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Well the line is that the US administration always defends law that is on the statute book when cases like this come before the Supreme Court. But Joe Solmonese from the HRC says that even so there are many comments in the defending brief that are actually quite offensive and really do not put...

Rhetoric goes a long way in a campaign... Not to defend Obama's position on this or the fact his administration defended DOMA, but there might be the need for a little bit of time for these things to go through and for DOMA to be repealed. Democrats still have a fragile majority in the Senate -...

This decision is terrible - mostly down to the stupid direct democracy ballots that really don't do anything for ANYONE. Also how can the California Supreme Court write discrimination into their constitution?! Makes no sense. You know, we have a very SIMILAR issue in the UK. We have "civil...

WOW! Amazing! It's like I've a planet in my head.

Tomorrow is Day Without A Gay day.... http://daywithoutagay.org/ "Call in gay" :D

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GOD BLESS Whoopi Goldberg, fuck me she speaks so much sense in such an accessible way. AMAZING WOMAN.

Very interesting piece in the LA Times on Prop 8, the legal actions being followed up and an argument against why it should be taken to the US Supreme Court - if it looses it could set back gay rights a long way... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaylegal6-2008nov06,0,220763.story

The new line in the Californian Constitution will read "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California". However Wikipedia says:

I imagine that they may become invalid once it gets written into the Californian Constitution. Though there may be some kind of deal whereby they are "commuted" to civil unions or something. You're right, it's beyoned fucked up. The California Supreme Court decided it was unconstitutional to...

:( :( SUCH a backwards step. How utterly disappointing.

Oooh I forget what I've said... new temp job is ok, pretty boring really, mostly admin and not enough policy. Got a SECOND interview on Wednesday at 9am with this other job that is AMAZING. So I'm hoping that comes out well and just go there!

Madison do you have a spreadsheet for this? Because I HOPE YOU DO.

Start next Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!! etc... Pic of my new hair can be found on MSN or www.jonhawknakedhair.com

Hope you are having a lovely time in the Peaks! WISH YOU WERE HERE or summat x