Tag Archives: marriage equality

The Washington Post has published a glowing profile of Brian Brown, the executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, whom they describe “ruthlessly sane” and “instantly likeable.” Is it possible, in 2009, to avoid the title of “gay basher” while dedicating your life to preventing a portion of the population from participating in a legal process allowed to other …

Smelt Vs. United States, the case that caused all of the DOJ-DOMA brouhaha earlier this year, has been dismissed by a federal judge on the grounds that the litigants had failed to identify any personal harm they had suffered under the institution of the Defense of Marriage Act. Assistant Atty. Gen. Tony West, in his brief filed before U.S. District …

Bookended with commentary from One Iowa….

NOM has made an $86K radio and television buy on behalf of Iowa House candidate Stephen Burgmeier, who is working to overturn marriage equality. On Top Magazine reports: Anti-gay marriage groups are ratcheting up their efforts to influence the Iowa Legislature in an effort to repeal gay marriage in the state. The latest evidence of such a plan can be …

The Family Research Council is holding a giant anti-gay marriage shindig in Augusta, Maine on September 14th, with a lineup featuring all the usual crazies. “The battle is raging for America’s soul! Will you sound the alarm?” Note how similar the name is to the Watchmen On The Walls, the virulently anti-gay group founded by Pink Swastika author Scott Lively. …

JMG reader Sean Chapin and the DepFoxes (of the “Ask A Gay Family” YouTube series) join to create a short No On 1 in Maine clip.

Despite his recent foray into birther wingnuttery, CNN moderator Lou Dobbs actually says some sensible things here, demanding that Maggie Gallagher explain how opposite marriage is damaged by gay marriage. “You’re blaming homosexuals for an institution that’s under assault by just about everything BUT gays!” Tobias Wolff is typically great here.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church voted today to allow individual congregations to bless same-sex marriages. “I’ve been a life-long member at Redeemer Lutheran Church [in Atlanta], and I was never comfortable asking my church to bless my relationship,” said Bob Gibeling, who is at the assembly. “This offers great hope to me that when I find a future life-long partner, my …

A lesbian couple in Oklahoma has filed a new federal challenge to DOMA and their state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The couple apparently filed their suit without the consultation of any LGBT group, despite pleas from such organizations that gay couples refrain from acting alone. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News: The lawsuit has had a troubled history. Filed …

A nice story to appear on local Maine news right now, isn’t it? Wait for a bitchy comment from anti-gay organizer Marl Mutty at the end. Your donation to No On 1/Protect Maine Equality will be doubled by an anonymous donor if you do it by today. (Via – Pam’s House Blend)

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A federal judge has set January 11th, 2010 as the start of the Olsen/Boies suit to overturn Proposition 8. The ACLU, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Lambda Legal were all denied in their request to be a party to the action. The judge did allow San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera to take part, but only to assess …

Protesters waved anti-Christine Quinn signs outside of an event where the openly lesbian NYC Council Speaker debated two other candidates for her seat. While City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn’s campaign experience showed in a debate among three of the Democrats vying for her seat, it was Maria Passannante-Derr who brought the heat to the August 13 event. “You’re the …

While speaking to Miss California USA owner Donald Trump last night, David Letterman said, “Anybody who wants to get married ought to be able to get married,” garnering some supportive applause from his audience. Nice, but earlier during his monologue Letterman made some tired cracks about the rumored split of Rosie O’Donnell and her wife Kelli, saying that in the …

Split California literally, that is. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News reports that the lawyers backing the litigants in the Smelt case, the one that has caused all the DOJ-DOMA furor, have a master plan other than marriage equality. The attorney representing two gay men who sued in state court and now in federal court in southern California to win …

The tiny U.S. territory of Guam is considering domestic partners legislation. The island’s Democratic leadership would like to pursue full marriage equality, but have struck a compromise with the Catholic Church. “Guam’s bill is domestic partnership, unfortunately. It is not the marriage, it is not the civil union. I have promised the Archbishop [Anthony Apuron] not to use either one …

Some nice news from my birth state! The City Council got a standing ovation Monday night when it unanimously passed, without discussion, a resolution supporting civil marriage for same-sex couples. “It is simply a statement” and has no effect on the law, City Attorney Patrick Baker said before the vote. Nevertheless, when the outcome was announced much of the full-house …

“Graffiti was once called vandalism, named for the barbarian hordes which sacked Rome. Similarly, same sex marriage was once called perversion, a term which literally means turning away from the truth. Today same sex marriage is called a “civil right” a misperception spread by gay radicals, with the help of the liberal establishment. In our politically-correct society, we do not …

Reactions to this morning’s DOJ-DOMA filing… John Aravosis at AmericaBlog: I guess this is a step in the right direction. I don’t want to fail to praise the administration for doing better, but to some degree the only reason this is “good” is because of how “bad” they did on the previous brief. In the end, they’re still defending a …