Advocacy Groups Vow to Return to Polls to Restore Marriage Equality
This release just in from Equality California, Lambda Legal, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the American Civil Liberties Union. SAN FRANCISCO—Today, in a 6 […]
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PROP 8: Open Letter to Repeal Marriage Ban
A community letter supporting a November 2010 ballot initiative to repeal Prop 8 – several OC organizations are signers. Fellow Activists and Supporters – The […]
CA Democratic Party Chair on Prop 8 Decision
This release just came in from California Democratic Party Chairman Senator John Burton (Ret.). Today’s decision, while heartbreaking, doesn’t end the historic struggle for marriage […]
Prop 8 Decision: HRC Weighs In
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfPNO7G7qqY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Sandra Hartness of HRC has sent The Liberal OC this moving video and the following statement. Today’s Supreme Court decision hurts deeply, but we […]
Prop 8 Decision: Marriage For Some is Not Equality!
San Francisco — Today the California Supreme Court declared that Proposition 8, approved by the voters in November, is a valid amendment as was presented to […]
Obama Picks Sonia Sotomayor for The Supreme Court
A number of sources are reporting that President Barack Obama will nominate federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Associate Justice Souter on the US […]
Paul Krugman’s NY Times column hits the nail on the head
I slept in this morning as I fight off a head cold (always on a Holiday weekend) so I had a later start to my […]
President’s Memorial Day Weekend Address: Sacrifice
On this Memorial Day weekend, President Obama calls on the American people to join him in paying tribute to America’s veterans, servicemen and women – […]
For Memorial Day, 2009: The Lesson of the Four Chaplains, 1943
When I was child, my father, a World War II Navy veteran, taught me the story of the four chaplains of the USAT Dorchester. I […]