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Terry Baum brings No on 8 benefit performance to B-town!

0 Comments Published October 10th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.

    
   find out more at terrybaum.com
A No on 8 speaker will be on hand to talk about what’s at stake, and what we all can do.
Leave with your calendar filled, your wallet lighter, and your spirits flying! 
• Google map here  • excerpt from the one-woman play here
• for further info, contact yrs truly 
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Good news from Connecticut*

8 Comments Published October 10th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.

New York Times: “Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage“:
In his majority opinion, Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote that the court found that the “segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm,” in light of “the history of pernicious discrimination faced by gay men and lesbians, and because the institution [...]

Register to vote! And then hang on tight to it!

1 Comment Published October 6th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.

[I feel compelled to remind us all that the ongoing election season content caveat applies here: nothing directly relating to lesbians or children or lesbians' children appears below, except that we all ostensibly live in a democracy, whether vital or compromised or, as I often tend to think so many things are, a little bit [...]

If ever there was a time to step up, it’s now

34 Comments Published September 11th, 2008 in APB, Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment.

I went to a talk at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center last night, sponsored by Our Family Coalition, our amazing local LGBT family organization.  Family Law and Estate attorneys Deborah Wald and Deb Kinney spent an hour and forty minutes helping explain the mysterious inner workings of the law, as it functions for those [...]

Rest in peace, Del Martin*

0 Comments Published August 27th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.

…and the rest of us, let’s not rest until we finish the job in her name.
Del Martin, lesbian civil rights pioneer, died in San Francisco today at the age of 87. She is survived by her partner of 55 years, and legal spouse of 71 days, Phyllis Lyon.
I hope you will read many tributes [...]

Immediate Family

2 Comments Published August 22nd, 2008 in APB, Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment.

Acclaimed playwright Terry Baum has revived her one-woman play, Immediate Family, and will be performing it through this fall as a fundraiser for the No on Proposition 8 (the CA marriage ban) campaign. She’ll be performing it this Sunday, August 24 at 2pm, at her San Francisco home. Find out where by sending [...]

We interrupt this parenting blog to crow about a well-placed lesbian television and radio commentator

17 Comments Published August 20th, 2008 in APB, Miscellaney.

I don’t even watch television, but a friend has been saying for months, “Don’t you know about Rachel Maddow?!  You have to!  Brilliant!  Progressive!  Out dyke!  From your home town fer Chrissakes!  On television! Go watch her right this very instant and then report back.”
Sadly, the years of Rachel Maddow’s ascension in broadcasting have more [...]

This is what people mean when they say it’s going to get worse before it gets better***

7 Comments Published July 30th, 2008 in APB, Go hetero ally go!.

 

An out-of-work truck driver accused of opening fire at a Unitarian church, killing two people, left behind a note suggesting that he targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal policies, including its acceptance of gays, authorities said Monday. (AP)
Tennessee gunman targets church over its stance on gay rights (Times UK)
Breaking: Shooting in Tennessee — [...]

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    From "Gay marriages in California surpass those in Massachusetts,", Jessica Garrison, on 7 Oct., 2008, at the Los Angeles Times.



    Data released Monday (6 Oct 08) by UCLA's Williams Institute found that an estimated 11, 000 same-sex couples were married in CA since June 17, when the court began to allow them. (Since May 2004, over 10,000 have married in Massachusetts.)



    Pastor Jim Garlow of Skyline Church in La Mesa, who has been rallying voters to pass the constitutional amendment, said: "The fact that there are big numbers doesn't change the reality that it is still bad for the country."



    Garlow, who along with hundreds of other Christians, is observing a fast until election day as a way to show his support for the proposed amendment, added: "There are enormous numbers of people doing cocaine right now. . . . Simply because large numbers of people are doing something does not make it right."
    "Foes of gay-marriage ban say poll shows Prop. 8 leading," by Jessica Garrison, 8 Oct., 2008, in the Los Angeles Times:
    The opposition has enjoyed a healthy lead in several surveys taken by polling organizations that do not have a stake in the campaign. But officials with the No on 8 campaign held a conference call with reporters Tuesday to announce that their own poll showed the measure would pass by four points. Opponents attributed the result to fewer television ads, which is, in turn, a result of the No on 8 campaign falling behind in fundraising.
    From Geoff Kors, Equality California, in an email to EQCA and No on 8 supporters, 7 Oct., 2008:
    Our worst nightmares are coming true.



    Today we learned of the massive $25.4 million our opponents have raised so far. They are using this war chest to broadcast lies: 24/7 and up and down the state of California.



    And the polls show the lies are working. We need your donation now.



    Yesterday’s CBS 51 poll shows that:



    “…likely California voters overall now favor passage of Proposition 8 by a five-point margin, 47 percent to 42 percent. Ironically, a CBS 5 poll eleven days prior found a five-point margin in favor of the measure's opponents.”



    People change their minds about Proposition 8 when they hear the lie that churches will lose their tax-free status if they won’t marry same-sex couples – EVEN THOUGH THIS IS NOT TRUE!



    So this is crunch time. With less than a month before the election, we must get on the air now to answer these lies and swing votes back to our side.



    And the ONLY way to do that it to raise more money. The generous $15.8 million that our supporters have given isn’t enough. Not when the other side has nearly $10 million more than we do and the fundraising gap is growing.


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    Ellen DeGeneres: "My Political Point... And I Do Have One," on 24 Sept., 2008 at her site.



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