All Posts Tagged With: "Same Sex Marriage"
Change In My Lifetime
Real change takes a long time and a lot of hard work. No one has worked harder for change than LGBT activists and it’s paid off. Bill Clinton signed DADT (remember this was considered a step forward at the time) and DOMA. In 2004, Republicans were putting anti-marriage equality laws on the ballot to boost [...]
8Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
Bitter Tears
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is not throwing in the towel in opposition to marriage equality and is promising to seek retribution on the Republican NY senators who voted yes.
27Jun2011 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
All Eyes On New York – Marriage Equality Vote Tonight
A bill to bring marriage equality to the state of New York will be voted on tonight.
24Jun2011 | Unstable Isotope | 30 comments | Continued
God Hates Civil Unions
The Rev. Rita Mishoe Paige and The Rev. Christopher A. Bullock had an op-ed in opposition to civil unions in Delaware in the News Journal.
13Apr2011 | Unstable Isotope | 15 comments | Continued
Civil Unions Bill Passes First Test
The Civil Unions bill was voted out of committee yesterday in the Senate. They also heard testimony about how civil unions will lead to grandfathers taking granddaughters to hotels.
31Mar2011 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
Chris Coons Sponsors DOMA Repeal
Chris Coons announced he’s co-sponsoring a bill called the Respect for Marriage Act which would repeal the provision of DOMA that states marriage is between a man and a woman.
18Mar2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Obama Declares DOMA Unconstitutional
The Obama administration announced that it would no longer appeal to uphold DOMA Section 3 (which defines marriage as between a man and a woman) and declared that the law was unconstitutional.
24Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 27 comments | Continued
Marriage Equality vs. Civil Unions
Yesterday in a meeting with bloggers, Governor Markell stated that he supported Civil Unions for Delaware but hadn’t thought about full marriage equality.
16Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 35 comments | Continued
Same Sex Marriage is ‘Inevitable’
After the defeat of DADT, the ban of gay marriage is coming soon.
26Dec2010 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
2nd Fundraising Appeal – Delaware Right To Marry
Delaware Right To Marry PAC is fundraising to do a poll on marriage equality in Delaware.
17Dec2010 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
Fundraising Appeal – Delaware Right To Marry
A new PAC, Delaware Right to Marry, has been formed to push for full marriage equality.
6Dec2010 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman Comes Out
Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman has come out as gay and is supporting the fight for marriage equality.
26Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Prop 8: Ted Olson Destroys Chris Wallace
Ted Olson demolishes Chris Wallace’s right wing talking points about same sex marriage on Fox News.
9Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 60 comments | Continued
Big News: California Prop 8 Overturned
Just breaking now–
A judge in California has overturned California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Big news: According to a source who has seen the 136-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Walker has ruled Proposition 8, the California voter-approved ban on gay marriage, unconstitutional under both the due-process and equal-protection [...]
Argentina Is For Lovers
Argentina has legalized same-sex marriage.
15Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Breaking Now: Federal Court Strikes Down DOMA Section 3
This is breaking on Twitter right now. The ruling isn’t out yet but a Federal District Court has struck down Section 3 of DOMA. Lambda Legal explains the court challenge:
May 6, 2010 in Boston, eight married same-sex couples and three widowers were in Federal District Court to hear arguments in their challenge to [...]
Problem Solving 101
Washington, D.C. is the latest area to legalize same-sex marriage and this has caused a problem for Catholic Diocese of Washington. They’ve threatened to quite doing humanitarian work in Washington, D.C. but I guess the backlash and the taxpayer subsidies are too much to pass up. The Catholic diocese of Washington has found [...]
2Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
I Have No Idea What They Are Trying To Prove
Last year, professional idiot and accused felon James O’Keefe went around with a camera trying to get a wedding license in Massachusetts to marry another man.
Ben Wetmore, the 28-year-old conservative activist whom James O’Keefe called a “mentor,” has stayed out of the headlines since it was revealed that he housed O’Keefe and the other participants [...]
California Prop 8 Trial
Right now in California a trial to determine the constitutionality of Prop 8 is just underway. Prop 8 is the proposition that overturned a court ruling in California allowing same sex marriage by defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. One of the interesting notes of the trial is that [...]
13Jan2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
An Assault On Traditional Divorce
Social conservatives have been make dire predictions about how same sex marriage will ruin traditional marriage if it’s allowed. So, what’s happening in Massachusetts, where same sex marriage has been allowed for 5 years?
Actually, the “experiment” has been running in Massachusetts for fully 1/2 decade now. Over three years ago I wrote a story, [...]
Priorities
I’m glad to know they’ve got their priorities straight here:
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps [...]
2009 Election Results: Mixed Night For Teabaggers
Here’s yesterday’s election results, as they stand right now:
VA-Gov
Bob McDonnell (R) 59%
Creigh Deeds (D) 41%
99% counted
A big win for Republicans in VA-Gov. This result was no surprise, Deeds was a crappy candidate. His problem was that he tried to run against President Obama, at one point even saying he would consider opting out [...]
Election Results Thread
We’ll be watching the results and updating you here. VA polls close at 7 pm, Maine and NJ close at 8 pm and NY polls close at 9 pm. We could actually be in for a long election if the votes are close, because then we’ll have to wait for absentee and provisional [...]
3Nov2009 | Unstable Isotope | 50 comments | Continued
Why We Need Marriage Equality
I’ll let WWII veteran Phillip Spooner explain. He does a better job than I ever could.
Partial transcript (full transcript at the link):
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I am here today because of a conversation I had last June when I was voting. A woman at my polling place asked me, “Do you believe in equal, equality for gay and [...]
Marriage Equality In Vermont Today
Today Vermont began issuing wedding licenses to same-sex couples.
Vermont’s gay marriage law began taking effect at exactly midnight on Tuesday, a little over four months after state lawmakers voted to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto of the legislation and added to the number of states who have legalized same-sex marriages.
Some couples have already married. [...]
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