A humorous look at the BIG GAY LIFESTYLE and other evil gay agenda items.

The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the United State’s of America’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, today endorsed marriage equality at an meeting on Saturday, 19 May 2012. The organization had originally been founded in 1909 to improve the lives of the country’s African ( Read more... )

Originally posted by gestaltrose at The Time Has Come
March 21, 2012. It's not every day that a major world figure speaks out forcefully in defense of equality. But earlier this month, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon did just that when he made an incredibly powerful speech at the U.N. in Geneva. But most people didn't even hear about it ( Read more... )

The UK Government has just launched the new e-petitions system, offering to debate legislation in Parliament if a petition gets 100,000 signatures.

If you are in the UK and believe that marriage should be equally available to all, regardless of gender or orientation, please consider signing this petition:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions ( Read more... )

With New York doubling the number of people living in states with marriage equality, what are the future fronts of the struggle?

"Officials at several gay-rights organizations said they would seek to move quickly in Maryland, where legislation to legalize same-sex marriage was shelved in February by Democratic leaders concerned that it lacked the ( Read more... )

This is a great article on how the debate and political process evolved from failed efforts in 2009. It focuses on not only legislators' personal struggles, but the new governor's tact, using wealthy Republican donors, encouraging business to get on board, and limiting the influence of the Catholic Church. It's worth a few minutes to read the ( Read more... )

The Minnesota legislature has put a referendum on the 2012 ballot, regarding marriage equality. While that's sad, these moments were not:

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For some reason this won't embed, but it's an impassioned plea from a straight military veteran Republican legislator.

Good for them for taking a stand for equality.

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Over 100 newly-minted lawyers walked out of their own graduation at the University of Michigan Law School on Saturday to protest the ceremony’s commencement speaker, anti-gay Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH). As Andrew Selbst, one of the student organizers of the walkout, explains, Portman’s ( Read more... )

A Republican legislator in the Michigan House has filed legislation that would cut 5% of a college's funding, and shift it to K-12 education, if the college continues to offer domestic partnership benefits. In his own words ( Read more... )

Republicans took control of the Minnesota legislature last November, and it didn't take long for a proposed anti-gay marriage amendment to pop up.

It remains to be seen if it will be passed by the legislature and head to the 2012 ballot, but there is growing opposition among Republican legislators, which is a good sign.

"The GOP objectors ( Read more... )