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Harold C. Jones
From Selma to Gay Rights in One Fell
Swoop.
Washington
– Vice President Joe Biden says the same human rights that African Americans
fought for in Selma, Alabama, are at stake for gay rights activists today.
His
remarks come on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the historic march from
Selma to Montgomery. Biden says he never could have anticipated that gays would
serve in the military openly and a majority of states would legalize gay
marriage, as he never could have imagined serving alongside a black president. (AP.)
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Support for Gay Marriage Growing Rapidly.
The
rate of growth for supporting same-sex marriage has risen so rapidly even the
director of the national biennial General Social Survey is marveling at the
speed of change.
“Most
things change slowly. This is one of the most impressive changes we’ve
measured,” said Tom Smith of the National Opinion Research Center, based at the
University of Chicago, which conducts the GSS. The GSS first asked about
legalizing same-sex marriage in 1988, and only 11 percent agreed.
Support
from Democrats is not news. But this week dozens of prominent conservatives,
including former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and David
Koch, one of the deeply conservative billionaire Koch brothers, signed a brief
that says ‘conservative values are consistent with — indeed, are advanced by —
affording civil marriage rights to same-sex couples.’ (Religion
News.)
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Filed Under That Is So Cool: World’s First
Three-Way Gay Marriage.
Valentine’s
Day 2015 will be infamous for more than the release of the film version of 50
Shades of Grey. It also witnessed the world’s first recorded polygamous gay
marriage, as Joke, 29, Bell, 21 and Art, 26 tied the knot. Watchers of The
Hangover Part 2 will not be surprised to learn that the marriage took place
in Thailand, in the Uthai Thani Province.
The
threesome did not undergo a state ceremony, since Thai law does not recognize
same-sex marriages or polygamy, but the trio claims that their union is
sanctioned by Buddhist law. Buddhism is notoriously short on rules and does not
forbid polygamy though Buddhists are counseled to limit themselves to one wife.
Buddhism has no official teaching regarding homosexual practice, other than
prohibiting it for celibate monks. (Breitbart.)
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Major Football Teams Support Gay Marriage.
The
reigning football and baseball champions, along with baseball's small-market Tampa Bay Rays, are among the thousands of
businesses, religious groups, advocacy organizations and politicians who are
filing legal briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of gay marriage.
The cases
from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee will be argued April 28, and a
decision is expected by early summer.
Roughly
six dozen briefs backing pro-gay rights plaintiffs in the four states are
expected by the Friday deadline. Included is a ‘people's brief’ filed by the
Human Rights Campaign with the signatures of 207,551 people. (ESPN.)
If
you’ve read your John
Grisham, you know that higher courts are literally bombarded, snowed under,
with briefs on any contentious issue before them.
Theoretically,
they’re supposed to read all of it. When you consider how much of it is
nonsense, how much of it is bullshit and how much of it is propaganda, you got
to wonder how the jurists actually get through it all without becoming slightly
warped.
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Colorado Moves to Ban Gay Conversion
Therapy.
Denver – The Colorado House has
given initial approval to barring mental health professionals from practicing
gay-conversion therapy with patients under 18.
The House advanced the bill on an
unrecorded voice vote Friday. The bill prohibits therapists from trying to
change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Therapists who disobey
would face disciplinary action from their licensing board. (9News.)
If you’re over eighteen and a bit
simple-minded, it is however still legal to offer the treatment.
One would think informed consent by
the patient is a requirement. For kids under 18, the law is obviously meant to
prevent parental abuse, but it doesn’t do much to stop parents from abandoning
their children or kicking them out into the streets. This author is not a
lawyer. The only legal training I get comes from John Grisham novels.
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10 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Gay. (Fame10)
I
got news for you. I don’t even know these 10 Celebrities.
And
that’s it for another gay news roundup.
Hasta la vista.
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