weeklystandard.com - 11/16/2008
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This story will surprise no one who has lived in a deeply liberal community that prides itself on its tolerance and diversity above all else. A brave Illinois 8th-grader, daughter to a conservative dad and liberal mom, conducted a social experiment in the weeks before the election in the ...
usatoday.com - 11/14/2008
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usatoday.com —
Protesters are focusing on California, where the state
Supreme Court declared same-sex marriages legal in May before
voters tossed them out Nov. 4. California's Proposition 8, which passed 52.2% to 47.8%, "eliminates (the) right of same-sex couples to ...
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Gay-marriage supporters plan Prop-8 protests
gaypatriot.net - 11/12/2008
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gaypatriot.net —
It seems the biggest issue in the gay
world this week is not the election of Barack
Obama, but the protests against the vote in favor of Proposition 8. I have my theories on why these people are rallying, but I don’t think it does much good ...
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What do Protests Against Prop 8 Results Accomplish?
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The View From Your Protest: Long Beach
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... There will be a campaign by the Christianists to define and describe the reaction to having our families attacked and marriages voided as bigoted, angry, vicious and the like. A few incidents will be used by the usual suspects - O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Kristol, Drudge, Fox, The Weekly Standard, National Review, FRC et al. - to tarnish the thousands who showed up today as nasty people hostile to religious freedom. Watch them also try to use code-words about children to stir up fear. There's nothing we can do about this kind of thing, except show that the overwhelming sentiment ...
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Prop 8 protests going strong
pandagon.net 11/7/2008 — by Pam Spaulding
Thousands of people protesting Prop 8 are filling the streets and disrupting traffic during rush hour. Here is a link to live coverage of protests going on right now in Westwood (above).
Journalist Karen Ocamb was at the protests today and shares photos.
From ...
Anti-Mormon Intolerance
corner.nationalreview.com 11/4/2008 — For a side that claims to be about tolerance, this is a pretty remarkable commercial, opposed to Prop 8 in California:
Anti-Prop. 8 protests spring up in California - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 11/9/2008 — Police estimated that 12,500 boisterous marchers converged about 6 p.m. at Sunset and Santa Monica boulevards in Silver Lake near the site of the former Black Cat bar, which the city recently designated a historic-cultural monument for its '60s role ...
The N-bomb is dropped on black passersby at Prop 8 protests
pandagon.net 11/8/2008 — by Pam Spaulding
UPDATE : the openly gay president of People for the American Way, Kathryn Kolbert, has released a statement. It’s below the fold.
You could see this coming, and this is what I’m talking about when you ignore the ...
From Each According to His Ability to Buy an Obama T-shirt…
2ohreally.com 11/11/2008 — So I got another e-mail from Barack Obama. I get 'em all the time.
This one asked me for $30 to help replenish the funds of the Democratic National Committee, which apparently blew all its money exterminating the GOP.
I know the campaign is over, ...
: The N-bomb is dropped on black passersby at Prop 8 protests
pamshouseblend.com 11/8/2008 — The Christian Civic League of Maine 's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy." He is " praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her ...
Taking on the System and the Prop 8 protests
dailykos.com 11/18/2008 — If there's an overriding theme to Taking on the System , my latest book, it's that we no longer have to sit around and wait for the gatekeepers to tell us what to do. We can engage in the world around us at our own discretion, focusing on the things ...
Man Arrested in Philly for Wearing a McCain T-Shirt
gatesofvienna.blogspot.com 11/9/2008 — The video below is very disturbing. A man wearing a McCain/Palin T-shirt wandered into a post-election celebration in Philadelphia for Barack Obama, and was arrested. The ostensible charge was that he was drunk and disorderly, but watch the video and ...
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