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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Dream of Healing, Superior, Arizona

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Dream of Healing, Superior, ArizonaReverend Pamela has a Master’s in Nursing Education from Indiana’s Ball State University, and has been an RN for more than twenty five years. Reverend Pamela worked at Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Indiana over twenty years. She moved to Arizona in 2001, and has provided dialysis on the Apache Reservation in San Carlos, Arizona. She also works as a Nurse Education Specialist at the Banner Desert Medical Center.

Reverend Pamela currently manages the Medical/Surgical and Intensive Care Units at Cobre Valley Community Hospital in Globe, Arizona.

She is a Licensed Interfaith Minister, and was ordained by Reverend Paula Webb from Universal Brotherhood, Inc. She is also a practicing Shamana. Reverend Pamela attended a Shamanic Apprenticeship Program in Michigan taught by John Perkins, and visited Ecuador to learn from the Shamans in the Amazon and the Andes Mountains. She later went back to the Andes to and receive intensive Shamanic Training in 2003, and was then initiated as a Shamana.

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AZ: Outed Sheriff Calls Marriage Equality a “States’ Rights” Issue

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Gay Arizona Sheriff and Marriage EqualityPaul Babeu made mention of Ron Paul’s position on gay marriage during his coming out press conference on Saturday.

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When asked whether he supports gay marriage, Babeu danced around the subject, saying he saw it as a states’ rights issue.

“This is an issue not for the federal government, I see this as, and a lot of people connect this to Ron Paul, as a states’ rights issue. That this should not be an issue for the federal government. Anything that is not enumerated in the Constitution would fall to the states.”

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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AZ: GOP Rep Says Marriage Equality Threatens the Nation

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Arizona Rep Trent FranksArizona Rep. Trent Franks has said that gay marriage threatens the nation’s survival.

During an appearance on the Family Research Council’s (FRC) radio program Washington Watch Weekly, Franks told the group’s president, Tony Perkins, that marriage should remain a “special right” for heterosexual couples.

Franks discussed a recent House hearing he chaired on religious freedom, at which witnesses testified that the nation’s increasing support for marriage equality was eroding freedoms for Christians.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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AZ: Governor Brewer Appeals Court Decision, Wants to Throw Gays Off Health Care Plan

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Arizona Health BenefitsTwo top state officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to let Arizona deny benefits to the domestic partners of its gay state and university employees.

Legal papers filed by Attorney General Tom Horne contend a three-judge panel of the appellate court wrongfully concluded earlier this month that it is illegal for the state to provide health care and other benefits to the partners of married workers while refusing to do the same for same-sex couples. He said the state is allowed to make such distinctions.

Horne, who filed the appeal on behalf of Gov. Jan Brewer, also said it is legally irrelevant that Arizona voters constitutionally banned gays from getting married, even though that means they have no legal way to get benefits for their partners.

Full Story from the AZ Daily Star

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Arizona Should Legalize Marriage Equality

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Marriage Equality in ArizonaHeck, maybe I’m too close to the dialogue. Someone close to me who was gay died a few years ago. He was a special guy named Buddy, who had good friends, a family who loved him, and a witty sense of humor. Through that experience, our family met Buddy’s incredible friends who knew and loved him, in his life and as he died.

They shared their lives with Buddy and, in his death, shared their lives with our family in warmth, comfort and genuine affection.

Never – in any era or generation or ideology – could I ever look upon a single one of them as less than pure or undeserving of Heaven’s grace on the basis of whether they prefer women or men romantically. And even if they were those things to an arbitrary mind, that would not make it anyone’s right to legislate a prohibition on one of our society’s most basic civil rights: to marry for love.

Full Story from the Daily Courier

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Court Returns Partner Benefits to Arizona State Workers

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

San Francisco-  The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld an injunction that temporarily maintains family health coverage for gay and lesbian employees of the State of Arizona until a court issues a final decision in the case.

Gov. Jan Brewer, is not happy; the conservative Republican, known for harsh anti-immigrant legislation, signed a bill in September 2009 that took away the benefits which had been granted by former governor Janet Napolitano  through an executive order.

Lambda Legal represents seven lesbian and gay state employees—including from the State Department of Game and Fish and state universities—who are challenging a move by the Arizona Legislature to eliminate the equal health care benefits that they rely on to safeguard their families’ health—just as heterosexual workers do.

“Today’s decision by the Ninth Circuit means Arizona’s lesbian and gay state employees will not suddenly find themselves without vital family health coverage, for as long as the decision stands,” said Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Tara Borelli, who argued the case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in February. “Our clients are simply seeking equal pay for equal work. We’re confident that principle will continue to prevail as the case advances.” Read more.

Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Tara Borelli argued the case, with Daniel C. Barr, Rhonda L. Barnes and Kirstin T. Eidenbach of the law firm of Perkins, Coie, Brown & Bain P.A. as co-counsel. The case is Diaz (formerly Collins) v. Brewer.

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AZ: Group Walks 99 Miles for Marriage Equality

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

Phoenix Gay MarriageA small group walked 99 miles this weekend to Phoenix, trying to make strides for same-sex marriage.

“It’s been hard but worth it,” said marcher Meg Sneed who sprained her ankle along the way and made the rest of the trip in a wheelchair.

Seventeen people made their way from Parker, Ariz. through 18 cities in nine counties spreading their message that it’s time to change the Arizona law that does not recognize gay marriage.

Full Story from ABC 15

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Sedona Rouge, Sedona, AZ

Friday, May 20th, 2011

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Sedona RougeWhen you enter the Sedona Rouge Hotel and Spa, you enter a world of elegance and sophistication, a blend of high style and functional design against the backdrop of Sedona’s beautiful canyon.

Sedona Rouge has four diamonds from AAA. The hotel is located in West Sedona, a vibrant, yet relaxed, community. We even have our own on-site restaurant, Reds.

Sedona Rouge is an ideal place to relax and rejuvenate.

The hotel’s Mediterranean design includes a magnificent fountained courtyard complete with carved stone columns, intimate sitting areas, and our Observation Terrace, perfect for viewing Sedona’s famous red rock formations and, after sunset, a sky filled with stars.

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AZ: Flagstaff Gives OK to Crafting of Gay Rights Ordinance

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Flagstaff Gay Rights OrdinanceA majority of the Flagstaff City Council gave the green light Tuesday night to begin crafting a gay civil rights ordinance.

However, it could be months before discussion of a local ordinance preventing an employer from firing employees because they are gay or a landlord from evicting tenants because they are bisexual.

The primary reason for a delay is largely bureaucratic — the council agenda is often planned months in advance, and a majority of councilmembers said they did not want to hear the ordinance by a proposed June 1 deadline if it meant “leap-frogging” other planned policy discussions.

Full Story from the AZ Daily Sun

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AZ: Lawsuit for Domestic Partner Benefits to Be Heard By Federal Appeals Court

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Arizona LawsuitSo much attention has been paid to the landmark challenge to California’s ban on same-sex marriage that another very important case regarding gay couples has gone almost unnoticed.

And this latter case will be heard before the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday, Feb. 14 — Valentine’s Day.

The case — Collins v. Brewer from Arizona — is brought by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and pits a group of 10 gay state employees (including Tracy Collins) against a new state law barring them from signing up their domestic partners and children for family health insurance coverage.

Full Story from LGBTQ Nation

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