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In Liberal-Speak, is Some Gay Marriage Advocacy Wingnuttery?
2008-07-17 12:55:00
On Monday, left-wing blogger Joe.My.God labeled it “wingnuttery” when the Campaign for Children and Families urged its supports to boycott McDonald’s because of the corporation’s “support of homosexual ‘marriages’.”- Let’s see a group with a political agenda urges its supporters to boycott a corporation which supports a cause it opposes. Is that wingnuttery or the ...
Slow Blogging/The Sad Debate on Gay Marriage in CA
2008-07-15 16:00:00
Shortly after learning last night how advocates of gay marriage intend to contest California’s Proposition 8 (focusing on how the number of the initiative rhymes with “hate”) I learned that some of those supporting the initiative, particularly those behind the website, ProtectMarriage.Com represent the most extreme Christian conservatives. On the one hand, you have those who ...
Calif Gay Marriage: It?s All About Love, You Know.
2008-07-15 11:00:00
Ooops…. did I say love?   Sorry I meant money.  You know, cold hard cash.  Benefits!  Shared inheritance!  I wish this emailed press release was a satire, but unfortunately it is not.  The Legalization of Gay Marriage in California Offers New Opportunity for the Jewelry Industry NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ — There are many reasons for the wedding industry ...
Fred Barnes? Bad Advice to John McCain
2008-07-10 20:45:00
No sooner did Fred Barnes say he thought McCain should use the issues of gay marriage and gays in the military to prevent social conservative voters from staying home, then readers either via e-mail or in a comment asked me in the words of this post, whether gay Republicans would tolerate the Barnes Option. Given the ...
Obama: Wishy-Washy on Gay Marriage?as on Most Issues
2008-07-03 16:04:00
There doesn’t seem to be any issue on which Obama hasn’t changed his position in the course of this campaign. Sometimes it’s on successive days. Now, that it’s become evident to all and sundry that the “surge” has succeeded, his advisers and surrogates are trying to say that he never really was against ...
Do Gay Marriage Advocates Understand the Insitution They?re Promoting?
2008-07-02 23:18:00
Reading my letter to the editor (full text included below) of the San Francisco Chronicle correcting an misrepresentation of my research on monogamy and gay groups which appeared in an Op-ed that paper published last Thursday reminded me yet again how few gay advocates of gay marriage understand the institution they’re advocating. They not only repeatedly ...
Gay Marriage: Significant Social Change
2008-07-01 23:48:00
In response to my quoting Jonathan Rauch’s observation that that honest advocacy of same-sex marriage “requires acknowledging that same-sex marriage is a significant social change.” in a post last week, commenter ILoveCapitalism (hereinafter ILC) wrote, “WHAT social change(s)?” ILC’s not the first person to question whether gay marriage represents a significant social change. Others, in ...
Impact of CA Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling
2008-07-01 01:29:00
Along with Jonathan Rauch, Dale Carpenter is one of those rare advocates of gay marriage who can make a compelling case for “this expansion of the meaning of marriage” (as the editors of the LA Times puts it) to a conservative audience. (Basically, if you see Dale’s name on a column, just read the ...
McCain, CA Marriage Initiative & Federalism
2008-06-30 17:08:00
When working on his piece on presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s letter supporting Proposition 8 which would enshrine the traditional definition of marriage in the California constitution, LA Weekly writer Patrick Range McDonald contacted me for a comment on this decision. As I considered my response, I came up with something a little longer than ...
Where does Obama Stand on Gay Marriage?
2008-06-27 17:03:00
Gay activists and bloggers have made much of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s statement that he supports the California initiative defining “marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman” as he does “not believe judges should be making these decisions.”  I wonder if they’ll now press the presumptive Democratic nominee on ...
Further Thoughts on Marriage & Sexual Difference
2008-06-24 18:54:00
I don’t consider myself a supporter of gay marriage (even though I will effectively be voting for gay marriage this fall) largely because that institution has long served to bring together two people of different genders in a lifelong sexually exclusive union. I have mentioned this notion in numerous blog posts and devoted these ...
Gay Marriage for Grownups
2008-06-23 13:18:00
Those who read this blog know how regularly I have taken issue with gay marriage advocates for failing to offer strong arguments for the cause they so fervently espouse. For as long as I have been critiquing the great majority of those who speak out on this important topic, i have praised Jonathan Rauch ...
Gay Groups Ignore Monogamy when Promoting Marriage
2008-06-20 16:20:00
Shortly after posting my piece, Will Gay Marriage Help Tame Men?s ?Piggishness??, I considered contacting the leading national gay organizations, California groups and other individuals at the forefront of the gay marriage debate to ask them how they felt Eric Erbelding’s comments in the New York Times might impact the movement for gay marriage, particularly ...
Gay Marriage Roundup
2008-06-19 06:22:00
Despite my opposition to court-mandated gay marriage, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight some developments this week from California and beyond. First, some personal stories of the first-day of marriage ceremonies in San Francisco are chronicled at a website called the “Experience Project.” The energy inside was very different from the energy outside. Most of ...
First Day of Legal Gay Marriage In San Francisco - Video Account
2008-06-19 00:20:00
This video covers the events outside San Francisco City Hall involving the first day of legal same sex marriage in San Francisco: Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 5:38 PM. A historic news and politics event. I went with the objective of determining the opinions of people in the crowd.
Will Gay Marriage Help Tame Men?s ?Piggishness??
2008-06-18 18:48:00
Before Andrew Sullivan decided that the purpose of gay marriage was to confer “dignity” on gay relationships (a definition ironically bought by the California Supreme Court), he made perhaps the most solid social argument for extending state recognition of marriage to same-sex couples. In his landmark 1989 essay, “Here Comes the Groom,” what he called a ...
No mass Gay Weddings, Please
2008-06-17 13:23:00
As California begins to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples this week, let us hope that ceremonies more resemble that of the first performed in San Francisco this year, that of Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, a lesbian together well over half a century than the “wacky circus” atmosphere outside San Francisco City ...
Gay Marriage & the Tone-Deaf California Legislature
2008-06-12 18:45:00
Taking issue yesterday with Patrick Range McDonald’s criticism of the current campaign to defeat this fall’s California ballot proposition which would amend the state constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, Alex Blaze of the Bilerico Project suggests that Golden State LGBT activists are neither tone deaf nor political ...
?Tone Deaf? Campaign to Defeat CA Marriage Initiative?
2008-06-11 01:57:00
In January, after attending a meeting the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center announcing a new initiative, LetCaliforniaRing, to promote gay marriage in California, I faulted the group’s campaign video for doing little that is likely to “change minds.” Their campaign seemed designed not to those voters skeptical of changing the state definition of ...
Gay Groups: Ill-timed Lawsuits set fight for Marriage Back
2008-06-10 20:10:00
Since I first met Evan Wolfson, now of Freedom (sic) to Marry at the 1995 Log Cabin Convention in Cincinnati, I have faulted him for pursuing marriage through the courts. As I have expressed repeatedly on this blog, I believe the proper venue to push for this change is through elected legislatures. As we have ...
Jay Leno Shows Support for Gay Marriage at Abbey in West Hollywood
2008-06-10 17:48:00
Talk show host Jay Leno showed up at the symbolic mass commitment ceremony at the Abbey in West Hollywood Wednesday night to show his support for gay marriage. Leno - who several times has been criticized for being insensitive towards LGBT people on his late night talk show - said he didn't understand why people are concerned about gays being allowed to marry. Daily News' Greg Hernandez interviewed Leno at the event: Greg: What do you think about gay marriage in California and all that's happened in the last few weeks?Jay: "Well, I come from Massachusetts and they have it there and the sky didn't fall in, everyone seems to be fine. It's one of those things where it's a matter of time, you sort of ease into it and you see what happens." Greg: Do you have any friends who you want to see married?Jay: Oh, I have a lot of gay friends. We have a couple of gay couples at 'The Tonight Show' who've been together 7,8,9 years. "But you know what's so funny to me, it's how people...
Have I become a Gay Marriage Advocate?
2008-06-09 23:00:00
Those who read my marriage posts carefully will note that I, who love to use the George Eliotan “we” in my writing, don’t use that term as readily when discussing this institution. That is due, in large part, to my ambivalence on the issue. While I favor some sort of state recognition of same-sex relationships, ...
On Blogging & Debating the California Marriage Amendment
2008-06-05 23:45:00
I have often noticed how big things happen when I’m out of town, or at least, things of significance to the scope of this blog. I recently learned that Deborah Kerr, one of my favorite actresses, died while I was driving cross country last fall. Some of my friends from graduate school picked SuperDuper Tuesday ...
Don?t Forget About Florida
2008-06-05 16:09:00
Wayne Besen pleads for folks not to forget about the marriage amendment fight in Florida. I must admit, with all the news from California I had completely missed this from the Sunshine State. Besen is just a wee bit too liberal in his politics for my taste but he raises an interesting point ...
Californians to Gay Marriage: No So Fast
2008-06-04 02:54:00
The citizens of California will have a say this next election on whether to allow same-sex marriage or not. I know, libs, it is a strange thing to see the people actually want to have a voice in the society. There they go with that “democracy” thing again. First it was Prop. 22, which was overturned by the California Supreme Court. Now it’s a constitutional amendment: The measure would amend the state constitution to “provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” If approved by a majority of voters on Nov. 4, the amendment would overturn the recent California Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the state. It is similar to gay marriage bans that have been adopted in 26 other states. In response to the court’s May 15 ruling, California public health officials already have amended marriage license applications to read “Party A” and “Party B” instead of brid...
Jay Leno Says ?I Do? in Support of Gay Marriage
2008-06-03 22:06:00
Forget that “gay face” controversy! Jay Leno will be among the boldfaced names at a gay marriage celebration and rally tomorrow night at the Abbey in West… More: continued here
The game?s afoot!
2008-06-03 20:29:00
The California secretary of state confirmed yesterday that proponents of a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage have collected enough signatures for the measure to appear on the ballot this November, removing any doubt about whether or not California voters will be able to weigh in on the state Supreme Court?s recent ruling permitting same-sex ...
Torah Judaism, Homosexuality, and Gay Marriage
2008-06-02 17:23:00
The Torah does not like gays. For some Jews, this is not a difficult challenge to overcome. The Torah may have been inspired by God, but it was written by men. Its intolerance toward homosexuals can be written off as the outdated bigotry of a bygone age. For others, it is not a challenge at all. The ...
By: Jewneric
Gay Marriage Refusal Gets British Earl Banned from Offering Castle Weddings
2008-05-31 23:14:00
The Earl of Devon, Lord Hugh Courtenay, says his Christian beliefs won?t allow him to hold gay marriages at his 600-year-old castle, Powderham, despite the fact that civil partnerships were recognized last year under Great Britain?s Equality Act.
Gay Marriage by Executive Fiat in Empire State?
2008-05-30 20:27:00
Given my opposition to courts mandating gay marriage (as recently happened in my adopted home state), it would seem I would oppose the imposing this aleration of the institution by executive fiat, something which seems to have taken place in the Empire State. New York Governor David Paterson recently signed a directive making the ...
Bill O?Reilly on Same-sex Marriage
2008-05-30 19:09:00
Even Bill O’Reilly runs out of reasons to oppose same-sex marriage? He’s right. Opponents of same-sex marriage are going to have to come up with a better reason than, “Because that’s the way it’s always been.”
California Gay Marriage Licenses will be available on June 17th
2008-05-30 18:18:00
June 17th will be the day that California County Clerks can start issuing marriage license to gay & lesbian couples. The guidelines, which were emailed from the chief of California's office of vital records to the state's 58 county clerks, included copies of the new marriage forms, which now include lines for "Party A" and "Party B," instead of bride and groom. These new forms also contain a
Gay Marriage Could Be Worth Billions For California
2008-05-30 17:14:00
     &-nbsp;         &-nbsp;     $2.5 BILLIONWeddings are big business. Gay Weddings and Travel is even BIGGER BUSINESS!Thanks to a recent decision by the California Supreme Court, the Golden State may soon be seeing a flood of same-sex couples flocking to the state to get married, beginning June 17.Prof. Lee Badgett, Research Director at the Williams Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles, has done a series of studies on the economic implications of gay marriage in New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, and California, among others. While the 2000 Census estimated roughly 500,000 co-habitating gay couples nationwide, more recent studies such as the American Community Survey now estimate close to 800,000 same-sex couples. Of these, about 15%–or about 110,000–live in California. Less than 3% live in Massachusetts. Badgett believes each California GLBT couple will likely spend close to t...
New York To Recognize Gay Marriage
2008-05-30 08:12:00
By edict of Governor Peterson state agencies will have to recognize gay marriages from other states. From the BBC: State Governor David Paterson has given state agencies until 30 June to change rules to recognize gay marriages. The news came hours after California said it would start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples from 17 June. The move does not legalize same-sex marriage in New York, but it means many bureaucratic restrictions experienced by gay couples will be lifted. These include issues concerning family health care plans, property inheritance, tax breaks and adoption rights. I'm not a proponent of gay marriage per se. However I am a firm believer that the less government meddles in the relationships of two consenting human adults the better. Marriage was primarily a religious matter until fairly recently and in my opinion it should have stayed that way. So on that note I say...Nice first step New York.
Top 3 Gay Marriage Cartoons of the Week
2008-05-30 03:00:00
You can bet that gay marriage will be one of those main stream American issues that will clearly help moderates and independents decide what party they want in the White House influencing the Supreme Court makeup. We’ve chosen three political cartoons that captures the moment in all its rainbow colored glory. It will be interesting to ...
Paterson and Gay Marriage
2008-05-30 00:00:00
The other day, Governor Paterson declared that New York would recognize gay marriages performed in Canada, Massachusetts, and California. Naturally, some are up in arms about it. Outgoing crap Congressman Tom Reynolds said, This is a terrible decision, directed in a secretive and abusive manner, designed to circumvent any ...
Gay Marriage in NY and CA on June 17th
2008-05-29 17:07:00
If your gay and want to get married you will soon have that right if you live in California or New York. I'm sure you have already heard the good news out west, but what you may not know is New Yorker's will also get wedding bells and full marriage benefits on June 17th, 2008. Hours after California issued a directive Wednesday authorizing that date, word came that New York Gov. David Paterson instructed state agencies - including those governing insurance and health care - to immediately change policies and regulations to recognize gay marriages preformed in California. New York already recognizes marriages from Canada, Spain, and other counties where it's legal. Massachusetts is currently the only U.S. state that recognizes same-sex marriage, but its residency requirements currently bar New Yorkers from marrying there. Now they don't have to leave the country to get hitched. The move by Paterson's administration does not legalize same-sex marriage in New York. The state'...
Gay Marriage Headed for the Political Dustbin
2008-05-29 06:25:00
It’s not gay marriage that’s soon to be forgotten, it’s the political issue of gay marriage.  A new survey shows that voters in California, narrowly approve of gay marriage. The Field Poll result, released today, shows the highest level of support in more than three decades of polling Californians on the hot-button issue of ...
Gay marriage to begin June 17 in California
2008-05-28 23:59:00
California counties can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning June 17, the state said in a directive issued Wednesday. The state Office of Vital Records said it chose June 17 because the state Supreme Court has until the close of business on June 16 to decide whether to grant a stay of its May 15 ruling legalizing gay marriage. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
On ?Homophobia? Accusation & the Gay Marriage Debate
2008-05-28 20:53:00
Last March, I pointed out why I don’t use the word, “homophobia,” a term which many gay people and even those in the media use to describe anti-gay attitudes: Simply put, I don?t like the word. I understand that it means an aversion to homosexuality and gay people, but as a lover of words, I also ...
Stephen Colbert Interviews Tony Perkins on Gay Marriage
2008-05-28 14:43:00
Stephen Colbert makes a fool of Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on the issue of Gay Marriage. I have to give Mr. Perkins credit for not only appearing, but taking a well deserved beating with a smile and a few laughs. Perkins must not be a Pentecostal where humor goes in the same vomit bag as Satan.
Bob Barr Pledges To Repeal DOMA
2008-05-28 03:07:00
American politics are really weird sometimes. The changing of positions is enough to give me whiplash. Up is down, down is the new up. White is black, black is the new white. Um…thanks Bob, I guess. Oh I just can’t keep up… – John (Average Gay Joe)
Gay marriage? Jenna doesn't need daddy's blessing!
2008-05-27 18:07:00
As much as we've been troubled and enraged by their papa and husband, we've always had a soft spot in our heart for the female Bushes. They surely seem to love their family's patriarch, but it's also always seemed to...
Ellen DeGeneres & John McCain Clash On Gay Marriage
2008-05-23 10:45:00
Watch Them Agree To Disagree On The Subject Here...
John McCain And Ellen DeGeneres Talk Gay Marriage
2008-05-22 23:03:00
How awkward is this: Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has said in the past that he's proud to have led an effort in [Arizona] to protect the sanctity of marriage as between a man and a woman, and who supported the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (which banned federal recognition of gay marriage and domestic partnerships), was on the Ellen DeGeneres Show today.
McCain Clashes with DeGeneres on Gay Marriage
2008-05-22 17:05:00
But the GOP presidential hopeful does wish her “every happiness” with her upcoming nuptials More: continued here
Mayor Newsom on Gay Marriage!
2008-05-21 20:22:00
Download latest version of Flash to view video! . Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s the most open-minded politician in the world talking about the latest Gay Marriage event. gay marriage, mayor newsom, News, politician, Politics
By: SF Blogg
Nothing Wrong Gay Marriage, Have the Right to be Married, Never Any Rights
2008-05-20 20:24:00
I see nothing wrong with gay marriage. I think everyone has the right to be married no matter who they marry. I am very open minded person who loves everyone. I think gay marriage it should be legal. I would thruthfully consider myself bisexual. I am very attracted to men and women equally find both sexually attractive. Never any rights or wrongs with love. Love it does not matter what sex you are with the because love is love. If you fall in love whether woman loves man or man, loves man or woman loves woman it is all a beautiful romance. Love it is what you feel in your heart for a special person. Never any rights or wrongs with love. Whoever you feel affection for it is love for the reason that love is love it is what is felt with the heart. God loves every one of us does not judge because loves everyone. God loves every part of who we are.
A Strategy to Defeat CA Referendum on Marriage
2008-05-20 04:00:00
For the past few weeks, I have been letting my e-mail accumulate, saving most of the bulk mailings that cluttered my box as they might have some blog-worthy tid-bit. As I read through them this afternoon, I kept coming across stuff from various gay sources about the likely fall referendum to amend our state’s ...
Gay Marriage in California Could be a Reality In Less Than 30 Days!
2008-05-19 23:26:00
In a 4-3 decision last week, California's Supreme Court overturned the state's ban on same-sex nuptials, making California the second U.S. state to permit them ? and the first to allow them for all Americans regardless of where they live.  = Gay Marriage could be a reality in the state of California in  LESS THAN 30 DAYS!Of course, just hours after the  Supreme Court ruled  that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Mathew D. Staver was already raising money to overturn the decision. Mr. Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a Florida group that defends traditional marriage, flew to Dallas  last week to discuss how to finance a campaign for the California Marriage Protection Act, a November ballot initiative. ?It?s going to be the largest, most expensive and most hard fought L.G.B.T. ballot measure in the history of the country,? said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, which works on ...
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