Tag: Same Sex Marriage
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 […]
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 Section […]
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 a unique […]
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 […]
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 the team […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 ballots to […]
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): […] 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 […]
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 […]
SB 121 Signing Today
2nd Update: SB 121 will be signed into law by Jack Markell on Thursday, July 2 at 3:00 PM at Camp Rehoboth. Thanks MJ. Update: The signing is postponed due to Thurman Adams’s funeral. We will update when we know the new date and time. Today at 2 PM, Governor Markell will sign SB 121 […]
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