Tag: Gay Marriage

Late Night Oddity: Sex With Ducks

Filed in National by on June 5, 2009 5 Comments

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Protecting Marriage

Filed in National by on June 2, 2009 2 Comments

h/t @kindlejunkie

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A Very Great Day

Filed in National by on May 5, 2009 3 Comments

Maine’s House votes to approve same-sex marriage. This passed the Senate already so I think that this goes to the Governor for signature. DC’s City Council votes to recognize same-sex marriages from states that allow them. It becomes law if Congress does not overturn it.

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Conservatives Are The Reason Support For Gay Marriage Is Rising

Filed in National by on May 1, 2009 1 Comment

Conservatives are becoming hysterical, and their rhetoric proves it. “The NOM has argued that it is not a homophobic organization, but Card’s remarks suggest otherwise. Card, who represents the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the board and received an effusive welcome last week from NOM president Maggie Gallagher, supports criminalizing sex between […]

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Support For Gay Marriage Jumps 11 Points In One Month

Filed in National by on April 30, 2009 18 Comments

Via kos: NY Times/CBS News Poll. 4/22-26. Adults. MoE 3% (3/12-16 results) Which comes closest to your view? Gay couples should be allowed to legally marry. OR, Gay couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not legally marry. OR, There should be no legal recognition of a gay couple’s relationship. Legal Marraige 42 […]

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Gay Thought of the Day

Filed in National by on April 22, 2009 16 Comments

Studies show that angry male homophobes probably have deeply hidden homosexual urges. So next time you get in a argument with a Radical Right man who is hung up on “the gays”, have pity on the poor soul as he probably hasn’t really accepted his true sexuality.

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Late Night Oddity: Giant Gay Repellent Umbrella

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A Gaythering Storm from Jane Lynch

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Monday’s Open Thread

Filed in Delaware, International, National by on April 13, 2009 4 Comments

Today’s a traveling day for me, but if you’re looking for inspiration check out DV’s imagine if you changed one word post here, DelawareDem’s posts and insightful analysis here and here, ‘Bulo’s whale of a tale here as well as his thought provoking post about Lincoln, and Jason’s Republicans are the butt of the joke […]

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Thursday’s Open Thread

Filed in Delaware by on April 9, 2009 7 Comments
Thursday’s Open Thread

As I get ready to visit an old rat whose fondness of children is too Jacksonesque for my taste and his friend, a mumbling duck who is a bit too comfortable with his sexuality, I present to you Thursday’s Open Thread. In case you didn’t stop by Delaware Liberal yesterday, you missed us taking down […]

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Pointless vs Counterpoint

Filed in National by on April 8, 2009 2 Comments

Pointless… Must everything be the end of the world?  Conservatives need to learn that less is more. vs Counterpoint…

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Wednesday’s Open Thread

Filed in National by on April 8, 2009 26 Comments

Yesterday, we had our first successful open thread with some good discussion and links from our readers. Well done, people, well done. For a starting point, some posts yesterday that you might have missed are that a Republican actually stood up to Rush Limbaugh, Kris Kristofferson is kind of cool and Vermont legalizes it (gay […]

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Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage

Filed in National by on April 7, 2009 4 Comments

And overides a veto to do it! The Vermont House of Representatives passed the bill by a 100-49 vote after it cleared the state Senate 23-5 earlier in the day. In Vermont, a bill needs two-thirds support in each chamber to override a veto. Look at those numbers.  That’s not a slim margin, that’s the […]

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The Times They Are A Changin’

Filed in National by on April 6, 2009 51 Comments

I expect to see gay marriage and marijuana legalized in my lifetime.  (I really liked typing that sentence.) I’ve been feeling this way for quite some time, and, luckily for me, Nate Silver does the math. Nate on gay marriage: Unsurprisingly, there is a very strong correspondence between the religiosity of a state and its […]

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