With the news that Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) and David Vitter (R-LA) will be putting their names on the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (somehow marriage needs protecting), I took a look around on Youtube and found this nice little video that explains Craig’s in discrepancies with the bare bone facts. Vitter was found to be connected to a D.C. prostitution ring.
This
past Saturday, the AP reported that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States voted to change the church constitution, removing “the
requirement that would-be ministers, deacons and elders live in ‘fidelity
within the covenant of marriage between and a man and a woman, or chastity in
singleness,’” further demonstrating the growing support of LGBT equality in the
religious community.
A little-told consequence of these mini “DOMA” laws was illustrated two weeks ago in California, when Bay Area Reporter Editor Cynthia Laird was finally able to marry her lesbian partner Vicki Kolakowski after the state Supreme Court ruling there overturned the ban on same-sex marriages.
Laird, born female, and
Kolakowski, born male, were
prohibited from marrying under California’s previous law. When Kolakowski
transitioned from male to female years before she met Laird, she gave up the right to marry a female partner. She and Laird are one
of many GLBT couples who do not neatly fit into how society defines our
partnerships and community.
Cases like these can't help but raise the question--is it sex—or is it mostly gender—that makes some people uncomfortable with the idea of gay marriage?
Below is the testimony of Indiana's own Bill Hendrix as well as video of his testimony before the Congressional Transgender Issues hearing.
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The list of the 2008 Democratic National Convention delegates from Indiana is out and guesses what? There seems to be a fairly healthy amount of LGBT involvement! Not just that, there is a growing number of LGBT supportive public officials that have been selected. Now, this is not an endorsement of one party or the other, this is simply showing that there is a growing number of LGBT individuals and LGBT supportive individuals that are playing a growing part in politics not just here but on a national level as well.
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For those of you who missed it, James Dobson attacked Sen. Obama on Focus on the Family on June 24th, 200 for a great speech Sen. Obama gave at 2006 Sojourners/Call to Renewal Conference which Jim Wallis hosted. Wallis is a liberal evangelical Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. Below you will find Jim Wallis's response to Dobson's attack.
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Let’s jump right it. Veritas Rex’s newest, Aaron Baker, jumps into the spotlight with a rather interesting scare tactic in his most recent blog.
I gotta give it to him; it’s pretty creative, albeit cute. He goes on and on making a correlation between the Pied Piper and a “certain” political candidate:
‘We only want the hospital to take responsibility for how they treated us and ensure that it doesn't happen to another family.’
Posted on Lambda Legal's website here.
Maine group drops anti-gay rights push
By Glenn Adams, Associated Press Writer | June 19, 2008
AUGUSTA, Maine --An initiative campaign to repeal Maine's gay rights law and put in place roadblocks to gay marriages and adoptions is being abandoned, leaders of the campaign said Thursday.
"We're pulling the plug," said Michael Heath, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine. Heath said the evangelical group failed to attract voter, volunteer and financial support it needed to continue its campaign.
As a follow up to Randy's post about the congressional hearing, one of the people's that testified at the hearing was Indianapolis's own Bill Hendrix of Dow AgroSciences (more about Bill below). Thats right, Indianapolis had one of it's own testifying in congress about transgender issues! Thanks for your participation Bill.
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