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.
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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“It’s a symbol for millions of gays and lesbians who would like to have the same rights
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Law Firm Drops Defense Of DOMA
“Many of us were stunned, shocked and angered when it became known that King & Spalding had taken on this case, and we are gratefully relieved to find out they had withdrawn,” said Jeff Graham, the executive director of the gay-rights group Georgia Equality. “The legal case is something that is really a thinly veiled political attack on gay and lesbian couples and families.” more…
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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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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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GOP, Tazmania and Mexico City all lovin’ gay marriage
Same-sex marriage gains GOP support
A Washington Post article today details that a growing number of Republicans are breaking with the party’s traditional stance to publicly state their support for same-sex marriage
Tasmania for marriage equality
ABC NEWS reports that the parliament of Tasmania approved a law to recognize same-sex marriages and civil unions registered in other Australian states or countries.
We like Towleroad’s take on marriage equality and the GOP today Former McCain Campaign Manager Schmidt Says Gay Marriage a Conservative Issue
CNN posted this story about the global impact of LGBT travel and highlights Mexico City’s current push to attract sweet little newlyweds from around the world to honeymoon in their newly super gay friendly yes you can get married here now! Latin-American city
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Separate Is Not Equal. Our friends Stuart and John illustrate in this video the awkwardness of having a non-federally recognized marriage and that to be really equal we all need to be able to drink from the same fountain. The video also goes on to satirically illustrate the difficulties of a the less advantageous civil union or domestic partnership that fall far short of the legal protections, rights and societal inclusiveness of marriage.
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More straight families for marriage equality
Let’s add Ugly Betty alum, Christopher Gorham, who played the adorable accountant Henry, to the list of of people who strongly support marriage equality. Not only did he and his wife and three cuties kids pose for the NoH8 Campaign, the actor chose to use that image on the Today show this morning instead of another pic of the family. Yet another family who not only doesn’t worry heteros will become extinct if we are allowed to marry, but looks forward to the day when we all have secured the blessing of liberty.
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Pre-Prop 8, it was easy enough to believe that we were a majority living in San Francisco. If not a demographic majority, we at least felt safe to assume that we were a philosophical majority in a city (and we dared to believe a state) that largely believed in equality for all people, LGBT included.
Post-Prop 8, we know better. While our home of San Francisco voted heavily against Prop 8, our neighbors outside these bridges voted soundly (enough) in favor of the anti-gay measure. Thus, we’ve come to know the power that rests in the hands of our friends—the straight friends who are in a solid position to speak up on our behalf.
This week, our friend Gina Pell, founder and content chief of the style site Splendora.com, spoke up for us and other LGBT couples when she asked to feature the marriage equality–themed video that Frank created in the days leading to the November 2008 election.
“Everything Must Change” remains a poignant depiction of why marriage equality matters—for loving couples and our families and children—and Gina’s inclusion of this piece in her online Personal Weekly Radar, among fashion videos and pictures of Marilyn Monroe, further illustrates the influence that our supportive friends may have among audiences outside our immediate reach. In Gina’s case, the audience is young (often teenage) female fashionistas who are looking to her (a fashion icon) for what’s hot, what’s right, and what’s right now. In Gina’s eyes, marriage equality is all of the above.
Thank you Gina—and to all the other Ginas out there—for your support!
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In one week…
So much positive ground has been made for marriage equality. For those of you just joining us, and wonder why full marriage equality matters, it is simple. All couples who are in love and committed to each other should be respected and protected by society equally. Every child should share the same dream, the wonderful dream of growing up and falling in love, having a wedding surrounded by family and friends and sharing a life with someone else.
This week in marriage equality:
TODAY: U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker will issue a ruling this morning on whether to allow marriages in California to begin again or stay a decision in the Proposition 8 case. We found this story which helps explain why this judge, who last week ruled the heinous prop 8 unconstitutional, might grant a stay and where we go from here.
YESTERDAY:
Video: Bill O’Reilly to Glenn Beck: “Do you believe gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?”
Beck to O’ Reilly “A threat to the country? No, I don’t. Will the gays come and get us?”Majority support marriage equality for first time: CNN poll
The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates has voted overwhelmingly to allow same-sex couples to marry in the United States.
8/10/2010 Mexico Gay Marriage: Supreme Court Orders All Mexican States To Recognize Weddings Performed In Mexico City
Basketball Star Isiah Thomas appears in ad campaign pro gay marriage
Judge: Same-sex marriage license valid | Santa Fe, New Mexico
8/8/2010 Mexican Supreme Court upholds gay marriage in Mexico City
Conservative republican lawyer on Fox News explaining why the rights of minorities are not determined by popular vote
Unitarian Society backs gay marriage
8/7/2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Let gays and lesbians marry now
Same-sex marriage is currently legal in five US states — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa and New Hampshire — and in the District of Columbia. Outside the US: Argentina. Belgium,Canada, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Mexico City.
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Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional - The Moment
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David Boise on the case against Prop 8
“One of the most invidious of the state-sponsored discriminations against gays and lesbians is the prohibition of gay and lesbian marriage”
“Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress.”
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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.
