Iowa Court Rules Against Same-Sex Marriage Ban
By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 3, 2009; 1:16 PM
The Iowa Supreme Court today declared unconstitutional a state ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for Iowa to join two other states in allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.
In a unanimous decision, the seven-member court upheld a [...]

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You can see a scene from the movie with this song in it HERE.

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“What is the morals of a gay person? You can’t answer that because anything goes.”
~ Utah Senator Chris Buttars
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Oh, he said plenty with that little comment, but he’s been saying more.  I can’t wait until this breed of bigot in power evolves already.
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From this week’s batch of Postsecrets.

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Watching the video this morning that TSA posted (that is her comment I copied from an open thread below) really choked me up. It made me cry. It made me think.I know what she means about how we hear so much of the negative. I used to watch Phil Donohue and shows [...]

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Equality Maryland, the state’s largest gay rights group, was among the peaceful protest groups to be classified as terrorists in a Maryland State Police database.
The group was designated a “security threat” by the Homeland Security and Intelligence Division, which also kept dossiers on dozens of activists and at least a dozen groups. Police kept files [...]

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The below quote is EXACTLY how I feel about these developments.  I think it is utterly REE-DICK-U-LUSS to waste time and money prosecuting this at all.  It’s also humiliating for the kids involved and frankly, I think it’s damned unconstitutional!  These laws were made to protect children – the spirit of the law is not [...]

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It’s impossible to think of one this week, without thinking of the other.

Obama – Luther King by *BenHeine on deviantART

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In the “gosh, that’s a huge surprise” department – religion played a major role in the new bit of the California Constitution that takes away rights – but only to a certain apparently undeserving minority in sunny California.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Voters’ economic status and religious convictions played a greater role than race and age in [...]

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Below the *** is some info from the Matthew25 Network.  It was obviously written during the campaign – hence the McCain comments.  However, all I am interested in is showing how some of Obama’s policies will help reduce abortion rates.
Some people say some pretty disgusting and ignorant things about Obama regarding babies.
In any case, I [...]

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In my opinion, the objectors have a 1st Amendment right to state their opinion regarding this ad campaign; however, the objectors right doesn’t trump the American Humanist Association’s right to state their beliefs, in my opinion.
Kytja Weir, Examiner Staff Writer
Hundreds of people have fired off complaints to Metro for running an ad campaign on [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — The Bush administration on Tuesday will try to convince a federal judge to let stand a law granting retroactive legal immunity to the nation’s telecoms, which are accused of transmitting Americans’ private communications to the National Security Agency without warrants.
At issue in the high-stakes showdown — set to begin at 10:00 a.m. [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — An Army lieutenant general has become the first woman in U.S. military history to get four stars.
The military on Friday promoted Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, who has served in several command positions in her 33-year Army career.
She will command Army Materiel Command, responsible for equipping, arming and outfitting soldiers.
“There is no [...]

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Did y’all hear?  Ted Haggard is back.  I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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Haggard Claims He Suffered Child Abuse
CBNNews.com

November 13, 2008

CBNNews.com – Former pastor Ted Haggard recently opened up about the scandal that caused his downfall as the leader of a Colorado megachurch and that also led to his resignation as the president [...]

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One step forward…two steps back.  Black Americans move forward while slapping back civil rights for a minority group, homosexuals.
An excerpt from an LA Times article that DDG has posted today:
“I was born black. I can’t change that,” said Culver City resident Bilson Davis, 57, who voted for Proposition 8. “They weren’t born gay; they chose [...]

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