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California Gay Marriage Ban

Olson/Boies Prop 8 Challenge Team Has a New, Useful Website

Karen Ocamb | Posted 01.05.2010 | Los Angeles

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Karen Ocamb

American Foundation for Equal Rights -- the new organization sponsoring the federal legal challenge to Prop 8 -- just put up a new, clean, easy to navigate website.

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Gay Marriage's Big Problem

Peggy Drexler | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

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Peggy Drexler

The open question in an age of polarization is this: have all those prepared to change their minds on the issue of gay marriage already done so?

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Movement Under Way In California To Ban Divorce

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 12.01.2009 | Los Angeles

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movemen...

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Same-Sex Marriage After Maine: What Can We Do Differently?

Isobel White | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Isobel White

If experiences in California are any measure, LGBT residents of Maine can expect higher levels of stress and depression and greater feelings of political alienation. So what can we do differently?

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From California to Maine: Lessons in Reliability and Perseverance

Joseph DiNorcia, Jr. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Joseph DiNorcia, Jr.

When push came to shove, the voters of both Maine and California have acted to restrict marriage rights. So what's going on? Why have these states abandoned us and the progressive cause?

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Miss California Missed the Point

Sam Greenfield | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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Sam Greenfield

Prejean's complaining about the violation of her constitutional rights while not batting a false eyelash as she prays that gay people are denied theirs is stupendously immoral.

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First Anniversary of Boycott Against Doug Manchester

Fred Karger | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

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Fred Karger

The gay and lesbian community is in the fight of our life, and we are not going to take it anymore. We want the world to know who supports us and who opposes us.

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Gay-Married At Last

Isobel White | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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Isobel White

When I was finally pronounced legally married, I wasn't in a church, nor a garden, nor at City Hall. I wasn't with any of my loved ones. In fact, I wasn't even with my wife.

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Anyone Out There Who Can Explain the Gay Marriage Thing?

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy

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Jacob Dickerman

The abortion debate, I can understand. Gun control controversy: I get it. But arguing against gay marriage? No, I don't get that one at all.

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When the People Are Wrong -- A Son's Defense of His Father's Gay Marriage

Stinson Carter | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

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Stinson Carter

The opposition may never change their minds. But their children will, and if not them then their grandchildren.

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Until Gays Can Marry, I'm (Un)Legally Divorced

Patrick Sauer | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy

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Patrick Sauer

An (un)legal divorce is recognized solely by the straight married couple contained within, or at least the one writing the post. It eliminates the paperwork suckfest and ensures that the magical rent fairy will keep a roof over my head.

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The Solace That Gay Marriage Brings

Noel Alumit | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

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Noel Alumit

We have died of AIDS, we have been attacked and humiliated, we have been thrown onto the streets to fend for ourselves. Now, you're telling us we can't even get married?

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Lessig: To Overturn Prop 8, Avoid the Courts

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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Blaise Zerega

And what does this situation say about our democracy? What have our courts come to if civil rights are determined by popular vote?

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How the Prop 8 Ruling Will Help Gay Marriage

Carlos Watson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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Carlos Watson

I believe the ruling will hasten national acceptance of gay marriage. Let me explain.

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Gay Rights Supporters Take To Streets (SLIDESHOW)

Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld the state's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage in a 6-1 decision; the ruling left intact the union of o...

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Calif. Supreme Court Perverts Power of Initiative Process

Paul Hogarth | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Paul Hogarth

It is unclear why the Court believes the "will of the people" is more important than the equal protection rights of minorities, but not the due process of property owners.

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Why the California Court's Decision Is Good for Gay Marriage

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Aaron Zelinsky

We should view the California court not as opposing gay marriage, but rather as promoting public deliberation and democratic action on the subject of equal rights.

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CA Supreme Court Cuts the Marriage Equality Baby in Half - and It Hurts

Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Leah McElrath Renna

What might appear to others to be some kind of even-handed compromise nevertheless cuts like a knife for many of us.

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71% Say Newsom Beating Gallagher in Gay Marriage Debate

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

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Joel B. Schwartzberg

The California Supreme Court may have just weighed in on gay marriage, but participants in the NOW on PBS gay marriage interactive debate are still having their say.

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Miss Texas USA: What Really Happens at Pageants

Krystle Russin | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment

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Krystle Russin

Miss USA and Miss Universe are "no talent required" competitions -- quite obvious if you ever meet any of the talentless, brainless contestants.

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"Gay, or Straight, Black, or White: Love is Love, Right is Right!" Right?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

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Michael Henry Adams

Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.

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I Am Like a Free Person of Color in a Slave State

Barbara J. Nelson | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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Barbara J. Nelson

I have rights and responsibilities no longer available to other lesbian and gay Californians. I am marginally privileged, and perpetually anxious that my legal status will be taken away.

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She Said Yes, but the Government Said No

Sylvia Sukop | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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Sylvia Sukop

For those of us in committed relationships seeking legal recognition, it's an emotionally draining, two-steps-forward, one-step-back process, state by state, country by country.

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Gathering Storm: Miss California Trying to Redefine Traditional Breasts for the Rest of Us

Brian Normoyle | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

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Brian Normoyle

Miss California, you may find full civil equality for all Americans to be "unnatural" and not "Biblically correct," but, frankly, neither are your Jugs for Jesus and your Caps for Christ.

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Gordon Brown Attacks Prop 8: "Unacceptable"

BBC | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

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Gordon Brown has condemned California's ban on gay marriage as "unacceptable" and warned people to be vigilant against all forms of discrimination....

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