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Mormon Church admits spending more than 100 times the amount to pimp Prop 8 than it reported
Bearing false witness is no problem for these folks. That or they have a serious deficit in math sklls. (365gay): Six weeks into an investigation by California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, the Church of Latter-Day Saints has admitted that it spent nearly $188,000 more on the campaign to approve Proposition…
Glenn Beck: kick California out of the U.S.
Wow. Now that this turd has been unleashed from Headline News and jumped to Faux News, he’s really gone over the deep end — California is polluting the rest of the union with its wayward leftist ways (hey, what about Prop 8!?), so Glenn Beck’s ready to boot the U.S.…
WSJ op-ed: Prop 8 backlash shows need to change donor disclosure laws
You knew this was coming — those who donated to help pass Proposition 8 are angry that boycotts and actions were taken to publicize their decision to foment bigotry. Now there is a call to make that information about their donations secret. We have secret balloting for obvious reasons. Politics…
Yes on 8 files motion to invalidate all same-sex marriages
The final nail in the coffin to the dignity and civil rights of the 18,000 same-sex couples who married in California. The proponents of Prop. 8 have filed a motion (Strauss v. Horton, S168047) asking the Supreme Court to nullify all existing same-sex marriages. It makes you sick. BTW, Ken…
California readers
The petition to put a ballot initiative banning divorce in California needs more signatures. I’d sign it if I could, but I’m obviously not a resident there. But if you are, hop on over and sign it. Because if Californians really are willing to fuck up people’s lives to preserve…
Betrayal and optimism
Eli Sanders has a really interesting post up explaining why the Prop 8 fiasco was so devastating, beyond just the size of California and its relative impact. And it seems to have occurred to him after watching “Milk”. (Which I still haven’t had a chance to get out and see.)…
Unhinged pro-Prop 8 amicus brief filed by bible beating group
Here I am about to kick back and relax my weary bones and then this completely deranged document lands in my inbox. After today’s news about the California Supreme Court’s decision to review Prop 8′s constitutionality, we got wind of this amicus brief filed in support of letting Prop 8…
How the well-oiled Mormon machine helped pass Prop 8
In the end, Protect Marriage estimates, as much as half of the nearly $40 million raised on behalf of the measure was contributed by Mormons. That was the statement confirming the extent of the financial involvement of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to pass…
The religious right promises more amendments, do we have a plan?
The election is over and the religious right is still hungry, its fangs still dripping with the blood of the carcass of civil rights that it has consumed with the passage of the anti-gay ballot initiatives. Even as it savors the win, it is hunting for its next prey —…
Ballot initiatives provide a wake up call to the LGBT community about race
I didn’t think this would happen in my lifetime. We did it – we jettisoned the right-wing and its failed policies out into deep space and made history in the process. We did it with a diverse coalition of citizens – people who look like the America of the future,…
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