Thursday, February 24, 2011

Today in the Gay


Roddy McDowell gives Tab Hunter, and his weinee
a nice cake.
When it rains it pours!

Creaking, creaking along, everyone navel gazing over the question :
 Tea Baggers, hate taxes, gays or both?

When just yesterday,right here in the middle of the homo high holy week,  a mini disco damn breaks and lots of good news all at once.

  • ALOHA! Newly elected Hawaiian Governor Neil Abercrombie signed CIVIL UNIONS into law yesterday. A very good thing! The legislature there on the islands had passed the law a couple of times and the then GOP Governor never would sign it. A few loud gays out there all pissy over the civil union thing...... chill brothers! A foot in the door.....( full story from the Honolulu Star Advertiser )
  • Maryland! With their tiny but loud neighbor to the south getting the full marriage thing, The Old Line state, falls in .. well line, and jumps aboard the freedom train. There was a little test vote yesterday, and marriage equality passed 25-22 with the final vote there in the Maryland senate today! Utz's crab chips for everyone!
  • Then yesterdays BIG enchilada! President Obama main boo Eric Holder set a fire under the haters yesterday when they came down with : ( from the NYT )
WASHINGTON — President Obama, in a striking legal and political shift, has determined that the Defense of Marriage Act — the 1996 law that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages — is unconstitutional, and has directed the Justice Department to stop defending the law in court, the administration said Wednesday.Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced the decision in a letter to members of Congress. In it, he said the administration was taking the extraordinary step of refusing to defend the law, despite having done so during Mr. Obama’s first two years in the White House.."The president and I have concluded that classifications based on sexual orientation” should be subjected to a strict legal test intended to block unfair discrimination, Mr. Holder wrote. As a result, he said, a crucial provision of the Defense of Marriage Act “is unconstitutional.” ( the rest )  AND some very good analysis from the feeling much better Andrew...


The usual thorned heads collectively exploded, but no links here, the k+b is all about goodness and light!
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2 comments:

b said...

Hallelujah and Praise the Lord!

"...classifications based on sexual orientation” should be subjected to a strict legal test intended to block unfair discrimination ..."

But can you tell lazy-old me, who would rather you read all the gay press for me ... what's the deal with the timing on this and DADT? One would've thought he would have taken care of this stuff out of the gate so it'd be gone before the Right could latch onto it to froth folks into a frenzy during election season.

Or ... could it be ... that this is at long last a political boon rather than a liability?

Praise the Lord and Hallelujah?

February 25, 2011 at 1:35 AM
Kyle said...

The timing on DADT is lightning fast, almost a done deal, should be fully implemented by the end of the year, unless the bible police in the house can find some obscure way to slow it down.
DOMA is moving at the speed of the US Judicial system... no real end in sight....

February 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM

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