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Prop 8 Trial Roundup: Briefs Filed, Court Date Set, Analysis Of Upcoming Hearing

On Monday of this week Prop 8 opponents Olson and Boies filed briefs with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional.  Copies of the briefs can be found at the end of this post.  On Thursday a Federal Appeals Court announced that oral arguments [...]

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Friday October 22nd, 2010 in , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Gay Marriage Center Stage In Political Races Across Country

From AP: This election will be the first since the 1990s without a measure to ban gay marriage on any state ballot, yet the divisive issue is roiling races across the country during a time of tumult for the gay rights movement. In Minnesota, New Hampshire, California and New York, gubernatorial campaigns have become battlegrounds [...]

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Monday October 18th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Andrew Pugno Vs Richard Pan: Gay Marriage, Abortion Mud, Kicks Off Slugfest For Assembly Seat

Responding to Dr. Richard Pan’s TV ad which zeroed in on Andrew Pugno’s strong anti-abortion stance and opposition to stem cell research, Pugno released a TV ad on Friday that aims at Pan’s support of gay marriage while tossing in some blah blah about Pan’s support of abortion rights for women. It’s more than a [...]

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Saturday October 16th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Judge Walker Being Gay The Argument In Brief To Restore Prop 8

A man named Robert Wooten filed an amicus brief right before gay marriage foes filed their first brief to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday seeking to restore Proposition 8. His brief which also supports restoration of Prop 8 states that anti-gay marriage initiative should be restored because Judge Vaughn Walker who [...]

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Saturday September 18th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

State Republican Legislators Press Schwarzenegger To Defend Prop 8

Republicans in the state Assembly have penned a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to appeal the recent ruling overturning California’s ban on gay marriage, says the Sacramento Bee newspaper. The 27 Republican legislators who signed a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger argued that by staying out of the case, Schwarzenegger and Brown will set a precedent that officials “may [...]

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Wednesday September 1st, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Black Church Minister Behind Effort To Force State Defense Of Prop 8

We noticed that all of the numerous LGBT news related outlets and blogs who’ve covered the petitioning  by the Pacific Justice Institute on behalf of Pastor Joshua Beckley of San Bernardino’s Ecclesia Christian Fellowship—-to force the state’s Governor and the AG to defend Prop 8— none of them mention the ethnicity of Pastor Joshua Beckley. [...]

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Wednesday September 1st, 2010 in , , , , , , , | 20 Comments »

Why Old Arizona Anti-Immigration Ballot Initiative Could Be Death Sentence For Prop 8

This could be some hardcore poetic justice about to unfold: In March of 1997, the Supreme Court set aside a Federal appeals court’s decision that Arizona could not require state employees to speak only English on the job,(Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, No. 95-974) ordering a state employee’s challenge to Arizona’s English-only constitutional amendment [...]

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Wednesday August 18th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »