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Which Comic Book Heroes Would Oppose California's Proposition 8?

Posted 5/27/09 12:36 pm EST by in Proposition 8

FROM SPLASH PAGE: We've seen some next-level lists in our day, but we have to give it up for Alan Kistler, who contributed the following list to our Splash Page: Five comic-book heroes who would do their utmost to oppose California's controversial Proposition 8!

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Sotomayor Nominated For Supreme Court (Yay!); California Upholds Prop 8 (Boo!), By Kim Stolz

Posted 5/26/09 6:40 pm EST by in Obama, Proposition 8

Judge SotomayorIn a decision that I find disappointing, California's Supreme Court decided to uphold Proposition 8, thus continuing California's ban on same-sex marriage. The one positive caveat to the decision was that the 18,000 marriages already completed in the state would remain in tact. 18,000 of the millions of gay people in California have equal rights. Yay? Oh well.

The decision ratifying Prop 8 runs in stark contrast to the apparent temperature of much of the United States, with what seems to be a domino effect of same-sex marriage legalization: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Iowa have all legalized same-sex marriage, Vermont's law will take effect in September, and New York is (hopefully) not far behind.

The bright side of this dark decision comes twofold today. One, Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Barack Obama to the highest court in the land, the United States Supreme Court. A month ago, I wrote a piece for Fox Forum predicting Sotomayor to be the best choice for the position. I argued that she fulfilled Obama's call for change, as her appointment would be a historical one (she'd be the first Latino on the Court), and her experience with community building and pro-socal work is extensive. Further, she was named a U.S. District Court judge by George H.W. Bush in 1992 and elevated to her current seat on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by Bill Clinton, giving her a bi-partisan background. She's a liberal judge, but Obama claims that she will "interpret" laws rather than make them.
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Are Prop 8 Opponents Using EightMaps.com For The Right Reasons?

Posted 2/10/09 3:54 pm EST by in Proposition 8

Proposition 8On Monday, news broke of a Web site called EightMaps.com that reveals personal information about people and organizations who donated money in support of Proposition 8, which passed on November 4, ending the legality of gay marriage in California.

Campaign finance laws are tricky things. Protect Marriage, an anti-gay marriage group that has led the fight for Proposition 8 as well as the fight against disclosing personal information about donors, is arguing that the release of these names has led to death threats, vandalism and harassment of those who supported the amendment. People have even allegedly been getting envelopes containing white powder. How cliché! Come on, guys, we have better methods of getting our message across! Read More...

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Prop 8 Protest Rally Instills Kim Stolz And Others With Hope For Future Of Gay Rights

Posted 11/17/08 12:07 am EST by in Gay Rights, Proposition 8

Yesterday, I came out again. It wasn't quite like when I begrudgingly came out to my parents in 10th grade, and it wasn't like coming out on "America's Next Top Model," on the television screens of people whom I never had to see. Before I said the words "I'm gay" onstage to several thousand people standing below, my mind flipped back to the moment that Ellen DeGeneres said the same words into the microphone at the airport on "Ellen." (I know, could I be more gay? Probably not.)

There was something different about yesterday's "coming out" moment, beyond the fact that I was staring at my parents, who were surrounded by thousands of gay people (a first for them, undoubtedly). This time, I was coming out for a tangible, structured, pro-social, and active reason.


Yesterday, 4,000 people gathered in front of City Hall to protest the passing of Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California. Read More...

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Celebrities And Voters React To The Passing Of Prop 8

Posted 11/14/08 7:23 pm EST by in Proposition 8

By Garth Bardsley

Election '08 marked a dark day for gay rights. Since several states passed ballot initiatives limiting the rights of same-sex couples — including Proposition 8 in California — protests have erupted from coast to coast. Celebrities have been quite vocal about the issue, from Christina Aguilera telling MTV News, "I think [Prop 8] is discrimination," to Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy saying, "It's interesting how forward-thinking we come off by electing Barack Obama, but then how in the dark we still are by voting 'yes' on Prop 8." Pete Wentz, Whoopi Goldberg, Keith Olbermann and even Spencer Pratt have all weighed in on the issue.

The effect that the large African-American voter turnout in California had on the passing of Proposition 8 continues to be debated throughout the media. A report from The Associated Press states that seven in 10 black voters in California supported the prop, along with 52 percent of Latinos. Other reporters and bloggers have been more reticent to indict any one racial group, saying the divide was more generational. The Web site FiveThirtyEight writes, "If nobody over the age of 65 had voted, Prop 8 would have failed by a vote or two."
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