The No on 8 campaign had a letter from Obama supporting them and didn’t use it. Madness. Their “strategists” made blunder after blunder. Perhaps the worst was framing it totally as a civil rights issue and not even mentioning “gay” or “lesbian” in any of their ads.
Every time you feel exasperated by the uselessness of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘marriage equality’
The enraging incompetence of No On 8
YesOnEquality launches 2010 Marriage Equality Initiative
From Paige Cabral via Facebook. She was one of the main organizers of the No on Prop 8 rallies in San Francisco right after it passed.
A couple of us on campus here at UCD have started up Yes on Equality, a non-profit group promoting California’s Official 2010 Marriage Equality Initiative. We officially submitted the initiative [...]
Marriott CEO responds (and is clearly feeling the heat)
Bill Marriott is CEO of Marriott International, a hotel chain some have mentioned as being a possible boycott target in the wake of Prop 8. He is Mormon and says he keeps religion separate from business.
We were among the first in our industry to offer domestic partner benefits, and we’ve earned a perfect 100% score [...]
Religious marriage is not civil marriage
The Constitution requires separation of Church and State. Until we distinguish between the religious sacrament of marriage, which the State has no place regulating or even recognizing, and the social contract of marriage, which the State has every right to regulate, this issue will never be resolved.
Any religion has the right to not allow certain [...]
Mormon hotel chain site vanishes off Net
AmericaBlog says Marriot Hotels are heavily Mormon-controlled and execs gave to Yes on 8, noting in particular the Huntington Hotel Group, who owns a number of Marriotts.
In a bizarre coincidence, the Huntington Hotel Group site is now down, and returns “This site has been taken down for maintenance.” Imagine that. The site worked just fine [...]
Courage. Gay Mormon for equality
Affirmation.org is a group of gay and lesbian Mormons. Let’s remember, this isn’t against Mormons or the right of people to have religious beliefs. It’s against the deliberate and continuing interference by the Mormon hierarchy in secular affairs. There have been protests by Mormons in Salt Lake City and it’s clear LDS members are split [...]
Same-sex marriage rallies continue
The S.F. Chronicle has a useful listing on contributors to both sides of Prop 8 as of Nov 3. Here’s the list arranged by amount of contribution, highest first, for those who gave to Yes on 8. I’m thinking the big contributors to Yes on 8 need to have their businesses boycotted as well [...]
LGBT Rights: A movement reborn and a Popeye moment
That’s all I can stand, I can’t stands no more.
The spirit in the air at the San Francisco Marriage Rights march on Friday was unmistakable. There was anger at interference by the Mormon Church in secular affairs and a determination to fight until full equality is achieved. But more important, there was optimism, even happiness. [...]
More from the Marriage Equality march
More on our previous post and Flickr
