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• Rock legend Bruce Springsteen speaks out in support of marriage equality

  
  QTC — Authority: 144
  With the fight for marriage equality happening in his home state of New Jersey, Grammy award-winning musician, Bruce Springsteen released this statement expressing his support for gay marriage: Like many of you who live in New Jersey, Ive been following the progress of the marriage-equality legislation currently ...
  6 hours ago

• New Jersey Should Listen to the Boss

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  Bruce has made a special appeal to the New Jersey state legislature to pass its pending marriage equality bill this Thursday.
  8 hours ago

• New Jersey Senate Panel Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 713
  Trenton, NJ (AHN) – The Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey Senate narrowly passed a gay marriage bill late Monday night, less than a week after the City Council in the District of Columbia approved its own legislation giving gay couples the right to marry. Members of the Judiciary panel voted 7-6 to approve the ...
  12 hours ago

• Maine Reporter Fired For Personal Email Against Marriage Equality

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 704
  Larry Grard, an 18-year veteran of Maines Morning Sentinel , has been fired after his employers were notified by the Human Rights Campaign that he had sent them an "in your face" email from his personal account on the morning after the vote to repeal same-sex marriage. Larry Grard admits he had “a lapse in ...
  17 hours ago

• New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Marriage Equality Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  On Monday, December 7, New Jersey’s Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to legally marry. The bill, which passed in a 7-6 vote, will be voted on by the full Senate on Thursday. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports : The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the ...
  17 hours ago

• Audio: DC Equal Marriage Supporter Rev. Dennis Wiley on Montel Williams Show

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Yesterday, Rev. Dennis Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church and co-chair of DC’s Clergy United for Marriage Equality appeared on Montel Williams’ Air America Radio show “Montel Across America.”  Check out the audio on the show’s site, beginning at about the one hour mark.Rev. Wiley (and his wife Rev. ...
  19 hours ago

• NY Gov. Paterson On Marriage Vote

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 704
  I just came across this clip of Gov. Patersons great speech at the Union Square post-vote rally/protest on Thursday, in which he vowed to bring the NY Senate back for another vote "if I think the votes are there." Paterson is probably the single greatest LGBT ally of any state governor - we owe him our vigorous ...
  20 hours ago

• Applause after NJ committee approves gay marriage bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  (Trenton, NJ)  The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee handed proponents of marriage equality an important first-round victory last night, approving a bill that could make New Jersey the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage. The panel’s 7- 6 approval came shortly after ten o’clock Monday night, after more ...
  20 hours ago

• Religious Advocacy Makes a Difference: Episcopal Church Elects Openly Lesbian Bishop

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  As we mourn the setback to marriage equality in New York State, celebrate the very likely win in the District of Columbia and continue to advocate for equal marriage in New Jersey, we are continually aware of the power of religious leaders speaking out on LGBT issues.  In Washington D.C., a group of religious ...
  20 hours ago

• Straight New York Woman Auctions Her Right To Marry On eBay

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 704
  JMG reader Scott tips us to this eBay auction : Im an unmarried heterosexual woman, and since I probably wont be using my right to get married, I would like to give it away. I would like to sell it to the highest bidder and donate the proceeds to an organization that supports LGBT rights since the government ...
  20 hours ago

• Twin Cities Friends Meeting stops signing civil marriage certificates for 3 years

  
  Musings of a Quaker Witch — Authority: 99
  Twin Cities Friends Meeting has approved a new minute on marriage equality. The minute is presented in full over at Liz Opps blog . Theres also an interview on Minnesota Public Radio with the Clerk of the Meeting. The minute is powerful; doubly so, with the bits and pieces I know about the process behind it ...
  21 hours ago

• N.J. marriage bill passes committee

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  In a 7-6 vote, New Jersey’s marriage equality bill moved out of the Judiciary Committee and will now move on to a floor debate with a vote scheduled for Thursday.  According to the New York Times, Democrats are not yet sure if they have the 21 votes to pass the bill:But the measure faces an [...] N.J. marriage ...
  21 hours ago

• New Jersey Senate Committee Passes Marriage Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Last night the New Jersey Senate Judiciary committee voted 7 to 6 to send a marriage equality bill to the full Senate for its consideration (for an audio archive of the committee testimony, head to Good-As-You).  Reports indicate that vote could come as soon as Thursday.After facing defeats for equal marriage lately ...
  21 hours ago

• NJ Senate Committee Passes Marriage Equality Bill 7-6

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 433
  The New Jersey State Senate Judiciary Committee, consisting of 8 Democrats and 5 Republicans voted 7-6 to send the marriage equality bill, S1967 , to the floor of the State Senate on Monday after more than 7 hours of debate. Blue Jersey summarized the committee thusly : Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen) : Chairman, ...
  21 hours ago

• Hypocrisy on Prade

  
  Vast Variety — Authority: 417
  Recently the New York State senate voted down a marriage equality bill that would have legalized same-sex marriages performed in that state. One of the state Senators who voted against that bill was Sen. Hiram Monserrate. Monserrate currently has a court order against him preventing him from seeing the woman he ...
  21 hours ago

• Where The Gay Couples Are

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 704
  Via the Economist : In 2008 Maine had the second highest concentration of gay households, with over eight in every 1,000 households said to be headed by partners of the same sex, according to research based on census data by the Williams Institute, a gay rights think-tank at UCLA. Those states where gay marriage ...
  21 hours ago

• Minnesota Quakers Wont Certify Marriages Until Its Legal For Everybody

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 704
  A Quaker group in Minneapolis-St.Paul has announced that they will no longer certify marriages until the right is granted to everybody. "Were simply trying to be consistent with the will of God as we perceive it," said Paul Landskroener, clerk of the Twin Cities Friends Meeting, in an interview with MPRs All ...
  23 hours ago

• Protecting Traditional Marriage

  
  The Pajama Pundit — Authority: 488
  Protecting marriage from everything , including divorce: "Since California has decided to protect traditional marriage, I think it would be hypocritical of us not to sacrifice some of our own rights to protect traditional marriage even more," the 38-year-old married father of two told the Associated Press. ...
  23 hours ago

• This Is What I Mean

  
  I Should Be Laughing — Authority: 480
  Politics is about the money. Who can give you the most so you can run an expensive campaign and keep your job. I mean, its simple survival, right? Except when you take money from the LGBT community and then vote to deny them equal rights. Then, as Ricky would say to Lucy, you have some splaining to do. Pissed ...
  23 hours ago

• Ireland: Civil Unions Bill Likely to Pass This Month

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  As the United States engages in a heated debate over gay marriage, European Union countries are rapidly striding toward total recognition of same-sex civil unions, if not marriage. The most recent example is Ireland.Last Thursday saw Ireland become the latest country to edge toward marriage equality for homosexual ...
  1 day ago

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