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GET INFORMED: LGBT News for October 27
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.
ACLU NEWS
Arkansas Parenting Ballot Initiative
Reacting 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 Democrat-Gazette: Fight over act to limit adoptions heating up
- Arkansas Times Blog: Halter: Against Initiated Act 1
Video available at the link above
The Lt. Governor of Arkansas speaks out against Initiated Act 1 - Arkansas Times Blog: Open line
In this and the next two links, former President Bill Clinton urges voters to say no to Initiated Act 1 - Arkansas Times Blog: Press watch
- Associated Press: Clinton Urges Arkansans To Take Historic Step
- NPR – All Things Considered: Arkansas Voters To Decide On Unmarried Adoption
Audio available at the above link
Includes a really sweet moment in which an Arkansas Families First canvasser knocks on the door of a 93-year-old woman who tells him about her gay son, his partner, and their adopted daughter -- and that she is absolutely voting against the ban - The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas): Adoption ban proposal irks some students, makes sense to others
Prowel v. Wise Business Forms
- Philadelphia Gay News: Case contrasts sex vs. sexual-orientation discrimination
- Pam’s House Blend: Sex Discrimination Or Sexual Orientation Discrimination?
RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
California Prop. 8
- Associated Press: Calif. Gay Marriage Ban Becomes Big Money Race
- The New York Times: A Line in the Sand for Same-Sex Marriage Foes
- San Francisco Chronicle: Mormons Face Flak for Backing Prop. 8
- The Huffington Post: A Mormon's Lament: Church Is On the Wrong Side of History Again With Proposition 8
- The Huffington Post: Gavin Newsom: Protect Marriage Equality, Join California's Fight
Video also available at above link - San Francisco Chronicle: Prop. 8 Opponents Take Lead in Money Race
- NBC Los Angeles: People from 50 States, 17 Countries Give $$ to Same-Sex Marriage Prop.
- Associated Press: Apple gives $100K to fight against Calif. anti-gay amendment
- Top of the Ticket (Los Angeles Times): Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Strike Gold and Are Spending It
- Los Angeles Times: Proposition 8 supporters plead for more advertising funds
- Salt Lake Tribune: Together for 19 years: A St. George couple, Mormon and Catholic, married in California
- Oxdown Gazette: Maria Shriver Will Vote NO on Prop 8
- Los Angeles Times: COLUMN: God, Gay Marriage and One Furious Man
- Ventura County Star: Rabbi: No on Prop. 8
- No on Prop 8 press release: Outraged Parents of Children Featured in Latest Prop 8 TV Ad Demand that Commercial be Taken off the Air Immediately
Video also available at the above link - Los Angeles Times: Clergy on Both Sides of Proposition 8 Speak Out
- Los Angeles Times: COLUMN: Gay Priest Is True to His Faith, At Odds With His Church
- Los Angeles Times: OP-ED: Prop. 8 Ads' Invisible Gays
- KBAK Bakersfield: Ken Mettler says he hit demonstrator in self-defense
Video available at the above link - Pam’s House Blend: Prop 8 supporters ape violence of the McCain mobs at two rallies
Video available at the above link - Joe. My. God.: Yes On 8 Leader Assaults Protester, Lies About It To Police, Press
- Pam’s House Blend: Apple's $100K to fight Prop 8
- Towleroad: Report: Huntington Beach 'Yes on 8' Protest and Counter-Protest
- The Bilerico Project: Assholes on 8
- Gay Patriot: Campaign on 8 Doesn't Address Merits of Gay Marriage
- Good As You: Video: Seriously -- How do these people sleep at night?
Video available at the above link - Good As You: Wow, some of them are literally gunning for us
- Good As You: How do you solve a problem like Prop 8? Ask Maria.
- Good As You: 'No on 8' parents to anti-gays: 'NO on our less-than-8-year-olds!'
Video available at the above link - Good As You: Video: Yo’ mama opposes Prop 8
Video available at the above link
- USA Today: Turnout Could Affect Same-Sex Marriage Bans
- Naples Daily News: POLL: Amendment 2 - Will vote change what marriage means in Florida?
YOUTH AND SCHOOLS NEWS
- New America Media: Anti-Gay Harrassment Still Strong in High Schools
- The Bilerico Project: Stories from the Helpline