Good As You: Proposition 8 Roundup
08/04/2010
NOM redefines "live chat"
Yesterday evening, NOM promised its readers, followers, and much coveted donors a Wed. afternoon live chat: But what happened? Well, 200+ people gathered over at the site of the live chat, but NOM never showed. Or actually, that's not entirely...
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Today = a warm equality sundae. Now to put a Jerry on top
"In striking down Proposition 8, Judge Walker came to the same conclusion I did when I declined to defend it: Proposition 8 violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by taking away the...
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President is now 4-9, never again For-8
"The President has spoken out in opposition to Proposition 8 because it is divisive and discriminatory. He will continue to promote equality for LGBT Americans" -The White House Happy birthday, Mister President. Have your cake -- then vow to let...
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Eating their pwn: Liberty says Alliance Defense FAILED
Now THIS is funny. The anti-gay legal beagles (with a taste for gay bones) at the Liberty Counsel are lashing out at the anti-gay legal kegels (who flex their anti-gay muscles) at the Alliance Defense Fund for not doing enough...
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EEK! The #prop8 decision is here
Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger et al Prop 8 Ruling FINAL **UPDATE: This is awesome: REMEDIES Plaintiffs have demonstrated by overwhelming evidence that Proposition 8 violates their due process and equal protection rights and that they will continue to suffer...
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And the #prop8 screaming begins
National Organization for Marriage: “Big surprise! We expected nothing different from Judge Vaughn Walker, after the biased way he conducted this trial,” said Brian Brown, President of NOM. "With a stroke of his pen, Judge Walker has overruled the votes...
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Video: Either way, it's gonna be historic
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08/03/2010
8/4: Prop 8 decision day (again)
Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger et al [California Northern District Court] **UPDATE: This will all shakedown between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. PDT (4 p.m. and 6 p.m EDT). **UPDATE2: Joe has a roundup of nationwide Day of Decision rallies:...
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Why equality 8 it: New report says other data sets are just Props
Think you know everything about Proposition 8 and why we lost at the ballot box? Well LGBT Mentoring Project director Dave Fleischer says think again: I, for one, am open to this. All the time I hear people shooting down...
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07/19/2010
Keating jive: LDS sure chose some strange Prop 8 bedfellows
-National Organization For Marriage affiliate Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse has made multiple appearances. -During the Mormon-heavy Prop 8 fight, Brian Brown and Maggie Gallagher made a joint appearance (6/30/2008). -NOM's General Counsel, Charles LiMandri, also appeared during that Prop 8...
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07/14/2010
Video: The monologue that reson8s in their heads at night
Love Rob Tisinai: Peter Barber Gallagher-Sprigg [Waking Up Now] (H/t : Towle)
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06/18/2010
Prop star
♪ You and me together Through the days and nights I don't worry 'cause Everything is gonna be alright People keep talking They can say what they like But all I know is everything is gonna be alright ♪ [@aliciakeys]
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06/17/2010
If Prop 8's overturned, elections will be replaced with pissing matches. Or something.
And now yet another social conservative will take the federal Prop 8 trial and disingenuously act as if it's the right to vote itself that's on trial. Hit it, Alliance Defense Fund attorney Austin Nimocks: "[The Prop 8 trial] is...
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Video: Brian Brown sounds defeated. Yet oddly sticking to very dissimulations that got him there
Personally, we prefer our web chat. But if you want another view of Brian Brown spinning his way to discrimination justification, check out this new CBN piece: Alright, so let's look at the two arguments that Brian says are the...
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06/16/2010
ADF: Antagonistically Denying Freedom
It's not the Americans who usurped the independent judiciary's ruling who are threatening our nation. No, no -- according to the Alliance Defense Fund's Brian Raum, it's the big, bad gays who want to protect their minority rights from majority...
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Prop 8 proponents: Their selfish desires know no bounds
This from the SF Chronicle: As the trial over California's prohibition on same-sex marriage enters its final stage today, the ban's sponsors are urging the judge to go a step further and revoke state recognition of the marriages of 18,000...
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06/15/2010
27 questions, 1 cold statement
Both sides were handed a set of questions by Judge Vaughn Walker. Now, on the day before the Prop 8 federal trial's closing arguments begin, we get to see the responses from the team that's working towards the always-unacceptable answer:...
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39 questions, 1 bold statement
Both sides were handed a set of questions by Judge Vaughn Walker. Now, on the day before the Prop 8 federal trial's closing arguments begin, we get to see the responses from the team that's working towards the one and...
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What, because the Anita Bryant RV Park would be too much?
Of course they did this: Gay Republican group GOProud has scheduled a July political fundraiser at Proposition 8 supporter Doug Manchester's Grand Hyatt in San Diego. Manchester, you may recall, gave $125,000 to the campaign to pass Proposition 8 and...
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06/10/2010
Audio: 'Fool' me once, shame on James Bowman
Think marriage equality for same-sex couples constitutes something other than a "drastic or far-reaching change to 'the institution of marriage'"? Well then you are nothing more than a "fool," says a contributor to this Focus on the Family news report:...
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06/07/2010
Video: Cynical old joke meets surprisingly fresh new take
A video that supports two of this writer's beliefs: (1) My adult belief at a tongue in a cheek can help put steel in a spine. (2) My childhood belief that Nora Dunn (the mom in this video) was much...
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CA District 5: If ripping out gays' souls and slicing them into tiny pieces is an Assembly qualification, vote for Andy Pugno
It's not only the California courts that anti-LGBT social conservatives are hoping to sway in tomorrow's California primary. In the state's capital city, one of Proposition 8's most prominent and outspoken figureheads is vying for an Assembly seat. Oh, and...
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04/28/2010
6/16: Wrap this mother/mother-futzer up
A wrap up and a possible verdict coming relatively soon: So now we finally have a date for Closing Arguments for the Prop 8 trial — Wednesday, June 16th, or 156 days after the start of the Trial. FINALLY: Closing...
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04/12/2010
Subtracting 8 in '10: 86ed
There will be no Prop 8 repeal on this year's ballot: GROUP WORKING FOR 2010 PROPOSITION 8 REPEAL FAILS TO COLLECT ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO QUALIFY FOR BALLOT [Towle] Effort now turns to 2012, which is what most LGBT groups wanted...
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02/19/2010
NOM looks west, spots another opp. to take gays south
The National Organization For Marriage has found its next Golden State golden opportunity. Though this time it's not a ballot initiative that strips gays of a civil right. Instead it's California Attorney General candidate John Eastman, for whom NOM will...
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02/09/2010
Pro-Prop 8ers: We don't care about Walker's sexuality, we only care that you care
The way the far-right is handling Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn' Walker's "outing" is absolutely disgusting. Because they're not just coming out and saying that the Prop 8 federal trial judge's sexual orientation makes him biased. If they were, we'd...
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02/01/2010
Video: 'Law & Order: For Those Who Got A Headache Trying To Follow It On Twitter Unit'
The first Prop 8 trial reenactment was posted over the weekend: MarriageTrial.com *SEE ALSO: HitRECord's animated short:
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01/28/2010
Maggie Gallagher: Still trying to make 'Olson/Boies are faith-haters' meme happen
Of the federal Prop 8 trial arguments and the possibility that they'll play with the much-watched Justice Kennedy, Maggie Gallagher writes the following: The strategy laid out by Olson and Boeis [sic], which is exciting the base, seems to me...
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01/27/2010
Between his lines we can all read Andy Pugno's fear
One of the most humorous aspects of the Prop 8 trial has been the way that the anti-gay side's general counsel, Andy Pugno, has tried so hard to act as if the pro-equality legal team is firing blanks all over...
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01/25/2010
The book is always better anyway
We haven't had real video, and we're still waiting for those reenactments. But if you're looking for the official transcripts from each day of the federal Prop 8 trial, American Foundation For Equal Rights has them for you in handy...
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01/22/2010
The Cord begins with Salvatore? An examination: Pt 2.
Those in the know consider Bishop Salvatore Cordileone to be the father of Prop 8 (see part 1 here). So that being the case, let's now look at the kind of religious rhetoric on which the backers of California's recall...
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The Cord begins with Salvatore? An examination: Pt 1.
In the past few days, both Maggie Gallagher and Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, two prominent figures in the Prop 8 push, have cited San Diego as the place, and its then-Auxillary Bishop, Salvatore Cordileone, as the person with whom the...
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01/21/2010
A very wrong ENGAGEment
Something we've never talked about before on this site: The annoyingly ironic fact that the media company who (quietly) designed ProtectMarriage.com's web campaign works under the moniker: Engage [GOP communications firm] Ya know, because it's always nice to have a...
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Video: Avatar, Schmavatar -- this is our new popcorn flick
[::Writer clears throat and warms up his announcer guy voice::] In a world where discrimination runs unchecked, two men get in their lawyerly jets in hopes of saving America from the asteroid that is civil bias: Prop 8 Trial Re-enactment...
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01/20/2010
Video: The 2 that 8 didn't want you to see
This week, the pro-Prop 8 side withdrew two people, Paul Nathanson, Ph.D. and Katherine Young, Ph.D, from their federal trial witness list, supposedly because of those oh-so-scary cameras in the courtroom. However, after seeing these newly posted deposition videos (which...
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Signed Andy Pugno, Ron Prentice, et al.
With all of the recent talk about how the poor Prop 8 proponents are under supposed threat of intimidation and harassment, we'd just like to submit Exhibit H (for '"How dare you all be so hypocritical?") back into the court...
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Stop your crying, says man with countless gay tears on his hands
Sometimes, we honestly have to wonder if maybe the more vocal members of our opposition have literally misplaced their hearts: "The only conclusion I can reach is that the plaintiffs are attempting to make an emotional rather than a legal...
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01/19/2010
Seriously, Maggie: You and sleep -- how?
One of the most mean-spirited, unscrupulously boastful posts we've ever seen from Maggie Gallagher: San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders testified today in the Prop 8 trial, in favor of misusing the Consittution [sic] to overturn the rights of 7 million...
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01/18/2010
Now this is a show trial
This is brilliant idea: Although the Supreme Court has blocked broadcast of the federal challenge to Prop 8, and Judge Vaughn Walker has scrapped his pursuit of having the actual trial posted on YouTube, independent filmmaker John Ireland will soon...
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01/14/2010
Those who can't remember the past...
As this Prop 8 trial chugs along, we keep hearing a familiar refrain from the anti-equality side, wherein they become shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that anyone is acknowledging religion's role in justifying past civil rights abuses. Here, listen to the...
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01/12/2010
♪ Sunrise, Sunset ♪
"There’s another theme here which is about tradition. Remember the Fiddler on the Roof song? The Prop. 8 side appeals to their concept of tradition. The only problem is that their idea of tradition either never existed or only existed...
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Moder8: Testing our opposition's willingness to let us speak
The "Protect Marriage" forces have posted a wrap-up of day one of the federal Prop 8 trial. And on said wrap up, they have included something that is surprising for an anti-LGBT site: The ability to leave a comment. Now,...
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01/10/2010
Video: On 'mo marriage: Whither the partisan error, enter the post-partisan era?
Olson's essay: The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage [Newsweek]
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NY'er turns dignified monocle toward CA'ns
The New Yorker's a classy publication, so as you read the following piece, you might want to put on a cravat or cut the crusts off your bread. But read it you should, since it gives you a thoughtful take...
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01/08/2010
You can consider whatever you want, Andrew. We'll consider *civil* law.
"..what is at stake is whether voters may consider their own moral and religious views about marriage -- or any other subject -- when casting their ballots." -Andy Pugno, general counsel for Team Prop 8 (via Baptist Press) You really...
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01/06/2010
The revolting amendment trial will [kinda, sorta] be televised
A mixed bag for those hoping to watch live proceedings of the federal Prop 8 trial (which starts next Monday). Judge Vaughn Walker has declined a live telecast of the shindig. However, there will most likely be a day-old webcast:...
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12/01/2009
Video: 'Till Prop 8 do we part
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11/30/2009
8 - '10 = Negative 2 everyone
It's been a year and change since California voters ushered in the Prop 8 error. It looks ever-more-likely that these same state voters are going to have wait an even longer period of time before they get the chance to...
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10/19/2009
Video: Many human animals were harmed in the making of this film
Because it was just so much fun to live it the first time... 8: The Mormon Propsition (H/t: Pam) You'll laugh! You'll cry! And then you'll live another year and watch it all in a film version! But it does...
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10/14/2009
Eight's not enough -- we'll fight till eleventh hour
And so it goes: A federal judge refused today to dismiss a constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, ruling the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage raised legal and factual issues that required a trial. Judge refuses to dismiss challenge to Prop....
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