This hit my inbox just moments ago. Fundie religious and legal orgs, including the Campaign for California Families, had asked the state Supreme Court to delay allowing same-sex marriages until after the November election, when an amendment initiative would place marriage equality in the hands of voters.
The decision will now become final on June 16 at 5:00 p.m. Let the marriages begin! San Francisco-The California Supreme Court today filed an order in the Marriage Cases (S147999; decision filed May 15, 2008), denying requests to stay its decision until after the November 2008 election and denying petitions for rehearing. Full story...
Someone better head to confessional.
The Times Online is reporting that the Vatican has come out strongly against a United Nations declaration formally condemning anti-LGBT discrimination, saying that the declaration would lead to the decriminalization of same-sex unions.
A half-gay wedding, anyway. Impact Florida plans to stage a protest at the Dec. 12 wedding of Republican Gov.
The Los Angeles Times has a piece up this morning entitled Broader medical refusal rule may go far beyond abortion.
You knew this was coming -- it was only a matter of time before the emotion and outrage in the LGBT community after Prop 8 would be turned into a rampaging mob of heathen homosexuals persecuting Christians.
John @ Americablog posted the current SCOTUS bench, noting only two were nominated by a Dem:
John Paul Stevens, 88 (Ford) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75 (Clinton) Antonin Scalia, 72 (Reagan) Anthony Kennedy, 72 (Reagan) Stephen Breyer, 70 (Clinton) David Souter, 69 (GHW Bush) Clarence Thomas, 60 (GHW Bush) Samuel Alito, 58 (GW Bush) John Roberts, 53 (GW Bush)
The Bushes added relative youngsters on the bench, all save Souter are firmly on the conservative side of the spectrum.
January 20 cannot get here soon enough. I've had it with these brain-dead bigoted tools of the Bush Admin who reach high up in their posteriors to pull out BS like this to justify discrimination.
Doesn't it bite to be Faux News these days? After the GOP propaganda media outlet rode the wave of easy access to the Bush Admin, the president-elect has given the news channel the cold shoulder.
Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th Congress can turn the broad call for "change" across the country into specific policies.
In an article on The Blend today, Autumn Sandeen asked the question, "How diverse should a call be for a "gay contingent" in the Inaugural Parade?"
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that the comments for this topic strayed into the issue of "appropriate" dress for the LGBT people who may attend the event.
The boob finally figured out that the buck stops here -- his total destruction of the country just might have had a hand in a change at the top, according to Bush.
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