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Freedom To Marry's Gay Marriage Efforts Are 'Misplaced,' Says LGBT Network Official

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Video, Adam Bink Courage Campaign, Evan Wolfson, Same Sex Marriage, Adam Bink, Courage Campaign, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Gay Voices News

The Courage Campaign, the California-based LGBT online organizing network which has been a force in the battle against Prop 8 and other initiatives, j...

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An Unlikely Team: Grindr For Equality Joins The Courage Campaign For Gay Marriage Fundraising Push

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Grindr for Equality, Video, Grindr, Same Sex Marriage, Courage Campaign, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Voices News

From Washington state to Maryland, the campaign for marriage equality has made some amazing strides already in 2012. But as the election year gear...

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Prop 8's Backers Say They Will Seek A Full 9th Circuit Review: What This Means For The Case

Adam Bink | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Prop 8, Prop 8 Trial, Courage Campaign, ProtectMarriage.Com, Gay Marriage, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Gay Voices News
Adam Bink

The Prop 8 proponents' decision today means that the road to a final decision on Prop 8 just got much longer. Nonetheless, the plaintiffs' attorneys have made it clear that they will seek to have the stay lifted, now that Prop 8 has been struck down by two separate courts.

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Warren Buffet Definitely Not Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Posted 03.14.2012

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Warren Buffett is definitely not keeping up with the Kardashians. When asked by Time Magazine if he was versed in the storied exploits of reality s...

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The Wall Street Journal Missed the Forest for the Trees on the Millionaires Tax of 2012

Rick Jacobs | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Millionaires Tax of 2012, Courage Campaign, Kim Kardashian, Millionaires Tax, California, Millionaire Tax, Obama Millionaire Tax, California Taxes, Wall Street Journal Millionaire Tax, Millionaire Tax California, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

I hope Mr. Arends will step back and look at what the Millionaires Tax of 2012 is all about, not just try to defend a tax code that helps the uber rich while punishing the very middle class he says he advises.

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Occupy Plus Ballot Measure = A Millionaire's Tax in California

Rick Jacobs | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Taxes, The Millionaires Tax to Restore Funding for Education and Essential Services Act of 2012, Millionaire's Tax, Courage Campaign, Occupy Wall Street, California, Jerry Brown, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

Progressives rail against Obama because he often refuses to stand on principle. Lately, he's been doing better. So when a clear, strong, populist and popular ballot measure comes along that can put the voice of the 99% into law, the time has come to sign on.

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Governor Asks Voters For Tax Hike To Support Education

AP | By JUDY LIN | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Education, Video, Education Budget Cuts, Jerry Brown, Education Budgets, Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012, Education Tax, Tax Increase for Education, California Schools, California Tax Increase, School Budget Cuts, California Federation of Teachers, Courage Campaign, Taxes for Education, California Education, Education News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown filed a ballot initiative on Monday asking California voters to increase taxes on themselves to generate more m...

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Occupy Golf Course, or What Happens When You Interrupt Boehner's Golf Game

Rick Jacobs | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Courage Campaign Boehner Protest, Boehner Courage Campaign, Boehner Jobs Bill, John Boehner Golf, Obama Boehner Jobs, Courage Campaign, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

Speaker Boehner has a job, and that's to create more jobs. But when he's not keeping the House from voting on the American Jobs Act, he likes to go golfing and raise money.

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Prop 8 Ruling One Year Later: Pulling Back the Curtain on the Right's Dirty Tricks

Rick Jacobs | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Prop 8 Trial, Prop 8, Rick Jacobs, Judge Ware, Olson, Anita Bryant, Judge Walker, Courage Campaign, Charles Cooper, Boies, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

A year ago today, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker overturned Prop 8. I thought the war had finally been won. We were elated. It was truly justice done. But as with so much else, it was also justice unfinished.

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Koch Brothers To Host Gathering Of Right-Wing Billionaires At Palm Springs Resort

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Common Cause, Robert Reich, Van Jones, David Koch, Ruckus Society, Americans for Prosperity, Courage Campaign, Charles Koch, Koch Industries, Codepink, Koch Brothers, Tea Party, Los Angeles News

Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are hosting their bi-annual secret gathering of right-wing billionaires at the Rancho Mirage Resort in Pal...

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Next Sunday: Protest at Right-Wing Billionaires' Secret Summit near Palm Springs

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Civil Rights Coalition, David Koch, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, Poder Popular, Erwin Chemerinsky, Health Access, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), California Partnership, Calpirg, Van Jones, Code Pink, Afscme, California Labor Federation, Rock the Vote, Energy Action Coalition, U.S. Action, Alliance for Justice, Protest, Rancho Las Palmas Resort, Common Cause, Lee Fang, Moveon, Courage Campaign, California Student Sustainability Coalition, Sierra Club, California Nurses Association, DeeAnn McEwen, Cato Institute, Robert Reich, Rancho Mirage, Greenpeace, Women?S International League for Peace and Freedom, National Council of Jewish Women, California Council of Churches, Planned Parenthood of California, United Domestic Workers, Charles Koch, Consumer Watchdog, Credo, Aclu, Politics News
Peter Dreier

A broad coalition of consumer, community, labor, environmental, student, civil liberties, and faith-based groups are sponsoring a rally in Rancho Mira...

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Battle Over Judge Retention In Iowa

TylerKingkade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa, Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, Family Research Council, Proposition 8, Concerned Women for America, National Organization for Marriage, Chuck Hurley, Rick Santorum, Bob Vander Plaats, Iowa for Freedom, Retention, Civil Rights, Steve King, One Iowa, Gay Rights, Conservatives, Midterm Elections, Courage Campaign, Arizona Immigration Law, Tony Perkins, Republicans, Right Wing, Counter-Protests, Brian Brown, Gop, Right-Wing Extremism, eyesandears2010, Home News
TylerKingkade

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Conservative activist Bob Vander Plaats is hoping Iowans will vote today to sack three Iowa Supreme Court judges who took part in ...

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LGBT Community Impacted Personally By Politics Against Gay Rights

TylerKingkade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa, Proposition 8, Cleve Jones, Prop 8, Rick Jacobs, National Organization for Marriage, Bob Vander Plaats, Iowa for Freedom, Civil Rights, Harvey Milk, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics, One Iowa, Gay Rights, American Family Association, Courage Campaign, AIDS Quilt, Home News
TylerKingkade

In response to a rash of recent news reports about young gay people committing suicide because of harassment, the Family Research Council will begin a...

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PHOTOS: Courage Campaign's Rick Jacobs Hosts Book Party For Arianna Huffington

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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Courage Campaign founder Rick Jacobs and his partner Shaun Kadlec hosted an intimate party at their West Hollywood home last night in honor of Arianna...

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Same Sex Sunday: Rep. Jim McDermott, David Fleisher's Prop 8 Study, Prop 8 Ruling

Joe Mirabella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Prop 8 Ruling, Lgbt, Jim McDermott, Gay News, Prop 8, Rick Jacobs, Lesbian, Gay Rights, Courage Campaign, Same-Sex-Sunday, Podcast, Politics News
Joe Mirabella

On this week's Same Sex Sunday, Joe Mirabella started off the episode with an interview of Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA).

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Sock Puppets and Sugar Daddies: NOM and GOProud Go Hand in Hand

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Andrew Breitbart, California, Prop 8, Hyatt Hotels, National Organization for Marriage, Doug Manchester, Fred Karger, Courage Campaign, Unite Here, Goproud, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

The story of NOM and GOProud stands as a sad commentary on desperate people who realize that they stand at the fringes of America and history itself. Until progress prevails, we'll hold them all accountable.

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Olson & Boies Exorcise the Ghosts of Homophobia Past

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dustin Lance Black, Lgbt, Oak Ridge Tennessee, Homosexual, Ted Olson, Judge Vaughn Walker, Marriage Equality, Courage Campaign, David Boies, Equalilty on Trial, Oak Ridge High School, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

Tomorrow, the legendary team of Ted Olson and David Boies present their final arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal trial on the constitutionality of Prop. 8, which outlaws gay marriage.

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Equality on Trial: Judge Walker's Amazing Questions for Closing Argument

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LGBT Rights, Trial, California, Judge Walker, Proposition 8, Courage Campaign, Ted Olson, Judge Vaughn Walker, David Boies, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

2010-06-10-walkersquestions.jpg On Tuesday, Judge Vaughn Walker issued a series of questions -- stunning in their breadth, complexity and essence -- for the parties to the federal Prop. 8 trial. Never in American history has homosexuality been on trial in this way.

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Art & Activism: LA Rallies To MANIFEST EQUALITY (PHOTOS)

Manifest Equality | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Tuesday night in Hollywood the formerly abandoned Big Lots on Vine was packed with Angelenos uniting in the name of art and activism for the openi...

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Prop 8 Trial + DADT Debate = Death Rattle of the Right Wing

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Family Research Council, Senator Carl Levin, Larry King, Prop 8, Rachel Maddow, Dan Choi, Gen. Wesley Clark, Courage Campaign, Tony Perkins, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins threatened that America "might have to return to the draft" if it allows gays and lesbians to serve openly, because so many soldiers would quit or never enlist.

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Don't Forget the Youth: College Democrats of America Fighting to Represent Students Across America

Katie Naranjo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heal Care, Young Voters, Gay Marriage Maine, College Democrats of America, Youth Vote, No on Prop 1, textbooks4change, Proposition 8, Youth Activitists, Courage Campaign, College Democrats, Proposition One, Obama, Democratic National Committee, Cda, Politics News
Katie Naranjo

Millions of young voters showed up at the polls to vote for President Obama. These activists are still working hard, fighting for candidates and constitutional initiatives on the ballot this November.

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Judge Walker Asks You: "Should the Olson/Boies Trial be Televised?

Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Gay Marriage, US Constitution, California, Ted Olson, Judge Vaughn Walker, National Organization for Marriage, CREDO Mobile, James Madison, Courage Campaign, Nom, David Boies, Maggie Gallagher, Prop. 8, Brian Brown, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

Those who make careers of raising and banking money by denying equal rights to others want to maintain total control over the media on the eve of the most historic civil rights case in at least a generation.

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Major Setback to Campaign to Restore California Marriage Equality in 2010

Chris Prevatt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Same-Gender Marriage, LGBT Civil Rights, Prop 8, Prepare to Prevail in 2012, Gay Marriage, Repeal Prop 8, Marriage Equality, Equality California, Courage Campaign, Civil Rights, California, Politics News
Chris Prevatt

The departure of Courage Campaign from the 2010 campaign removes a significant amount of volunteer resources from the signature gathering efforts to place an initiative on the ballot next November.

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America's Gay Leadership Crisis

Rupert Russell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mormons, California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, California, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Progressives, Harvey Milk, Equality California, Gay, Courage Campaign, Republicans, Democrats, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Rupert Russell

At a time when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are flourishing in America's public life like never before, those charged with advancing their civil equality have retreated into the closet.

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When Should Gay Marriage Advocates Try to Reverse California's Prop 8?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Brolin, Dan White, Proposition 8, Milk, Ohio, George W. Bush, American Association of Political Consultants, Jill Darling, Dianne Feinstein, Equality California, Gale Kaufman, Sean Penn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Amy Simon, Frank Schubert, Harvey Milk, Barack Obama, 2012, Gavin Newsom, 2010, Bulworth, 2008, John Kerry, California Supreme Court, Jerry Brown, Mark Baldassare, Bruno, Courage Campaign, David Binder, Gay Marriage, Mark Di Camillo, Politics News
William Bradley

This week, a few organizations championing same-sex marriage will announce their opinions as to whether to try to reverse Prop 8 in 2010 or 2012.

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