The following was written by a friend, Karen Ocamb. She’s a brilliant journalist and posted this on her blog, LGBT POV, yesterday. It is presented here with her permission.
There’s an old saying:
“The Devil screams the loudest just before leaving the room.”
After last night’s devastating loss of marriage equality in Maine 52.84% – 47.16%...
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Tags: Anti-Gay, Catholic Church, Catholics, Frank Schubert, Gay Marriage, Jeff Flint, Karen Ocamb, Marriage Equality, No on 1, Prop 8, Question #1, Religion, religious bigotry, Religious prejudice, religious right, Sarah Palin
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"We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage," Prejean said. I wish!
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Tags: Anti-Gay, Carrie Prejean, ECCO, Ed Todeschini, Harvey Milk Stonewall Democrats, HRC, Jim Rogers, John Santoianni, miss USA, Proposition 8
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"... his selection of Tony Dungy is extremely divisive. Dungy campaigned specifically to discriminate against a particular group of people, and he’s been closely aligned with the far-right Indiana Family Institute."
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Tags: Anti-Gay, faith-based, Interfaith, LG, LGBT, LGBT rights, non-Abrahamic Faiths, Obama, pagan, People for the American Way, PFAW, Tony Dungy, White House
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Today’s Field Poll results demonstrate a victory of sorts for the pro-equal rights and liberty crowd. With Gay Marriages as the law of the land for about a month, thousands of Gay couples have tied the knot and the sky hasn’t fallen. And I’m guessing Chuck DeVore’s traditional marriage is still intact and not...
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Tags: Anti-Gay, California Ballot Initiative, Field Poll Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Proposition 8
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Be sure to thank those Republican politicians and operatives who helped recall Governor Gray Davis in 2003 and gave us Governor Terminator. This story from Bloomberg News shows that California is actually worse off today than we were under Governor Davis.
As the most populous U.S. state, with a gross domestic product that’s No. 8...
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Tags: Anti-Gay, California Budget, California Government, Economy, Education, Governor
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2008 The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — California’s Secretary of State says an initiative that would again outlaw gay marriage in the state has qualified for the November ballot.
Debra Bowen says a random check of signatures submitted by the measure’s sponsors showed that they had gathered enough for it to be put to voters.
The...
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Tags: Anti-Gay, Civil Rights, Election 2008, Homophobia, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Supreme Court
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*If you are a part of a gay/lesbian couple….
And Heather Pritchard inspired this post Â
Today is Tax Day, and if you just happen to be part of a Gay/Lesbian couple, you’re paying more taxes than your straight/married counterparts.Â
Why?Â
Gays and Lesbians cannot take advantage of the marriage deduction and routinely pay more in taxes...
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Tags: Anti-Gay, Chuck DeVore, Civil Rights, DeVore, GOP, Homophobia, Hypocrisy, LGBT, OC GOP
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