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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

'I Do' NY: Avenue Q's Rod & Ricky

Via Lester and Charlie:

Congratulations to all the newlyweds in New York, like Phyllis Siegel and her wife Connie Kopelov, pictured below. Americans shouldn't have to wait for basic rights, but out of respect for those who did and do, we urge our friends to keep fighting.

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss

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Via AmericaBlogGay: In California, homophobes want ballot measure to repeal FAIR Education Act

It's always something with the haters.

From Rex Wockner: Californians may be voting on gay matters again.

This time the target is the law Gov. Jerry Brown signed July 14 that requires public schools to teach about LGBT people's contributions to the state and nation.

Anti-gay activists have submitted the paperwork to launch a voter repeal referendum and have hit the Web with StopSB48.com. Its slogan: "Stop SB 48. It costs too much. It goes too far."

Their next task will be to collect signatures from 504,760 registered California voters before mid-October.

What would these people do if they didn't have the gays to obsess over?

Karen Ocamb has more on the haters behind this latest effort:

The Capitol Resource Institute launched an online campaign to repeal the California FAIR Education Act using a slick new email message and a new campaign website called StopSB48. The campaign also updated the CRI main website, which had not posted anything new since 2010. Their “Action Alert” page is still blank with only the date March 12, 2009.

But their new campaign website has the look of money – such as bought stock photos of generic happy white and black families – and there’s someone keeping an eye on the media. In a Capitol Alert story last Friday, July 22 about CRI filing papers to launch a referendum, the end of the story says: “Updated at 2:30 p.m. to add comments by Karen England and Brad Dacus, and to indicate that the referendum drive is being conducted by a coalition of groups.” That’s Karen England of CRI and Brad Dacus of the right-wing Pacific Justice Institute. But unfortunately, Capitol Alert didn’t ask for the names of the other coalition members, which the website identifies as a “coalition of pro-family organizations, parents, students, teachers and more.”

Via AmericaBlogGay: ABA bestows highest honor on Olson and Boies

ia press release from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), we learn that David Boies and Ted Olson will be receiving a prestigious award from American Bar Association:

Awarded for distinguished service by a lawyer or lawyers to the cause of American jurisprudence, the ABA Medal is given only in years when the ABA Board of Governors determines a nominee has provided exceptional and distinguished service to the law and the legal profession.

Among previous recipients of the ABA Medal are legendary justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Felix Frankfurter, Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan Jr., Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy.

The award will be bestowed upon Boies and Olson during the meeting of the ABA House of Delegates at the Association’s annual meeting on August 8th, 2011.

Well deserved. Hopefully, this sends a powerful message about the ongoing fight for equality in our legal system.