Buried on page A12 of this morning’s paper is a brief item, but what may be the most intriguging piece of news in the whole paper:
Carrie Prejean herself is coming to Lancaster, to speak at Thursday’s “Celebration of Marriage and Family” banquet, hosted by the Pennsylvania Family Institute.
No link because we don’t actually have it […]

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And so here’s a story about the Republican governor of Rhode Island vetoing a bill that would give same-sex couples the right to plan the funeral of a late partner.
Why? I bet you know why:
The socially conservative Republican said the proposed protection represents a “disturbing trend” of the incremental erosion of heterosexual marriage. Rhode Island […]

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sigh…
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) declared in a radio interview that same sex marriage is part of a socialist agenda to undermine “the foundations of individual rights and liberties.”
Said King: “Not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis.”
As Sullivan notes, “socialism” has now become the catch-all […]

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Massachusetts permits gays to marry and its divorce rate actually drops.

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…too often a contradiction in terms. But John Aravosis thinks if such a creature DID exist in the Democractic leadership, it:
…would immediately bring up for a vote the repeal of DOMA while the Republicans are reeling from their second bimbo eruption in a week. Let the Republicans start talking about the protection of traditional marriage.

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E-mail of the day, regarding last weekend’s bit on gay marriage:
The proof that homosexual marriage is wrong is found in the Bible and God doesn’t approve of it.
Why was Sodom and Gomorra destroyed to dust-homosexual conduct.
In Romans it is not approved. I understand that you do not believe that you will be judged for actions […]

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As Josh Marshall notes, this appears to be the first case where a legislature legalized it - and the governor signed the bill - that was not prompted by a court case.
The ball is beginning to pick up speed. More states will follow - probably not Pennsylvania, but others in the Northeast. Some states will […]

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Miley Cyrus makes statements supporting gay marriage. American Family Association goes full metal wingnut:
Miley Cyrus responded to Hilton through her Twitter.com account with the following comments:
• “Everyone deserves to love and be loved and most importantly smile.”
• “Jesus loves you and your partner and wants you to know how much he cares! That’s like a […]

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Hm. Via Josh Marshall and just about everybody else, former McCain advisor Steve Schmidt - a Karl Rove protege - declares that it’s time for the GOP to drop its opposition to gay marriage:
“I’m confident American public opinion will continue to move on the question toward majority support, and sooner or later the Republican Party […]

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Vermont legislature votes to override governor’s veto. Gay marriage now legal in Vermont - and it’s the first state to approve gay marriage through the legislature.

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Iowa Supreme Court rules - unanimously! - that banning gay marriage is unconstitutional.
This will trigger the usual OUTRAGE! But it strikes me that we are seeing society change before our very eyes, and it is not because - as conservatives would have it - some minority is pushing its radical agenda upon the majority via the […]

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Because families are good… so long as they’re the right kind of families. Unlike these folks.

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Buncha evil lib’rulz all bent out of shape over Obama’s pick of Rick Warren - author of “The Purpose-Driven Life” - to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. Saying, correctly, that Warren has been a major foe of gay marriage, his Saddleback Church in California was a major backer of Proposition 8, he’s likened gay […]

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Regarding this Alliance Defense Fund (right-wing Christian organization) ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TedAr31uiwo

Sullivan writes:
The importance of portraying 2 percent of the population as far more powerful than the 98 percent and the need to keep that 2 percent from destroying civilization - and allegedly making Christianity illegal - has some interesting historical forebears.
Well, it’s not just right-wing Christians; that’s […]

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Uh-oh. I see where Newsweek is oppressing poor conservative Christians by running a big piece on “The religious case for gay marriage”:
Let’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when […]

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Hm. Via Sullivan, an extremely provacative interview with gay Catholic Mexican-American (!) author Richard Rodriguez on California’s Proposition 8, and the hypocrisy he sees behind what he terms a ”deliberate civic intrusion” by the churches. Exerpts:
American families are under a great deal of stress. The divorce rate isn’t declining, it’s increasing. And the majority of American […]

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Good line, from John Cole:
Wingnut- “Homosexuals are filthy sodomites who should not have access to marriage.”
Evil gay person- “Nonsense. I demand the same rights as you and will fight for them.”
Wingnut- “Why won’t you respect my right to free speech?”
And there you have the wingnut understanding of the Constitution.

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According to Mike Huckabee, unless you’re getting nailed with firehoses or beaten down on the Edmund Pettis bridge, gays got no bizness talking Civil Rights.

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Only in the addled conservative mind is it possible for people who merely want the same rights accorded to every other American to be fascists.
I don’t see where Teh Dreaded Gays are demanding that Americans change their beliefs around to accept that gay marriage is the same, morally, as regular old straight marriage. What they […]

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And you know, it really couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.

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