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@Dianne: Yep, the "act" is not actually a good-faith proposal to reform prisons: it's a de facto ban on prisons…
@beth My immediate reaction is that someone will commit (or just confess to) some random crime, go to prison, and…
I've previously argued you could reframe prison abolition as "tough on crime." Our prisons are currently a hotbed of uncontrolled…
Dianne: No, but shooting an unarmed person who was moving away from him and no threat to him at all…
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Category Archives: Same-Sex Marriage
Recycling a la Blankenhorn, Part III
Back to David Blankenhorn again, and, picking up where we left off, he comes up with this howler: For these reasons, children have the right, insofar as society can make it possible, to know and to be cared for by … Continue reading
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Speaking of Basing Your Campaign on Lies…
My husband is a phone banking coach for the local No on 8 campaign. Tonight, at an update meeting, they confirmed a rumor that was circulating around the phone banking session last week: Yes on 8 supporters are calling members … Continue reading
Proposition 8: No, Churches will not lose their tax exemptions if gays can marry
[Another guest post, reprinted with permission from Calitics.] Right now the Yes on 8 Campaign is telling so many lies in the service of eliminating rights for gay people that it’s hard to keep track of all of them. But … Continue reading
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Recycling a la Blankenhorn, Part II
Back to David Blankenhorn: Blankenhorn quotes a “research brief” from Child Trends on the ideal family structure for children: In 2002 – just moments before it became highly unfashionable to say so – a team of researchers from Child Trends, … Continue reading
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Recycling a la Blankenhorn
[This is the first of a series of guest posts, reprinted from Hunter at Random.] David Blankenhorn periodically comes out with an OpEd against same-sex marriage, apparently with the idea in mind that if you keep repeating arguments that have … Continue reading
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Proposition 8: What About Those Kids In San Francisco Who Attended Their Teacher's Wedding?
[This is a guest post, written by Jeremy Woodburn and reprinted with permission from Calitics. Between now and the election, I’ll be doing this quite a few times, with posts either related to Proposition 8 or to same-sex marriage. –Amp] … Continue reading
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Rejecting Proposition 8 Doesn't Mean Teachers Would Have To Endorse Gay Marriage
According to Lindsay: if prop 8 fails: 1. public school teachers will be required to teach that same-sex marriage is normal and acceptable. parents will be denied the option to opt-out their children from this discussion. this has already happened … Continue reading
Proposition 8
As many of you heard, Connecticut’s supreme court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage today. Awesome. However, next month Californians will be voting on prop 8, which seeks to eliminate same-sex marriage here. For the last couple of months, polls … Continue reading
Connecticut Supremes Rule in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
From the Connecticut Law Tribune: Whooo-hooo! Same sex couples have a Constitutional right to marry in Connecticut, a narrowly-divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday. Justices voted 4-3 in favor of the plaintiffs — eight gay couples who tried to obtain … Continue reading
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An awesome anti-Proposition 8 ad.
Here in California, the far-right has been pushing a constitutional anti-gay marriage amendment, Proposition 8, that will be on the ballot come November. As far as I’m concerned, this ad is pretty much everything that needs to be said on … Continue reading
For the record: Canadian. I like my system. But I don't know how you get out of yours, because while…