Today, at noon (central daylight time) the Minnesota Senate will begin debate on a bill to legalize same sex marriages. The
bill already passed the Minnesota House. As Reuters
reports, the Senate will likely pass the bill, and Governor Mark Dayton has promised to sign it into law.
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posted by Area Man
on May 13, 2013 -
711 comments
'Church,
I got to go to the Macklemore concert on Friday night. If you want to hear about how that went, ask me, seriously, I want to talk about it until I die. The whole thing was great; but the best part was when Macklemore sang “Same Love.” Augustana’s gym was filled to the ceiling with 5,000 people, mostly aged 18-25, and decked out in thrift store gear (American flag bro-tanks, neon Nikes, MC Hammer pants. My Cowboy boyfriend wore Cowboy boots…not ironically….). The arena was brimming with excitement and adrenaline during every song, but when he started to play “Same Love,” the place about collapsed.
Why? While the song is popular everywhere, no one, maybe not even Macklemore, feels its true tension like we do in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. If you’re not familiar,
here’s the song.'
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posted by Blasdelb
on Apr 11, 2013 -
80 comments
Gomer Pyle got married to his partner of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, last week. Jim Nabors, aka Gomer Pyle of Mayberry and of the U.S.M.C., also of many records featuring his inimitable voice, particularly
this rendition of "The Impossible Dream,", and
the national anthem, married his partner of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, last week in Seattle.
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posted by goofyfoot
on Jan 30, 2013 -
87 comments
The Campaign For Southern Equality announces
Game On! [2m28s] in its latest push to make marriage equality an issue across the South, beginning January 2nd.
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posted by hippybear
on Dec 29, 2012 -
19 comments
The Gay Marriage Plot: On November 6, four states -- Maine, Washington, Maryland, and Minnesota -- took the side of gay marriage in ballot referenda. The improbable sweep for an issue that spent decades as an across-the-board political loser has already changed the landscape for gay rights in America -- and could provide a new framework for other causes.
posted by Rangeboy
on Dec 11, 2012 -
140 comments
In
an interview published yesterday, Dan Cathy, president of
Chick-Fil-A, tells the Baptist Press that Chick-Fil-A is "very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit."
Also this week, Cathy told radio host
Ken Coleman "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say 'we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage." This is a change in Chick-Fil-A's corporate position; in 2011, responding to criticism that the company and its charitable arm, the
WinShape Foundation,
support organizations that work against LGBT rights and marriage equality, Cathy stated that the company "will not champion any political agendas on marriage and family." Chick-Fil-A is a fast food chain of franchises that operates in 39 US states; in 2011, annual sales exceeded $4 billion USD. The company is privately held.
posted by catlet
on Jul 18, 2012 -
212 comments
Charles Barkley on homophobia in sports It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: ‘Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.’ First of all, quit telling me what I think. I’d rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can’t play.”
posted by ThePinkSuperhero
on May 18, 2011 -
85 comments
On August 12, President Obama
will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to the late
gay-rights pioneer Harvey
Milk. Lesbian tennis star Billy Jean King and Teddy Kennedy will also be honored that day.
Previous recipients include Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi, Colin Powell (twice), Muhammad Ali, Mother Theresa, Elie Wiesel, Vint Cerf, George Tenet (
Bush fail), Irving Kristol (WTF?) Dick Cheney, Walter Cronkite, Julia Child, and Lucille Ball. Now about that
DOMA thing...
posted by digaman
on Jul 30, 2009 -
89 comments
Justly Married Derek Powazek shares a series of images of same-gender couples who were married in San Francisco over the last week, and sells one stark image in poster form to raise funds for
DontAmend.com, an organization committed to fighting the radical right's efforts to add an anti-gay marriage/union amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
posted by Dreama
on Feb 20, 2004 -
309 comments
