Yes, you read that right: at Red State, that bastion of solidly right-wing, conservative American political commentary, there’s a post arguing forcefully for marriage equality – from firmly conservative, firmly Christian principles. Sign of the times! We know from opinion…
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New Hampshire Republicans Defend Marriage Equality
The impressive feature of yesterday’s victory for marriage equality was the extent of Republican support for defending marriage equality. The GOP has an overwhelming 3 to 1 majority in the State House, but the bill went down by almost 2…
AP: “NH House kills gay marriage repeal bill”
The Associated Press headline above is misleading. The NH legislators did not simply “kill” the bill to repeal marriage equality – they slaughtered it, then it was hung drawn and quartered, and impaled on stakes outside the legislature as a…
NH Voters Oppose Gay Marriage Repeal
With a number of US states in the news over reports of moves to provide for same – sex marriage (legislative initiatives in Washington, New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois, a voters’ referendum in Maine, and last week’s court victory in…
Conservatives Rallying to Preserve Gay Marriage, New Hampshire.
Sometime next month, the GOP-controlled legislature in New Hampshire will take up consideration of a bill to repeal marriage equality that was introduced when the state was controlled by Democrats. One of the fascinating features of this proposal has been…
Gay Man “Apologizes” For Destroying GOP Leader’s Marriage
Supporters of marriage equality have often asked their opponents to clarify their argument, to explain just how gay marriage can threaten their own. Now we know – and in Minnesota, where GOP politicians and Catholic bishops are working to entrench…
How gay rights supporters are confronting ALL the presidential candidates
For this non-American, the fascination of the GOP primary campaign has been the free-for-all among the (mostly) crazies attempting to be the anyone-but-Mittens eventual nominee. But there’s another side to this, which has long – term importance. While most of…
In NY, Another Conservative Case for Gay Marriage.
With near unanimous support from Democrats, two Republican senators who have already declared support, and some more who are said to be in favour but are not yet ready to declare, New York could within days finally approve marriage equality.…
CNN Poll: Majority Support for Gay Marriage Creates Problem for GOP
As yet another US poll shows majority support for legal recognition of same – sex marriage, there’s some devil in the detail for the GOP. The cross – tabs for this CNN poll show that the only demographics to strongly…
Out in Politics: Gay Republican Elected to City Ward.
In an intriguing sign of the times, an openly gay Republican has been elected to represent a ward in Springfield, Illinois, Cory Jobe, an openly gay Republican, was elected alderman of the Ward 6 in Springfield on April 5, according…
