Republicans succeed at keeping California discriminatory against Gays
6-3-2005 California lawmakers kill off gay marriage bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's Assembly on Thursday killed off a bill that would have allowed gay marriage in the nation's most populous state.
The Democratic-controlled Assembly fell six votes short of the needed 41 votes for the bill by Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco.
None of the 33 Republicans in the 80-member Assembly backed the bill.
The U.S. is at the center of a new Halocaust.
Leading the charge is a member of P&N, incredible
It started as a hatred by the Religious and has grown into an all out call for extermination.
I'd like to know from the P&N member and those that support him how far will this go?
What is your goal of what is to be done by this group that is not even human in your eyes??
5-3-2005 Anti-Gay Laws Reveal Inhumanity
Gay Holocaust?
That was the subject line of an e-mail I received last week from "Chris," a lawyer in a red state.
He wanted to know if anybody else sees a similarity between the beginning of the Holocaust -- the nibbling away of rights and personhood that ultimately led to the attempted extermination of a people -- and what is happening to gay people in American right now.
He knows it's far-fetched. "But," he says, speaking of the conservative element that is pushing hardest against gay rights, "we are not dealing with normal people here."
Chris concedes that there are differences between the plights of Jews and gays. "But they also have this in common -- at one time in history, that time being the present for gays, they were the object of official government-sponsored hatred couched in the name of religion or morals."
And who can deny that this describes the plight of gay Americans in 2005? Or that demagogic lawmakers are using this environment to further their own ambitions?
There used to be an expression in Southern politics. The candidate who lost because he had been found insufficiently draconian on racial issues was said to have been "out-niggered." These days, the worry seems to be that one might be "out-homoed." Consider, for instance, a law under consideration in Alabama to ban books with gay characters from public school libraries.
We just don't learn.
Ours is a stable and prosperous democracy, so no, I don't predict train cars full of gays rolling toward death factories. Still, the mindset of aggrieved righteousness that allowed those trains to roll is not dissimilar from that which would ban books about gay people from public school libraries.
Maybe your instinct is to find the comparison unthinkable. Nobody is interning gays, nobody is mass murdering them.
You're right. But ask yourself: How many would if they could?
1-19-2005 Louisiana beefs up ban on gay marriage
NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in September.
"Each provision of the amendment is germane to the single object of defense of marriage and constitutes an element of the plan advanced to achieve this object," the high court said.
The court's ruling puts the amendment in the constitution.
In striking down the amendment, Judge William Morvant of Baton Rouge had ruled that the amendment also prevented the state from recognizing any legal status for common-law relationships, domestic partnerships and civil unions between both gay and heterosexual couples.
6-3-2005 California lawmakers kill off gay marriage bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's Assembly on Thursday killed off a bill that would have allowed gay marriage in the nation's most populous state.
The Democratic-controlled Assembly fell six votes short of the needed 41 votes for the bill by Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco.
None of the 33 Republicans in the 80-member Assembly backed the bill.
The U.S. is at the center of a new Halocaust.
Leading the charge is a member of P&N, incredible
It started as a hatred by the Religious and has grown into an all out call for extermination.
I'd like to know from the P&N member and those that support him how far will this go?
What is your goal of what is to be done by this group that is not even human in your eyes??
5-3-2005 Anti-Gay Laws Reveal Inhumanity
Gay Holocaust?
That was the subject line of an e-mail I received last week from "Chris," a lawyer in a red state.
He wanted to know if anybody else sees a similarity between the beginning of the Holocaust -- the nibbling away of rights and personhood that ultimately led to the attempted extermination of a people -- and what is happening to gay people in American right now.
He knows it's far-fetched. "But," he says, speaking of the conservative element that is pushing hardest against gay rights, "we are not dealing with normal people here."
Chris concedes that there are differences between the plights of Jews and gays. "But they also have this in common -- at one time in history, that time being the present for gays, they were the object of official government-sponsored hatred couched in the name of religion or morals."
And who can deny that this describes the plight of gay Americans in 2005? Or that demagogic lawmakers are using this environment to further their own ambitions?
There used to be an expression in Southern politics. The candidate who lost because he had been found insufficiently draconian on racial issues was said to have been "out-niggered." These days, the worry seems to be that one might be "out-homoed." Consider, for instance, a law under consideration in Alabama to ban books with gay characters from public school libraries.
We just don't learn.
Ours is a stable and prosperous democracy, so no, I don't predict train cars full of gays rolling toward death factories. Still, the mindset of aggrieved righteousness that allowed those trains to roll is not dissimilar from that which would ban books about gay people from public school libraries.
Maybe your instinct is to find the comparison unthinkable. Nobody is interning gays, nobody is mass murdering them.
You're right. But ask yourself: How many would if they could?
1-19-2005 Louisiana beefs up ban on gay marriage
NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in September.
"Each provision of the amendment is germane to the single object of defense of marriage and constitutes an element of the plan advanced to achieve this object," the high court said.
The court's ruling puts the amendment in the constitution.
In striking down the amendment, Judge William Morvant of Baton Rouge had ruled that the amendment also prevented the state from recognizing any legal status for common-law relationships, domestic partnerships and civil unions between both gay and heterosexual couples.
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