Focus on the Family Says N.Y. Voters, Not God, Should Define Marriage

A New York appeals court ruled last week that legislators must allow same-sex couples residing in New York, that have been married in other states, to receive equitable government benefits.
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Update – US Catholic bishops adopt radically anti-gay letter

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As expected, the US Catholic bishops on Tuesday approved a broad new document, called Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan, that sets up a new and far stricter guidelines for what the increasingly right-wing bishops group says is their mission to promote marriage—even civil marriage—as available only for the a union of one man and one woman.
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D.C.: ChurchOuting.org - site takes on hypocrisy in Catholic Church

Now this is interesting...when the church gets wind of this, there will probably be an eruption.

For Immediate ReleaseWednesday, November 17, 2009Contact:  Phil AtteyPhone: 202.
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Is civil marriage in Texas unconstitutional? Maybe, says AG hopeful

Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Democratic candidate for Texas attorney general

Are all civil marriages in Texas invalid? A candidate for state attorney general thinks they could be judged to be unconstitutional as an (apparently) unintended consequence of an anti-gay amendment to the constitution approved by Texas voters in 2005, Dallas Voice reports.
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Site Lauches To Out DC Priests

Washington DC activist and JMG reader Phil Attey has launched ChurchOuting.org, a site intended to publicize the names of Catholic priests who are socially out but professionally closeted.
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Public vote on DC same-sex marriage would violate rights law, says board

A proposed ballot initiative for the District of Columbia that would have restricted civil marriage to a union of a man and a woman cannot cannot appear on the ballot, the DC Board of Elections and Ethics ruled Tuesday.
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Yakima County republicans support the reelection of pro-equality legislator

State Rep. Norm Johnson (R-14th) was one of the 93 (of 147) Washington state legislators who voted last Spring for the 2009 domestic partnership expansion law (SB 5688).
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God endorses marriage equality

With few votes left to count and Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed reporting an ever-increasing approval percentage for Referendum 71 (currently 53% to 47%), it is clear that the Washington electorate has APPROVED Referendum 71.
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DC addresses domestic partnerships, religious protections in gay marriage bill

From a press release: (Washington, D.C.)  Proponents and supporters, including D.C. religious leaders, will attend the scheduled mark-up of the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 at 2 p.
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Civil marriage equality, same-sex marriage, or Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual ...

civil marriage equality, same-sex marriage, or Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual ...DesMoinesRegister.com..
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Rally held in support of same-sex marriage

Mid-Hudson News Rally held in support of same-sex marriageMid-Hudson News“We need to stop calling it 'gay marriage' this moment,” Schunk said.
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For first time, anti-gay campaign messages didn’t work in Washington

Unlike voters in Maine, voters in Washington were not given the opportunity Tuesday to vote on a law that would have granted equal rights and the dignity of civil marriage.
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All of Washington state is moving towards equality

Washington voters have accomplished a national first by ratifying a new law that makes state registered domestic partnerships fully parallel to civil marriage.
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Towards A Federalist Church

E.D. Kain wishes the Catholic church would stop interfering with civil marriage law: I am a decentralist at heart.
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An Open Letter to President Obama...

I submitted the following to the White House website.  I am not so naive as to expect a response, but I had to say something!    Dear Mr.
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NYT Calls For Marriage Equality

Today the New York Times published an editorial calling on the NY state Senate to approve marriage equality and ticking off five other marriage battlegrounds, all of which should be familiar to you.
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A Change of Heart

"In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions. I came 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.
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Protect Your Children: The Gays are Marryin'

I'm a little ashamed of Maine and Washington State right now.

Next week's elections will see two major civil rights battles in two distant corners of our country.
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Video: Rachel’s great interview on Ques. 1 with Maine Gov. Balducci

On this evening’s show, Rachel Maddow offered a great summary of the anti-gay campaign now being waged against marriage equality in Maine.
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Maine update: Apparently, it is OK to mislead when God is on your side

Those who oppose allowing same sex couples to enter into a civil marriage are complaining (again) that people are "attacking" them for expressing their views.
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