Tag Archives: Nevada

Hypnotic. (Via JMG reader Michael)

(Via Towleroad)

Another blow to the conspiracy theorists. A newly declassified CIA history from 20 years ago spills the story about Nevada’s Area 51 and its secret mission — which was not to study UFOs, but to test the U-2 and other spy planes. The CIA’s story about the legendary test site is contained in “The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: …

The American Jesus writes: When my friend first showed me the website for The Great Cross Alliance I thought it was a parody. I mean, seriously, if someone showed you this picture and said a 3,000 ft long, nearly 2,000 ft wide, and almost 200 ft high cross was going to be built in the middle of the Nevada desert …

As part of what will be a years-long road to marriage equality, today the Nevada Assembly repealed the constitutional ban. The Assembly voted 27-14 Thursday in favor of SJR13 which repeals language in the Nevada Constitution that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Voters adopted that language with the Protection of Marriage Act in 2002, but polls …

Recap: “More victories as a marriage bill clears hurdles in Minnesota. And there’s progress appears likely in neighboring states as well. But soon, constitutional amendments in 30 states could delay any further success for years to come.”

Yesterday the Nevada Senate became the very first state legislative body to overturn a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The finish line, however, is more than three years away. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: After a little more than an hour of debate in which one senator publicly declared that he was gay for the first time, the Nevada Senate …

This afternoon a Nevada Senate committee advanced a bill that starts the state down a very long road to marriage equality. On a party-line, 3-2 vote, the Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections amended and passed Senate Joint Resolution 13. It not only repeals the state’s heterosexual definition of marriage, but says Nevada recognizes all marriages regardless of gender.  …

Today a resolution was introduced in the Nevada Senate that would repeal the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. But the process will take years, must be put to a public vote, and then even if the repeal is ultimately successful, a second effort for legalization will have to be launched. The resolution needs to pass by majority vote in …

Marriage Equality USA’s Ned Flaherty makes some bold predictions today at Policy Mic: The next 12 states where legalization is underway are known, and the order in which they’re finishing is now predictable. By the end of 2014, these next 12 states will join the 10 other jurisdictions that already have full marriage equality: Connecticut, District of Columbia, Iowa, Maine, …

Straight ally Kathy Baldock, who describes herself as an evangelical Christian, is one of our best advocates in the battle against “ex-gay” crackpottery.  This week she blogged about being thrown out of an “ex-gay” meeting in Nevada after simply trying to ask a question. Go read her accounting of the meeting and what happened when she rose to speak.  

Both parents have been charged with murder.

The anti-gay group that just won the battle to uphold Nevada’s same-sex marriage ban is apparently fearful that Lambda Legal’s promised appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court won’t go their way.  Yesterday they went directly to the Supreme Court even though they just won their case. The Coalition for the Protection of Marriage said the case crystalizes the fundamental question …

“In stark contrast to the findings of a rogue judge in California who himself was engaged in a long-term homosexual relationship, the federal court in Nevada has quite properly found that true marriage serves an important public purpose and is entitled to protection. This important ruling shows how far out of the mainstream the decision in the Proposition 8 case …

“Nevada is willing to gamble on a lot of things, but marriage isn’t one of them. In federal court yesterday, Judge Robert Jones dealt a big setback to state activists hoping to redefine marriage. His opinion, which he issued just days after oral arguments, may be one of the most compelling yet on the question of ‘equality’ for homosexual couples. …

“Homosexual persons may marry in Nevada, but like heterosexual persons, they may not marry members of the same sex. That is, a homosexual man may marry anyone a heterosexual man may marry, and a homosexual woman may marry anyone a heterosexual woman may marry. Although the State appears to have drawn no distinction at all at first glance, and although …

The federal District Court of Nevada has denied a challenge made by eight gay couples to that state’s ban on same-sex marriage. In its opinion, the Court writes: This case arises out of the refusal of the State of Nevada to permit same-sex couples to enter into civil marriages, as well as its refusal to recognize same-sex marriages performed in …

Not a lot of details yet. Via ABC Las Vegas: Senator Harry Reid was hospitalized after a crash on Interstate 15 Friday. The crash happened just after 1 p.m. on I-15 northbound near Sahara, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol. Multiple cars were involved in the crash, including four cars in Senator Reid’s caravan. Two other cars outside of the …

(Via JMG reader Jeff)

A lesbian couple in Nevada say they were denied the right to make medical decisions for each other despite being in a legally recognized domestic partnership which grants them that right. When [Brittney] Leon, 26, checked into Spring Valley Hospital on July 20 with complications in her pregnancy, she assumed that her partner [Terri] Simonelli, 41, could make any necessary …