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 &…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
“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,…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
While the marriage equality movement is still in its early stages in Australia, it certainly took a big step forward with the ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) decision Saturday to…
This video nicely sums up the complexity of dynamics surrounding marriage equality legislation in Australia. A petition with 140,285 signatures calling for equality has already been presented to the ruling…
