Great news for our friends in Washington, today! A bill legalizing same-sex marriage was passed by the state Senate this morning. The bill, which was voted in 28 to 21 against now heads to the House, where it is expected to pass.
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Slap Upside The Head: Recent Heritage
Canada’s famous (well, internally famous) Heritage Minutes got a new addition recently. The succinctly titled Canada Gay Marriage may not be an It’s Time in terms of quality, but hey, at least we’re lucky enough to have it depict the past instead of the future!
Continue readinggay persons of color: Microsoft endorses marriage equality
American multinational computing corporation, Microsoft, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, pushed for gay marriage legislation in the state Thursday via the company’s official blog in which Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, writes: Today, Microsoft is joining other Northwest employers Concur, Group Health, Nike, RealNetworks
Continue readinggay persons of color: Over 70 American Mayors join in marriage equality support
What a nice idea. Mayors of more than 70 cities in the United States are joining forces to support marriage equality. From Associated Press: The mayors of Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and San Diego will co-chair the Mayors for the Freedom to Marry group being formally launched Friday
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Unspinning The Same-Sex Marriage Fiasco
On Thursday, an article in the Globe and Mail declared that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives had annulled over five thousand Canadian same-sex marriages issued to non-residents since 2005. Worldwide panic and probably cannibalism ensued, with the government rapidly trying to diffuse the situation, and the media using a mixture of government-fed
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Same Sex Marriages For Foreigners Living In Canada Nullified?
You have probably all read, by now, the news stories from Jan 12th about how the Harper government has come out saying that marriages no longer count between gay couples who have come from countries where gay marriage is illegal. This is not actually true. What’s true is that there
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: And So it Begins. Harper’s anti-Homosexual Agenda
Despite denying his anti-gay stance, Stephen Harper continues to remake Canada by stealth, nullifying thousands of same-sex marriages:This is only phase one. They no doubt have already selected the “landmark” case by a right-wing fringe group, who will challenge the ruling by saying that it was descriminatory to their religious beliefs,
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: On the chopping block, Canada gay marriages
Canada has an estimated 15,000 legally-recognized same-sex marriages. If Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has its way, 5,000 of them would be invalid. All because the couples were originally from outside Canada when they …Read More
Continue readingSame-sex marriage blows up in Harper’s face | #cdnpoli #lgbt
Sweet, sweet irony. Or is it poetic justice? Don’t care, really. Either way, there’s a week’s worth of schadenfreude watching Harper squirming on this. Here’s a guy who redefines the words “control freak.” In fact, I believe I read somewhere on the intertoobz that his picture comes up when you
Continue readingfirst word, tree.: Pink Herrings: Ethical (Sp)Oil and Pride (in Pipelines)
“Make a hard Right-turn at the Town of Wedgepolitics and keep going Straight until you’ve reached the City of Bigotry and Political Strategy.” Directions for Harper’s recent wedge-issue of choice, driven to distract, that questions the validity of marriage licences granted to non-resident couples in Canada. This issue is too risky
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Introducing the Liberal Queer Caucus
The Liberal Party has a lot of work to do this weekend as Liberals from across the country schlep to Ottawa for our biennial convention. This morning we are all reminded of what exactly is at stake as it appears that Stephen Harper is engaging dog-whistle politics over marriage-equality. A
Continue readinggay persons of color: Rick Santorum on hypothetical gay son
“I would love him as much as I did the second before he said it, and I would try to do everything I can to be as good a father to him as possible.” That is Rick Santorum’s response to Andy Hiller’s question, “What if you had a son who
Continue readinggay persons of color: Catholic Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire backs marriage equality
Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire vowed Wednesday to pass a bill legalizing gay marriage. Gregoire, who is Catholic, had for a long time publicly opposed marriage equality, but has now come around on the issue. From The Seattle Times: “I have been on my own journey. I will admit that.
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: NC family group uses crosshairs graphic to attack same-sex marriage
Rev Mark Harris is one of the leading voices calling for a ban on same-sex marriage in N. Carolina. He heads up the state’s Baptist Convention this year and will be in the vanguard of a push for a state constitutional amendment. In reference to the upcoming referendum on marriage
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Legal Same-Sex Marriage Improves Health
As if common sense weren’t enough reason to give full, equal marriage rights to same-sex couples, a study out of Columbia University has provided some extra support. Legal same-sex marriage, according to researchers, reduces the number of medical visits among gay and bisexual men by 13 percent, further reducing health
Continue readinggay persons of color: The Great American Republican Bully Movement
Sometimes the complexity of the American Republican circus can be more readily understood by clearing the pollution of campaign rhetoric and seeing a consistent strategy present in most Republican candidates currently hoping to lead the party into victory at the 2012 U.S. presidential elections. This approach, at its rudimentary level,
Continue readinggay persons of color: George Clooney astonished by "second-class" treatment of American gays and lesbians
George Clooney has signed on to star in the West Coast premiere of 8, a stage play written by Dustin Lance Black that chronicles the historic federal court trial (Perry v. Schwarzenegger) overturning Proposition 8, the ballot measure that denied gay and lesbian Californians the right to marry. From the
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Tories Condemn Nigerian Anti-Gay Bill
The federal Conservative Party—who re-affirmed an official party policy to ban same-sex marriage in Canada only 6 months ago—has issued a strong condemnation toward Nigeria for a draconian law that punishes same-sex wedding participants with up to 14 years in jail. Well, that’s a tad severe of Nigeria, wouldn’t you
Continue readinggay persons of color: Australian tennis champion Margaret Court slams marriage equality
Legendary Australian tennis champion and Pentecostal, Reverend Margaret Court, has once again displayed her flagrant brand of homophobia, this time in her condemnation of the marriage equality movement in Australia. Court, who founded and is a senior pastor in Perth’s Victory Life Church, spoke to The West Australian about the
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Thumbs Up To Equal Marriage From Australia’s Governing Party
The Australian Labor Party officially adopted policies in support of full equal marriage rights for same-sex couples last week. That’s an encouraging sign, certainly increasing the likelyhood of a successful same-sex marriage bill being introduced in parliament. Canada’s governing Conservative party, incidentally, officially adopted an opposite policy during its last
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