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GET INFORMED: LGBT News for November 5
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 Initiated Act 1
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 placed an initiative on the ballot to 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.
Kerrigan and Mock, et. al. v. Commissioner of Public Health
The ACLU was co-counsel in this case – check out our release here.- The Hartford Courant: Constitutional Convention Rejected
- The Bilerico Project: Results are in: Connecticut's Question 1 fails
RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
Multiple states
- CNN ballot results
- Politico: Dems Gain Gov.; Gay-Marriage Bans Pass
- Daily Kos: South Dakota Beats Abortion Ban, Homophobes Win in 4 States
- Pam’s House Blend: Good News: Obama - Bad News: Initiatives
- Pam’s House Blend: Ballot initiatives provide a wake up call to the LGBT community about race
- Pam’s House Blend: Ballot initiative discussion thread
- The Bilerico Project: Ballot initiative results from Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, and Florida, oh and King County
- Good As You: The anti-think tank that tanked our equality
Videos available at the above link
- Los Angeles Times: Voters approve Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages
Completely obnoxious picture of people that history won’t remember kindly celebrating at the above link - San Francisco Chronicle: Castro celebrates Obama, fears a Prop. 8 win
- San Francisco Chronicle: Same-sex marriage ban winning
- Los Angeles Times: Gay Marriage Ban Leading
- Associated Press: Record Turnout Expected as Californians Cast Votes on Key Initiatives
- The Bilerico Project: California's Prop 8, election night blogging
- Good As You: Maybe.
- Good As You: We (and the unforgiving history books) shall see
- Associated Press: Arizona Voters OK Amendment Banning Gay Marriage
- The Bilerico Project: Results: Arizona's same-sex marriage ban - Prop 102 - passes
- Associated Press: Florida voters pass amendment banning gay marriage
- The Bilerico Project: Results: Florida's Amendment 2 Passes
DISCRIMINATION NEWS
- The Birmingham News: Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford asks for gay advocacy group's discrimination suit to be dismissed
- Detroit Free Press: Hamtramck Repeals Discrimination Ban