No On 8 Concedes
California’s No on 8 campaign has issued a statement conceding the passage of Prop 8: Tuesday’s vote was deeply disappointing to all who believe in equal treatment under the law. All Americans are...
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A Question of Priorities
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View ArticleKeith Olbermann on California’s Prop 8
Click here to view the embedded video. Here is the official transcript: Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the...
View ArticleAnti-Marriage Amendment To Be Introduced In Indiana
We were tipped to this press release from the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund announcing a press conference on a proposed anti-marriage amendment for Indiana. State Reps. P. Eric Turner (R-Marion)...
View ArticleMarriage Wins Elections
Freedom to Marry has just released a study (PDF: 112 KB/5 pages) which shows that “exhibiting leadership by voting to support the freedom to marry helps rather than hurts politicians.” Many...
View ArticleNAACP Calls For Prop 8 to Be Overturned
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has joined the California chapter in calling for Proposition 8 to be overturned: “The NAACP’s mission is to help create a society where...
View ArticleLA Times: Prop 8 Will Likely Be Upheld
The California Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments over a lawsuit challenging Proposition 8 this Thursday. The court is then required to rule within ninety days. The Los Angeles Times is...
View ArticleNC House Passes Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
After three hours of debate and without public notice or input, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a proposed constitutional amendment by a vote of 75-42. A three-fifths approval was needed to...
View ArticleWhat Goes Into Constitutions Stay There Forever
That’s the argument Rep. Henry M. Michaux, Jr. (D) made to the North Carolina General Assembly yesterday before they voted to send a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to the state...
View ArticleNAACP’s North Carolina Chapter Denounces Proposed Marriage Ban
The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP has issued an open letter denouncing the proposed constitutional amendment banning all same-sex marriages, civil unions and domestic partnerships which...
View ArticleGOP Draft Platform Includes Call for Watered-Down Marriage Amendment, Support...
This seems confusing, since CNN is reporting that the draft Republican Platform no longer language calling for a constitutional amendment to declare marriage as between “one man and one woman.” But the...
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