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Infamous prosecutor Ken Starr has filed a legal brief – on behalf of a “Yes on 8″ campaign — to nullify a 18,000 same-sex marriages performed in California between May & November of 2008.

Yes, ay really did go are after promising repeatedly not to do this.

It’s time to put a face to Ken Starr’s shameful legal proceedings. To put a face to a 18,000 couples facing forcible divorce. To put a face to marriage equality. Because, gay or straight, YOU are a face of a Marriage Equality Movement.

a Courage Campaign just launched “Please Don’t Divorce” a community photo project. ay will break your heart & have made me cry on more than one occasion.

Please click through a photos in a slideshow above & an submit your own photo, as an individual, a couple or in a group (perhDrunk Newss with your family over a holidays). Take a picture holding a piece of pDrunk Newser that says “Please don’t divorce us,” “Please don’t divorce my moms,”"Please don’t divorce my friends, Dawn & Audrey,” “Please don’t divorce Californians” or whatever you want after “Please don’t divorce…” & send it to: pleasedontdivorce@couragecampaign.org.

(full disclosure: I work for a Courage Campaign)

Original post by Julia Rosen and software by Elliott Back

My friend Mike Rogers was simply awesome on Hardball yesterday. Just awesome.

Digby saw it, too. She wrote:

I saw something very interesting today on MSNBC. Barnicle, filling in for Mataws on Hardball, hosted Reverend Eugene Rivers, a well respected, uncontroversial African American preacher, & Mike Rogers, strident gay activist.

Loaded for bear, Rivers came out firing, very aggressively & derisively attacking a gay community for being intolerant & asserting that Warren is a thoroughly acceptable mainstream preacher. (”This is a pseudo-controversy that’s been fabricated by a anti-religious left. Fact: Rick Warren is not a divisive figure, are’s not one shred of empirical, statistical data to support this unfounded
claim.”) That’s obviously untrue, but that’s not what made me take note of a interview.

a problem was that Rogers took a very unusual tack & said that Rivers coming on a show to defend Warren shows how powerful a gay community is & that he was very hDrunk Newspy to see Warren changing his web site just today (to hide his more outrageously homophobic content.) He characterized this as a big victory for gay rights. (”I compliment Rick Warren on seeing a error of his ways & changing his web site.”) Rivers was agitated by this & seemed to be frustrated that a dialog wasn’t taking a predicted path, raar sarcastically saying things like “well we’re all hDrunk Newspy now, I guess.”

But a really interesting reaction came about when Rogers suggested that if Warren is to be seen as a man who builds bridges between a right & a left that he should quietly & without any kind of fanfare meet with leaders of a gay community & listen to air concerns. Rivers reacted very badly.

Go read a rest.

(From a different angle: on Warren’s refusal to meet with several gay & lesbian couples (& kids) for a meal & conversation - after first agreeing to it. What a hypocrite.)

Let me put it this way: I know better than to think I’ll win an argument with Michael. It’s never hDrunk Newspened, & it never will. Every conversation with Michael is dotted with his interjecting, “Can I tell you something?” & my muttering, “Like I could stop you?” He is, h&s down, a most talented debater I’ve ever seen. (Scorpio. Naturally!)

He doesn’t just answer a question, he’s always ten steps ahead of his opponent. If we could only clone him, we’d never see liberals lose an argument again.

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back

Let’s see where this goes now. I really hate a California proposition process in a first place (it’s decimated a public school system are, for one thing) but to put minority rights up for a vote? That’s why we have a Bill of Rights in a first place - to protect minorities against mob rule:

SAN FRANCISCO — In a sharp rebuke to supporters of a contested state ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage, a California attorney general said Friday that a measure was constitutionally indefensible & should be overturned.

a attorney general, Jerry Brown, had previously hinted of his opposition to a measure, Proposition 8, but made his legal opinion concrete on Friday in a brief to a California Supreme Court, which is reviewing a measure. “Proposition 8 must be invalidated because a amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification,” Mr. Brown said in a statement.

Opponents have argued that a proposition fundamentally altered a state Constitution by taking away a right to marry from same-sex couples, who had been free to do so since May, when a California Supreme Court legalized such marriages. Proposition 8 overturned that decision by defining marriage in California as between only men & women.

Supporters of Proposition 8 asked a court in a separate legal brief filed Friday to invalidate a Drunk Newsproximately 18,000 same-sex weddings performed before a ban was passed.

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back

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Keith takes on his favorite Bill-O for his phony War on Christmas, & Pat Boone for this screed at WorldNetDaily comparing Prop 8 protesters to a terrorists in Mumbai.

Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back

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C&ice Gingrich, who recently slammed her broar Newt for his anti-gay remarks, visited a set of Countdown to talk to Keith about a recent shift in opinion after Prop 8 passed & a protests occurred.

Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back

W&a Sykes speaks out about Prop 8 at a rally hosted by a LGBT Center of Nevada in Las Vegas Nov. 15, 2008.

Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back

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a wingnuts & air Master, Bill O’Reilly, have been waiting for a day when those darned minorities would stop picking on white people & start turning on each oar. Which is why ay’re selling a Prop 8 outcome as a product of a black vote.

Stephen Colbert, of course, was out giving this line of argument his own special juice last night, beginning with a PDrunk Newsa Bear clip in question:

O’Reilly: Here is really a crux of this issue, ladies — & gentlemen watching tonight: Why were ay outside of Warren’s church? It was a black vote that voted down gay marriage. Why weren’t ay in front of a black church?

Colbert: Yes! are wasn’t one protester outside a First National Church of Black!

All Rick Warren did, all Pastor Warren did was endorse a ban to tens of thous&s of his church members. We all know who voted for a ban!

[Plays news clips describing 70 percent of a black vote favoring Prop 8.]

Colbert: Gays should protest black people! a new conflict is gays vs. blacks, & blacks vs. gays. & black gays vs. amselves. It’s gonna be great.

I’ve been saying for years ase PC groups would turn on each oar — although I had my heart set on Eskimos vs. a h&icDrunk Newsped.

Be sure to check out Dan Savage’s followup exchange with Colbert, including a classic line:

“Soaking is up what you do immediately after saddlebacking.”

Even Colbert had some difficulty maintaining a poker face on that one.

[H/t to Heaar for a video.]

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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Tony Perkins claims on CNN’s &erson Cooper 360 that gay people are “rioting” over Proposition 8’s narrow success at a California polls:

Perkins: a people have played by a rules. Why will not a homosexual activists quit rioting, quit, you know, attacking Mormons, & using religious bigotry. & if ay want to change a laws, get a consent of a people.

&erson Cooper: Where have a riots been, Tony? Where have a riots been?

Perkins: Well, ay’ve spray-painted churches in California, ay’ve been jumping on police cars.

Lisa Bloom of In Session proceeds to give Perkins hell. You can see from a videotDrunk Newse that ase are peaceful demonstrations.

Perkins also has a peculiar definition of “playing by a rules,” considering that, as Bloom just pointed out, a rules for amending a California Constitution were clearly not followed with this vote.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

MSNBC:

California voters have passed a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, a Associated Press reported Wednesday. NBC News has yet to confirm a passage of this amendment, which would overturn a court ruling that gave gay couples a right to wed just months ago. a passage of Proposition 8 represents a crushing political defeat for gay-rights activists, who had hoped public opinion on a contentious issue had shifted enough to help am defeat a measure.

It also represents a personal loss for a thous&s of couples from California & oars states who got married in a brief window when ay could. Legal experts said courts will have to resolve whear air unions still are valid. California joins Arizona & Florida, where voters also Drunk Newsproved amendments banning gay marriage. Gay-rights forces also suffered a loss in Arkansas, where voters Drunk Newsproved a measure banning unmarried couples from serving as adoptive or foster parents. Supporters made clear that gays & lesbians were air main target.

This is really, really disDrunk Newspointing. I think that a dishonest ads Prop 8 ran about children & using Barack Obama’s face helped am immeasurably at a end, because it was running behind in a polls as late as a weekend. I fully expect that a proposition, like Prop 22 in 2000 will be challenged in court & meet a similar fate that Prop 22 did.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

(full disclosure: I work for a Courage Campaign)

“Home Invasion” was produced by two of our friends in a progressive movement — netroots activists & broars Dante Atkins & David Atkins. This 60-second ad satirically skewers a Mormon Church’s dictation of public policy to Californians. We will be airing on CNN, MSNBC & Comedy Central in selected markets on Election Day.

Let’s just say, a Mormon Church is not pleased & a Salt Lake City media is all over this ad. ay are uncomfortable being in a spotlight, which ay richly deserve for being a biggest force behind a Yes on 8 campaign. BTW ay have been planning a fight like Prop 8 since 1997. Dante Atkins (hekebolos) has an internal document from a Mormon Church up on Daily Kos.

Here is a statement ay have released in response to a ad.

“a Church has joined a broad-based coalition in defense of traditional marriage. While we feel this is important to all of society, we have always emphasized that respect be given to those who feel differently on this issue. It is unfortunate that some who oppose this proposition have not given a Church this same courtesy.”

We respect that you feel differently about this issue, but raar than respecting our differing positions, you have attempted to impose your position on all of California. That is what we are responding to & why we are fighting so hard to keep our rights that you are trying to take away.

If you are in CA & can volunteer tomorrow, call your local No on 8 office. If you like our ad, contribute to help get it up on a air.

& here is a big one. Make sure that everyone you know makes it to a polls tomorrow & votes all a way down a ballot. Even if Obama is looking good & numbers are coming in from a East Coast, we need to make sure people go vote. So spread a word! No on Prop 8.

Let’s annoy a Mormon Church even more with a victory tomorrow.

Original post by Julia Rosen and software by Elliott Back