Political articles/news from local authors
According to John Henning, executive director of Love Honor Cherish, the signature gathering efforts underway to get a measure on the ballot in 2010 to repeal California’s Prop 8 is struggling to meet their goals. Signature gathering began in mid November of last year. In order to qualify for a ballot measure, signatures must be […]
Among new legislation introduced this week in California is Assembly Bill 2199. Apparently, for the last 43 years there has been a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code which requires the Dept Of Mental Health to "plan, conduct and cause to be conducted scientific research into the causes and cures of sexual deviation,
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers this week will press the military’s top uniformed officers for the first time on whether they think repealing "don’t ask, don’t tell" makes sense or would be too disruptive. The testimony from each of the service chiefs on Capitol Hill will be crucial to the debate in Congress on whether to
Ryan Sorba is a member of the California Young Americans For Freedom, a group formed in the 1960’s, upholding the US Constitution as the foundation of the nation, only to now have mutated into a group of young conservatives who strive to deny chosen minority groups their access to equal rights. You know, the kind
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman interferes with her state’s right to regulate the institution. Coakley’s office filed a lawsuit in July challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In papers filed late Thursday, Coakley asks
In my ongoing effort to reveal faith for what it is, which is "a belief in something for which there is no proof", I post the latest issue of THIS WEEK IN HOLY CRIMES from JoeMyGod… Over the last seven days… Pennsylvania: Father James Shimsky busted in cocaine buy. Michigan: Pastor Russel Schaller charged with
Day 2 Chapter 2 of the Proposition 8 Trial Re-enactment presented by MarriageTrial.com. Produced by John Ainsworth & John Ireland.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The students stomped their feet, heckled and then stood and turned their backs as the speaker at the University of Oregon defended red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy and called Martin Luther King Jr. a communist dupe. With more than 30 security officers assigned to keep the peace, the 90-something patriarch of the
The San Francisco Chronicle details the latest "revelation" from the Prop 8 Trial in San Francisco, which is now in recess. The Judge in the case, Vaughn Walker, is gay. Walker is not closeted. He keeps his private life separate from his professional life, but it’s no secret that he’s gay. According to another
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban is attracting nationwide attention in the form of "friend of the court" briefs. Groups and individuals supporting and opposed to gay marriage submitted a flurry of opinions on the subject Wednesday, the deadline Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn R. Walker had set for the
