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• NJ Senate To Vote on Marriage Equality Bill Thu 1/8

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 136
  After a month of contentious debate following the 7-6 passage in the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee it has become clearer that it is unlikely there are the votes to pass a marriage equality bill through the New Jersey legislature for Governor Jon Corzine s signature before he leaves office on January 19th. ...
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• Help Ensure Prop 8 Trial is Televised

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 536
  Later this month the long-awaited trial of Proposition 8 will commence in a federal courtroom in San Francisco. Proponents will argue that Proposition 8 is a straightforward violation of the 14th Amendment and should be struck down. People across California and across the country are eagerly awaiting the trial, and ...
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• Raise Your Voice: Ask Judge Walker to Televise Proposition 8 Trial.

  
  The Gaytheist Agenda — Authority: 130
  Judge Vaughn Walker is considering whether or not to allow television cameras in the courtroom for the upcoming Proposition 8 trial. The anti-gay faction, who originally complained that marriage equality came about via “backroom deals” with “activist judges”, is now demanding they be shielded from the light ...
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• A Little Later Tuesday Afternoon

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  * Books and magazines are apparently no longer allowed on flights to and from Canada. Because, you know, freedom. * If you consider a stash of obscene videos scarier than a stash of firearms then this is the country for you. In America you have a constitutional right to own a gun, and you may traffic in firearms ...
  9 hours ago

• Lame Duck

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  The New Jersey state senate will vote on marriage equality this Thursday in an effort to get a bill to Jon Corzine before he leaves office later this month. Hopefully the chance to stick it to Chris Christie will be enough to entice conservative Democrats to do the right thing (if for the wrong reason). Here’s ...
  11 hours ago

• SHOCKER: NJ Senate To Vote On Marriage Equality This Thursday

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 712
  Stunning observers, this afternoon the NJ Senate announced that they would, after all, hold a vote on marriage equality on this Thursday . The bill is unlikely to pass. There will in fact be a vote on gay marriage in the lame duck session of the New Jersey state legislature on Thursday, NBCNewYork.com has learned. ...
  12 hours ago

• NJ Assembly Rebuffs Last Minute Plea For A Vote On Marriage Equality

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 712
  Marriage equality activists and Bible-waving opponents faced off outside the New Jersey state house yesterday as Garden State Equality made a last-minute pitch to convince to convince lawmakers to make a vote on marriage before session ends on January 11th. Governor-elect Chris Christie takes office on the 19th. ...
  17 hours ago

• Talk Show Host Wendy Williams Talks About Gay Marriage

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 146
  Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams has a message to the LGBT community as it fights to win marriage rights: in order to reach African Americans, they need to hear from and see out black people. Otherwise there will continue to be large blocs of black voters opposed to granting marriage rights to same-sex couples, ...
  17 hours ago

• IA: One Iowa Holds Marriage Equality Forum

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 146
  "If a law gets passed that doesnt affect everyone equally, then it gets looked at by the law, not by what you are taught in church or at home," said Marty Elberg, an attorney from Eagle Grove. "Its what the law says." On April 3, 2009, the Supreme Court of Iowa ruled, through a unanimous decision, that gay and ...
  17 hours ago

• Love Takes Over

  
  I Should Be Laughing — Authority: 143
  What is it? Well, its this: Love Takes Over is a one week, one unified voice takeover of America’s local newspapers. Whats needed if for everyone to write an opinion piece, a Letter To The Editor, in support of marriage equality. It takes place this week, from January 32d through January 9th, so get off ...
  17 hours ago

• GAVIN NEWSOM: EQUALITY FOR LESBIANS AND GAYS IS AN INEVITABILITY

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  BY GAVIN NEWSOM Special to The Sacramento Bee It all started in January 2004 when I attended George W. Bush’s State of the Union address. In the midst of two major wars and serious fear about national security and terrorism, the president of the United States chose to highlight a social issue. The president ...
  19 hours ago

• National Organization For Marriage’s Radical Anti-Gay Agenda

  
  Providence Daily Dose — Authority: 493
  Queer Action and I both have articles posted elsewhere — here and here, respectively – about the icky letter that the RI chapter of the National Organization for Marriage sent to legislators last week in opposition to the override of the funeral rights legislation veto.  From Queer Action: This letter is ...
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• Lincoln Chafee Announces 2010 Bid For Rhode Island Governor

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 712
  Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island GOP Senator turned independent Obama supporter, says he will run for governor of Rhode Island in 2010. Chafee has been an outspoken supporter of marriage equality, the only GOP Senator to do so. Mr. Chafee, 56, left the Republican Party after his loss to Sheldon ...
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• New Hampshire is now the 5th state to allow marriage equality

  
  Family Equality Council Blog — Authority: 115
  While couples around the world rang in the New Year, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples in New Hampshire also celebrated the recognition of marriage equality. At 12:01 a.m. Friday, New Hampshire’s law legalizing marriage equality took effect. More than a dozen LGBT couples gathered at the ...
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• IA: One Iowa Launching New Marriage Equality Campaign

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 146
  Red or blue, young or old, gay or straight; equality shouldn¹t be a partisan issue. On Jan. 10, the eve of the 2010 legislative session, One Iowa will launch a major legislative campaign to oppose a constitutional amendment that would seek to deny gay and lesbian couples the freedom to marry in Iowa . Equality: ...
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• Malawi: Gay Couple Beaten in Prison, May Break Up

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 146
  Since they became the first openly gay couple in Malawi to be engaged, Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza have been arrested, put in prison and charged with offences that could lead to a 14-year jail sentence. Between true love and gay martyrdom, however, is the brutal reality of life in a Malawi prison. ...
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• Stand your Ground, Mayor Ebrard

  
  I Should Be Laughing — Authority: 143
  Whats all the hubbub, bub? The mayor of Mexico City has refused to veto the bill introducing gay marriage. The law, which was approved just before Christmas--Feliz Navidad, LGBT community in Mexico City--has been criticized heavily since day one. Opponents have been urging Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, Democratic ...
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• Love, Honor, Cherish, Attack?

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 145
  Chris Farris grew up in the DC suburbs and has lived in DC since graduating from law school in 1992. He works as an in-house attorney for a high-tech company and is Co-Chair of GLOV (Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence) , a non-profit, grassroots task force of the DC Center that works to reduce hate crimes against ...
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• AMERICAN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS’ ROLE IN UGANDA ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  Demonstrators carried banners denouncing homosexuality in December in Kampala, Uganda. BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN The New York Times KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here ...
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• Welcome New Hampshire. I think I Love You.

  
  I Should Be Laughing — Authority: 143
  Well, while Carlos and I were toasting in 2010 with a glass--or two--of champagne, gay and lesbian couples in New Hampshire became the fifth state to recognize and perform same-sex marriages. Welcome to the 21st century New Hampshire, maybe you could pass the word along to Maine, California, New York, and all ...
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