Tag Archives: Rhode Island

NOM has created a fake newscast about their appearances in Albany and Providence. THEY are the victims here people, not the millions of Americans whose oppression comes at their hands.

Pastor Jay Stirnemann of the Christ Temple United Pentecostal Church showed up at NOM’s rally in Providence yesterday to babble nonsensically and call on Jeebus to strike down the gay demons demonstrating for their Constitutionally-guaranteed civil rights. Pastor Stirnemann will be juggling snakes at NOM’s next stop on the Hate Tour. RELATED: Pretty much anybody can pretend to “speak in …

NOM’s Brian Brown tweets from Providence, Rhode Island: “Is this how a civil rights movement behaves? Gay activists storm our podium to shout us down. Fail.” Yesterday the NOMbies complained that gay activists were bringing their (leashed and elderly) dogs to the rallies as a “bullying tactic” and that they wouldn’t move to unblock the view of a nursing mother. …

Rhode Island’s notoriously anti-gay Gov. Don Carcieri has vetoed a measure that would have added transgender protections to the state’s hate crimes law. The Family Research Council is thrilled. “Given the challenges facing America, it’s troubling that any legislature would invest time and taxpayer monies to consider such a superfluous agenda-driven maneuver, much less pass it through both Houses,” said …

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) has announced that he will not seek reelection this year. In 2011, for the first time in 64 years, there will not be a Kennedy in Congress. The eight-term Kennedy faces high unfavorable ratings at home and would have faced stiff competition from a state GOP lawmaker who announced plans to run for Kennedy’s seat. Like …

The list of Rhode Island gubernatorial candidates who are pledging support for marriage equality is up the three. Both Democrats running for governor and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, an independent candidate, will publicly pledge to sign a gay marriage bill if elected, gay rights activists said Monday. Attorney General Patrick Lynch and General Treasurer Frank Caprio, the Democrats, and Chafee …

As expected, today the Rhode Island legislature voted to override Gov. Don Carcieri’s hateful veto of a bill granting same-sex partners the right to make burial decisions about each other. The House — and then the Senate — voted to override Republican Carcieri’s veto of a bill giving domestic partners the right to claim the bodies of — and make …

Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island GOP Senator turned independent Obama supporter, says he will run for governor of Rhode Island in 2010. Chafee has been an outspoken supporter of marriage equality, the only GOP Senator to do so. Mr. Chafee, 56, left the Republican Party after his loss to Sheldon Whitehouse, saying the party’s agenda had become too conservative. …

In November, Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri vetoed a bill that would allow same-sex couples to make burial decisions about each other. The bill arose out of the case of Mark Goldberg, who was denied access to his partner’s body for months. This Tuesday the state legislature, which overwhelmingly approved the bill, has a final chance to override Carcieri’s veto. …

Just days after he vetoed a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to make burial decisions about each other, Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri now says he’s “open” to considering a domestic partnership law. “Maybe it’s something we should consider,” said Carcieri, after meeting privately Thursday for more than an hour in his office with a half-dozen members of …

Saying it was a “disturbing erosion” of the “principles surrounding traditional marriage,” today Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri vetoed a bill that would allow same-sex couples to make burial decisions about each other. Carcieri added that if the legislature didn’t like that, he would welcome a statewide ballot vote on how to bury queers. (I’m paraphrasing.) The bill, also sponsored …

Angered at their governor’s appearance at a fundraiser for anti-gay hate group the Massachusetts Family Institute, where he said that “marriage is not a civil right” and that he was “aggravated” by the issue, marriage equality activists rallied at the Rhode Island state house this weekend. “I think that anger needs to be expressed, because all of us have been …

Rhode Island’s Democratic Party is demanding that GOP Gov. Don Carcieri pulled out of a planned fundraising appearance for the loathsome Massachusetts Family Institute. Party Chairman William Lynch said that the governor should “immediately withdraw his agreement to speak at the event and apologize to the thousands of gay and lesbian Rhode Islanders, and their families, who stand to be …

Two dozen marriage equality supporters protested outside the gates of Rhode Island’s Aldrich Mansion yesterday as NOM held an anti-gay “family picnic” in which a reported 100 couples renewed their opposite marriage vows. “Their goal is marriage as an exclusive institution and our goal is marriage as an inclusive institution,” said Wendy Becker, who joined in the protest outside the …

There will be a protest at the National Organization for Marriage’s hatefest in Rhode Island this Sunday. From the Providence Equality Action Committee’s Facebook action page. This Sunday, the National Organization for Marriage is holding a “Marriage Day” at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick. The purpose of this event is to build support for bigotry and exclusion of LGBT people …

NOM’s Christopher Plante responds to Tim Hortons pulling out their Rhode Island event: “It’s stressful, it’s sorrowful, it’s saddening,” Plante said. “The marriage equality folks are making this a boycott threat. That’s sad. It has become our job now to remind Rhode Islanders that this is what’s to come.” Plante added that the event is apolitical, saying, “It’s held by …

Congratulations! All your emails and phone calls were heard. From the Tim Hortons corporate site: Recently, Tim Hortons was approached in Rhode Island to provide free coffee and products for a local event, as we do thousands of times a year across Canada and the United States. For 45 years, Tim Hortons and its store owners have practiced a philosophy …

Tim Hortons, the Canadian doughnut chain with over 500 locations in the U.S., is sponsoring a National Organization for Marriage anti-gay event in Rhode Island, at which the featured speaker will be the reptilian Maggie Gallagher herself. Wesli Dymoke at Providence Daily Dose is floored: Yes, Tim Hortons. The Dunkin Donuts of Canada. You know, Canada — where same-sex marriage …

Rhode Island police have arrested three young women and a female minor for assaulting a group of anti-gay Catholic activists who were protesting same-sex marriage. Red-sashed members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property were waving anti-gay signs at a Warwick intersection when the women stopped to confront them. The salsa and eggs stopped flying, …