Same Sex Marriage

In a Nontraditional Relationship? Beware These 7 Financial Pitfalls

Submitted by ONE Community on June 9, 2012 - 2:52pm

Last week, Forbes contributor Nancy Anderson wrote about some of the ways that “couples unknowingly sabotage their finances.”  But as difficult as it can be to manage money in any relationship, it can be even more challenging when that relationship is a domestic partnership, civil union, or same-sex marriage. That’s because despite President Obama’s recent change of heart, none of those relationships come with all the same rights and privileges as a traditional marriage. Read more »

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Paul Singer to fund pro-gay GOP super PAC

Submitted by ONE Community on June 9, 2012 - 2:48pm

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer is one of the GOP's most sought-after donors, and has also been a driving force in New York State's push for gay marriage. Along with Michael Bloomberg, Singer has used his financial resources to nudge Republican legislators in the direction of supporting same-sex unions, giving an incentive for them to buck the party line where the political down side might otherwise be too great.

And now, Singer tells the New York Times's Frank Bruni that he's going to bankroll a super PAC that could accomplish the same goal on the federal level: Read more »

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Arizona miscellaneous poll

Submitted by ONE Community on June 4, 2012 - 11:46am

President Obama won’t be seeing any backlash in Arizona for his recent declaration of support for gay marriage.  77% of Arizona voters believe gay couples should either be allowed to marry or form civil unions. And support isn’t just limited to liberal voters—in addition to 94% support from Democrats, 63% of Republicans and 83% of independents back gay marriages or civil unions.

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Attorney general backs challenges to gay marriage ban

Submitted by ONE Community on June 2, 2012 - 10:47pm

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office has filed a notice in Cook County Circuit Court saying it will present arguments in support of two lawsuits that question the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban.

The lawsuits, filed Wednesday, are against the clerk of Cook County and claim that his refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples violates those couples’ rights to due process and equal protection under the Illinois Constitution.

Today's filing said that the attorney general will "present the Court with arguments that explain why the challenged statutory provisions do not satisfy the guarantee of equality under the Illinois Constitution." Read more »

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Cynthia Nixon marries Christine Marinoni

Submitted by ONE Community on May 28, 2012 - 8:42pm

The former "Sex and the City" star and her long-term partner Christine Marinoni - with whom she raises 15-month-old son Max, as well as kids Samantha, 16, and 10-year-old Charles from her marriage to Danny Mozes - tied the knot in New York Sunday, May 27.

Her publicist confirmed to People: "On May 27, 2012, Cynthia Nixon and her girlfriend, Christine Marinoni, were legally married in the state of New York. Nixon wore a custom dress by Carolina Herrera."

No further details about the ceremony are currently available.

Cynthia and Christine got engaged three years ago at a rally to support gay marriage in New York, which was not legal at that time. Read more »

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Charles L. Worley, North Carolina Pastor: Put Gays And Lesbians In Electrified Pen To Kill Them Off

Submitted by ONE Community on May 21, 2012 - 8:48pm
Charles L. Worley, North Carolina Pastor: Put Gays And Lesbians In Electrified Pen To Kill Them Off

The barrage of anti-gay sermons delivered by North Carolina-based pastors to hit the blogosphere continues with yet another disturbing rant caught on tape.

The pastor, identified on YouTube as Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., condemns President Obama's much-publicized endorsement of same-sex marriage while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed off.

"Build a great, big, large fence -- 150 or 100 mile long -- put all the lesbians in there," Worley suggests in the clip, reportedly filmed on May 13. Read more »

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Colorado Senate Republican women vote ‘aye’ on civil unions, send strong message to House leaders

Submitted by ONE Community on March 25, 2011 - 1:04pm

Senate Republicans delivered Pat Steadman’s same-sex civil unions bill to the Republican-controlled House Thursday with momentum and a message. Although the twelve Republican men in the Senate voted against it, the three Republican women in the Senate voted in favor of the bill, making the case to leaders of the Republican-controlled House to take up the bill with good faith and allow it to move beyond committees and onto the floor of the House for a vote.

Democratic Senator Mike Johnston celebrated the Senate vote as another step toward making real the “old promise” that “all men are created equal,” a statement tinged with irony given the role played by the Republican women in advancing the bill. Read more »

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Gay Marriage Seems to Wane as Conservative Issue

Submitted by ONE Community on February 28, 2011 - 1:02pm

President Obama’s decision to abandon his legal support for the Defense of Marriage Act has generated only mild rebukes from the Republicans hoping to succeed him in 2012, evidence of a shifting political climate in which social issues are being crowded out by economic concerns.

The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that after two years of defending the law — hailed by proponents in 1996 as an cornerstone in the protection of traditional values — the president and his attorney general have concluded it is unconstitutional. Read more »

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In Efforts to End Bullying, Some See Agenda

Submitted by ONE Community on November 7, 2010 - 10:06am
THE NEW YORK TIMES By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: November 6, 2010

HELENA, Mont. — Alarmed by evidence that gay and lesbian students are common victims of schoolyard bullies, many school districts are bolstering their anti-harassment rules with early lessons in tolerance, explaining that some children have “two moms” or will grow up to love members of the same sex.

But such efforts to teach acceptance of homosexuality, which have gained urgency after several well-publicized suicides by gay teenagers, are provoking new culture wars in some communities.

Many educators and rights advocates say that official prohibitions of slurs and taunts are most effective when combined with frank discussions, from kindergarten on, about diverse families and sexuality.

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Are Republicans 'co-opting' gay rights?

Submitted by ONE Community on September 3, 2010 - 8:39am

The Washington Post
Adam Serwer of the American Prospect is guest blogging on The Plum Line this week.

Pro-gay rights Republicans seem to be less of an oxymoron these days. Former Solicitor General Ted Olson is, along with Ted Boies, leading the fight in the courts against California's ban on same-sex marriage and schooling Fox News on what fundamental rights are. Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman has come out and begun raising money for the pro-equality group Americans for Equal Rights. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who once called Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot," is headlining a political convention for gay and lesbian conservatives, and Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Rep. Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, will be appearing alongside other GOP elected officials at a dinner hosted by the Log Cabin Republicans. Even Glenn Beck has said he doesn't think gay marriage is a "threat to the country."

Not all of these cases indicate an instance in which Republicans have embraced gay rights or even marriage equality -- Cornyn and Sessions for example, are merely attending the event -- but it's hard not to conclude, as Marc Ambinder writes, that "it's becoming less of a stigma for bigwigs to associate with gays in the Republican Party."

That, according to Sam Stein, has some Democrats worried. Stein quotes a "prominent Democratic consultant":

 

 

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