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USA: Karger Debates Gallagher on Marriage Equality on MSNBC

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Gay Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger debated the National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher on MSNBC, where Gallagher defended NOM’s tactics of turning gays and African-Americans against each other.

The issue came to the media’s attention recently after leaked internal documents from NOM demonstrated the group’s divisive tactics.

Full Story from The Advocate

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VA: Andrew Sullivan to Debate Maggie Gallagher on Marriage Equality

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Maggie Gallagher and Andrew Sullivan will debate gay marriage on April 4 in Lexington, Virginia.

Gallagher, the co-founder and former president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation’s most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, and Sullivan, the former editor of The New Republic and the blogger behind The Dish, will face off starting at 6PM in Lee Chapel on the campus of Washington and Lee University.

The debate is being hosted by Outlaw and the Federalist Society, two Washington and Lee University School of Law student groups.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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Australia: Debate Over Marriage Equality Delayed to Garner Support

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Australia Marriage Equality DebateTHE gay marriage debate in Parliament will be pushed back to later in the year to give advocates for change more time to garner enough support to have legislation for same sex marriage passed.

Instead of the debate being held immediately – which would have seen the bill defeated – the gay marriage campaign has changed focus to increase pressure on Tony Abbott to change his mind and allow opposition MPs a conscience vote.

“The Coalition went to the last election as the party promising more individual freedom and less government interference in home life. Those values are consistent with a conscience vote on marriage equality,” the national convener of Australian Marriage Equality, Alex Greenwich, said.

Full Story from smh.com.au

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Australia: Civil Unions Debated in Queensland

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Australia MP's Support Marriage EqualityQueensland Parliament email inboxes and the mail office have been very busy places indeed lately.

In less than two weeks, more than four thousand submissions have been sent in on this private members bill of Andrew Fraser’s – that would allow same sex and heterodsexual couples to register their relationships as civil unions in Queensland.

Labor MPs will be allowed a conscience vote, and if six vote no the bill will be defeated.

Full Story from ABC

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Reframing the Marriage Equality Debate

Monday, September 19th, 2011

The Gay Marriage DebateSB 514/Amendment One aims to amend our North Carolina State constitution to ban gay marriage. Gay marriage is against the law in North Carolina; thus, this bill serves little legal purpose. It seems the only impact this amendment will have is to engrain our stereotypical southern prejudice and ignorance into our constitution.

The amendment will be on the ballots in May’s primary. Debate on the issue will rage between citizens until May. When this issue is debated I often hear many of the same arguments being used. Arguments for both sides of the issue often contain fallacies and unintended consequences that can harm one’s point. We cannot afford to continue to debate this issue the way we have. I hope that exposing the following hazardous talking points will bring about a better debate.

For: “I’m not gay, but..”

There is no reason to preface your views on gay marriage with this statement. Its like prefacing a discussion on tax cuts for the rich with “I’m not rich but…” To qualify your statement is to attempt to shield your own insecurities over defending homosexuals, as if being associated with them is the worst thing in the world. Your insecurity discredits your point.

Full Story from Technician Online

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GOP Runs to The Right on Marriage Equality in Presidential Debate

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum almost certainly prompted many LGBT people watching Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate to hit the rewind button when he criticized Iran because it “tramples the rights of gays.” But the large and very vocal audience inside the Iowa State auditorium watching the debate in Ames, Iowa, met former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s statement in defense of civil unions with a stony silence.

It was a highly contentious debate -the third nationally televised debate for Republicans seeking the party’s nomination for president in 2012. There were several head-turning zingers, and combative attacks on fellow candidates (and reporters asking the questions). None of the eight candidates on the stage strayed from their already stated positions on marriage for same-sex couples, but there was some pushing and prodding for several of the candidates to move even farther to the right.

Santorum staked out his more-right-than-anybody-else position on marriage licenses for same-sex couples by taking stabs at other candidates.

Full Story from Keen news Service

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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Debate Marriage Equality, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

As the topic turned to social issues during last night’s GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire, the opportunity came up for the GOP contenders to flex their conservative values on marriage and gays in the military.

Bachmann is asked by CNN’s John King about her views on same-sex marriage and replies that children need a mother and father. When asked if she would repeal state laws legalizing same-sex marriage she gets a round of applause by saying that “it’s not the role of a President to go into states and interfere with their state laws.”

King then moves on to ask the candidates if they would support a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and if they would allow gays to serve openly in the military.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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DE: Fight Over Civil Unions Bill Heats Up

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Delaware Gay CoupleRick Moore of Milton has a gold band wrapped around the ring finger of his left hand. It matches the ring Nick Gurnas wears. To Moore and Gurnas, who were married in Washington, D.C., last April, the gold bands signify their 2010 vow of marriage and the lifetime commitment they made to each other eight years ago. Under the Delaware Code, the bands mean nothing — unless they say it does. A gay or lesbian Delaware couple that claims to be married can be hit with a $100 fine or put in jail for 30 days.

This week, Delaware lawmakers will consider legislation that would recognize “solemnized” same-sex relationships as legal civil unions, starting Jan. 1, and grant them the same benefits and responsibilities of married couples. State Sen. David P. Sokola, D-Newark North, introduced the state’s first such bill Tuesday, with more than two dozen other lawmakers signed on as co-sponsors. The bill — S.B. 30 — is scheduled for its first hearing at 2 p.m. Wednesday before the Senate Administrative Services Committee.

“It would change our lives big time,” said Moore, owner of Rick’s Fitness. “We’d have the tax advantages, the right to inherit, power of attorney over everything that happens. I want to make sure Nick is taken care of, and he wants to make sure I’m taken care of.”

Full Story from The Courier Post

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RI: Senate Sees Heated Debate Over Marriage Equality

Friday, March 11th, 2011

“Marriage between one man and one woman is more sacred than anything. We’re being bullied into this by states like Massachusetts. Rhode Island should stand up and say we’re not going to do it.” That is the problem, is it not. The word ‘sacred’. It is probably something that Roy Gustafson, the Warwick auto body technician who uttered those words, had not thought about. If marriage between one man and one woman is more sacred than anything, than that means that his life is not sacred, nor is God, nor the Bible, nor a church.

Gustafson, like far too many people, hold sacred a view of marriage that dates back to 1969, when the Supreme Court of the United States redefined marriage as being between one man and one woman. Prior to that point, marriage was between one man and one woman of the same race. If you go further back, people of different religions were not suppose to marry either. If you go even further back than that, you find out that marriage was never actually defined as being between one man and one woman.

Of course, who determines what is sacred and what is not. That is why America has a First Amendment and a guarantee of Freedom of and from Religion.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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China: Website Stirs Up Marriage Equality Debate

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

One of China’s largest and most popular news websites has stirred a nasty debate about gay marriage in a nation where homosexuality still remains a social taboo. Professor Li Yinhe, China’s long time same-sex marriage advocate, was invited to discuss the issue of same-sex marriage on the NetEase website, but claims made in a response by Li Tie, the editor of southern China’s influential The Times Weekly, against gay marriage have triggered strong emotions.

While Li Tie’s opinion piece acknowledges that gay people have the right to love and live together, his statements appear homophobic, hypocritical and narrow-minded.

“Exercising caution on legalizing same-sex marriage is not an act of discrimination,” begins the editor. “Conditions usually apply when protecting minorities’ rights.”

Full Story from Same Same

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