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Entries from March 2008

A Teenager’s Response to Rep. Sally Kern’s Hatred

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

 From the Unitarian Interweave list:

The aunt of an Oklahoma high school senior writes:
Today my nephew attempted to deliver a letter to Sally Kern but was stopped by a highway patrolman. With his permission I am distributing the letter to all news stations and thought I would include it here.
Maybe we can all stand to learn […]

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Tags: religion · civil rights · Gays and Religion

Gays, Muslims, and Rep. Sally Kern

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

This is what Rep. Sally Kern has to say about gays and Muslims. Watch our community’s smart response.

Kern insults Muslims as well as the LGBT community. She is a very scared woman lashing out at those she wishes to demonize in order to make herself and her “kind” look better. And who is her “kind?” […]

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Tags: videos · religion · civil rights · Right-wing rant

Evangelicals Lie About Gay Marriage

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, a right-wing evangelical group, figures that it has enough power and money that it can lie and get away with it. To a certain extent it is true. One of his so-called “researchers,” Glenn Stanton, released a paper in early March 2008 distorting the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) stance on […]

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Gay Marriage Boon to Massachusetts Economy

March 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Kudos to Lisa van der pool who wrote in the Boston Business Journal on Feb. 28, 2008 about another plus for marriage equality in Massachusetts. Not surprisingly, she asserts that equal treatment of all people attracts talented workers. While there has been much anecdotal documentation of gay and lesbian couples coming to Massachusetts because of […]

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Tags: lgbt family · Massachusetts · gay marriage

California Marriage Equality–”How Long?”

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Martin Luther King, Jr. repeatedly asked, “How long?” How long until justice will come?
Just so our gay marriage allies in California like Molly McKay and Davina Kotulski, a couple for 12 years and activists for 10 years on this issue, continue their fight for the civil right of marriage.
King, an inveterate worker in the […]

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Tags: Uncategorized · civil rights · california · gay marriage

Ellen, Murder, and Love in California

March 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

My point—and I have one—is that there is a connection between murder and love in the current highly charged culture war going on in California around the issue of marriage equality. Ellen almost makes the point.
 
Today the CA Supreme Court will hear a landmark case that seeks to bring marriage equality to millions of […]

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Tags: Uncategorized · civil rights · california · gay marriage