Proposition 8 | Proposition 8
May.16.2012
What’s gay marriage got do with the June 9 bout between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley? Nothing. So naturally it’s becoming the central topic among our sensationalist, scandal-mongering national media.
What we have here is a...
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Aug.06.2010
The week of the decision on Proposition 8 was also the week of the decision on "The Bachelorette." Ali Fedotowsky said yes to Roberto Martinez, one out of 25 who competed for the chance. Us Weekly had already reported that Roberto moved his insurance business to California, where the...
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Jun.01.2009
The final Jack Straw Writers reading was a lot of fun for me. The chance to share my work is probably one of the greatest motivations for creating. I do it to connect with people and talk about what we share and hope to share. As usual, the audience laughed in unexpected places and seemed compelled...
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Mar.22.2009
Keith Olbermann said it best in his 'Special Comment' on November 10. "What is it to you?"
Olbermann, of course, was referring to the passing of Proposition 8 in California, which repealed same-sex marriage laws in the state. His six minute, emotion-filled discussion of the issue was...
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Mar.15.2009
I was a little scared to go back.
Someone with that much anger could go ballistic. I’ve experienced a person at the negative tipping point who’s tipped himself right into a psych ward. Society, bad formative experiences early in life, the culture–too much can overwhelm one’s coping mechanisms. But...
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Dec.04.2008
Mondays are hard enough. But it helps to start out a new day walking to school with Megan. We tried to walk last year, but Tropico is a narrow, curving, hilly, blind-spotted road, and to get to school we thought we had to suck in exhaust from the zillions of SUVs flying past, as parents race to...
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Nov.12.2008
I'm as upset about the outcome of Proposition 8 as anyone else is, but I don't think that it is the signature issue of our times.
The President-elect's plans for what to do with detainees, once he closes Guantanamo Bay, how to handle military tribunals, whether to incarcerate indefinitely without...
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Nov.11.2008
A Q&A With Novelist and Skadden Lawyer, G. Carlos Smith
By Dan Slater
To finish up this historic week, let’s take one more look at Proposition 8 in California. Again, voters approved the initiative, which adds to the state constitution the following sentence: “only marriage between a...
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Nov.06.2008
CLAYTON, N.C., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- P.D. Publishing announced today the release of A Matter of Choice, a novel by G. Carlos Smith that explores the lives of two young men as they find their way during unforgiving but changing times. In a moving but delightful love story, the novel...
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Nov.05.2008
OK, California did right in voting for Obama...
Now it's time to get our b***s in gear and overturn Prop 8...before they decide we (or YOU) for whatEVER reason should to have the taking away of YOUR rights - because someone doesn't agree with the fact of who you are - made a part of the State...
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