Pat Gozemba“Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality,” quipped Jon Stewart to Governor Mike Huckabee on the December 9th Daily Show. Let’s remember that line. It stopped the erstwhile evangelical presidential candidate, Huckabee of Arkansas, cold.
And while I’m on Arkansas, let’s remember Arkansas is the state where voters just supported [...]

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Last week, America voted for hope, not fear. For peace, not war. For love, not hatred. The election of Barack Obama represents what is best in the American spirit—fairness, equality, respect for hardworking people, a belief in a better tomorrow. It has been a long time coming. As Obama has said again and again over [...]

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by Pat Gozemba
Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) first alerted me that the 1913 law prohibiting out-of-state gay and lesbian couples from getting married in Massachusetts would soon be history. Rushing the great African American leader of all civil rights causes in our state was out in front of even the gay movement in announcing [...]

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Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn have been invited to share the message of marriage equality at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Their talk is entitled “Marriage Equality: A 21st Century Civil Rights Struggle.” At the flagship campus of the university, they are being sponsored by the School of Law and the J. William Fulbright College of [...]

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