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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 29, 2010, at 10:44 pm
Recently, to no one’s surprise, Ken Mehlmann, the former Bush-Cheney campaign manager and head of the republican party, came out as gay. While the story is not that a gay man, helped the bush-cheney campaign run a bigoted anti-gay campaign in order to win election, that story has been played out numerous times. [...] Posted by Ed Heinzelman on August 24, 2010, at 9:14 pm
I started working on this blog about a week ago and then set it aside when Tim John posted that he was attending Drinking Liberally. I thought I’d talk to him a bit and add any new information before posting. Well he showed up but I got distracted by other conversations. Well after reading [...] Posted by MadCityMan on August 8, 2010, at 4:45 pm
David Boies nails “pretty boy” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council on Face the Nation about the recent court decision on Proposition 8. Somehow Tony Perkins needs to heed the name of his organization “Research” and conduct scientific research to prove how gays and lesbians getting married harm children or harm heterosexual marriages – something he and his ilk on the far right have failed to do over and over again. Just think of George Rekers and his bag handling Rent Boy to understand the type of research that these charlatans on the right are capable of when it comes to understanding the social dynamics of gay and lesbian marriages. As the recent movie with Julianne Moore and Annette Bening about two lesbian mothers states “The Kids are All Right”. As countless married couples, both straight and gay co-existing without the collapse of Belgium, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and more recently Argentina have proven, gay and lesbian marriages are all right too. [...] Posted by MadCityMan on August 6, 2010, at 2:58 pm
Good old Target is feeling the backlash for their $150,000 corporate donation to MN Forward for ads to be run by anti-gay GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. The anger at the corporation has led President Gregg Steinhafel (brother of WI-based Steinhafel’s Furniture President Gary Steinhafel) to issue an apology to employees (full text here) for the process that they undertook in giving the donation and vowing to support the rights of their gay and lesbian “guests” and employees. It turns out that the senior executives of the corporation have been major donors to a broad range of anti-gay GOP politicians not only in MN, but outside the state. The biggest revelation of the senior management team’s bigotry is the revelation that they gave $3,250 to ProtectMarriage.com, a coalition that vowed to protect heterosexual marriage by supporting Proposition 8, at the expense of gay and lesbian relationships. [...] Posted by MadCityMan on August 5, 2010, at 10:37 am
Video insert of Rachel Maddow Interview with Prop 8 lawyers Olson and Boies reviewing how they proved 3 things in the Proposition 8 Decision – 1. marriage is a fundamental right, 2. depriving gays and lesbians of right to marriage harms them and their children and 3. depriving gays & lesbians of the right to marriage does not help heterosexuals at all. [...] Posted by Zach on August 5, 2010, at 5:48 am
In a decision handed down yesterday, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled California’s Proposition 8 ballot initiative denying marriage rights to same-sex couples in that state was unconstitutional. Here’s the money quote from Judge Walker’s decision: “Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of [...] Posted by MadCityMan on August 4, 2010, at 2:43 pm
The widely anticipated decision on the Proposition 8 trial in the CA “Perry vs. Schwarzenegger” case about the legality of gay marriage in CA will be decided today. You may recall that CA allowed gay marriage due to a Supreme Court of CA decision for a brief period of time from June 16, 2008 to November 5, 2008 , only to have the voters decide to rescind it. In a strange legal partnership, prominent attorneys David Boies & Ted Olson (of Bush v. Gore) fame took on the case to throw out Proposition 8. Today between 3:00 and 4:00 the Federal Court will announce its decision on the case according to AFER – the Americans for Equal Rights Foundation. [...] Posted by MadCityMan on July 9, 2010, at 4:48 pm
Gay marriage and gay civil unions in WI, MA, HI and around the world have faced a bunch of ups and downs over the past couple of weeks, but even with the 2 steps backwards that are applauded by bigots like WI’s Julaine Appling. NOM’s Maggie Gallagher and the FRC’s Tony Perkins; the writing is on the wall – equality for gays and lesbians in all aspects of their life – loving, living, working, fighting… are on their way. Let’s look at the recent developments – 2 Steps Backwards – WI Supreme Court turns down a lawsuit to invalidate the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage or any similar arrangement and HI Governor Linda Lingle vetoes, a civil union bill at the last minute. 1 Step forward – In MA, Judge Lauro finds the Federal DOMA to be illegal. The future is gray – The decision on throwing out Proposition 8 is still to come. The future is gay – Portugal implements gay marriage, Ireland looks to implement civil unions and younger people support full equality for gays and lesbians [...] Posted by MadCityMan on June 23, 2010, at 10:38 am
Who would you rather have it your side – someone like Scott Walker and the GOP – or someone like Tom Barrett, Barrack Obama and the Democratic Party? The choices are clear and obvious, not only on this issue, but on the many other ones that sharply demonstrate the contrasts between our two major parties.In my recent comments about Scott Walker on Zach’s post about domestic partnership rights, I tried to paint the contrasts between the Democratic Party and the GOP, as demonstrated by Scott Walker on not only this, but on a range of issues. As further evidence of the stark contrasts between the parties listen to Obama speaking to a group of LGBT activists at a Tuesday night reception at the White House. [...] Posted by Zach on June 23, 2010, at 5:28 am
Late last year, Milwaukee County Executive (and Republican gubernatorial candidate) Scott Walker vetoed a measure that would have studied the impact of granting domestic partnership benefits to Milwaukee County employees, citing the fact that domestic partnership benefits for County employees would be too costly during tough economic times. It seems Walker hasn’t wavered one [...] |
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