Showing posts with label gay marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay marriage. Show all posts
4.24.2011
4.05.2011
Rhode Island: Civil Unions if you are eighteen or older
(TODAY) The Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee is debating whether or not the state should legalize civil unions between individuals who are age 18 or older.
In what started as a same-sex marriage debate it seems that Rhode Island has not only shied away from equal rights for the LGBT community, but also decided to lump a bunch of other issues into the mix.
If cleared through the state House and Senate, the new law would permit civil unions between:
- Relatives
- Unmarried siblings
- Almost anyone over 18
Understandably, people could use this new law to join together to make medical decisions and be allotted some of the legal rights that nearly any heterosexual person can obtain through marriage.
This is the same House committee that oversaw debate on the state's gay marriage bill. Although both the House and Senate have examined and discussed the gay marriage bill, no vote has been scheduled despite encouragement from Governor Chafee who supports same-sex marriage.
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Just another example of "Well you can have this... but you cannot have what straight people have..." 2nd class citizens.
In what started as a same-sex marriage debate it seems that Rhode Island has not only shied away from equal rights for the LGBT community, but also decided to lump a bunch of other issues into the mix.
If cleared through the state House and Senate, the new law would permit civil unions between:
- Relatives
- Unmarried siblings
- Almost anyone over 18
Understandably, people could use this new law to join together to make medical decisions and be allotted some of the legal rights that nearly any heterosexual person can obtain through marriage.
This is the same House committee that oversaw debate on the state's gay marriage bill. Although both the House and Senate have examined and discussed the gay marriage bill, no vote has been scheduled despite encouragement from Governor Chafee who supports same-sex marriage.
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Just another example of "Well you can have this... but you cannot have what straight people have..." 2nd class citizens.
8.05.2010
Proposition 8 Overturned in California
As mentioned before, I am being paid to write as the LA County Independent Examiner.
Here's the prediction that I made in November of 2008 on this issue, where I emphatically stated that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional and would be overturned. LINK LINK LINK
AND BELOW IS beginning of my latest article:
(San Francisco) A Federal Judge in Northern California, Justice Vaughn Walker, struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage today, thus overruling the narrow passage of Proposition 8 that was voted on in November of 2008.
The voiding of Proposition 8 definitively removed the clause the measure had added to the California Constitution that said "only marriage between a man and..."
CLICK TO READ REST OF ARTICLE
Here's the prediction that I made in November of 2008 on this issue, where I emphatically stated that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional and would be overturned. LINK LINK LINK
AND BELOW IS beginning of my latest article:
(San Francisco) A Federal Judge in Northern California, Justice Vaughn Walker, struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage today, thus overruling the narrow passage of Proposition 8 that was voted on in November of 2008.
The voiding of Proposition 8 definitively removed the clause the measure had added to the California Constitution that said "only marriage between a man and..."
CLICK TO READ REST OF ARTICLE
6.17.2010
Eminem Comes Out of Closet
Famous white rapper and well-known loud-mouth, Eminem, (Marshall Mathers, Slim Shady, whatever) has 'matured.'
He now fully supports same-sex marriage in Michigan, his home state.
Which may be surprising considering his release last year of the song 'Elevator,' in which he states:
"Sorry Lance, Mr. Lambert and Aiken ain't gonna make it, fake it
They get so mad, when I call them both fagots."
Not to mention the handful of other songs and comments that he has rapped and made over the past years of his untalented career (in my opinion).
He made the same quip that many people do on this topic when speaking to The New York Times... if same-sex couples wish to marry, they have every right to be as miserable as their straight counter-parts...
"It's the new tolerant me! My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be."
Now let's just wait for him to make out with Elton John at some music award event.
He now fully supports same-sex marriage in Michigan, his home state.
Which may be surprising considering his release last year of the song 'Elevator,' in which he states:
"Sorry Lance, Mr. Lambert and Aiken ain't gonna make it, fake it
They get so mad, when I call them both fagots."
Not to mention the handful of other songs and comments that he has rapped and made over the past years of his untalented career (in my opinion).
He made the same quip that many people do on this topic when speaking to The New York Times... if same-sex couples wish to marry, they have every right to be as miserable as their straight counter-parts...
"It's the new tolerant me! My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be."
Now let's just wait for him to make out with Elton John at some music award event.
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