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The Nevada Senate voted 14-7 in favor of an over ride to Governor Jim Gibbons' veto of the state's Domestic Partnership bill. It now has to go to the assembly for a vote, where it will require to-thirds majority to pass. The vote should take place today. 

Here is the live streaming video of the Meet in the Middle rally happening now in Fresno, California:

The Official Public Service Announcement for the NOH8 Campaign. A protest to the existence of Proposition 8.

The National Marriage comes in 2nd this week for Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World". Olbermann laughs about the spelling mistake the organization made at the end of their newest New York ad.

Maggie Gallagher head of the National Organization for Marriage was on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and was taken on by Prof. Tobias Wolff. Near the end the professor asked Gallagher what she expected to happen to the gay people who would be here even if gay marriage wasn't legal. She said, she didn't care, but didn't think they should be redefining what marriage was supposed to be. Then the host filling in for Lou Dobbbs asked Maggie what her reaction was to the fact that the majority of young voters support gay marriage. Her response what that the fate of marriage shouldn't be put in young peoples hands and that everyone should listen to the older generation who was wise. This is when the host spoke up and said she did not agree with Gallagher and that a good bit of wisdom can come from young people.

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The New Hampshire Senate and House committee have agreed on a compromise in the wording of the Same-Sex marriage bill and the Governor has agreed. The revised bill will now come up for a vote most likely on Wednesday. The changes make the language for religious protection a little stronger than the original bill. Such as one section that said "charitable and educational" and now says "charitable or educational."

Pat Robertson once said Gay Marriage would lead to Sex with Ducks. So lets sing about it:

A Short Film that protest Proposition 8, but shows exactly what the original definition and tradition of marriage really is:

Ok, I decided to listen to everyone and made my first Weight Loss Video Log. It is my first one so please bare with me, the sounds not great and it makes me nervous to make videos of myself, but I hope it may help myself and others. I've already lost 20 pounds, was 275 lbs, now 255 lbs.

Yup, they've gone and done it again: 

A little while back Singer Rob Thomas went to fight for the Gay Communities rights and now he is at it again. This time he wrote an article for the Huffington Post. Here is an exert:

"I am a straight man, with a big gay chip on my shoulder.

A while back on my Twitter page (yes, I know how ridiculous it sounds), I mentioned that, if I believed in the devil, Pat Robertson might be him.

Being a fairly liberal-leaning guy with either liberal friends or Republican and Christian friends who don't believe that being one has anything to do with the other, I was surprised at how many people took offense to what I had to say.

These people weren't friends of Mr. Robertson but friends, apparently, of God. They had "spoken" with him and he had assured them that he was no friend of the gays. He also told them that he loved America more than any other country and was a huge fan of Dancing With the Stars."

I highly recommend you read the entire article here.

Lt. Dan Choi says he came out to his parents and the world because of Proposition 8 and that his parents still will not talk to him:

A date for a National Gay Rights March on Washington has been set for October 11, 2009.

Lt. Dan Choi Spoke last night at a Los Angeles Day of Decision Rally. He speaks and gets his point across very well, including reciting a poem in Arabic about love. I think we may have found our own Miss California, or would you rather, our own Anti-Prejean. I mean look at him last night, he's a lot sexier. I had to watch the video twice, once to hear what he was saying, because the first time all I could see was that tight t-shirt. I feel bad to be objectifying someone fighting for our rights, but in this case I feel comfortable in doing both.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he will enforce Proposition 8 as the Supreme Court has ruled, but he believes it will be over turned.

This video is extremely offensive, but in the light of Proposition 8, who the fuck cares. A spoof on the Grinch, about how the Mormons stole everything from "fag ville"

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Via Dan Savage.

The Los Angeles Day of Decision Rally is being live fed at 7 PM local time via Qik. The program lets people stream live video from their mobile devices.





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Thanks to Unite the Fight for the live feed info.

In light of the California Supreme Court upholding Proposition 8, the Courage Campaign has released a new ad asking "What if we could vote..." then gives several examples of how majority votes could go wrong. Here is the ad: 

Kerry Eleveld from the Advocate was on MSNBC talking about the Supreme Courts ruling on Proposition 8 and what she thinks is next for marriage equality. Equal Rights are on the March through the United States.

CNN talked to a same-sex couple and their daughter this morning about how the court decision to uphold Proposition 8 hurts them:

The Fox news coverage of Proposition 8:

MSNBC Coverage of Proposition 8:

This was the coverage and talk on CNN this morning when Proposition 8 was upheld:

Protest have begun over the ignorant decision by the California Supreme Courts Decision to uphold prop. 8. This one blocked a busy road near the Supreme Court: 

The Ruling from the California Supreme Court on the validity of Proposition 8 is in. The result is: 

The Proposition 8 results Live Stream should be here.

Tomorrow is the Day of Decision for the California Supreme Court's ruling on the validity of Proposition 8. The Gay Atheist will post any information and the decision as soon as I know it. It's also still not to late to join a Day of Decision rally in your area. The best of luck to everyone tomorrow.

NBC news recently covered the uprising that is happening because of prop. 8 right now. Here is the video:

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Dedication to my honey, well it may be wishful thinking. This is for you Becks. Why are all the hot ones straight?

On the Harvard University Campus the ROTC club is banned because the school says the clubs policy is against school policy. The ROTC is run under military rule and thus the LGBT students are not allowed to join because of DADT. I understand the club members being upset that they have to go to another university campus to attend their club meetings, but instead of trying to get the school to change, how about they try to get the policy changed from the federal government. Then all students who wanted to, could join. That would be fair. Here is a CNN interview on the topic:

I have a new, well current, favourite song. It's called Major Tom by Shiny Toy Guns. Like many of the songs I fall in love with it was originally a commercial. Here is the song:



Now here is the Lincoln commercial that started it all:



I would so buy that car just because of this commercial.

Last night on Anderson Cooper's AC360, Anderson spoke of how Philadelphia has elected it's first black Mayor. Philadelphia was known for some of the worst racism during the civil rights movement. Anderson showed a clip of an interview from 2005 with a former mayor of Philadelphia. The former mayor defended the KKK and said that they did more good than they did bad. Anderson was stunned by what the mayor was saying. The mayor then went on to say, they the tree men killed should have never been there in the first place. He blamed the people that sent the men, and said as outsiders they had no right. The interview grows intense:

They are at it again: 

If he had lived, Harvey Milk would have been seventy nine years old today. Harvey was born in New York, but became famous in California, as a gay rights activist and the first openly gay man elected to public office. He was elected as San Francisco city supervisor. Harvey was assassinated by the coward Dan White. Thank You Harvey, for everything you did for our community and everything you did for me. Your story provided me with so much inspiration and helped me through the hard times of my coming out. It's so amazing that you were fighting for my rights long before I was born. I wish you hadn't been taken away, but your name will be remembered. Thank You!

The California Supreme Court today said on it's website that it will be releasing it's decision on the validity of Prop. 8 this Tuesday, 10 AM California Time, May 26 2009. I will post the result as soon as it's made known. 

Above is a picture of the barricades that the police dropped off yesterday in the Castro.

Unconfirmed reports have been surfacing on the web that sometime today (Wednesday) we will be told if the California Supreme Court has decided to over turn Prop 8. or not. The decisions even if the reports are true won't be given until tomorrow, but we will know it is coming. I will post any new information I get. The court has until June 3rd to decide at the latest.

Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach a decorated soldier who has been in the army for 18 years and was one of the fighter pilots deployed on September 11th, is being discharged because he is gay.

I want this hair cut, hope to get it next week.

All this week on the View is Hot Topics, the portion of the show where they discuss current events. Yesterday on the show Jesse Ventura joined them co-hosts and they started a debate on torture. Jesse Ventura said that during his Navy Seal training her was required to be "Water Boarded." He plainly said that the act is torture. Ventura then got into a debate over the topic with Elisabeth. The republican Co-Host said that without the use of water boarding the US government wouldn't have gotten important information about terrorist activities. That is when Ventura said that the information was learned before the water boarding. Later on he said that the use of the term "enhanced interrogation" techniques was a word former President Dick Cheney used to justify using torture.




It's good to finally see Elisabeth getting what she gives.

As "The Gay Atheist" reported several days ago the head of the GOP, Michael Steel, stated that allowing same-sex marriage would harm small business. Well, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann took on the issue last night with the accurate information. Michael Steel had originally said

“Now all of a sudden, I've got someone who wasn’t a spouse before that I had no responsibility for, who’s now getting claimed as a spouse, that I now have responsibility for. So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money!”

The facts are in, Nation wide same-sex marriage would bring in over 16 BILLION dollars a year. The point is, same-sex marriage is good for the economy and as Mr. Olbermann puts it, it is a stimulus package in it's own right.

Today White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked a question about ending the "Defence of Marriage Act." He dodged the question, saying he had to look into it. Once again we are on the back burner of the political issues.

I have come across this video, thanks to the Stranger Blog. It is actually comments from a Christian Forum about "what if atheists ruled the world?"

It wasn't that long ago that there were white only fountains and segregation was the law of the land. We must speak out against this and ask the President to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

City authorities in Moscow Russia banned a gay pride rally, but the protesters showed up anyway. The police arrested several activists who said they were only trying to bring attention to the human rights atrocities in the country and the ramped homophobia.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele: "Gay Marriage Bad For Small Business"

President Obama was greeted by cheers and protests during his speech at Notre Dame University. Many catholics were angered about having Obama doing the speech because of his stance on abortion and stem-cells.

A third Grader in Denver Colorado will be in the front of the Marriage Equality debate with a rally he is organizing for marriage equality. Ethan McNamee the third grader organized the rally for his independent study project. He first became aware of the issue when he heard anti-gay comments on the play ground and then found out there was a gay couple in his community who couldn't get married.

Joe the Plumber talking about how he wouldn't want his son around gay people, and how it just seems unnatural and throws him off.

“Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within and threatening us all with destruction from their new god Science.”

The above quote pretty much sums ups Ron Howard’s new film Angels and Demons. The film stars Tom Hanks at Professor Robert Langdon, the symbologist we meet in “The Da Vinci Code.” A lab called CERN has produced a new technology called Anti-matter. The invention could unite Science and Religion plus it could be an unbelievable power source. The only bad thing is that if anti-matter touches any matter, even air, it explodes. To solve this problem a physicist Vitorria Vetra creates a container that suspends it. However someone breaks in and steals a container. The container is only safe as long as the battery last. Mean while someone has also kidnapped 4 cardinals. They are threatening to blow up the anti-matter which has been placed in the Vatican. The film is based on Dan Brown’s book of the same name, but that is where my biggest complaint with this film lies.

I know that no movie exactly mirrors the book it was based on, but I found unlike The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons greatly varied from the book. I think this may have been a bad decision on the part of Ron Howard. The movie also had a different feel than the book. In the book, Robert Langdon and the Physicist Vitorria Vetra became very close and while at the end of the film they portrayed their relationship at the same level it seemed unbelievable because they hadn’t spent the time together or showed the rest of the emotions to build an intimate relationship.

Also the plot line was greatly changed. People, I will not ruin the plot line by saying who, that died in the book, lived to have different impacts on the plot line in the film. The book was also much darker, while the film seemed more censored.

In the film several alternative plot lines from the book were completely removed, including the entire part about Doctor Kohler and CERN. There was also no mention that I noticed where they told that the doctor who was killed in the beginning was Vitorria’s father. They also cut out the segment where the killer talked to the unknown organizer of the Illuminati plot. By cutting out segments of the film involving the killer, they made him appear as if he was only working for money, while in the book he came off as a devote servant, doing the killings just to please his masters.

So before I spoil too much of the film, I will rap it up. All in all the film varied from the book a lot. I would still recommend seeing it if your going to the movies anyway. I will say though that if you like Science Fiction films, I would suggest seeing Star Trek instead. I enjoyed it so much more. I think the movie just seemed fake, at least in light of reading the book. I worry that people who haven’t read the book however may not get into it as much. So to tell the truth, I was a little disappointed. If I was rating with stars, I would rate the film a 3 out of 5 stars. I don’t doubt it will do well this weekend in theatres, but it could have been so much better.

The National Organization for Marriage's ad has been out for a few months at least now, but I just saw it for the first time today. In the ad children are shown asking questions about same-sex marriage. The questions however are laughable at best. One child says to his Grandmother that his teacher told him if Grandpa was a boy, they could still get married. One child at the end actually says, "I'm confused." Note to NOM: children don't get confused about this stuff unless their is an adult behind the confusion and prejudice. Besides are they trying to say that hearing gay people can get married, will cause children to become gay? What shit!

The National Organization for Marriage has released a new ad directed at New Hampshire's Governor Lynch.

Today at the White House Press Conference, a reporter challenged the white house's response to Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The reporter asked why if the President wouldn't release interrogation pictures because it endangered troops, would he continue to allow qualified gay soldiers to be discharged. Here is the exchange: 

Here is the revised New Hampshire Same Sex Marriage Bill, that Governor Lynch would be willing to sign into law. He is urging the legislature to pass it.

Breaking News is coming in that the New Hampshire Governor will sign the same-sex marriage bill into law. The governor however wants to change a few things about the bill before he passes it. The changes Governor Lynch wants to make have not been released yet, but I will post them as soon as they are. 

I was home alone last night, so I decided to go for a long walk with my Dog Kriss. At first I was going to go to the river near my house, but there was a crowd of people by the dock, so I decided to keep walking. I ended up walking a little bit further until I found a pond that was full of life. These pictures don't do it justice. There were frogs, fish, geese and more I didn't see. It was so much fun and Kriss loved it. 

After a police chase a suspect surrenders and drops to the ground with his arms and legs out. You might think the commotion is over, but look again. Just as a police officer comes running up he kicks the suspect right in the head. The man had surrendered, there was no need for this. The chase started over a traffic violation. I hope something is done about it. After the kick, the police officers are seen high-fiving. This was all caught on tape by a news helicopter. 

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Shanna Moakler talked to Ryan Seacrest about the Miss California scandal and her continued lying. She says Donald is a good man, but thinking with a business mind. She says she cannot promote someone who keeps lying. Shanna became choked up when talking about how Carrie is screwing over the pageant. She specifically mentioned the comment Prejean said about the wind blowing open her top when she wasn't looking.

Here is the interview.

Yesterday, Sarah Palin the Alaskan Governor, released a statement defending Miss California, Carrie Prejean. Palin brought up the free speech argument in defence of Prejean, but appeared to miss the point of others right to free speech. One also might find it a large hypocrisy that while Palin and Prejean are demanding they are able to enact their right of free speech, they are with the other hand trying to take away our rights. 
“Carrie and I spoke soon after the attacks started; I can relate as a liberal target myself."

My Opinion, to avoid the slippery slope he mentions, we should be extra safe. Let's get rid of marriage all together. Not even just civil marriage now, lets get rid of all marriage, religious included. That would kill so many birds with just one single stone. It would end divorce and finally blow the hell out of that scary slippery slope the bigots, opps I mean Republicans, are always talking about. We all know how much the bible likes using stones to solve problems. It's called Leviticus, look it up. 

Dan Savage, on his blog posted a video of himself on MSNBC. He was originally asked to be on the show to talk about Obama's speech at Notre Dame University, but the topic turned to President Obama on gay rights issues, such as DADT and DOMA. I agree with Dan, I would currently give Obama an "F" grade. I'd love to see you do more media speaking on the topic Dan. Here is his interview:

 Dan also posted a link to Andrew Sullivan's blog, where he made a post about Obama not responding to gay rights. I highly recommend reading the post. Dan also wrote that Obama did however mention the marriage equality movement in states like Iowa. He mentioned it in a joke. Just like Dan said, Mr. President, our rights are not a joke. Here is Obama making the joke: 

Well, I thought something was fishy when Trump endorsed Carrie Prejean, and it wasn't just Carrie. The day before Donald's backing up of Prejean, the executive directors of Miss California USA, tore at Miss California for her actions after the pageant, also reaffirming that her answer in favour of "opposite" marriage was not the reason she lost the pageant. But yesterday during Donald's press conference both of the executive directors seemed subdued, like they had been given a good work over by "The Donald." 
"Since the press conference yesterday, I had a chance to think about what has taken place, and I feel that at this time it is in my best interest to resign from the Miss California USA organization.

I hope this is the last thing I post on Miss California. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has created a new segment on his show called "WTF." This week it stars Carrie Prejean. You have to watch his reaction to the issue. Fuck You Carrie! Fuck you Very Very Much!

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Miss California, Carrie Prejean, will not be stripped of her crown.

More pictures of Miss California have been released. These pictures were allegedly taken when Miss California was twenty, over the legal age and in a professional photo shoot. Miss California and her agent claimed there was only one photo shoot. Donald Trump will make the decision on her crown being stripped or not later today. I will post the conclusion as soon as I know it.