Post(s) tagged with "prop 8"
Ellen DeGeneres Rips ‘One Million Moms’ For Calling for Her Firing
(via Towleroad)
On a show taped today for broadcast tomorrow, Ellen DeGeneres praised the 9th Circuit’s ruling on Proposition 8, and then launched into a tirade at the AFA organization ‘One Million Moms’ for calling for her firing, E! reports.
Watch the clip, AFTER THE JUMP…
As you may recall, the hate group called for JC Penney to fire her as spokesperson because she is, in their words, an “open homosexual”.
Wrote the group:
Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families. More sales will be lost than gained unless they replace their spokesperson quickly. Unless JC Penney decides to be neutral in the culture war then their brand transformation will be unsuccessful.
Says Ellen: “Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters—but this time I’d like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators. This organization doesn’t think I should be the spokesperson because I’m gay,” DeGeneres continued. “They wanted to get me fired, and I’m proud and happy to say that JCPenney stuck by their decision to make me their spokesperson. Which is great news for me because I also need some new crew socks. I’m really going to clean up with this discount.”
Ellen then read some of the comments from her supporters on the Million Moms Facebook page.
Added Ellen: “I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show, but I really want to thank everyone who is supporting me. Here are the values I stand for. I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you’d want to be treated and helping those in need.To me, those are traditional values. That’s what I stand for…I also believe in dance.”
Source: towleroad.com
Prop 8 Lawyer Admits: No Harm to Straight Couples (by AmericanEqualRights)
Here’s the Prop 8 proponents’ lead counsel, Charles Cooper, at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 8th, admitting that marriage equality wouldn’t harm any heterosexual marriages
The appellate court judges are not buying any of this. Also… wow… they know how flimsy their arguments are and yet they keep making them. Fools.
Source: youtube.com
George Clooney To Star in Marriage Equality Play | News
(via The Advocate)
George Clooney will star in8, a play by Dustin Lance Black adapted from transcripts of the historic trial for marriage equality in California, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
“It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens,” Clooney says. “I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people — like all human beings — are born equal in dignity and rights.”
Longtime equality advocate Rob Reiner will direct the one night only production March 3 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Other cast members are expected to be announced soon. Like the recent production in New York which starred Reiner and an all-star cast, the L.A. reading will also serve as a benefit for the American Foundation for Equal Rights in its national fight for marriage equality.
“This play will continue to show Americans — one by one — that prejudice and fear cannot stand up to truth and justice,” says AFER Board president Chad Griffin. “Our Constitution neither knows nor tolerates the treatment of gays and lesbians as second-class citizens.”
Source: advocate.com
This is fantastic and should be passed on to everyone. Following the Sup. Ct. decision that names and dollar amounts for those that donate to a campaign are public record, the LA Times has published all information available about those that donated to Prop 8 for both Yes and No on 8. In spending some time with the information there I noticed a few really interesting things.
1. Rhode Island: they ranked #21 in number of Yes on 8 donations, but only 12 people donated from the state. One of those 12 gave $50k, upping the dollar amount and artificially making it look like more Rhode Islanders supported Yes on 8. In contrast, 60 residents gave to No on 8 but ranked on #36 in amount of donations. RI is in a rough economic spot this days and even so those that support equality greatly outweighed those that did not. Notably, the executive director on NOM-RI did not give.
2. Arkansas: same story as RI and thankfully no one from my hometown showed up on the Yes on 8 list. What’s interesting here is that unlike RI, Arkansas is (as of the last 10 years) considered a “red” state. They also had an anti-gay law on the ballot that passed, but still more people monetarily supported the No on 8 campaign than its opposite.
3. States with Marriage Equality (MA, CT, VT, etc): overwhelming supported No on 8, proving that the sky does not fall when you state has marriage for all. Note that although CT shows up as #3 on the Yes on 8 list, that is only due to the Knights of Columbus national headquarters giving $1,400,200. If you subtract that from the overall amount the general public support is very low.
4. The number of people willing to give in supporting equality outweighs those that do not, but they give in much small amounts giving the false impression, if you look at dollars only, that there is less public support for marriage equality. We need to find a way to mobilize the populace to show the support beyond money amounts.
Sex With Ducks: the Music Video by Garfunkel and Oates
Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci sing a pro-gay marriage song in response to a Pat Robertson quote that legalizing gay marriage would lead to legalizing sex with ducks.
Source: jaundicedeye
Older photo from the Rhode Island Join the Impact rally I helped organize.
Source: Flickr / rauchdickson
This is distressing and I imagine that someone on the pro-8 side will find this and report to the election board… and honestly I can’t blame them. This is very illegal and morally wrong. Don’t taint the excellent hard work of so many, with this stupidity.
I steamed open the vote-by-mail ballots from my office and kept the ones that votes YES ON 8!
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U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, challenging the advocates of Proposition 8 that procreation was a justification for banning same-sex marriages
(via SFGate)
(via American Foundation for Equal Rights)
I participated in a similar system for the last CA decision and it was the best way to get the details first as all the website choked on the excessive traffic. Sign up today and pass the details on!
- Trial to End in California’s Gay Marriage Case - NYTimes.com
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I love that Judge Walker seems to be - ever so mildly - mocking Cooper’s argument here. Of course people don’t get married with the express intent to benefit the state.
Trial to End in California’s Gay Marriage Case - NYTimes.com
the big times article first… then to post my favorite quotes
interesting read. i can’t wait till the full transcript comes out later today.
Source: pamshouseblend.com
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