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GET INFORMED: LGBT News for October 21
Each weekday, Get Busy, Get Equal brings you a sampling of national and regional LGBT news, the latest on what's new in LGBT relationships, and new developments in ACLU work. We're making progress, but since every step forward is met with resistance, we've got to fight smart to win. Get informed.
California Prop. 8:
Kerrigan and Mock, et. al. v. Commissioner of Public Health
The ACLU was co-counsel in this case – check out our release here. Arkansas Parenting Ballot InitiativeReacting to the ACLU's unanimous victory at the Arkansas Supreme Court striking down an anti-gay foster care ban in Howard v. Child Welfare Agency Review Board, anti-gay activists have been attempting to get an initiative on the ballot that would ban unmarried couples who live together from serving as adoptive or foster parents in the state of Arkansas. The ACLU is part of the coalition opposing this needless measure that would only harm children by reducing the pool of potential homes. Learn more about the Howard case here.
- Arkansas Times Blog: For the kids: Vote 'No' on Initiated Act 1
Video of the Arkansas Families First tv ad available at the above link - Arkansas News Bureau: Supporters, opponents of ballot questions launch ad campaigns
- Facing South (Institute for Southern Studies): Advocates work to fight anti-gay legislation
RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
California Prop. 8
- Time Magazine: California and Beyond: The Battle Over Gay Marriage
- U.S. News & World Report: Voters Deadlocked on Same-Sex Marriage Ban in California
- Los Angeles Times: EDITORIAL: A Lesson About Prop. 8
- Bay Area Reporter: No on 8 only has 30,000 donors
- The Huffington Post: Lane Hudson: Open Letter to Sen. Feinstein
- CBS 13 Sacramento: Parents Organize Prop. 8 Support Protest in School
- Associated Press: Biden Says He'd Oppose Calif. Gay Marriage Ban
- DailyKos.com: Equality for All: There's Still Hell to Pay
- Pam's House Blend: Prop 8: Why It Is Wrong To Reject Gay Marriage
- The Petrelis Files: Lawyers' Prop 8 Giving: No = $767K / Yes = $679K
- CBS 5: Heated gay marriage debate playing out in San Jose yard
Video also available at the above link
- Orlando Sentinel: 700 Attend Rally to Ban Gay Marriage in State Constitution
- Closer Magazine: Wedding Banned: Amendment Two: Stealth Attack on Domestic Partnership?