Posts Tagged ‘ Marriage ’

Wisconsin congresswoman Tammy Baldwin responded to the Proposition 8 decision from CA Supreme Court, “We live in a democracy wherein majority rule is checked and balanced by the guarantee of inalienable minority rights. This case, as it wends its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, presents jurists with fundamental questions about minority rights...
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Eliminates the Law Allowing Married Couples to Divorce. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Summary Date: 10/23/09 Circulation Deadline: 03/22/10 Signatures Required: 694,354 Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the ability of married couples to get divorced in California. Preserves the ability of married couples to seek an annulment. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director...
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Another GOP Conservative, Christian, Anti-Gay Politician Outed! Lt Governor Bauer! It looks like there is talk of empeachment, not at all before spending money illegally, misuse of funds and so much more . . . but being gay that is the big issue.  Wow the GOP doesn’t know their political priorities. “How do you...
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Gay marriage ‘legal’ in Sims 3 Popular EA game, ‘The Sims 3′, was released this week at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. And while California recently opposed legalizing gay marriage, the makers of ‘The Sims’ have allowed it in their newest version. Lyle Masaki at After Elton explained that in the game’s first...
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Recent legal and legislative decisions to legalize gay marriage in Iowa and Vermont have brought suggestions from some commentators that government should get out of the marriage business entirely, grant civil unions to all couples and leave marriage to religious faiths. But University of Iowa law professor Ann Estin said that while such ideas...
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