Tag Archives: California

Two parents are suing the Alameda County school district in California because they don’t want kids to be taught that it’s wrong to beat up gay kids. Kerry Cook and Serena Dietrich filed a suit Feb. 18 in Alameda County Superior Court that seeks to nullify the school board’s Dec. 8 vote to readopt Lesson 9 for Alameda’s elementary schools …

Today God smote the online sales division of World Net Daily when He crashed a small plane into their power supply. The crash of a small airplane today in a residential neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area that killed three people also took out a local power distribution facility, shutting down the online operations for the WND Superstore. While …

Via Truth And Hope: Sometimes there is not much to say other than to get right to the point. In the next few weeks, the people of California will decide if we will put Marriage Equality back on the ballot in 2010, or if we will allow Prop 8 to stand and ask the LGBT community to wait at least …

The ACLU has sent a letter to Fresno City College demanding that health professor Dr. Bradley Lopez stop teaching anti-gay lies to his students. The ACLU letter includes several examples of Professor Lopez teaching sectarian views and personal bias as “fact.” In recent lectures, Professor Lopez: * Presented a slide listing “homosexual facts,” including that homosexuality is a “biological misapplication …

Today the San Francisco Chronicle outed Perry vs Schwarzenegger Judge Vaughn Walker. While Walker’s gayness has long been known by insiders, this is the first acknowledgment by the press. The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn …

Filed under: GOP eats GOP.

Here’s an hour-long verbatim re-enactment of excerpts from the first day of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, courtesy of the folks at MarriageTrial.com.

In a front page story, today’s San Francisco Chronicle notes the success of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus as it tours California’s central heartlands in a peace-making tour after the acrimony of Proposition 8. They came. They sang. They wore pink cowboy hats. When the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarked on its Freedom Tour into the heart of Proposition …

Christian dating site eHarmony has finally settled the class action lawsuit which claimed that the company discriminated against gays in California by not letting them use the site. Under a proposed settlement filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, eHarmony will link its straight and gay Web sites and allow people to use both without paying double fees. Plaintiff’s attorney …

Well, this will certainly spice things up. Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, 67, whose platform is “Return to the Good Life in California” unveilled a billboard on Sunset Boulevard at 11:00 a.m. He released the following statement: “When I came to California 26 years ago we had the ‘Good Life.’ We were prosperous; people had jobs, affordable homes and money to …

The Governator thinks it might be good idea for California to build prisons in Mexico and ship the state’s undocumented immigrant criminals there. “We can do so much better, in the prison system alone, if we can go and take inmates – for instance, the 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here – and get them to Mexico,” …

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will conduct a tour of concerts through the heartland of Proposition 8 country in central California as part of an outreach program. Via press release: The three-part tour will kick off at the end of January with concerts in Redding and Chico, continue in May with concerts in Fresno and Bakersfield, and end in …

Hak-Shing William Tam, who infamously said that the ultimate goal of gay activists was to legalize sex with children, will be called today by Olson & Boies as a hostile witness, despite Tam’s attempt to back out of testifying for the bigots’ side. Last week, the lawyers used footage from Tam’s taped deposition to buttress their contention that Proposition 8 …

The American Foundation For Equal Rights sends us these video depositions made by two Perry vs. Schwarzenegger defendants who later dropped off the witness list rather than face the “violent wrath of vicious homofascists” were the trial to be televised. The Olson/Boies legal team today introduced into evidence videos of the depositions of Paul Nathanson, Ph.D. and Katherine Young, Ph.D., …

Conservatives are rushing out videos supporting candidates they are now trumpeting as the “next Scott Brown.” First out of the gate is California U.S. Senate teabagger and birther candidate Chuck DeVore, who is running in the GOP primary against former HP CEO Carly Fiorina for Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat.

JMG reader Mike sends us this view of his street today as Los Angeles experiences one of its heaviest storms in a very long time. A waterspout had LA County on a tornado alert in the last couple of hours, but it apparently did not reach land. On the upside, the storm is replenishing reservoirs parched by a year-long drought.

A federal court has ruled that the University of California does not have to certify Christian high schools that teach creationism and other dumbass ideas. Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, Calif., and the Association of Christian Schools International claimed the university’s review policy was unconstitutional because it refused to certify courses that taught creationism and other beliefs. “The district …

Coachella just released their list of performers for this year’s festival. Artists of note include Grace Jones, La Roux, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, LCD Soundsystem, The Specials, Echo & The Bunnymen, Devo, Hot Chip, John Waters, Kaskade, MGMT, The Specials, Orbital, Yo La Tengo, Little Boots, Gary Numan, Tiesto, and Benny Benassi. (My “performers of note” may differ from yours, …

Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger vlogs about his day inside the Prop 8 courtroom. Clip description: Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate travels to the Prop 8 Trial in San Francisco and takes one of Chris Morrow’s cameras to document it. Interviews: Stuart Milk – Nephew of Harvey Milk, Therese Stewart – Chief Deputy City Attorney San Francisco, Adam …

Last week’s SCOTUS decision to bar the televising of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger has many reading the ruling as an omen of how they will rule when the case reaches them. Legal experts on the left and right gleaned three insights from the high court intervention: First, the justices are following this case closely. They typically rule on appeals after cases …