Results for: prop 8 trial
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Day Two of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Anita Bryant Strikes Back
Prop 8 Trial: The Recap. In Day Two, we analyze the history of marriage and the history of anti-gay propaganda, and we fantasize about a West Wing Prop 8 Trial Musical Revue, with lots of graphics!
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Day 8 of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: We Musn’t Dwell. Not on Dr.Tam Day!
I DO NOT THINK THIS COULD GET ANY CRAZIER. Seriously, I thought I knew how crazy the other side was, BUT I DID NOT KNOW HOW CRAZY THE OTHER SIDE WAS.
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Obama and Clinton Say They’ll Fight For Gays’ Right to Party, Not Get Beaten Up
Obama and Hillary are making efforts to assure us that gay rights are still a priority. Also gays will get more rights to take time off work to care for partners or kids. New York is about to have a gay/trans inclusive anti-bullying bill. And we’re still cautiously optimistic about the Prop 8 trial.
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Day 11 of Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Same-Sex Parents Just Don’t Understand
Blankenhorn is the other side’s Big Hope. He claims to be a liberal democrat but opposes same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, it seems the only peers who’ve ever reviewed him are the Americans For Truth About Homosexuality. NO BUT SERIOUSLY it’s really fascinating. Today’s recap = fascinating.
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Day Three of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Let’s Get Offensive
Day Three of the Prop 8 Trial recap, in which the other side wants to talk about how gay men sleep around, schools teach children how to be gay, and that because we have Will & Grace, we don’t need equal rights. What they don’t know is that Will & Grace has been off the air for a few years. The plot thickens…
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Day One of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Judgment Daze
We’ll be recapping the Prop 8 Trial for you every day, and sorry for being a little late today! We’ve got all your Day One info, testimony, links, videos and analysis for our kickoff Judgement Daze.
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Day 6 of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: OurChart – You’re [Cross-Examined] On It
The Mayor stands up for the gays (and his daughter Lisa!), and Lee Badgett testified on how much better the world and our pocketbooks would be with marriage. With jokes! You guys it’s gonna be their turn soon then we might just die. Welcome to our recap.
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Day Four of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Ilan Meyer on Social Stigma & Prejudice FTW
Day Four of the Prop 8 Trial and the other side is getting really desperate. But we’ve got our game faces on for testimony on the effects of prejudice & social stigma on gays and of gay marriage on the economy. But funnier!
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Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearings Have the Same Effects as Ambien
For example, I just wrote half of this excerpt and then had no idea what it was about. And then it disappeared. Anyway, the Elena Kagan nomination hearings are mostly boring, though still important. She talks about DADT, legal progressivism, and cameras in the court room.
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Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial, Explained: Lez Legal Eagle Answers Your Lawfully Ignorant Questions
If you’ve been following the Prop 8 trial this week, you might have a lot of questions about the law and stuff, or perhaps like us you only KINDA understand what’s going on. Our resident legal expert Jessica is here to help! Here’s part one of two of Jessica the Legal Eagle Lawyer Explains It All– if you’ve got questions, she’s got answers.
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Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial Explained Pt. 2: Equal Protection & Why They Do Those Things They Do
Our lesbian lawyer Jessica is back to explain the issue of equal protection in the Prop 8 trial happening this week. She’ll tell you what the lawyers are trying to prove, what a suspect class is, and why anyone cares about the economic impact of gay marriage in California.
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Day 7 of Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Ex-Gay Camp, Will Truman, Obama, The Mormons, What a Whirlwind!
Another day, another round of depressing but also inspiring testimony. We discuss: the Catholic church’s stance on gays, how conversion therapy doesn’t really work, how gays have almost no political representation, and the Mormons! Get ready!
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Day Five of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Everybody’s Hiding Except Me & My Monkey
A day of many feelings. We laughed, we cried, we asked “is this really happening?” incredulously, and the world spun madly on. Welcome to Day Five of the Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Trial Recap: Judgment DAZE.
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Day 9 of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Who Needs Marriage When You Have Bisexuality, You Slippery Slopes?
They should replace that show “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader” with “Are You Smarter Than A Proposition 8 Attorney, Yes You Are.”
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Medicating Away the “Gay” in Your Fetus: There’s an Actual Doctor For That.
You knew that conservative right-wing homophobes hated gay people, but did you know how much? No. You didn’t. Trust us.
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Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial Begins Its Exclusive Engagement at San Fran Circuit Court Today!
“Perry v. Schwarzenegger is a thrill; it’s also terrifying.” The Prop 8 Trial to appeal the ruling against same-sex marriage begins today in San Francisco, starring David Boies and Theodore B. Olson. We got your who, what, when, where and why.
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Obama to DADT Activists: I’m On Task, Don’t Yell!
GetEqual interrupts Obama’s speech, again. Closing arguments for the Prop 8 trial will be heard on June 16, but will there be cameras? Also, a behind-the-scenes look at trans rights advocacy in Washington, Clayton McKleskey of The Dallas Morning News wants to know if we can stop talking about gay stuff yet, and more on college courses on gay marriage (or, as we like to call it, ‘marriage’).
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Iowa Voters May Object to Your Union, So Get Gay-Married Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
There are a lot of numbers in here but they’re all important, so get out your calculator and let’s do this. Statistics indicate that Iowans want to have a referendum on gay marriage, but also maybe that they don’t care that much, and Tea Partiers still hate us. The directors of GetEQUAL are making more than anyone you know, we don’t know anything about Elena Kagan still, Gawker might want to check out an AP stylebook, we might be one step closer to finding Lisa Miller and her daughter, and happy tales of reunited gays in love!
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BREAKING: Obama Nominates Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
It’s confirmed that Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court Justice position vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens will be Elena Kagan – now we just have to make it through the confirmation process.
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Marriage Equality: Not Coming To a State Near You?
Jessica our Real-Live Lesbian Lawyer/Legal Eagle, is back with more facts about things we don’t understand! If marriage equality isn’t coming to our states any time soon, what can we do NOW to protect the rights of same-sex couples in the meantime? Project 515 has answers, and its a blueprint you could bring to your own community much sooner than you think.