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WA: Marriage Equality Opponents Almost Ready to Gather Signatures

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Washington State Anti Gay Marriage ReferendumAs legislation legalizing gay marriage sprints its way through the Legislature, Washingtonians opposed to the measure are already gearing up for a long fight to the ballot box to overturn it.

Fervor against the legislation is particularly strong in areas east of the Cascades, such as the Yakima Valley, where tea party activists and conservative religious groups are discussing how they’ll attack the measure.

Opponents could soon be gathering signatures for a voter initiative — or potentially a referendum on the law itself — that would define marriage as between a man and a woman.

Full Story from the Yakima Herald-Republic

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NOM at Washington Hearing: Marriage Equality Would Pollute Social Environment

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Christopher Plante of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Monday testified that he objects to a proposed gay marriage bill in Washington state because it would pollute the social environment for future generations, ThinkProgress.org reported.

“Today, you can go to the supermarket and buy seventh generation cleaning products because it is politically correct to be worried about the ecology we’re leaving the seventh generation. What is the social environment we’re going to leave the seventh generation,” Plante told lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee reviewing the measure.

Senator Mary Margaret Haugen announced she would vote in favor of the bill before the panel began its public hearing, giving supporters sufficient support to make Washington the seventh state to legalize gay marriage.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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MN: Anti Marriage Equality Group Softpeddles Arguments

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Minnesota for MarriageVia a series of You Tube videos – which I refuse to post – the group Minnesota for Marriage is pushing a false image in its fight to keep marriage equality out of the state.

The group has gotten some folks — couples and individuals — to appear on film and talk about what marriage means to them.

Of course, the points they make undercut their argument because it begs the question that if marriage means so much to them, then why are they trying to keep it from others? Why are they trying to keep the stability of marriage from families simply because these particular families are comprised of couples of the same sex?

Full Story from LGBTQ Nation

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NY: Marriage Equality Opponents Out for Revenge

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

As gay couples make last-minute preparations for wedding ceremonies beginning Sunday around the state, opponents of New York’s new same-sex marriage law have a simple message: The fight is not yet over.

Opponents of the marriage equality provisions insist there will be many twists in the future via court challenges, an admittedly impossible bid right now to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages, and battles in the State Legislature over what they believe will be attempts to broaden gay rights laws.

Still smarting from the law’s passage last month at the Capitol, critics of gay marriage rights say they are also preparing — raising money, talking to potential candidates — to exact revenge at the ballot box starting next fall.

Full Story from Buffalo News

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NY: Marriage Equality Opponents Vow to Fight On

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Well-funded national groups that pursue freedom of religion and free speech cases already are soliciting New Yorkers who say their civil rights will be trampled by the new right of gay couples to marry, opening another front in the ongoing contest over same-sex marriage.

It may be a town clerk who chooses to resign rather than issue licenses to gay couples against their own beliefs, or a disc jockey who refuses to play music at a gay couple’s reception and is sued.

“It’s a very well-founded concern,” said Holly Carmichael of the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based firm that presses faith-based cases in court nationwide. “It conflicts with fundamental American religious freedoms.”

Full Story from GSFLA

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MN: Marriage Equality Opponents Raising Funds

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Minnesota Gay MarriageAn antigay coalition pushing for a state constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Minnesota has begun raising funds for what will likely be an expensive campaign on both sides.

The Associated Press reports that the group Minnesota for Marriage, which includes the social conservative group Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference, filed last week with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board to begin raising campaign funds.

Minnesotans United for All Families, a newly formed coalition of pro-marriage equality groups, is already accepting donations via its website.

Full Story from The Advocate

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Australian Marriage Equality Vows to Respect Views of Foes

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Australia Gay MarriageTHE gay marriage movement has taken the unusual step of making a “pledge” to respect the views of people who oppose same-sex weddings on religious grounds in an attempt to blunt arguments by the Christian lobby and Catholic Church. Australian Marriage Equality has made a commitment to respect the religious beliefs of opponents of gay marriage.

In return it says it hopes for a commitment from opposing churches not to “inflame prejudice” during the same-sex marriage debate. This commitment has been made as part of AME’s latest publication on religion and marriage equality.

According to AME national convener Alex Greenwich, it is important that “both sides conduct themselves with maturity, respect, and commit to using truthful and factual arguments”.

Full Story from The Australian

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DC: Gay Marriage Foes Turn to Congress for Repeal

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Brian BrownOpponents of gay marriage in the District of Columbia say they’ll press on despite a recent Supreme Court loss. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from gay marriage foes hoping to put the city’s gay marriage law up for a vote.

The court announced without comment that it would not hear Bishop Harry Jackson’s challenge to a D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics ruling that said putting the question of marriage up for a vote would violate the city’s Human Rights Act (HRA) that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. In rejecting the referendum, the board said it would, if approved, authorize “discrimination in contravention of the HRA.”

Opponents had argued that the board overstepped its authority and that the citizens should have final say on such matters.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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How Gay Marriage Opponents Are Like Gay French Philosophers

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Gay Marriage EqualityRecently I wrote an article for a ladymag on gay marriage. The article in question being Proper Journalism rather than a blog post in which I can opine at will, I was briefed to cover both sides of the argument accurately and fairly.

As a twentysomething leftie for whom same-sex marriage is a clear cut matter of equality and human rights, this at first left me feeling kind of stumped. I understood that a lot of people didn’t support gay marriage for religious reasons, but there were also plenty of religious people who did support it – or who at least didn’t feel the need to push their beliefs onto other, non-religious people.

Like many who share my views, my instinct was to automatically dismiss those who actively oppose gay marriage as fearful, bigoted and homophobia.

Full Story from Feministe

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DC: Gay Marriage Opponents Ask Supreme Court to Step In

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Opponents of same-sex marriage in Washington are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take their case. A group headed by Bishop Harry L. Jackson which had opposed same-sex marriage in the city says it filed a petition with the high court on Tuesday, asking the justices to take their case.

Washington began allowing gay marriage in March. Jackson and opponents of gay marriage had previously argued in court that the issue of same-sex marriage should go before D.C. voters.

D.C. courts ruled, however, that city officials could pass a law barring initiatives from the ballot if they conflict with a city human rights law. The group plans to hold a news conference Wednesday.

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Full Story from WTOP

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