What Rick Warren and the Gay Community Have in Common

By Richard Kim , The Nation. Posted December 26, 2008.
Obama and Warren both oppose gay marriage, yet say they support full equal rights for gays and lesbians -- let's push for a federal civil unions bill.
Barack Obama's choice of evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration has provoked outrage from progressives, who have condemned it as a slap at his base and at gay and lesbian supporters in particular. Wasn't Obama's election a repudiation of the religious right? Couldn't he have picked a more progressive figure--like civil rights leader Joseph Lowery, who supports same-sex marriage and is giving the closing benediction? Why won't Democrats behave like Republicans, who reward their religious base with state spoils both symbolic and monetary?
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The Men Have Families to Support

 

The Men Have Families to Support

By Ann Telnaes
From the Cartoonist Group.

The Men Have Families to Support

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The Flag of Equal Marriage Rights

In 1902, when the Women's Suffrage movement was just getting warmed up, the American flag had 45 stars. In protest, the Suffragists created their own flag with only four stars, one for each state that allowed women to vote. This new flag is a protest flag for equal marriage rights. The flag only has two stars, for Connecticut and Massachusetts.

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Freedom To Marry - San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, a Republican Former Police Chief...

My wife and I have been married for a little over a year. We have the privelege of being the parents of my 15 y/o son that I adopted with my now ex-husband. Also, we are fortunate enough to live in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where same sex couples can be legally wed. Marriage is a freedom and a right that shouldn't be denied to any couple that is of legal age, sound mind and who love each other...

Under breaking news at Freedom to Marry;

At an emotional press conference, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, a Republican former police chief, announced his intention to sign a resolution supporting the freedom to marry, a reversal from his prior public opposition. Mayor Sanders said his change of heart and mind was due to soul-searching and personal conversations with gay people he knows, including his lesbian daughter, showing how powerful it is to make the conversation about real people, not just legalisms or hypotheticals. He also described how he has come to understand that his prior support for civil union, rather than marriage, was inadequate and wrong. San Diego now joins the other major California cities in calling on the Governor and State Supreme Court to follow the legislature's lead in embracing marriage equality.
Read the transcript and more here, and join the Let California Ring campaign of conversations to take your stand for equality.

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