11/19/2008
Marriage Equality Update: News from All Around
Prop 8 battle enters new stage: "What we're doing now is building a movement. There is more excitement and energy than I've seen in a long time about people coming together and wanting to have input as to what this movement looks like."
Project Postcard springing from Join the Impact: "Our friends at LGBTQ Civil Rights Front have come up with a brilliant way for us to ensure that LGBTQ issues aren't forgotten as President-elect Obama makes his transition into the White House. Their idea: buy a postcard from your home town, include a handwritten message, and mail it to Obama's Presidential Transition Office."
Cinemark Theatre to see picket this Saturday in Evanston, Illinois.
National "Day without a Gay" planned for December 10.
LDS Church has yet to respond to Equality Utah's press conference on the Mormon church's stated support of other gay rights. But new push for rights begins anyway...
GLAD: Group announces push for marriage equality throughout New England.
Bilerico is hosting a liveblog Thursday night with Kate Kendell, Nadine Smith and Barbara McCullough-Jones, three women who lead the efforts to defeat marriage amendments in California, Florida and Arizona.
Vermont lawmaker to introduce same-sex marriage bill: "Vermont state Sen. John Campbell says he's going to introduce a gay marriage bill when the Legislature convenes in January. Campbell says gay marriage is an important issue for many Vermonters, but he calls it a political land mine."
Christian who had her cross stomped in Palm Springs isn't pressing charges: "I will not press charges and I believe I'm doing what Christ did for us on the cross by saying, 'Father forgive them, they know not what they do.'"
Santa Cruz County joins suit seeking to overturn Proposition 8: "By unanimous vote, county supervisors chose to join the San Francisco lawsuit that seeks to undo Proposition 8, the recently passed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. 'Santa Cruz County has once again stepped forward to make sure civil rights are enforced equally,' said a joyous Louis Bonsignore of Soquel, one of the many local residents, county employees and area clergy on hand to celebrate Tuesday's vote. For Bonsignore, like several others in the crowd, the vote was personal as he was among the first to wed under the state's short-lived gay marriage provisions. The board's action Tuesday, which was introduced by supervisors Neal Coonerty and Mark Stone, means the county will lend mostly symbolic support to the San Francisco lawsuit filed Nov. 5."
Showcasing a photo that could have been taken any day of the week, bigoted blog Dakota Voice highlights no-shows at Rapid City, South Dakota Prop 8 rally: "I don't usually have a whole lot of good things to say about homosexual activists around Rapid City or anywhere else for that matter; I just don't find anything to appreciate about undermining the moral fiber of society, undermining marriage and family, and legitimizing a lifestyle fraught with health hazards. But it looks like the homosexual community in the Rapid City area has opted for a responsible stance on Proposition 8...and stayed home. Some homosexual activists have been after me to say just one thing positive about homosexuals. Here you go. Credit where credit is due. Marriage and representative democracy are important, and we should respect both. I'm glad the homosexual community in Rapid City did." Well, the folks in Grand Forks, North Dakota didn't stay at home.
Dr. Phil dedicates entire episode to Prop. 8: "Frank Voci, founder of WhiteKnot.org, was in the audience for today’s taping and says the show was 'intense.' When audience members walked in, they had to choose sides — Yes or No on 8. Then, the producers physically divided the audience according to their philosophical/political positions. The show included commentary from Mayor Gavin Newsom and Gloria Allred as well as emotional audience participation." The show is scheduled to air this Friday.
Finally, Batboy was spotted at last weekend's rallies. (via pam)
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Jessica H. Christ. A Day Without Gay???? As Oscar Levant used to say: “Out of the mouths of babes comes.............oatmeal.”
The cross-country demos last week might have succeeded [in their extremely narrow goal] IN SPITE OF their childette organizer from Seattle who thinks we should leave the Mormons alone and seems to SUPPORT PROP 8 herself when she says that CHURCHES should decide what to call OUR relationships. But “Day” is breathtakingly RETARDED as change strategy.
So a HANDFUL of community service organizations will have a FEW extra volunteers that day. Sweet. But there is NO way to cost-effectively MEASURE how many people will actually participate and, therefore, there is NO way to DOCUMENT its success.
Raise your hand if YOU want to call all of the hundreds of thousands of businesses in this country and ask them how many people called in “gay.”
This is as fucking stupid as a children’s make believe tea party. There’s no real tea; the emperor has no clothes, and this self-delusional nonsense is a shit sucking waste of time to even talk about. Will someone please call the jejune nutjobs in Seattle and tell them to GROW THE FUCK UP?
Doing “something” is NOT always better than doing nothing. Movement is not always the same as ACTion. And without actual, well-thought out, measurable goal-identified ACTion nothing will change.
This isn’t Stonewall 2.0. This is the first day of Kindergarten.
And Geoff Kors, one of the people who fucked up the NO campaign is already planning his next failure. Send no money. Repeat: SEND NO MONEY! At least to him.
Same thing for one of his co-fuck ups, Kate Kendall. DO log into the Mad Tranny Show, excuse me, Bilerico’s live blog jerk off, and ask her:
1. What justification her gang had for grossly underestimating how much the American Taliban would invest in H8TE after they spend unprecedented sums to pass Prop 22?
2. Why were you rubbing voter’s nose in the scary words “same sex marriage” in commercials and phone banking? Did Obama rub their noses in the equally factual and should-be morally neutral words “black” and “Muslim-sounding names”?
3. Why didn’t you clearly denounce the other side as H8TERS and LIARS earlier? You ended up playing defense AND LOSING throughout the whole campaign?
4. Why wasn’t the fact that the CA NAACP was against H8TE more publicized? WHERE were the NO commercials with blacks and Latinos and Asians?
5. Why didn’t you anticipate and attack the idea of homosexual influence on children from the beginning? They ALWAYS play that card more than any other. Were you not born yet or IN A COMA during the Anita Bryant “Save Our Children” campaign?
6. When are you and Kors and Lori Jean and Steve Smith publicly APOLOGIZING for losing, and, WORSE, for suggesting we do little more now than hug our haters and sing Kumbaya?
Posted by: Leland Frances | Nov 19, 2008 5:48:55 PM
Did that Christianist lady just compare herself to Jesus? OY.
Posted by: Cody | Nov 19, 2008 6:06:06 PM
As someone temporarily located in South Dakota for graduate school, and seeing what "educated" South Dakotans think of gays and lesbians, I'm not surprised that people didn't show up at the Rapid protest. Personal safety is far more important than this fight.
Posted by: AED | Nov 19, 2008 6:23:11 PM
As someone who grew up in South Dakota, I feel compelled to point out that the "Dakota Voice" is something I had never heard of until I read this post and that it would be considered far-right even in South Dakota. If you want a good laugh, take a look at this week's poll. "Marriage must be protected because..." Interestingly enough, 25% of responders checked "It shouldn't be protected".
That said, there's a damn good reason why I left. Even Minnesota's a completely different world by comparison.
Posted by: Tom | Nov 19, 2008 7:06:42 PM
Who is that cute boy holding up the postcard in the pic?
Posted by: jack | Nov 19, 2008 8:41:01 PM
Many of us in VT think we will legislate extending full marriage to same sex couples in 2009. It may not matter if the Gov. signs off on it -- it can become law without his signature.
Posted by: KevinVT | Nov 19, 2008 9:11:46 PM
RE: Cinemark Theatre protest
Keep in mind that when you offer a link to a Facebook page, you can only see it is you are a Facebook member. Since I'm not a member, you essentially are providing a useless link to me.
Posted by: alex | Nov 19, 2008 10:22:29 PM
Jack: My thoughts exactly lol. While I normally comment on political news, I couldn't help but take a pause and notice that cutie.
Posted by: CJ | Nov 19, 2008 11:24:45 PM
Bat Boy's lookin kinda hot.
Posted by: niles | Nov 20, 2008 12:07:03 AM
Alex, give in and join friggin' Facebook.
Posted by: So Left I'm Right | Nov 20, 2008 2:58:07 AM
Is that guy being gagged by the HRC? That's what you get for supporting transgender rights...
Posted by: Phil | Nov 21, 2008 4:07:46 AM