Prop. 8 | Prop. 8
Nov.15.2008
Today was a national day of action protesting the passage Prop. 8 which takes away the right to marry that the court had found gay men and lesbians to possess under the pre-discriminatory, pre-8 constitution of the State of California. (And protesting other discriminatory laws voted in this...
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Nov.15.2008
Today was a national day of action protesting the passage Prop. 8 which takes away the right to marry that the court had found gay men and lesbians to possess under the pre-discriminatory, pre-8 constitution of the State of California. (And protesting other discriminatory laws voted in this...
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Nov.06.2008
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
I never intended this to be a political blog. Still less did I intend it to be a blog about marriage, of all things. But sometimes you get seized by a political moment. It's made writing my novel hard, although I am about to land my narrator in...
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Nov.04.2008
This morning, Angie went down to our local freeway overpass to hold NO ON 8 signs, alongside the imported yes on 8ers. The boys and I started to clean the house, and then we got a call from Angie that the yessers had huge signs strung all along the fencing, and she was there with only one other...
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Nov.04.2008
"Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all the sudden realizes that he or she is gay; knows that if their parents find out they will be tossed out of the house, their classmates will taunt the child, and the Anita Bryants and John Briggses are doing their part on TV...
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Oct.30.2008
Dear Readers (and now I know you are out there),
I am posting an email Angie sent out today. Angie is my lawfully wedded spouse (at least until Tuesday) and the love of my life (for always). Push is coming to shove about Prop. 8: the yessers have been caught blackmailing businesses, lying, and...
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Oct.24.2008
The Campaign that Dare Not Speak its Name.
On November 4th, California voters will be given an opportunity to amend the constitution, reversing a decision by the state supreme court that legalized gay marriage in California on the basis that depriving homosexuals of the right to marry a partner of...
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Oct.23.2008
[NOTE: The GIVEAWAY is located in my Oct. 21 blog, at my web site: http://www.elizabethstark.com Thanks!]
Lately, my sons have taken to picking up the books I am reading. Leo seems particularly drawn to A Spot of Bother (by Mark Haddon), which I have floating around the bed in hardback. “That’s...
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Oct.17.2008
Last night we watched part of the new Chris Rock comedy special. Let me say, first of all, that the man is funny as heck. We were laughing hard. He had a lot to say about Obama that was not only funny but astute and telling. He’s also smart–he can read the audience and respond to that “uh-oh”...
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Oct.11.2008
I am in my mother-in-law’s kitchen, typing on the computer, while my mother-in-law cooks dinner and Angie kisses the boys’ little feet. This sentence, I suppose, is what strikes fear in the hearts of the out-of-state Mormons who are flooding the supporters of Proposition 8 with funds–25 million...
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