And yet there is still on-going discussion as to why marriage-equality matters…
MUST SEE, READ, WATCH & LISTEN IN MARRIAGE EQUALITY NOW.
DAILY CLICKS
- Gay Marriage Watch
- Unite the Fight
- The New Civil Rights Movement
- Susan Berland: A Jewish Mom for Marriage Equality
- Huff Post: Gay Marriage Page
- Gay Twogether
- Washington Blade
- Pam’s House Blend
- White Knot
- Stop 8
- Why Gay Marriage
- Equality Matters
- Love & Gluttony
NATIONAL RIGHTS ORGS
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FCK YEAH!!!!! MARRIAGE EQUALITY PASSES IN NY!!!!!!!!!
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JUST ONE VOTE AWAY FROM NY EQUALITY!!!
RIGHT NOW!!! the NY Senate is one its way to having an up or down vote deciding LGBT family equal rights. What is at stake? ONLY THE DOUBLING OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ELIGIBLE FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY IN THE U.S. It will make NY the 6th state in the US to allow equal marriage for LGBT couples more from NYTimes live video from NYTimes
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“It’s not a gay thing. We don’t list unmarried couples, in-laws, or pets in the free obituaries.”
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“It’s a symbol for millions of gays and lesbians who would like to have the same rights
Chloé and I had our first wedding ceremony in Paris at a time when we could not be legally married in our home state of California. Now, we are legally married in our home state of California at a time when other same gendered couples would like to be legally married but can’t. Here is a story of a couple in France who are now a legally married same gendered couple at a time when no other same gendered couples can get married. Seriously, one day most of the US and Europe will look back on this time as not just shameful, but a total freaky joke played at the expense of many otherwise happy couples and families.
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BREAKING NEWS x 2!!!!!
February 23, 2011: Marriage Equality USA applauds President Obama’s historic decision to declare his support for a heightened standard of review and to stop defending the “Defense of Marriage Act” in pending lawsuits challenging DOMA as unconstitutional. The Attorney General has confirmed that the Department of Justice will no longer defend the measure, which severely limits the potential of states to honor or carry out same-sex marriages, in court. more…
Breaking: Olson and Boies file requests for the California Supreme Court to expedite Prop 8 case, and 9th Circuit to lift stay
Source: Prop 8 Trial Tracker, Wednesday, 02/23/11
On February 23, 2011, Ted Olson and David Boies on behalf of the American Foundation for Equal Rights announced they are filing a request with the California Supreme Court to expedite the Perry v. Schwarzenegger (Prop 8) case and hear oral arguments by the end of May, before summer recess. They are also filing a “Motion to Vacate Stay Pending Appeal” with the 9th Circuit to lift the stay while the California Supreme Court takes its time. As you may recall, one week ago the California Supreme Court announced it would consider the question from the 9th Circuit regarding proponents’ standing, and would hear oral arguments in September.
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We just love Matt Baume at Stop8.org. He breaks down the insanity of NOM, aka, the anti-equality hate group that funnels millions of dollars from a handful of uber-wealthy secret donors to states attempting to make us all equal citizens. Here is a video he made to help explain the commercial NOM launched in Rhode Island today to help scare away the gay.
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John Cougar Mellencamp Tells NOM to back-off
It should be of no surprise to anyone fighting for marriage equality~ that the deceptively named “National Organization For Marriage” (NOM is against equal marriage rights for all) ~is up to their dirty tricks again. This time they are trying to pull the wool over the American public’s eyes by making it look like John Cougar Mellencamp is on their side. And well, he actually thinks we should have marriage equality in our “Little Pink Houses”. And yes, that is the song they used. Go figure. Just when you thought they couldn’t look any more ignorant. Snicker. Reminds of the time they launched the site 2M4M.org Hee Hee Hee Hee Ain’t that America home of the free ~Little pink houses for you and me! Read the full story here on prop8trialtracker.com
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National Organization for Marriage drops $235K on Iowa TV campaign
Oy! Maggie and her mob of malcontents are at it again. Instead of focusing on their own families, if they indeed have one, they are dropping tons and tons of cash into Iowa to try to destroy the lives of happily married LGBT couples and to try to destroy the lives of three judges who enforced equal protection, as demanded by the Constitution.
Jason Hancock at the Iowa Independent reports that “the New Jersey-based anti-gay marriage group the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) spent more than $235,000 on a statewide television ad campaign calling for the rejection of all three Iowa Supreme Court justices facing a judicial retention election in November” more…
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Your donation dollars at work. Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Tom Colicchio, Whoopi Goldberg, Moby, and Mark Ruffalo join the Human Rights Campaign to raise awareness for NY Marriage Equality. Click here to see the other videos and sign their petition. Every signature matters.
HRC says ” When the New York state Senate voted on marriage equality last December, we lost by 8 votes. To win, we need to change the math by defeating those senators who voted against us. With recent changes, we’re already two seats closer.” See the various ways you can Help us win these last six seats.
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A must watch video from stop8.org that breaks down the blatant lies NOM, the ‘national organization for marriage’ is putting out once again to try to anger people re: the recent ruling declaring Prop 8 unconstitutional. NOM’s video is full of their usual tactics of deceit. It is all they have as reality eludes them time and time again.
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“What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity is intolerance.”
Sen. Norma Morandini. Argentina
“It’s very worrisome to hear words like ‘God’s war’ or ‘the devil’s project,[by the opposition]’ things that recall the times of the Inquisition,”
President Cristina Fernandez, Argentina
Evan Wolfson, who runs the U.S. Freedom to Marry lobby said “Today’s historic vote shows how far Catholic Argentina has come, from dictatorship to true democratic values, and how far the freedom to marry movement has come, as twelve countries on four continents now embrace marriage equality.” Read more in the Salt Lake City Tribune…
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The Atlantic’s latest story on the federal prop 8 trial has a video of David Boise discussing the trial and how he wishes it would have been televised, so that the people who oppose marriage equality could have seen the questions that the opposition had to answer on the stand and said to themselves, ’How would I have answered those questions?’ Boise states that it is ”easy to have a bumper sticker, a slogan that says marriage is between a man and a woman, but when you begin to think about the issues, you think about the harm that it causes, you think about the gains that allowing people who are in love to marry the person that they love and not forcing them to marry somebody that they don’t love and aren’t attracted to, when you think about the harm that’s done to the children, when you think about the lack of any redeeming social desires that this kind of ban has, it is inevitable that a rational person on the stand faced with those kind of questions is going to admit that.
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“HUSBANDS AND HUSBANDS”
In “Husbands and Husbands,” a young lad meets a pair of husbands for the first time. He asks a few questions, and then he just gets it. No fear. No weirdness. Amid all the conservative hoopla about protecting the children from gay marriage, this video is an absolutely perfect reminder that it is the children who are the most accepting and most open-minded (and maybe even the smartest) among us. Now let’s go play some ping pong.
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Bay Area designer Sara Olsher of Stinkerpants Designs put colored pen to paper in support of marriage equality and she’s giving away these cute bumper stickers gratis to spread the good word. For anyone looking for adorable, custom-illustrated wedding invitations, save-the-dates and love notes we hope you’ll support Sara… she supports you!
