Prop 8 backers won’t release emails

Prop 8 challengers lost a skirmish to get backers to release internal emails and prove their homophobia.

Prop 8 backers won’t release emails

Prop 8 challengers lost a skirmish to get backers to release internal emails and prove their homophobia.

Parker’s opponent tied to homophobia

Annise Parker’s opponent’s backers funded a homophobic flyer to derail her mayoral bid.

Parker’s opponent tied to homophobia

Annise Parker’s opponent’s backers funded a homophobic flyer to derail her mayoral bid.

Parker’s opponent tied to homophobia

Annise Parker’s opponent’s backers funded a homophobic flyer to derail her mayoral bid.

Behind the news: A new Mormon stand on gays?

It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard.

On Tuesday night, after a series of clandestine meetings between local gay-rights backers and Mormons in Salt Lake City, the Church of Jesus …

Gay partnership foes, backers in WA await ruling

(Seattle) Supporters and foes of gay domestic partnerships await a federal ruling from a three-judge panel on whether petitions for Washington states’s Referendum 71 should be made public.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in Pasadena, Calif., on whether signatures collected to repeal a domestic partnership law …

Pope accepts resignation of anti-gay Penn. bishop

(Vatican City) Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the early retirement of a U.S. bishop who has denounced nuns for sponsoring lectures by gay-rights advocates and directed priests to deny communion to abortion backers, the Vatican said Monday.

The brief announcement, keeping to Vatican tradition, did not say why the staunchly conservative …

IDs of gay partnership foes could be released next week

Order: Gay partnership foe names don’t have to be released

The names of people who signed petitions seeking to overturn Washington’s “everything but marriage” same-sex domestic partner law won’t be released publicly following a federal judge’s temporary restraining order.

Sponsors of Referendum 71 went to U.S. District Court in Tacoma Wednesday seeking the order. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle has set a full hearing on the matter for Sept. 3.

The names of everyone who signed Referendum-71 petitions are publicly available under open-government laws. A gay-rights group says it wants to post all the names online. But the R-71 campaign says that could lead to harassment.

Nick Handy, state elections director, said in a statement: “Referendum petitions become public records under the law once they have been turned over to us by sponsors. Our consistent practice has been to make these available upon public request. By early next week we will be in a position to make these available, and absent a court order, our intent has been to respond to public records requests in a timely way.”

Backers of R-71 turned in about 138,000 signatures Saturday. They need 120,577 valid voter signatures to qualify for the fall ballot.

Election officials suggest submitting about 150,000 signatures to offset any invalid signatures. Dave Ammons, spokesman for the secretary of state’s office, said usually about 18 percent of signatures checked turn out to be invalid.

The process of counting and verifying the signatures could go until the last week of August.

See IDs of gay partnership foes could be released next week Seattle Post Intelligencer

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Should Proposition 8 recall be put to voters in 2010?

Marriage-equality advocates are split about the timing of a ballot question to overturn the California’s Proposition 8 constitutional marriage ban. Some major backers, including David Bohnett, believe it’s better to postpone a possible 2010 vote rather than risk another defeat. But an informal poll of leaders affiliated with the Courage Campaign shows support for putting the repeal question on next year’s ballot. The deadline to file the question with the state attorney general is Sept. 25. The New York Times (7/26) , San Francisco Chronicle/Politics blog (7/25)