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CA: APA Shuns Manchester's Hotel in Support of Prop 8 Boycott

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

The American Psychological Association, which will hold its annual convention in San Diego in August, is the latest group to officially protest San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester’s financial support two years ago of California’s gay marriage ban.

While the association is not formally calling for its members to boycott the Manchester Grand Hyatt, its governing body and many of those planning to attend the conference have opted to cancel meetings scheduled at the hotel as a way of expressing their displeasure over Manchester’s financial contribution to the successful Proposition 8 campaign to outlaw gay marriage.

The group, which expects to draw 14,000 attendees to its first San Diego convention, acknowledges that it may take a financial hit for its cancellation of some meeting-room bookings, spokeswoman Rhea Farberman said.

Full Story from Sign On San Diego
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CA: Both Sides File Written Arguments in Prop 8 Trial

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Opposing sides in the legal battle over same-sex marriage in California have laid out their cases in writing to a federal judge, disputing the status of gays and lesbians in society, the nature of marriage, and the motives behind the ballot measure that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. “Californians voted for Proposition 8 because they thought it would strengthen the institution of marriage (and) … because they thought it would benefit children,” sponsors of Prop. 8 said Friday night in papers filed in federal court in San Francisco.

Their opponents, representing two same-sex couples and the city of San Francisco, said those purported goals of Prop. 8 were contradicted by overwhelming evidence at a 12-day trial in January that allowing same-sex couples to wed would benefit their children and the institution of marriage. Regardless of the intentions of individual voters, they argued, the Prop. 8 campaign was designed to appeal to fear and deep-seated prejudice.

“The evidence demonstrates that Proposition 8′s actual motivation was moral disapproval of gay and lesbian individuals,” said the measure’s opponents, plaintiffs in the federal court case. They said the ballot measure “sends a message to gay and lesbian individuals that they are not welcome in California.”

Full Story from SFGate
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CA: Court Proposes Televising Prop 8 Closing Arguments

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

The U.S. district court in San Francisco has proposed that closing arguments in the trial over the anti-gay-marriage measure Proposition 8 be televised, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. An attempt to televise the entire trial failed after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened, saying the pro-Prop. 8 side feared its witnesses would be subject to intimidation. The anti-Prop. 8 side had supported televising the proceedings.

The proposal to televise the closing arguments was posted on the court’s website, and the court has taken public comments on it. The plan to televise the full trial had received overwhelmingly positive comments from the public before the Supreme Court quashed it.

No date has been set for closing arguments; Judge Vaughn Walker had postponed them until after he received a final round of briefs, due Friday.

Full Story from the Advocate
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CA: Gather Signatures to Repeal Prop 8 This Weekend

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Just got this from Love Honor Cherish:

Help get signatures this weekend

This weekend volunteers throughout the state will gather to collect signatures to put a new initiative on the ballot in November 2010 that would repeal Proposition 8 and restore equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. In the Los Angeles area join us at these events:

Saturday:

Saturday, Feb 27
8 a.m. to 12 noon
Burbank Farmers Market
Meet at corner of 3rd and Orange Grove in Burbank (park at City Hall, same corner)

Saturday, Feb 27
9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Torrance Farmer’s Market
2400 Jefferson St. (park in parking lot)
Meet at 8:50 a.m. for a brief training

Saturday, Feb 27
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Whole Foods Market – Redondo Beach
405 N. Pacific Coast Hwy (park in parking lot)
Meet at 9:45 a.m. for a brief training

Sunday:


Sunday, Feb 28
8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Hollywood Farmers Market
Meet at Cinerama Dome, 6360 Sunset Blvd (park on street or at lot at Ivar & Delongpre – $2 for first 2 hrs w/validation at market)

Sunday, Feb 28
9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Santa Monica Farmers Market (Ocean Park)
Meet at grassy area near SW corner of Main St. and Ocean Park (park on street)

Sunday, Feb 28
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Studio City Farmers Market
Meet at main gate of CBS Studios, 4024 Radford (free parking at CBS)

THINGS TO REMEMBER:


Please come on time, but if you’re late, look for the volunteers in the yellow SignForEquality T-shirts. And, be sure to bring:

1. A couple of clipboards and a few pens (if you can).
2. Plenty of quarters for parking meters (City of Los Angeles meters now operate on Sundays!)
3. $10 donation for our Sign For Equality volunteer t-shirt

To find out more about signature gathering, or to learn how you can help, go to SignForEquality.com, the first-ever social networking site for volunteer signature gatherers. Download a petition, print it, get signatures and then send it in. You can also:
- Get trained using online videos.
- Join or create a signature gathering team and set goals for yourself and your team.
- Share tips and learn about events where signature gathering is taking place.

P.S. Join us for our next weekly meeting Tuesday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Crescent Heights United Methodist Church, 1296 N Fairfax Ave.

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New Music Video Opposes Prop 8

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Justice Through Music, www.jtmp.org, a national non profit that works with famous bands to bring attention to important social issues, teamed up the band Op-Critical in a music video called Prop 8, to oppose the California referendum that was used to overturn the state’s gay marriage law. The video, now on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ls8cIRwuM, looks at the struggle for marriage equality through the lens of past struggles for women’s rights, civil rights and voting rights.

Op-Critical’s Storm wrote the tune in a 1930′s Delta Blues style and recorded it on a 1937 National resonator steel guitar. The video was filmed with Storm on a porch, sitting in a rocking chair playing the steel guitar like so many well known blues artists.

“The battle for marriage equality is historic in the same way as past civil rights struggles,” he said. “The best way for us to portray that was by channeling past blues masters who sang with conviction about the struggles they were seeing during their lifetimes. The next generation will look back on the gay rights battles with the same dismay we now look at previous civil rights battles. It takes a while for people prejudices to be overcome but they always are. We are hopeful that this video will help and give people a real perspective on what is occurring rather than seeing this as simply a matter of politics or religion.”

Full Story from PR Newswire
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CA: Signature Gathering in Hollywood & Los Angeles to Repeal Prop 8

Friday, February 19th, 2010

From Love Honor Cherish:

Help get signatures this weekend in Larchmont Village and Hollywood
This weekend volunteers throughout the state will gather to collect signatures to put a new initiative on the ballot in November 2010 that would repeal Proposition 8 and restore equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. In the Los Angeles area join us at these events:

Saturday, Feb 20

Hollywood
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Hollywood Lutheran Church
1733 North New Hampshire Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027
(Durkee Hall – downstairs) Lots of free parking on nearby streets or in parking lot. We’ll have a brief training lasting until 10:30 or so and then we’ll hit the streets nearby!

Sunday, Feb 21

Hollywood Farmers Market
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Meet at NE corner of Ivar and Sunset (park on street or at lot at Ivar & Delongpre – $2 for first 2 hrs w/validation at market).

Sunday, Feb 21

Larchmont Farmers Market
10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Meet at SW corner of Beverly and Larchmont (park on street).

THINGS TO REMEMBER:

Please come on time, but if you’re late, look for the volunteers in the yellow SignForEquality T-shirts. And, be sure to bring:

1. A couple of clipboards and a few pens (if you can).
2. Plenty of quarters for parking meters (City of Los Angeles meters now operate on Sundays!)
3. $10 donation for our Sign For Equality volunteer t-shirt

To find out more about signature gathering, or to learn how you can help, go to SignForEquality.com, the first-ever social networking site for volunteer signature gatherers. Download a petition, print it, get signatures and then send it in. You can also:
- Get trained using online videos.
- Join or create a signature gathering team and set goals for yourself and your team.
- Share tips and learn about events where signature gathering is taking place.

P.S. Join us for our next weekly meeting Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Crescent Heights United Methodist Church, 1296 N Fairfax Ave. Our special guest will be Brad Sears, Executive Director of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Brad will talk about the Institute’s research on same-sex marriage and its use in the federal case challenging Prop 8, as well as the Institute’s groundbreaking work with the U.S. Census.

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Aaron Carter Joins NoH8 Campaign

Sunday, February 14th, 2010



American singer Aaron Carter has taken a stand against proposition 8 which banned same-sex marriage equality in California in 2008. The popstar posed for the NO H8 campaign run by photographer Adam Bouska who photographs anyone who wants to show their solidarity with the movement to repeal prop 8.

Full Story from Queers United
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Proposition 8 Movie Picked Up for National Distribution

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

One of Sundance’s most controversial films has found a buyer.

ABC 4 News has learned that “8: The Mormon Proposition” has now sold its North American rights to distributor “Red Flag Releasing.”

The documentary details the LDS Church’s involvement in California’s Proposition 8 ballot measure, the successful effort to ban gay marriage there.

Full Story from ABC4
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What Conservatives Are Saying About Gay Marriage Trial Judge

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Social conservatives are crying foul over the recent San Francisco Chronicle outing of Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who is about to rule in the first federal trial to decide the constitutionality of a gay marriage ban. The outing would “explain much of his bizarre behavior throughout the trial,” blustered Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel, a Christian-based group opposed to gay rights.

“At every turn he’s displayed extreme bias in favor of his similarly situated homosexual activist plaintiffs. These individuals have eschewed the democratic process and seek to employ like-minded judicial activists to radically redefine the millennia-old definition of natural marriage.”

“In unprecedented form, and to plaintiff’s’ delight, he has created a circus-like atmosphere throughout,” Barber added.

Full Story from On Top Magazine
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Should Judge Walker's Sexual Orientation Disqualify Him From Prop 8 Case? The Short Answer is No

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Editor’s note: In a February 7 column, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on “the biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage”: that U.S. district judge Vaughn R. Walker, who is presiding over the federal lawsuit challenging California’s Proposition 8, is gay. Erwin Chemerinsky, a top constitutional law scholar and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, discusses the ramifications of the outing, and what effect — if any — it has on the case.

Judges constantly decide cases that might personally affect them or their family members. Female judges of reproductive age are allowed to decide cases involving the availability of abortion. Catholic judges can hear challenges to abortion laws even if their church threatens to deny them communion if they support abortion rights. Judges who are also parents can hear challenges to affirmative action programs even if they have children who might benefit or be hurt by the eventual decision.

The list of situations in which a judge’s life might be affected by the decision is endless. This is insufficient by itself to challenge a judge’s hearing of a case or an ultimate decision.

Full Story from The Advocate
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