Apr 302009
Judy Shepard responds to the passing of hate crimes legislation in the House and to the remarks made by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, who said the murder of Matthew Shepard because he was gay, a hoax.
Note: At the request of the Rachel Maddow Show, I am replacing the YouTube version with the video provided by MSNBC.
Please donate to the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Judy and this Foundation deserve our support in the face of such terrible ignorance and hate.
Apr 302009
“Some people are afraid of change. Don’t let them take away what makes this country so great.” Watch “We the People”…
[youtube width=”480″ height=”295”]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldn8p0sAm4I[/youtube]
Boy I love these guys… They get it.
Apr 302009
The Washington Blade visited a presser for the National Organization for Marriage today where Maggie Gallagher and Carrie Prejean spoke.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld-pCdnB4b4[/youtube]
Enough said. Perhaps she speaks for herself and her homophobic church. Not the state of California.
Apr 302009
New polls released by ABC and CBS have shown support for same-sex marriage growing.
From the ABC poll released today:
… Take gay marriage, legal in Massachusetts, Connecticut and now Iowa, with Vermont coming aboard in September. At its low, in 2004, just 32 percent of Americans favored gay marriage, with 62 percent opposed. Now 49 percent support it versus 46 percent opposed — the first time in ABC/Post polls that supporters have outnumbered opponents.
More than half, moreover — 53 percent — say gay marriages held legally in another state should be recognized as legal in their states.
Which is up from the from 42% from a CBS poll released 2 days ago.
Forty-two percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be allowed to legally marry, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. That’s up nine points from last month, when 33 percent supported legalizing same sex marriage.
Support for same sex marriage is now at its highest point since CBS News starting asking about it in 2004.
We’ve got the momentum folks. Perhaps the kick in the rear quarters known as Prop 8 was what this country needed to move forward on the marriage equality front.