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05/31/2009
Governor acted like Joker; equality dealers seek trump card
In Vegas, one can find his or her self down and out one minute, then fully redeemed in the next toss of a die. So too the Nevada gay rights debate. Last week we told you that NV governor Jim...
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We've feared the coming violence. And now...
Today this happened: Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas doctor whose clinic received national attention for performing late-term abortions, was shot to death as he entered his Wichita church on Sunday. George Tiller Killed: Abortion Doctor Shot At Church [HuffPo] Why...
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Pete asks me to come into the, uhm, light; I'm too busy planning my wedding to care
Several people have asked yours truly if I plan to address Peter LaBarbera's new post about me. My answer: Not really, at least not at length. I really only wish to say four things: (1) I take issue with his...
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05/30/2009
The Origin of (Anti-)Specious: Clinton's marriage stance soon to walk upright?
Yesterday at an event in Toronto, former President Clinton indicated that he, like so many fellow Dems who've politically opposed marriage equality regardless of their true personal feelings, is now "evolving" on the issue: On the issue of gay marriage...
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05/29/2009
CNN Sunday: Accomplished city leader vs. Professional discriminator
On this Sunday's edition of "State of the Union," the CNN crew will profile two very different leaders in the fight to inform the status of the Empire State's ring fingers. A preview story shows us what we can expect....
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Audio: Whatever's fair and equal
Some late afternoons when we need a break from LGBT rights, we switch our Sirius/XM radio away from Michelangelo Signorile's OutQ show and onto "Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer" on the Martha Stewart Channel (5-7PM, Sirius 112/XM 157). Usually we...
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Esteemed voice meets esteemed concept
It probably won't surprise you to learn that American icon Maya Angelou understands the meaning of equality. But it's still nice to hear it: Angelou, who maintains a home in Harlem in New York City, placed three phone calls to...
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Video: If you're going to pick cherries, then we'll look at the whole tree
Another good one from filmmaker Keith Hartman (who is also responsible for "The Defender" ad that we showed you yesterday): The License [YT]
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NOM: What's the opposite of a YouTube sensation?
The organized anti-gays are always pushing for public referenda on the biased cause that they hold so dear. But you have to wonder why the National Organization For Marriage keeps subjecting itself to the votes of an annoyed YouTube public:...
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Heath keeps talking; Our chances of winning in Maine keep growing
Another day, another noxious quote from the Maine "pr-family" movement's main liability, Michael Heath. This time, while denouncing a proposal to bring gambling to the Pine Tree State, Heath suggests that same-sex marriage has led the local legislature to lose...
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They finally got it!
After one version wherein the misspelled "marriage," and another where they encouraged folks to say no to "same same sex marriage," the National Organization For Marriage has managed to put out a version of their anti-gay NY ad that is...
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CT has marriage equality. C.T. wants same for CA
Attention boys and girls: Actress Charlize Theron has requested to meet with you this Saturday: Dear Courage Member-- We need to meet. All of us. At 1 p.m. this Saturday, May 30. In Fresno, the heartland of California. Four days...
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Plane silly: Kick and screaming for bias
A credentialed reporter for a publication called The Georgia Informer was forcibly removed from a press holding area near Air Force One. What was the issue towards which she was causing a stink, you ask? Well... She later identified herself...
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Video: Chris and the right of Matthews to marry each other
Boies and Olson shed light on their controversial lawsuit: Is it time to stop seeing this as bizarre and start seeing it as promising? Or should we keep our hesitancy (or annoyance) at a high? The battle, both internal and...
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Hypocrisy, thy name is LaBarbera
On Wednesday, in response to this writer's request for an on-the-record statement regarding what he and his allies see as their anti-gay endgame, Americans For Truth's Peter LaBarbera wrote back with this: There's nothing explosive under the black bars --...
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05/28/2009
Video: We'd actually respect them more if this was their stance
It's funny because it's true. It's sad for the same reason: The Defenders (2009) (H/t: Joe.My.God.)
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'Abnormal and unhealthy': Head of Maine 'pro-family' movement is also its biggest liability
More thoroughly "Christian" words from Michael Heath, the man who mainstream "pro-family" groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council have positioned as Maine's leader on the same-sex marriage fight: The attack on the institution of marriage...
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You'll of course find the 'chairon' on the corner of Broodweigh and FordySexond Street
Okay, so we know some of you are getting tired of us taking the piss out of the National Organization for Marriage for the rash of misspellings and typos surrounding their new New York ad. But we can't help but...
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Nice try, NOM. But...
In the hours since we pointed out their misspelling of the word "marriage," NOM put forth a new version of their New York TV spot. Only problem.... Hmm. Maybe for this thoroughly uncharming ad, the third time will be the...
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Video: If there's a state with airwaves, NOM will tarnish them
In New York, they're misspelling TV ads and exploiting child-based fears. But in New Hampshire, the National Organization For Marriage (working with the reliably deceptive Cornerstone Policy Research) are trying to turn a temporary legislative setback into a fatality: Oh,...
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Audio: NOM recycles tired radio ad for NY; this tired-of-bullsh*t NY'er recycles trusty reply
Here we go again. In addition to their misspelled TV spot, NOM has also unveiled this tired radio spot to NY audiences: Fortunately we already had a response ready to go: We love our little kid. So wise beyond her...
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NOM Spelling FAIL
This is the final frame of NOM's new New York marriage ad (debuting today on NY TV): And we're the ones who threaten school kids?!?! **UPDATE: OMG, we didn't even catch it until commenter Carolyn Marie Fugit pointed it out....
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Audio: God[who you deny to gays]speed, 'Liberty Live'
You know that "Liberty Live" radio show from which we sometimes bring you snippets. Well good news, lovers of audio that doesn't make your ears bleed/blood boil/eyes cry. It was announced yesterday that American Family Radio, the folks who distributed...
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Video: In Chi-town, Pete 'protects' what was Chic long ago
We're not sure about the status of the so-called "Protect Marriage Illinois" group, as their website has been mysteriously pulled from the Internet: protectmarriageillinois.org has been suspended [PMO] But never one to let something like a TOS violation keep him...
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Video: ♪Start spreading the unprincipled dogma♪
Continuing along their quest to make their organizational name shorthand for "unabashed gay detestation," NOM is now targeting New York with short-sighted representations of inclusive reading materials, opt-in field trips, and freedom in general: (*NOTE: this version of the ad...
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FRC: Fallacious Reproduction Citations
Oh the poor, myopic Family Research Council. In a new bit that's attributed to FRC president Tony Perkins, the professionally anti-gay decry Ted Olson and David Boies' new case against Prop 8 by saying the following: Ironically, the very first...
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05/27/2009
Video: 'Ed,' not grimly: Reasons to believe country, prez will move
Mike Rogers, Laura Flanders, Sam Stein, and one increasingly out-of-touch Michael Medved. All this and the bizarre Olson-Boies marriage got some play on tonight's "The Ed Show": Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Foes, marry, Clooney
"At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of...
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From a Matchbox equality sparks
"How Far We've Come," as verbalized by Rob Thomas: How far we still need to go, as verbalized by the same: I believe the fact that an atheist, who doesn't believe in God at all, is allowed to enter into...
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Whi-- -not?
Levi's, a longtime ally, has strengthened its commitment to the gay rights community: LEVI’S is getting in the spirit of the season by dressing its storefront mannequins in white. In Levi’s-owned stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San...
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Activist grudges: Rights groups say ixnay on the awsuitlays
Yesterday we learned that Theodore B. Olson and David Boies are forming an odd alliance in order to take Prop 8 to federal court. Today the ACLU, GLAD, GLAAD, NCLR, Lambda Legal, Equality Federation, Freedom To Marry, the Human Rights...
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Video: 'So I'm not the bad guy'
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling was procedural, and not a vote on same-sex marriage itself. And of course the same Supreme Court that upheld Prop 8 on procedural grounds is the exact same court that granted marriage equality in the first...
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Reliable rule of thumb: All vehement anti-gay letters will contain at least one LOL-able typo
The term "vial crap" would involve these two items: That is but one reaction that we had after reading the thoroughly "brilliant" letter that fellow blogger Pam Spaulding found in her morning mailbag. Head over to Pam's site to form...
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36 years of needless, overwrought debate
Think this whole marriage discussion is a mostly 21st century conversation? Well journey back with us to February of 1973, when the Tucson Daily Citizen ran a very ahead of its time article on the "sanctity" of homo-gays getting hitched....
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Obama heads to Hills; gays ask, 'If Heidi and Spencer can marry, why not us?'
If it was an all-out protest, we probably wouldn't support it. But it's not a protest -- it's a call for our president to step up and fulfill his promises to the LGBT community. So with a productive working mindset...
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Video: Your support's nice, governor. Your pen stroke would've been better
Arnold Scharzenegger had the the chance to sign a marriage equality bill. Twice. Both times, he forfeited the opportunity to step up and become a civil rights hero. But even though the California governor passed up his own moment to...
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'The sanctity and definition of [earning a place on a hate groups list]'
Responding to yesterday's Prop 8 ruling, the Traditional Values Coaltion's Louis Sheldon says: "For nine years the people of California have engaged in a war on the traditional family with those wanting to forever redefine it. Twice the people have...
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Audio: 'Support traditional marriage or get out of the way'
The reliably hubristic Mat Staver not only considers today's CA ruling to be a major win. To him, it's also a warning sign to just about any human being who dares to support LGBT people: *Audio source: Proposition 8 Upheld...
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05/26/2009
Dear organized far-right:
Can you all please stop acting like today was some sort of miraculous "win" for your side? Because for you all, there was nothing at all to win -- only something to lose. And while we'll fully admit that you...
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But what they really mean to say is 'we don't care for gay people'
"If gay activists wish to legalize same-sex marriage now, they will have to go to the people and seek their permission" -Yes on 8 "The 7 million Californians who worked hard to protect marriage as the union of husband and...
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@Hellno: We won't #go
Wish you could be demonstrating in SF? Well do the next best thing. Follow the demonstrators on twitter as they chant, block streets, and learn their miranda rights, all in the name of taking a stand for equality: 1Struggle1Fight [Twitter]...
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Video: Because it's the kind of day where we need to make flags sing. Bear [::groan::] with us.
Meanwhile, in some woods outside of Fresno, an annoyed bear bemoans being disinvited from progress' party: Ah, cheer up little bear. Today's setback may be as noxious as the brown pile you left behind that tree (yea, we saw you!)....
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Lest we forget
MASSACHUSETTS MAINE VERMONT CONNECTICUT IOWA and soon, probably... NEW HAMPSHIRE (with NY, NJ, and others in the reasonable future) Prop 8 is a stumble for our side. But time's mere advancement is a crippling fatal blow for our opposition's! WontBackDown.org
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Video: Well this didn't take long
From the wonderful Courage Campaign: "Fidelity": Join the Movement to Repeal Prop 8 [YouTube] *EARLIER: The Prop 8 Ruling: It's not unexpected, not un-shitty [G-A-Y]
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The Prop 8 Ruling: It's not unexpected, not un-shitty
The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8 by a 6-1 margin (thank you, Justice Moreno), keeping marriage inequality in the Golden State. However they did uphold the 18,000+ unions that were performed from June to November of '08. And...
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Live video: The w8ing game
San Francisco's KRON 4 is live streaming their coverage in the run-up to the 10AM (PT) Prop 8 ruling. Let's all collectively try to contain our bowels: Live [KRON 4]
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GAG. ME.
With an apparent lack of irony, Maggie Gallagher just twittered the following: No Mags: Thanks to the unrighteous maneuverings of people like yourself, the civil rights have already been stripped. The question for the day: Will the California SC will...
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Video: This Luke fights for the Empire
Another good one from the Empire State Pride Agenda: Luke. Warm except for his naked ring finger. "Luke" ad [Pride Agenda] **SEE ALSO: NY Comptroller: State Would See $210 Million Same-Sex Marriage Gain [Towle]
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♪I shot a bill in Reno, just to watch it die♪
On Monday, while many were grilling or enjoying time with their families, Nevada governor Jim Gibbons (R) spent his time killing a measure that would make it easier for the state's same-sex couples to enjoy time with their own. Gibbons...
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BREAKING: Sonia is it!
Sonia Sotomayor will be Pres. Obama's Supreme Court nominee. Official announcement at 10:15AM (ET). **UPDATE: The official annouancement: Embedded video from CNN Video **MORE: We're still searching her gay rights record. Though we do know that she once preserved the...
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