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POPSMarriage bill to be filed in Maine Another Eastern state is trying to legalize same-sex marriage. Naturally the bigots in the area are threatening all kinds of legal action including a Constitutional amendment to enshrine discrimination as part of their state's bedrock.
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POPSWe’ll Marry Each Other as Often as Needed I wish I could have clipped the entire article. So I just included as much as I could. I urge you to read the entire piece, as it is absolutely beautiful, humourous, touching and honest. It is entirely apropos at this time, as next week, August 31, my partner Arnold and I are getting legally married here in our home city of Montreal. Same-sex marriage became legal in Canada in 2005. We waited until this year, because Sept 10th shall mark the 25th anniversary of our original unification ceremony we celebrated in Boston in 1983. What better way to renew our vows than to do so while finally getting married legally, in a country that recognizes and honours our relationship?
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POPSNew North Carolina Hospital rules Will Benefit Gay Families Patients will now be able to determine for themselves who can be at their bed side no matter the legal status of their relationship. Up til now gay couples were often separated during illness in hospital because there was no legal requirement to permit non-family members to visit. As ridiculous as that might sound, there are countless stories of gay men and lesbians being kept away from their partners because of their lack of recognized legal status as a couple. One would think there would be no need for this kind of rule to be established. How sad that this is the situation in a free and democratic society.
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POPSSame-Sex Unions Coming to Cuba It appears our Communist neighbour off the coast of Florida, is pulling ahead of the U.S. on some very important social issues, including legal recognition of same-sex couples. Seems to me that the U.S. is falling behind many countries as it regards these issues. We are actually the only major military power that does not permit homosexuals to serve openly and with pride in our armed forces. When we will all just grow up?
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POPSGays Burning Down California!! Wow. I had know idea us gays have so much power in this world. I thought it was hot shit when Falwell and Robertson blamed us for the attacks on 9/11, but now we're also responsible for the wild fires in California. Gays everywhere! It is time we claim our true power and take over this world which is rightly ours!!!
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POPSNot marriage, but a step in the right direction Although the new registered domestic partnership law in Washington State is a very far cry from marriage, it is definitely a step in the right direction. Increasingly, more states are passing either civil unions or domestic partner registrations which in the future will be used in court towards the fight for marriage equality in these states. And of course, the more the citizens of the U.S. begin to realize that even though same-sex couples are marrying, or engaging in civil unions etc, their world essentially remains the same, the less all of this will remain an issue. Already the numbers are changing in the percentage of those citizens who approve of recognition of same-sex couples. The bogey man is being defanged rapidly, and pretty soon we might actually catch up with our neighbours to the north where loving same-sex couples have been granted the right to civil marriage over two years ago.
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POPSCivil-Unions are NOT the same as Marriage.
This particular situation brings home the issue of whether civil-unions are equivalent to same-sex marriage. The answer is clearly, they are not. Civil-unions leave too much leeway in determining the definition of spouse. This was a problem that gay rights groups were talking about when the civil-unions option was being marketed by the government and so-called marriage defense groups started equating this option as permitting all the same benefits and responsibilities as marriage. This is a fraud. Civil-unions, while offering many of the same rights and privileges as marriage is still different. It is the old separate but equal story; there is simply no such thing. If it was considered the same, they wouldn't be calling it by a different name. Freedom to marry works very well in Canada and the other countries who have caught up with the 21st century reality of family life. Let's stop the fraud in the U.S. and finally rid ourselves of the DOMA, and finally end discrimination.
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POPSThe Wacko Makes A Comeback The guy who wrongfully fingered himself in the murder of little Jon Benet Ramsey is back in the news with the implication that he struck his 91-year-old dad. John Mark Karr is safely behind bars where he can, should he choose, to finger himself to his heart's content. :-)
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POPSMassachusetts Shows The Way To Equality This is such good news. With Massachusetts enshrining their progressive and non-discriminatory stand on the same-sex marriage issue, they have opened the way for the Federal government to start reconsidering its poorly thought-out and arguably unconstitutional DOMA. Gay couples in all 50 states are going to begin demanding the same rights as are permitted in Massachusetts. Married couples from that state, when and if they move to another state and declare themselves as married are going to have terrific chances in overturning any anti-gay marriage amendments in states that have imposed such. Same-sex marriage is definitely on the march. Canada has not fallen into the sea since legalizing same-sex marriage two years ago. Massachusetts has none begin consumed in flames since they have legalized gay marriage. People are opening their minds, eyes, and hearts., at last.
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POPSN.Y. & Mass. Are Legally Wed. I can just hear the screams of right-wing religious fundamentalist nutso's carrying on about New York's recognition of same-sex marriages that took place in Massachusetts. As far as they're concerned the world is going to hell in a hand basket. But they have lost this battle as well they should have. They had better just give this one up as they did the mixed marriage laws, and the sodomy laws etc, etc, etc. American society is becoming more civilized and tolerant for the most part, and these wack jobs can either join the rest of the world, or they can sit in their narrow little, myipic, small-minded, hateful worlds and perhaps find some new group they can foment their intolerance on. Of course, now that Mr. Falwell is no longer with us, they will have to beseech Pat Roberson to help them. If he is too busy however, there in no shortage of other hypocritical phonies around to help them make their selection.
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POPSWhite Collar Drug Pushers vs Street Corner Pushers. The U.S. government has a very skewed take on the drug problem in its midst. The prisons are filled with small time corner drug dealers, or people who were caught with a couple of joints in the pockets etc. But when a big pharmaceutical company is found guilty of illegally marketing and selling a dangerous drug via deliberate misrepresentation, there are all kinds of legal loop holes that will keep the perpetrators well away from prison bars, while permitting them to continue selling their wares after paying a relatively small fine. Is this justice? If the government is on such a war against drugs, they should really be throwing the book at this criminals in white colours and thousand dollar suits. This article in well worth reading in its entirety because it gives far more information about this outrage than I could fit in the limited clip. But once again, we are facing huge hypocrisy.
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POPSAre Connecticut's Civil Unions Enough? A Connecticut court is hearing arguments about the limitations of civil unions which exist in the state as compared to those rights permitted married couples. It's a touchy issue, because most people today have no problem with offering same-sex couples recognition both legally and socially, as long as it is called something other than marriage. It's interesting how we can get so hung up on one word. And by whose order is it that only a particular group can claim the use of a this or any other word?
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POPSMore Wedding Bells In Massachusetts? If Massachusetts does decide to permit out of state gay couples to marry it will lay the ground work for legal challenges on many different levels. The day of same-sex marriage being accepted legally in the U.S. is coming. I agree, it is coming slowly, but considering that about 10-years-ago, just mentioning same-sex marriage would be greeted with a loud guffaw, great progress has been made. And don't forget, us guys and gals just across that thin little border in Canada, already have same-sex marriage as the law of the land.
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POPSI'm Sor Proud To Be A Native New Yawker Even though I moved to Canada in 1985, I am still a New Yorker at heart. The Justice's decision increases my pride in being born and raised in such a fair-minded and progressive city. So, I live in a country the permits same-sex marriage, and I can go home to my family and be legally recognized as a married couple with my partner, Arnold. That's quite a relief after being together for over 25 years.
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POPSI Am Very Disappointed That The South Is Living Up To Expectations I try to hard to ignore stereotypes of any kind, especially considering the fact that I am a member of more than one minority group that has its own stereotypes to live down constantly. But South Carolina's actions really does not do anything to help dispel the perception that the south is less tolerant and accepting than other areas of the country.
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POPSAnother Stab in the Heart of Equality Once again gays are being treated at second class citizens. The right-wingers shout about "family values." Yet, when gays and lesbians want to protect their own families, suddenly the tune changes. I suppose to those people who are anti-Gay believe only they have the only true families.
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POPSGonzales Questions Habeas Corpus Read the rest of this article at http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/011807.html Mr. Gonzales displays a frightening lack of common sense and honesty by making this claim. Even Arlen Specter, a Senator from his side of the aisle, so to speak, became flustered with disbelief when he came up with this response concerning habeas. It is obvious this attorney general is blinded by his own ideology to the point of trampling on the rights of us citizens whenever the agenda of he and his neo-con brethren dictate it must.
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