Your help is needed today to support the statewide efforts to invalidate Prop 8.
Your help is needed today to support the statewide efforts to invalidate Prop 8.
They have threatened the justices of the California Supreme Court with a recall if the Court invalidates Prop 8. They’ve threatened supporters and donors to Equality California while at the same time asking a federal judge to allow their donors (and only their donors) to avoid the legal requirements of disclosing contributions to the Yes on 8 side.
As the organizational party to the case before the Supreme Court we are asking the Court to invalidate Prop 8. If you support this effort please make a donation now >
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Your help is needed today to support the statewide efforts to invalidate Prop 8.
Your help is needed today to support the statewide efforts to invalidate Prop 8.
They have threatened the justices of the California Supreme Court with a recall if the Court invalidates Prop 8. They’ve threatened supporters and donors to Equality California while at the same time asking a federal judge to allow their donors (and only their donors) to avoid the legal requirements of disclosing contributions to the Yes on 8 side.
As the organizational party to the case before the Supreme Court we are asking the Court to invalidate Prop 8. If you support this effort please make a donation now >
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The bigots in charge of Florida’s Hillsborough County vote down proposal to study domestic partner benefits
TAMPA – A proposal to study the possibility of extending health benefits to the domestic partners of Hillsborough County employees was shot down by the county commission Thursday.
Newly elected commissioner Kevin Beckner said he put forth the proposal because the county is in the process of taking bids for employee health insurance — a process that only happens once every four years.
It was defeated 5-2.
The proposal and the vote came against the backdrop of the commission’s decision three years ago to ban any support of gay pride or gay causes.
Some accused Beckner, the County’s first openly gay commissioner, of breaking his promise not to campaign on a gay agenda.
That did not stop activists on both sides from arguing over the moral high ground.
“To extend this benefit is to affirm a behavior that is dangerous, costly and sinful,” said Donna Kunit.
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27000 letters urge LDS leader to back rights of gay Utahns
President Thomas S. Monson: You have mail – boxes of it.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) delivered 27,000 letters to LDS Church headquarters Monday – all of them asking the Mormon leader to support legal protections for gay and transgender Utahns.
The national gay-rights group has endorsed Equality Utah’s Common Ground Initiative, a collection of bills that would, among other things, provide rights to fair housing and employment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Utahns and domestic-partner benefits for same-sex couples.
The movement was born in response to statements the LDS Church made in the wake of California’s Proposition 8 – which eliminated gay marriage in the Golden State – that the church “does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights or probate rights.”
Monson and other LDS leaders helped to get the gay-marriage ban enacted, urging members to donate their time and money to the campaign and, later, igniting opponents’ protests at LDS temples and calls for boycotts of Utah.
“The reason there’s such an uproar is every LGBT person in the United States was affected by it,” since Proposition 8 stripped away rights that had been granted to gay couples, said Jerry Rapier, a Salt Lake City resident and member of the HRC’s board of governors.
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Homophobe to head the RNC?
Former Ohio Secretary of State and U.N. ambassador Ken Blackwell is in the running to chair the RNC, according to the Washington Times. Blackwell is also a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, the anti-gay fundie organization.
From the story: “In a letter to RNC members announcing his candidacy, Mr. Blackwell notes that he ‘vocally opposed tax increases offered’ by his state’s Republican governor and ‘helped to successfully lead the fight to amend the Ohio Constitution to ban government recognition of same-sex marriages.’”
Basically, Blackwell is responsible for Ohio’s gay marriage amendment. Both senators from Ohio opposed the too-broad measure, fearing it would eventually affect civil unions, domestic partner benefits and legal contracts between gays. Blackwell lobbied hard for the measure, and it passed in 2004.
Blackwell writes a column for Townhall.com. Here is just one example of his anti-gay ways.
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