Tag: gay marriage
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February 13, 2007 08:41 AM EST --
In his first pass through the first primary state, New Hampshire, since formally announcing his candidacy, Barack Obama said he was fine with civil unions, but would not support equality of marriage, claiming . . .
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February 05, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
In Michigan, a court has found that the state's law banning gay marriage means that no public institutions can offer any of the rights of marriage to non-married (read gay and lesbian) couples. To . . .
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June 18, 2007 08:12 AM EDT --
And the US slips further and further behind the rest of the world in terms of equality for GLBT citizens. The law, which gives same sex couple who are of legal age and who have been together for . . .
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November 19, 2006 01:51 PM EST --
Interesting article from 365gay.com. Particularly so, since there there have been rumors for years that the governer-elect for Florida, Charlie Christ, is a closeted gay man. The issue . . .
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November 19, 2006 09:17 PM EST --
from cnn.com
That's the word from Dallas tourism officials attempting to lure gay and lesbian visitors with a message that the city is a great place for them to spend their time and money. "Big . . .
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December 15, 2006 08:09 AM EST --
The NJ legislature, under an order from the NJ Supreme Court created civil unions for gays and lesbians, chosing not to use the word marriage. Those in a civil union "shall have all of the same benefits, . . .
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October 25, 2006 02:17 PM EDT --
How exciting! I went to college in NJ and lived there after for some time. It has always been a fairly progressive state. This move would be very exciting if it goes through. We . . .
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November 10, 2006 03:10 PM EST --
Well, this is the first pass by NJ to comply with its recent Supreme Court decision that the state constitution is violated by not allowing same sex couples to marry.
A few things from the story . . .
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March 29, 2008 12:30 PM EDT --
Eric's partner Joe had taken his parents out flying that morning, but Eric hadn't heard from them all day and had a bad feeling about it. He called the airport and was told there had . . .
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October 15, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
I stumbled across this on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nsGtd7y3c
I'd embed it as a video, but I don't know how to do that. :(
This was the winner of . . .
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October 31, 2006 11:21 AM EST --
I was actually surprised it took this long for the "activist judges" and "sanctity of marriage" would work it's way into the pre-election speeches. I just hope that this issue doesn't . . .
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November 26, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
An interesting conundrum for states that border Mass that I first read about on cnn.com. If a couple is married there and your state has been silent on gay marriage, how do you handle a gay divorce? . . .
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December 06, 2006 08:16 AM EST --
California Legislator Mark Leno is re-introducing a bill into the California Assembly that would redefine marriage as a civil contract between two persons instead of a contract between a man and a . . .
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March 25, 2007 01:33 PM EDT --
I read this in the current issue of The Advocate. (It's tough to link to, but I think THIS might work, at least until the next issue comes out.) It is an open letter from a straight . . .
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March 23, 2007 04:24 PM EDT --
This was the question posed by Larry Kramer, the long-time gay and AIDS activist in the opening of an opinion piece for the LA Times. He cites the recent comments by Gen Pace, Clinton's and Obama's . . .
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February 13, 2007 08:24 AM EST --
In a quickly decided vote, the Indiana Senate voted to move forward with a proposal for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman; the ammendment also says "that . . .
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June 27, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
CNN, I guess in tandem with Pride Month (June) is running a series of articles on GLBT life in America. Their most recent one discusses a series of polls they ran about gay people. I was surprised, sometimes . . .
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November 24, 2008 12:17 PM EST --
A friend sent this to me. For some reason it really resonnates with what I'm feeling about the issue. What if folks just stopped using all the terms of heterosexual marriage with heterosexuals to . . .
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December 07, 2006 05:33 AM EST --
Several news sources are reporting the the VP's daughter Mary and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe are expecting thier first child.
You may recall that the Vice President was put in an awkward . . .
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November 29, 2006 04:31 PM EST --
365gay.com is reporting that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided on November 29th not to hear a case in which custody of two boys was removed from their biological mother and award it to the . . .
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