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Focus on the Family leader’s antigay testimony demolished at DOMA repeal hearing
by Mel Green | originally posted at Bent Alaska In a Senate committee hearing on a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Senators Al Franken and Patrick Leahy demolished testimony by Tom Minnery of the antigay organization … Continue reading
Props to the Prop 8 judge
A celebration of yesterday’s decision by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker that found California’s Prop 8 to be unconstitutional.
Posted in Marriage equality
Tagged lgbtq, LGBTQ allies, Prop 8, same-sex marriage
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders
The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are “persons” by granting their extremely deep special interest pockets pretty … Continue reading
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-12: Faux Palin, Prop 8, DADT, & fresh produce
RT: @shannynmoore: Palin is to journalism what Dahmer was to cooking. // She should fit in quite well with Faux News. # Mainstream media coverage of Cheney & Palin: stenography & “regurgitating press releases.” http://tiny.cc/zDHkY (h/t @celticdiva) #fb # Bent … Continue reading
Posted in The Daily Tweets
Tagged community supported agriculture, Dollhouse (TV), Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT), Faux News, food production & supply, Glacier Valley Farm CSA, lgbtq, same-sex marriage, Sarah Palin
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Q & A: What happens when you click "Volunteer" at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website?
Q. What happens when you click “Volunteer” at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website? A. You get taken to the “Volunteer” page for the “Yes on 8” website. Yes on 8 is the campaign in California to deny the equal right to marry to same-sex couples. Here’s further evidence of linkages showing how Alaska’s Christianist right is dependent upon financial, organizational, and ideological support from outside the state.
Posted in Alaska politics, Marriage equality
Tagged abortion, Alaska Family Council, Christianism, Jim Minnery, same-sex marriage
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Saying "I Love You" (poem)
Saying “I Love You” Saturday I show him the video of the trip you and I took after we first met. It was almost four years ago. The tape starts with a pond along the highway to Valdez. There are … Continue reading
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
Divorce, financially interdependent partner style
Today is the final day of the University of Alaska system’s annual Open Enrollment period, when we have the opportunity to make changes to the various options in our benefits package. And so it came to formalize what Rozz, now … Continue reading
Posted in Journal, Marriage equality
Tagged Green-Lieght family, Ptery, Rozz, same-sex marriage, UAA
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Same-sex marriage: A personal history
Good news from Maine Wednesday: its legislature passed, & its governor signed, a law making it legal for same-sex couples to marry. This makes Maine the 5th state in the U.S., after Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, & Iowa, to grant the … Continue reading