitution to 2006, along the way he allows us to see the Justices as real people...

Yesterday, millions of voters in California and Florida came forward in support of legislation that would prevent the gay community from being targeted by divorce lawyers! :D

I am very pleased with Barack Obama's win.... but I have to say my exuberance is tempered with a good bit of sadness for the passage of Prop 8 in California. The sadly ironic part. The gay community was almost completely behind Barack but in the end, from the poll numbers I have heard, it was...

My state has passed ballot amendment 2 which reads: Never mind that there's already a state statute against it, and Florida adopted the DOMA, we had to go for this bigotry as well. As I told the guy violating the "No campaigning past this line" marker before I got him thrown out who was...

Assuming proposition 8 passes in California next week, what recourse is there for the LGBT community and its supporters? Is there any protocol for rescinding a state constitutional amendment without actually proposing another ballot initiative next year? What of voter initiatives that are...

Palin breaks with McCain on gay-marriage ban Just remember, Gov. Palin, energizing the base might energize the opposition more. Social conservatism is a cancer that needs to be excised from our country's collective consciousness.

Connecticut's supreme court has overturned their ban on gay marriage! Now there are 3 US states where we homosexuals can destroy traditional marriage by combining our finances, visiting each other in the hospital and inheriting each other's estates. where I heard about it

There is no good argument against gay marriage, not one. Marriage is a right.

Here is the reply of a librarian, asked to remove or segregate a children's book. I think it makes excellent reading. Discussion?

Last month, Kern County's auditor-controller Ann Barnett stopped the performing of civil weddings, in response to the recent Supreme Court overturning of Prop 22, making gay marriage legal in California. Kern County issues the new marriage licenses under the law, but Barnett has taken a stand...

I am watching the news right now and am really angry about a court ruling about the registrar who refused to perform civil partnerships as it was against her religion and claimed she was discriminated against (her claim was upheld). This is ridiculous. She was being asked to perform a legal...

Thanks to a recent successful Jesus-brand ballot initiative in Wisconsin, gay and lesbian couples who travel to California to be married face 9 months in prison and/or up to $10,000 fines. Now that is what I call Protecting the Sanctity of Bigotry. Sources: PDF PDF HTML You can thank fine...

Ann Barnett , the Clerk of Kern County in California has announced that, effective 3 days before gay marriages become legal in California, she will no longer perform wedding ceremonies. It's a very, very widespread custom. While County Clerks are legally entitled to perform marriages, they are...

George Takei is getting married to his partner of 21 years: www.georgetakei.com