Blogging for LGBT Families

Parenting blog Mombian is hosting a kind of LGBT family blog carnival tomorrow.
“Blogging for LGBT Families Day is a time for bloggers to write about LGBT family issues and collectively raise awareness of LGBT families, our diverse nature, and how current prejudices and laws negatively impact our lives and children.”
The in thing now seems to […]

“NoVa4marriage” launches. Hilarity ensues.

Our anti-gay friends from NoVA Townhall have launched their website pimping for the Marshall-Newman amendment.
A brief frolic through the linkfarm yields this gem:
“It is the hope of the homosexual community that if they can masquerade as successful parents, as the all-American family next door, that our resistance to their also being married will weaken.”
Somebody help […]

It’s the economy, stupid.

Another editorial from the series on GLBT life in the Daily Press:
Intolerance is costly:
Marriage amendment would hurt our ability to lure companies here
May 28, 2006
By John Sternlicht
If Virginia voters endorse the Marshall/Newman amendment, the so-called “marriage protection” amendment, we would be shooting ourselves in the foot when it comes to attracting high-tech workers and cutting-edge […]

We must be for real, we have a song

Update: New mix available for download here.
Compliments of Waldo, a Marshall-Newman Amendment protest song. You can download it from the author/musician, Brady Earnhart. A commenter has posted the lyrics to Waldo’s site.
In response to one of our local anti-gay activists, who complained that the song unfairly links the amendment effort to homophobia, Earnhart gently and […]

Faith Groups Key in Marriage Debate

Note that the Some Families Foundation plans to focus heavily on African-American churches in their campaign to drum up support for the amendment. Also note the prominent role of Jack Stagman’s “Loudoun Church Alliance,” which he previously claimed did not take a position on marriage equality. “We are not making a stand or a statement […]

Virginia’s property rights are at risk in November

More from the Daily Press:
…[T]oday, the majority of assets owned by Virginians are subject to private contracts and agreements and do not pass to loved ones under their wills or probate. Most of the assets we have today are owned - and will transfer upon our deaths - based on private contractual arrangements that we […]

Thoughts of some fellow Virginians

Came across some letters to the editor from the Daily Press in Hampton Roads about their series on the local gay community. I especially like the first one, it made me laugh:
After reading the May 13 article, “Gay-marriage ban advances,” I could not stand idly by without making a comment. If homosexual marriage […]

Let California be California

Reading some blogs, our fellow Virginians are quite active. This one came across my eyes when one sentence stood out and in my silly mind, thought about aliens (a seeming advancement of “modern intelligent beings” such as us here on earth) and how people say they are genderless:
“Is there any greater evidence that God’s […]

McDonnell’s bias shows in legal advice

Ya think?
From the Virginian-Pilot:
Charitably, McDonnell’s explanation is incomplete. Uncharitably, it’s advocacy for the amendment, which he championed as a member of the House of Delegates. Given the explanations coming from his office, Virginians would be wise to view McDonnell’s explanation most uncharitably.
Again, Virginia law requires that the explanation “shall be in plain English, shall be […]

On career decisions, unfortunate

Attorney General Bob McDonnell continues to make a mockery of Virginia law by actively lobbying for the proposed constitutional amendment. Any claim that he could have authored a “neutral” explanation of it is beyond laughable.
Memo to the House and Senate Privileges and Elections Committee members who approved disseminating the AG’s biased explanation to the voters: […]

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