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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 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 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 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 AL on July 28, 2010, at 11:03 am
Why is Wal-Mart blocking 35 cents an hour for Bangladeshi workers? Call Wal-Mart today! Over 3.5 million mostly young women garment workers are trying to climb out of misery. With a new minimum wage of just 35 cents an hour, the workers could live with a modicum of dignity. Ask Wal-Mart to stop [...] Posted by MadCityMan on July 20, 2010, at 12:19 pm
Coming Soon! Crazy Caravan of Corny Creepiness. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is taking their hate and kookiness on the road with their traveling circus stopping in 23 cities this summer. You can follow their progress at their Summer for Marriage website. Among the cities that are scheduled for a visit is our beautiful capital city – Madison. If you’d like to see them in action and hear what they have to say, you can observe the caravan in action when they arrive here on Tuesday, July 27th at 12:00 at the State Capital State Street entrance according to their website. [...] 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 28, 2010, at 4:55 pm
First it was Texas, now it’s MT; the latest state of GOP wingnuttery to decide that homosexual acts are or should be illegal. In the latest attack on reality and effort to deny minority rights, the MT GOP has included a line in their party platform to deny homosexual acts. [...] 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 MadCityMan on June 22, 2010, at 9:00 am
The wingnuts of the Republican Party, this time in Texas, have done it again. Their latest, as endorsed in the state’s GOP Party platform, is to make it a felony to issue a marriage license to gays and lesbians to marry and to re-criminalize sodomy, a law that was found to be unconstitutional in the Lawrence vs. Texas case decided by the Supreme Court in 2003. For those of you not following constitutional laws or civil rights, this case found that there was a right to privacy that guaranteed gays and lesbians the same rights to private sexual intimacy as that held by the majority straight community (see Lambda Legal Defense for more information on the history of this law). Prior to the demise of this 143 year old law, gays in Texas could be jailed, for 5 – 15 years for the same act of sodomy, that was freely committed by their straight brethren in the privacy of their own homes. [...] |
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