Gay Marriage News

Republicans Waste Your Money. Again.

1:23 pm EST April 19th, 2011 | Republicans | 7 Comments

Now the Keystone Kongress is paying a lawyer $500+ dollars an hour in order to stop gay people from being married or something. This is surely a good use of taxpayer funds.

Topic: Gay Marriage, US House

Support For Gay Marriage Increases In MD

10:46 am EST May 11th, 2010 | Maryland | 2 Comments

The old line state moves forward.

A clear majority of people responding to the poll — 55 percent — also say that if gays get married in another state, those unions should be considered legal in Maryland; 38 percent say the state should not recognize them. Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) in February told state agencies to begin granting married same-sex couples from elsewhere the same rights as Maryland’s heterosexual couples.

The poll, conducted May 3-6, finds that 46 percent overall favor legal same-sex marriage, 44 percent oppose it, and 10 percent have no opinion. Among registered voters, 48 percent are in favor and 43 percent are opposed.

In late 2007, an identical Post poll question found 44 percent in favor overall and 51 percent opposed.

Topic: Gay Marriage

Family Values Hypocrites: Divorce Higher In Anti-Gay Marriage States

1:27 pm EST January 12th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 22 Comments

Of course it is.

Since 2003, however, the decline in divorce rates has been largely confined to states which have not passed a state constitutional ban on gay marriage. These states saw their divorce rates decrease by an average of 8 percent between 2003 and 2008. States which had passed a same-sex marriage ban as of January 1, 2008, however, saw their divorce rates rise by about 1 percent over the same period.

Topic: Gay Marriage, Religious Right

Not Very Christian

12:39 pm EST November 12th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 86 Comments

The Catholic Church in DC is threatening to stop services for the poor and homeless if the district okays gay marriage. Sometimes you wonder if these people have ever cracked open a bible.

And of course, this diocese was one of those that has harbored child rapists in the past.

Topic: Gay Marriage, Religious Right

Michael Steele: Gay Marriage Is Bad… For Small Business

2:58 pm EST May 16th, 2009 | Republicans | 25 Comments

Ok Michael Steele, the jig is up. You’re doing this for me, right?

Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.

“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. “So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.”

Who knew that when the Republican party was looking for a party chairman they would pick the one guy that actually lives up to the mythology around affirmative action?

And a study in Massachusetts says gay marriage would actually have a pretty positive economic effect.

A study conducted for the state’s Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development predicts that an economic boomlet in hotel bookings, banquets, and wedding cakes would result from repealing a 1913 state law that prevents gay and lesbian couples from most other states from marrying in Massachusetts.

Consider these numbers: An estimated 32,200 same-sex couples from elsewhere would travel to the state to get married over the next three years. That would pump $111 million into the economy and yield another $5 million in marriage license fees and sales and occupancy taxes.

Topic: Gay Marriage, Michael Steele

Alabama House To Praise Miss California For Anti-Gay Marriage Position

4:06 pm EST April 23rd, 2009 | News | 25 Comments

Clearly all the major issues are being addressed already by the Alabama legislature.

A resolution has been introduced in the Alabama House that praises Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean for speaking out against gay marriage during Sunday night’s televised pageant.

Prejean was competing as Miss California and finished second after answering a question from judge Perez Hilton concerning her views on gay marriage. The pageant was won by Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton.

The resolution was introduced Tuesday by Republican Rep. Jay Love of Montgomery.

Topic: Gay Marriage

The Family That Will DESTROY America

9:10 pm EST April 13th, 2009 | News | 49 Comments

One of the gay couples invited to the White House Easter Egg Roll by the Obamas…

The little girl is clearly smiling at the destruction of straight marriage. Be afeared!

Topic: Gay, Gay Marriage, President Obama

Gay Marriage Will Make It Rain!

6:36 pm EST April 8th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 52 Comments

This is not a parody ad.

The ad is from “National Organization For Marriage”, whose president is Maggie Gallagher. If that name sounds familiar, Maggie Gallagher was one of the pundits who were paid off by the Bush administration and didn’t disclose it.

But what she objects to is gay people getting married. IT WILL RAIN.

>> Human Rights Campaign Exposes National Organization for Marriage’s Fake Ad for Fake Problems

Topic: Gay Marriage, Religious Right