BY ARI EZRA WALDMAN The Supreme Court will hear nearly three hours of arguments in Windsor v. United States and Hollingsworth v. Perry on March 26 and 27 to determine if DOMA and Prop 8 are constitutional. In the coming days, I will…
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Archives for March 21, 2013
Posts from March 21, 2013
Starbucks CEO to Shareholder: ‘You Can Sell Your Shares’ if You Don’t Like Company’s Support for Marriage Equality
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz shot down a shareholder who grilled him about the company's support for marriage equality at the annual shareholders meeting in Seattle yesterday, KPLU reports: At the company’s annual meeting Wednesday, shareholder T…
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FRC Orders Members to Pray That Ted Olson and David Boies’ SCOTUS Arguments are ‘Inept, Confusing and Unconvincing’
The Family Research Council is giving its members "prayer targets" surrounding the Supreme Court's consideration of DOMA and Prop 8, asking them to pray that Ted Olson and David Boies "present their arguments in an inept, confusing…
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Arizona Town of Bisbee Plans to Recognize Same-Sex Civil Unions
A southern Arizona town is taking civil union legislation up on its own, the L.A. Times reports: Tuesday evening, Bisbee City Council members voted to allow the next best thing to gay marriage. In a first reading of an ordinance, adding a chapter to…
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AP Backs Up Story About Gay Man Stoned to Death in Somalia
Yesterday I posted about a report from Identity Kenya that a man had been stoned to death for being gay in Somalia. The AP is now backing up the report: A militant official and a Somali resident say al-Shabab fighters have stoned to death a man for c…
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck to CNN?
That's what Page Six is saying: Amid all the buzz over her impending departure from “The View,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck is already being courted by other networks. We hear CNN honcho Jeff Zucker is interested in seeing her join his cable channel. A…
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Sen. Saxby Chambliss: ‘I’m Not Gay. So I’m not Going to Marry One’
Politico asked anti-equality lawmakers if their views had changed on same-sex marriage given the shift in popular opinion and their colleague Rob Portman's announcement last week that he supports marriage equality. Said Senator Saxby Chambliss: “…
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Nation’s Most Influential Pediatrics Group Backs Gay Marriage
In a new policy statement published today, The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announces its support for same-sex marriage as well as full adoption and foster care rights for all parents regardless of sexual orientation "as the best way to…
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Tina Fey Talks About Same-Sex Marriage, as Sarah Palin: VIDEO
Tina Fey brought back her Sarah Palin impression for James Lipton on Wednesday night's Inside the Actors' Studio, and Lipton quizzed the Mama Grizzly on several topics, including same-sex marriage. Said Fey's Palin: "Well, the Bible…
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Bully Writes ‘Fag’ on 7th Grader’s Neck at Illinois School: VIDEO
(the slur – one letter has been blurred out) Caylend Childs, a seventh grader at Mason Clark Middle School in East St. Louis, Illinois, spent all day with the word "fag" written on his neck because a bully had written it there, his mother t…
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