Today the California Supreme Court issued its ruling to uphold the hateful Proposition 8 banning same sex marriage. The Court also held that the 18,000 marriages that occurred between the time of Court’s ruling that gay marriage was protected under the California Constitution and when the electorate voted to amend the Constitution to ban same [...]
This article is inspired by the horrific multiple shooting that have occurred in the past few weeks. In the past few weeks there have been horrible multiple murders- two incidents in the past two days- (including the fatal shooting of a total of 7 law enforcement officers). Oakland CA, Binghamton NY and Pittsburg PA in [...]
The line often used these days by wary politicians is “I don’t support gay marriage, but I do support their right to have civil unions”. I suppose, that by itself, demonstrates progress. As recently as eight or ten years ago, one wouldn’t have heard even this level of concession. But the statement, in and of [...]
New York – November 9, 2008
With the passing of Proposition 8 in California, and similar measures in other states in recent elections, it may be time to look at what prevents the GLBT movement from moving forward. In the early ’90’s, the movement seemed to make huge leaps and bounds, but in the dawn [...]
