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Billboards
While in 2003 Jerry Prevo decried Westboro Baptist Church tactics, in 2009 he & his allies didn’t hesitate to use children — even some younger then 10 — in a very like way, as billboards for their parents’ prejudices. Continue reading
Posted in Ordinance, The incredibly true adventures of Rev. Jerry Prevo
Tagged AKMuckraker, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Assembly public hearing, children, cynical ploys, Fred Phelps, Jerry Prevo, June 9 public hearing, lgbtq, Matthew Shepard, Mudflats (blog), Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Westboro Baptist Church
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Assembly report 2: June 9 public testimony
So yes, finally I have a little time to write up my account of last Tuesday’s public hearing before the Anchorage Assembly on the AO 2009-64, the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. In the parking lot I got there pretty early … Continue reading
Outside influence
Why are Mat-Su residents being bused into Anchorage to testify on Anchorage’s equal rights ordinance?
Assembly report 1
This is just a quickie, I’ll write a longer post later. It was a long night last night, but not actually a horrific one. I gathered from occasional checks of email & Twitter with my iPod Touch from within chambers … Continue reading
See you tonight
I exhausted myself a couple of nights ago, & if there’s one thing I’ve learned about me & exhaustion: I’ve gotta take care of it first, before I can take care of anything else. And so for the last couple … Continue reading
Posted in Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq
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We are all, or none
Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore suggests the Anchorage Assembly remove “gender identity” and “gender expression” from coverage under the proposed equal rights ordinance — in order to get the rigid right to agree. Sorry. I won’t throw my trans sisters & brothers under the bus. And I’m not alone.
Equality Works Sets the Record Straight
I didn’t write this: Equality Works did. But given the misinformation floating about, I think it’s worth reposting. Tip o’ the nib to Bent Alaska. Equality Works Seeks Truthful Discussion on Proposed Ordinance, Sets Record Straight on Mayor’s Proposal to … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq, press release
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My letter to the Anchorage Assembly
My letter to the Anchorage Municipal Assembly and Acting Mayor Matt Claman in support of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which would add “sexual orientation” and “veteran status” to those classes already included in Title V, Anchorage’s equal rights code.
Words for equality
A compilation of links to blog posts & opinion pieces favoring addition of “sexual orientation” to the Municipality of Anchorage’s equal rights code.
Posted in Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, blogs, lgbtq
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Prop 8 again
A few months ago, a slim majority of California passed Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California after five or six months of it being legal. Since then, we’ve been waiting for the California Supreme Court to decide upon … Continue reading