I can hardly believe what's been happening in France.Riot police battling homophobes, religious fanatics, and neo-Nazi groups.
Gay people being attacked over their right to be married.
In the streets of Paris, in the City of Love.Read more »
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A marriage equality bill that recognized gay marriage passed in the New Zealand parliament this past week. This is a speech that MP Maurice Williamson gave at that time. I wish Canadian parliamentarians were as clever and well spoken; there is precious little witty repartee in the House of Commons dominated by Stephen Harper’s nasty [...] Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) announced her support through her Tumbr site and called the question of marriage quality “a great American debate” By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The fight for marriage equality in the U.S. and the world got a huge boost today when Democrat senators Claire McCaskill and Mark Warner [...] The post Two U.S. Senators Announce Support For Gay Marriage Via Facebook & Tumblr appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. Glory Hallelujah. I see that Pope Benny has decided to take early retirement. "After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the Pope said.Leaving us to wonder whether it was his health, his conscience, or something the butler said. Read more » Assuming that the world survives this coming December 21, the United States Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases in June which could result in the nation-wide legalization of gay marriage. I cannot forecast with certainty how the court will decide, but supposing for a moment that it rules in favour of marriage equality, the short-term results are easy to predict: conservative commentators across the country will complain of judicial activism, despite having in many cases urged precisely such an overreach one short year before when Obamacare hung in the balance. Right on cue, public support for same-sex . . . → Read More: Song of the Watermelon: Emerging Consensus on Gay Marriage I've been so busy celebrating Obama's big victory, that I haven't been able to do this story justice.For it too was an amazing victory, and a tribute to all those gay Americans who never gave up the struggle despite one bitter defeat after … . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Gay People and their Straight Friends Everybody’s biting their nails and holding their breath. What’s going to happen? Who’s going to win? The “Hollywood liberal” machine is out in full force with clever ads by luminaries like Joss Whedon of Avengers, Buffy and Firefly fame and hipster filmmaker Lena Dunham chiming in. There’s no doubt that this is a dramatic finish and I’ve been reading coverage and watching the videos as avidly Folks, I merely report these things, as bizarre a commentary they are about our beleaguered American ‘friends.’ I do not make them up. H/t Salon Recommend this Post …just don’t get it. (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario It must have seemed like a great idea eh? To a bigot as dumb as this one. Show how much you hate General Mills for supporting gay marriage. "We do not believe the proposed constitutional amendment is in the best interests of our employees or our state economy," the company's vice president for global diversity and inclusion, Ken Charles, is quoted by the publication as saying. "We value diversity. We value inclusion." By turning up outside company headquarters, with a box of cheerios in one hand, and a blowtorch in the other.Read more » In honour of Pride Week here in Vancouver, I can think of no better time to wade into the growing Chick-fil-A row currently ruffling the feathers of our southern neighbours. For those who don’t follow American news (it’s not like we’re a different country or anything), Chick-fil-A is a US-based fast-food chain whose President, Dan Cathy, is known for supporting anti-gay Christian groups. The controversy boiled over in recent weeks with a couple of high-profile interviews in which Cathy expressed his opposition to gay marriage: “We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the . . . → Read More: Song of the Watermelon: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Chick-Fil-A Political leadership has been defined as figuring out where the people are going and then getting in front of them. If that’s the case, American President Barack Obama is clearly showing leadership with his support for gay marriage. A recent Pew survey showed that support for gay marriage in the U.S. has jumped from 31 per cent to 47 per cent since 2004 whereas opposition has dropped from 60 per First thing’s first. Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage yesterday should be celebrated. On the heels of similar pronouncements by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, this marks the first time that a sitting US President has taken such a bold stance in favour of marriage equality. However, just as light can be considered both a wave and a particle in quantum mechanics, every announcement by an elected official exhibits a similar duality. Was Obama’s decision motivated by principle or by politics? I believe there were elements of both. On the surface, a stronger case can . . . → Read More: Song of the Watermelon: President Obama and Marriage Equality It was long overdue. “At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Mr. Obama said. It won't make any difference to gay couples in many states like North Carolina. But in a country as homophobic as the United States it was a courageous gesture. And for that I am grateful. Read more » Many liberals and democrats will now say: “Finally! ” and ask: “What took you so long Mr. President?” Yes indeed, what prevented Barrack Obama to show his support of gay marriage publicly until now? Perhaps the question isn’t worth asking. The Republican party and it’s ranks of racist, bigoted and religiously extremist Americans, that’s who. The most foul electorate in[continue reading...] Years back, when Barack Obama first told us that his views on gay marriage were “evolving”, I predicted that he would support gay marriage before the next election. That day has now come, and Obama has evolved to join his supposedly progressive base by supporting gay marriage. Good. For the first time, the President of the United States is now publically in support of gay marriage. However, I am still irritated with Obama on this file, largely because of how incrediably political his move is. During his presidency, Obama has thrown several bones to his base with things like repealing . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: Obama comes out in support of same sex marriage I know there is a lot of articles out there arguing for and against same-sex marriage. However, I wanted to give my two cents as to why I think people should be able to be afforded this right. There are many reasons both socially and scientifically why this should be okay. There are even reason[continue reading...] Alberta is Canada’s most right leaning province. The Wildrose party is a further right splitting of the long dominant right leaning party in Alberta. If there is anywhere that the most extreme socially conservative positions are going to be uttered, it is from the Wildrose party. However, if we look at the most contentious points in the election campaign on the social issues side of things, we see that the Wildrose party is vastly less extreme than their Tea Party counterparts – or even establishment Republicans – are in the most right leaning states of the US. Further, the fact . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: Wildrose defeat shows the limits of social conservatism in Canada Should there be explicit protection for the freedom of religion in the founding documents of society? This question may at first seem to be an obvious ‘yes’ since almost everyone – including most atheists such as myself – consider it to be abundantly clear that people should have the freedom to believe in and practice whatever religion they like. I would immediately reject any constitution or charter that did not protect such things. The question, however, is whether religious freedoms should be explicitly enumerated and codified in these documents or whether a larger principle of freedom which includes religious freedom . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: On unnecessarily codifying specific freedoms such as the freedom of religion Although gay marriage seems to have settled into acceptance in this country, it still meets with virulent opposition elsewhere, including in the United States. Certain of the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination serve as good examples. Strutting their Christian credentials, they loudly proclaim their mantra, “Marriage means one man and one woman.” Their credentials do not, A Sens fan and a Leafs fan getting hitched? Holy shit, that’s gonna be a war of a household. BTW, I’m pulling for the Sens fan. 
 ALL CPW POSTS, Canada, Canada Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, Canada News, Canadian government, civil liberties, civil rights, Federal Government, Gay Marriage, Gender and Sexuality, Government, House of Commons, News, Ottawa, parliament, Parliament bill, rights, same-sex marriage, Society First they were allowed to get married, and then they were told they couldn’t. One day they had human rights, the next day they were stolen. But today in California they won another big victory. “All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same sex-couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation ‘marriage,” the judge wrote, adding: “Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gay men and lesbians in California.” I’m so proud of my brothers and . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Prop 8 and the Dark Wall of Discrimination I don’t know why the Unrepentant Old Hippie feels she has the right to dump on progressives, in such a foamy manner, for having the decency to defend the human rights of gays and lesbians. Especially since she regularly accuses progressives who despise Stephen Harper and his foul Cons, of suffering from “Harper Derangement Symptom.” And probably voted for him, because like him she thinks Big Government and taxes are bad, capitalism and greed are good, anyone left of Michael Ignatieff is a commie, the Canadian occupiers are spoiled kids and rabid animals, and Great Not So Bad leader . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Gay Marriage and the Unrepentant Old Hippie |
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