Gay marriage

Barack Obama Product of Gay Marriage

YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | yesterday

Well, according to ABC's Terry Moran he is. Damn. So close....

Senegal: Committed fraud against Belgian authorities, arrested for gay marriage

Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | yesterday

Senegal has jailed a Belgian retiree and his male Senegalese domestic helper for two years for "homosexual marriage and acts against nature," their lawyer said Thursday. Richard Lambot, 61, and Moustapha Gueye, 63, who wedded in Belgium -- where civil gay marriage is legal -- last month, were sentenced by the Dakar regional court on Augusut 21, said lawyer Seyni Ndione. "To help Moustapha Gueye get...

• Senegal Arrests Married Gays - Queerty

Gay-Marriage Lawyer Ties Knot

Legal Pad (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Six months after Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese Stewart made her arguments about gay marriage to the Supreme Court, she finally got to make it personal. About 150 people gathered to see Stewart and her partner of 16 years, solo...

Connecticut Supreme Court May Be Deadlocked On Gay Marriage

feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

An article in the New Haven Advocate speculates that the long delay in a gay marraige ruling in the Connecticut Supreme Court — they heard the case in May 2007 1 — may indicate a deadlocked court. There’s a more plausible explanation for the delay than politics: The justices are deadlocked. Long, a visiting assistant professor at University of Connecticut School of Law, says it’s unlikely a ruling...

Poll Finds Calif. Voters Oppose Gay Marriage Ban

WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

California voters appear ready to reject the same-sex marriage ban on the November ballot even though they remain evenly divided about gay unions, according to a new poll released Wednesday night.

• Poll Finds Calif. Voters Oppose Gay Marriage Ban - Chicago news
• Poll Finds Calif. Voters Oppose Gay Marriage Ban - cbs4denver.com: National Politics

Blog Dredging: Gay Marriage Worse Than Tsunamis

Slap Upside The Head (Free subscription) | yesterday

Let’s forgo the mainstream news sources for today. It’s time for some blog dredgin’! Writing from his free account at Mississauga Blogs, Surjit Singh, reporter for Ontario’s Hamdard Weekly Punjabi community newspaper, argues against same-sex marriage by comparing it to the horror and mayhem of tsunamis: Scary, Horrifying, Terrifying, Fearsome are the descriptive words used to describe [...]

Candidates' views on gay marriage

The Daily Vidette (Free subscription) | yesterday

In May, the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on gay marriage, allowing same-sex couples to marry starting in June. The ruling gave the issue even more significance in the 2008 election. California stands with Massachusetts as one of two states that allow such marriages.

Obama on Gay Marriage

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | yesterday

Obama: "I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination." Not as hardcore pro-gay marriage as I'd like, but a refreshing change from Kerry's pussyfooting around the gay marriage issue in 2004.

Love and Marriage

John Goodman's Health Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Marriage for some is not for the points. It's for the health insurance. [link] Here is Posner on the economics of marriage, gay marriage, polygamy, etc. and a case for privatizing the whole affair. Here is Becker on the same subject. Here is the latest from the NCPA on the marriage tax.

California gay marriage opponents seek religious coalition

PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Mormons, Jews, Sikhs and Hindu's are being asked to join forces to support an amendment to the state Constitution of California banning same-sex marriages.

Hallmark Introduces Gay Marriage Cards

ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

The nation's largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards -- featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside. "Two hearts. One promise," one says.

AP falsely suggests Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees

Media Matters (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

In an August 29 article , the Associated Press reported that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "opposes gay marriage -- constitutionally banned in Alaska before her time -- but exercised a veto that essentially granted benefits to gay state employees and their partners." However, the AP did not note, as the AP had previously reported, that the bill she vetoed in December 2006 was a response to a 2005 Alaska...

POLL SHOWS CALIF. VOTERS OPPOSING PROP 8: Associated Press

MARRIAGEDEBATE.COM--MAIN BLOG (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

reports: ...A majority of likely voters, 54 percent, oppose ending gay marriage, compared with 40 percent who support it, the poll said. The result is similar to the findings of a Field Poll in July, which found that 51 percent of likely California voters opposed ending gay marriage, while 42 percent said they supported it. But when it comes to general attitudes about gay marriage, voters in the Public...

• Voters oppose ban on gay marriage - The Washington Times
• Analysis: California Voters Are Rejecting Prop. 8 - Box Turtle Bulletin
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Sarah Palin

Vantage point (Free subscription) | yesterday

So McCain has decided to pick a woman as his VP nominee, to go after disgruntled Hillary voters. Of course, she is as un-Hillary-ish as possible. Pro-life, anti-gay-marriage, pro-gun, NRA member, avid hunter, mother of 5 kids..... and look at her - Whether this makes the female demographic favor the McCain-Palin ticket remains to be seen. One thing is for sure. The American-Pie-fan demographic might...

JOHN MCCAIN - Picks Right Winger Sarah Palin As His Running Mate!

AstroChicks (Free subscription) | yesterday

Wow, I did not see this one coming. John McCain has picked Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, as his running mate. She’s a gun toting, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, anti-environment right winger, and ex beauty queen. I shudder to think she could actually become our President if McCain was elected. Jeez, it’s like picking Ann Coulter as [...]

UK bishop orders probe of "marriage" by gay clerics

raimondo | 06/16/2008

'Marriage' reignites gay clergy row The first gay "marriage" to be held in an Anglican church has reignited controversy over homosexual clergy and same sex civil partnerships. Reverend Peter Cowell and the Rev Dr David Lord exchanged vows at St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London last month. Church of England guidelines say gay clergy can enter a civil partnership if they provide reassurance...