PA State Senator Daylin Leach invited NOM's Maggie Gallagher to a debate on gay marriage in Harrisburg. It happened tonight, and I liveblogged it on Facebook. (Note: Senator Leach is introducing a bill to allow gay marriage in PA.)

( Here's the transcript )

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Daily Kos' David Waldman (aka Kagro X) and noted policy wonk says:
For those still unsure about whether or not Congress can vote on a bill amending another bill that hasn't yet become law, you just saw them do it. The House passed a reconciliation bill that amends the main Senate health insurance ( Read more... )

Adam Haslett: "For the last 30 years, government policy makers, Geithner among them, have accepted the basic fallacy that the free market is a natural phenomenon and thus, ultimately, a subject of science rather than politics. This, more than any particular policy decision or response to the crisis, is the ethical and intellectual failing at the ( Read more... )

(I've been posting about this more on Facebook, but thought I'd aim something at LJ today.)

Where prop 8 lawyer Boies asks questions of Yes on Prop 8 organizer TamB: Do you believe that homosexuals are more likely to molest children ( Read more... )

And from the Coining new words department...

Stupak:
Stupak (n) - The sepsis commonly experienced after unsafe back alley abortions

Brilliant.

(In case the meaning isn't clear, read this and be horrified: Ezra Klein: A very bad deal to pass a very good bill
Update:
also: Daily Kos' mcjoan: What the Stupak-Pitts Coathanger Amendment Doesand for ( Read more... )

Ok, all - it's a low excitement voting year, but that's no reason to get complacent. Remember, because less people are voting, your vote counts more ( Read more... )

The LGBT community's in something of an uproar, and understandably.
Short story: DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act) is a law that is used as a justification to deny same-sex couple benefits, and in immigration deportations when half the same-sex couple is not of US origin. People have been putting forth lawsuits arguing against it's ( Read more... )

Quick synopsis ( Read more... )

Ok, don't everybody panic. Amendments to ban gay marriage in PA have failed twice before. Noting also that gay marriage is illegal here (just not constitutionally enshrined.).

Pa. senator prepares new bill to ban gay marriageAlso, philly.com reports that our amendment process is similar to Iowa in that we need two consecutive state legislatures to ( Read more... )

Just spent the last ... oh, 2 hours trying to get through all the possible things on tomorrow's primary. I always wait too long to start this process. There are just So Many Judges.

~sigh~

Anywhoodle. On the plus side, I got this nifty flyer from Liberty City when I was at Fuze last Saturday which gives recommendations from the LGBT community, ( Read more... )