Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Lorri Jean Has Online 'Dust Up' With Heterosexual Supremacist

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:06 am

  Tags: Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Gay Rights, Conservatives, Blogging, Lgbt, Media, Politics, Marriage

  looming anti-gay statewide ballot measure fight for 2008, the Los Angeles Times has added an opinion feature to it's website where the CEO of the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, Lorri Jean, another of my Gay Heroes, will be doing online verbal tussling with Ron Prentice of the California Family Council, a heterosexual supremacist organization.It's

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• Heterosexual Supremacists Circulate Even Worse Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:29 pm

  Tags: California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Heterosexual Supremacists, Conservatives, Lgbt, Politics, Marriage

  This measure already has a ballot title and summary from the Attorney General's office:LIMIT ON MARRIAGE. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Further amends the California Constitution to state that the amendment shall not

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• Competing Statewide Ballot Initiatives For California's Electoral Votes

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Law, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Presidency, Politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger

  operatives are circulating a ballot initiative that could radically change the dynamics of the 2008 presidential electoral map by assigning California's 55 electoral votes to that candidate which carries each of the state's congressional districts and not the statewide plurality. In 2004, President Bush carried 22 of California's 53 congressional

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• No Dirty Trick Campaign Against Republican Electoral Vote Initiative

  Published: September 27, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Law, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Presidency, Republicans

  Actor Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) released the following video about the proposed ballot measure to award as many as 20 of California's 55 electoral votes the Republican presidential candidate next year.

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• California Heterosexual Supremacists Claim They Will Miss June Primary Ballot

  Published: October 4, 2007, 9:26 pm

  Tags: Law, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Gay Rights, Conservatives, Lgbt, Politics, Marriage

  to qualify for the June ballot, measures must be certified by the secretary of state no later than January 24, according to the secretary of state's office.Petitions submitted after that date would push the measure to the next ballot, in November.Henderson says the political calculus for his group will change dramatically because they will

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• Oregon Heterosexual Supremacists Fail To Gather Signatures To Repeal Domestic partnerships

  Published: October 9, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Heterosexual Supremacists, Conservatives, Lgbt, Politics, Oregon

  measure on the November 2008 ballot to place the Oregon Family Fairness Act on hold until then. Happily, they needed 55, 179 signatures so Oregon will join California and Washington with comprehensive domestic partnership laws in effect at the beginning of the year. However, they clearly came very very close (just 116 signatures) and are

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• Governor Vetoes Gay Marriage Bill (Again)

  Published: October 13, 2007, 4:44 am

  Tags: Ballot Measures, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Marriage

  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)'s gender-neutral marriage bill, again. Here's his veto message, issued Friday October 12.To the Members of the California State Assembly:I am returning Assembly Bill 43 without my signature.As I stated in vetoing similar legislation in 2005, I am proudCalifornia

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• Local TV Coverage of California's Dirty Tricks Initiative

  Published: December 5, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Statewide Initiatives, Constitution, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Elections, Presidency

  likely that the proposed ballot measure to change California's allocation of presidential electoral votes from winner-takes-all (as it is for for more than 520 of the 538 votes up for grabs in 48 of 50 states) to a district-based method is going to fail to qualify for the June 2008 ballot. Dubbed the Dirty Tricks Initiative by actor/activist

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• Florida Heterosexual Supremacists Force Vote To Amend State Constitution

  Published: December 14, 2007, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Constitution, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Legislation, Gay Rights, Heterosexual Supremacists, Marriage, Florida

  have apparently qualified a ballot measure to amend the Florida state constitution by adding these words: "Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."Happily, Florida has changed its election laws so

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• Anti-LGBT Marriage Amendment Fails To Clear AZ Legislature

  Published: April 7, 2008, 3:14 am

  Tags: Civil Unions, Statewide Initiatives, Homophobia, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Arizona, Marriage

  Finally some good news on the gay marriage front. According to 365gay.com and Equality Arizona:Bills that constitutionally limit would limit marriage to opposite-sex couples were filed earlier this year in both the House and Senate by Republican lawmakers and appeared to have enough support for passage.But just before the House was to vote Rep.

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• Anti-Gay Marriage Initiative Update

  Published: April 22, 2008, 11:34 am

  Tags: Homophobia, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Heterosexual Supremacists, Lgbt, Politics, Marriage

  on the November 4 statewide ballot if they submit them before the Monday April 28th deadline and the Secretary of State agrees that at least 694,354 signatures are valid.Although Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has already announced his opposition to the proposed initiative the political fight over a ballot measure is likely be heated and

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• Arnold's Schizophrenia On Gay Marriage

  Published: April 16, 2008, 1:48 pm

  Tags: News, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Lgbt, Republicans, Marriage, Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Is he for it or against it?Arnold Schwarzenegger has twice vetoed legislation that would have made California the first jurisdiction in the United states to enact gay marriage by legislative fiat.The buzz this weekend was about Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announcing his vigorous opposition to a nearly qualified Initiative Constitutional

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• CA Heterosexual Supremacists Claim 1.12M Signatures For Initiative

  Published: April 28, 2008, 4:34 pm

  Tags: California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Heterosexual Supremacists, Lgbt, Marriage

  on the Tuesday November 4th ballot.Mad Professah has previously blogged about the specific text of this measure and its implications. Currently here is no word from the other heterosexual supremacist who were try to ban gay marriage AND repeal domestic partnerships. It should be noted that it is somewhat likely that by November the citizens of

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• LA TIMES Poll Shows 'Slim' Opposition To Gay Marriage

  Published: May 23, 2008, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Poll, Law, Homophobia, Constitution, Public Policy, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Marriage

  The Los Angeles Times published the results of polling of public opinion on last week's marriage equality ruling by the California Supreme Court and a proposed anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment.The salient results are:Do you approve or disapprove of the California Supreme Court'sdecision last week to allow same sex marriage in

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• Field Poll Shows Majority Supports Marriage Equality!

  Published: May 28, 2008, 3:29 pm

  Tags: Poll, Constitution, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Marriage

  gay marriage at the ballot box if they had the chance to vote on the matter in November."Do you favor or oppose changing the California State Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, thus barring marriage between gay and lesbian couples?"Favor 40Oppose 54"There may be a vote on this issue in the November

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