Sinfonian explores Alaska morons NOT named Sarah Palin: Note that Mayor Sullivandidn’tsay that a majority of peoplein Anchorage opposed the ordinance — rather, only the majority of thosewho contacted the mayor’s office opposed it (allegedly). I thought that it was the majority of thelegislative body (in this case, the city Assembly) mattered more than who made the most phone calls or wrote the most angry, hate-filled letters and emails, but maybe I’m wrong. After all, Dan probably can see Russia from his office, so it’s really not part of America anyway, right? Also, the basic ignorance of reality in this … Continue reading Taking Up Oxygen the Rest of Us Could Be Using

Oh yeah: BOSTON –Massachusetts is suing thefederal government over a law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. State Attorney General Martha Coakley filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Boston. It says thefederal Defense of Marriage Act interferes with the right of Massachusetts to define marriage as it sees fit. A. Continue reading Now It’s ON, Bitches

I knew I loved this man. My young daughters are growing up in a different reality than I did. Our family knows many same-sex couples – our neighbors in Connecticut, members of my staff, parents of their schoolmates. Some are now married because the Connecticut Supreme Court and our state legislature have made same-sex marriage legal in our state. But to my daughters, these couples are married simply because they love each other and want to build a life together. That’s what we’ve taught them. The things that make those families different from their own pale in comparison to the … Continue reading Happy Dodd Photo

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The book of love has music in it In fact that’s where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb but I love it when you sing to me and you you can sing me anything The book of love is long and boring and written very long ago It’s full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes and things we’re all too young to know but I love it when you give me things and you ought to give me wedding rings -Stephin Merritt Disappointed? Of course. But not surprised. I timed my … Continue reading Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.

So much for Michael Steele’sargument thatgay marriage is bad for small businesses. Florists and wedding planners seem to be doing just fine: Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and a studyreleased to coincide with the anniversary says that the state has reaped an additional $111M in revenue from gay weddings. The average couple spends $7400 on their nuptials there and one in ten spends more than $20,000. “A second study by the same group found that young, highly educated people in same-sex relationships were 2.5 times more likely to move to Massachusetts after … Continue reading Make The Money, See

Or something. It is no secret that resistance to homosexuality is highest among the black population (though probably other ethnic minorities are close contenders). I fear that it will be harder than usual to persuade black men of the obligation to marry the mother of their children if the inevitable media saturation coverage associates marriage with homosexuals. Is the availability of homosexual marriage a valid reason to shun the institution? No, but that doesn’t make the reaction any less likely. What are the chances that gay marriage would further doom marriage among blacks? I don’t know. Again, if someone can … Continue reading Straight Black Marriage Will Make You White and Gay

Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand, Mr. President: Jake Tapper: Does the President or the White House have a reaction to the Governor of Maine signing a same-sex marriage bill? Robert Gibbs: No, I think the President’s position on same-sex marriages has been talked about and discussed. Tapper: He opposes same-sex marriage. Gibbs: He supports civil unions. Tapper: Does that mean that he’s going to say or do anything against what the citizens of Maine — Gibbs: Not that I’m aware of. I think the President believes this is an issue that’s best … Continue reading Your Old Road is Rapidly Aging

UPDATED: New Hampshire’s Legislature also passed a gay marriage bill today, which now goes to Gov. John Lynch for final approval. “I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.”  Sosaid Governor John Baldacci today, after signing the gay marriage bill passed a few hours before by the Maine Legislature. The state senate voted 21-13 in favor of the measure and the House of Representatives approved it 89-57 on Tuesday. /span> Continue reading Maine becomes fifth state to allow gay marriage

These people have ruined it forever. I remember covering the marriage equality demonstrations in Chicago in 2004, and interviewing a young woman who had been on the phone with her partner. She was pacing up and down in front of City Hall fretting. “She’s late. She’s late for our wedding. Late on our wedding day.” And for some reason (maybe because I was late to my own wedding, something Mr. A has yet to let me live down), that was what got to me. Not that I’d ever been anti-gay-marriage, but being a straight girl the reality hadn’t been something … Continue reading My Marriage is Over

When we mentioned that Giuliani has been threatening to use his opposition to same-sex marriage as a political tool, Cumming said: “Because his political career is going so well? I’m sure he’s on the money with that one.I think he’s an asshole. Please quote me on that.” It ain’t 2004 anymore, that’s for sure. A. Continue reading It’s Over, Rudy

http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf A Gaythering Storm fromJane Lynch A. Continue reading Giant Gay Repellent Umbrella

So you don’t have to: Here we have someone who not only claims that there is a moral right to deny homosexuals rights, but also implies that there’s no moral rightnot to deny them rights. And yet, he presents the logical legal implications of his own position as some ideological imposition forced on him by political correctness. He’s not excluding them; they excludethemselves by being abnormal, just as blacks formerly “segregated” themselves by having the wrong skin color.See, Franck doesn’t come before us as a advocate of bigotry or religious persecution. He’s simply taking a stand forreasoned judgment — the … Continue reading Phila Reads Bigots

“You’ve already lost.” This one, from theGLAAD Media Awards, is a little long. Keith Olbermann won the Outstanding TV Journalism Segment Award for his memorable November 10th Special Comment on gay marriage in the wake of the passage of Prop 8. If you’re antsy, the Olbermann part starts around 4:15. Continue reading Dispatches from the Marriage War

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We will not be able to explain how it ever mattered at all who you loved.Vermont: Laying out their agenda for the second half of the session, they concluded that the legislature can and should pass a bill ensuring the equal right to marry. The Senate Judiciary Committee will start the work on S.115, “An Act to Protect Religious Freedom and Promote Equality in Civil Marriage,” sponsored by Senate leaders Peter Shumlin, John Campbell, and Claire Ayer, on Monday, March 16, when legislators return from the Town Meeting break. Damn right. Via ONTD_Political. A. Continue reading In The Years To Come

Damn. A. Continue reading Don’t Divorce Us