COMMENTARY: Why civil rights don't belong on any ballot

Take a moment to think of alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders, an issue state policymakers across the country are currently considering.
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Ok... So, now what?

It's funny, Tuesday afternoon, after watching the noon news, inside my head, I was willing to entertain the idea that we could lose.
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Washington: New Referendum 71 Polling Analyzed

It is now Election Day around the US, and one ballot question that is attracting national attention is Washington State's Referendum 71.
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Five Races to Watch This Election Day Regarding LGBT Rights

Off-year election cycles usually don't have the same high pitch drama as their big brother and sister -- mid-term elections and Presidential year elections.
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Maine Atty General to NOM – Turn Over Your Donor’s Names

The state can compel the National Organization for Marriage to disclose the identities of donors who contributed to its effort to repeal Maine’s gay-marriage law, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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National Organization for Marriage Loses Effort to Keep Names of Donors Disclosed in Maine

The New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been fighting to keep the names of donors to the "Yes on 1" campaign in Maine private.
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New Poll Shows Maine Gay Marriage Repeal Pulling Ahead

The effort to repeal gay marriage in Maine is pulling ahead, a new poll finds, but continues to trail overall, an analysis reveals.
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Local churches gather in support of gay marriage

Editor's note: Only a portion of this story ran in Monday's edition. This is the complete version AUBURN — More than 200 people stood in support of gay rights, and against the hot-button ballot question putting Maine voters in the spotlight, during the Interfaith Celebration of Ma.
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Ballot Voyage: An Approve Referendum 71 ballot odyssey

I got my ballot in the mail!  Join me on a fun-filled action-packed journey called Ballot Voyage: An Approve Referendum 71 ballot odyssey.
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Poll: Maine Gay Marriage Repeal Failing

Politico Poll: Maine Gay Marriage Repeal FailingOn Top MagazineBy On Top Magazine Staff The Pan Atlantic SMS Group's Omnibus Poll shows Question 1, the November 3 ballot question that would repeal gay marriage in the .
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New Jersey: Growing GOP Push For 2010 Ballot On Marriage

Fearing that New Jersey's lame-duck legislature will approve same-sex marriage after the November election, GOP and Christian activists are renewing their push for the issue to be put on the 2010 ballot.
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Maine, The Way Life Should Be

I love the sign that marks the entrance into Maine on I95. "Maine: The way life should be." Every time I cross the Piscataqua bridge, I heave a big sigh of relief.
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When all else fails, just lie, lie, lie

Here's the yard sign (via Slog) that the homophobes are putting up in Washington to defeat R-71, the ballot question that asks voters to approve of the major expansion of domestic partnerships the state legislature passed earlier this year.
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What is equality, really?

Equality; being involved in LGBT politics means that I probably utter or hear this word a hundred or more times every day but, do I truly understand what it means? What are the implications it carries for my private as well as my public life?

I work for One Kalamazoo, a ballot question committee campaigning to affirm a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender inclusive Non-Discrimination Ordinance in Kalamazoo, MI.
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Washington gays file suit in petition signature count

I've been scanning headlines about how the signature count is going in Washington for R-71, which would ban the everything-but-the-M-word domestic partnerships the legislature enacted this past year (damn those activist legislators!).
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Wisconsin Anti-Gay Group Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Same-Sex Marriage Amendment Challenge

An anti-gay legal group, the Alliance Defense Fund , has filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Wisconsin Family Council in a lawsuit that challenges a Wisconsin constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriages in that state.
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Should Proposition 8 recall be put to voters in 2010?

Marriage-equality advocates are split about the timing of a ballot question to overturn the California's Proposition 8 constitutional marriage ban.
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Haters Lose, No Vote On DC Marriage

A Washington DC Superior Court has just dismissed the case filed by anti-gay Bishop Harry Jackson and others, clearing the way for the District to begin recognizing same-sex marriages on July 6th.
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Bid to Block Recognition of Unions Fails In DC

The District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics rejected a proposed ballot question intended to block city recognition of same-sex marriages from other locations.
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NH gay marriage ballot question thwarted

(Concord, New Hampshire) The New Hampshire Senate has turned down a GOP bid to put the issue of marriage equality in front of voters in 2010.
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