Is the LDS Church violating its tax exempt status by supporting the anti-gay marriage amendment in California? That's the question being asked by one of California's most prominent gay leaders. Kate Kendell is the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco. The group was the lead counsel in the case before the California Supreme Court, the one which lead to legal gay marriage there. Kendell is also a former Utahn who grew up in a Mormon household. She told ABC 4 over the phone, "When I grew up Mormon, I had a sense of ...

Apparently feeling she hasn't fully enough connected her political legacy to anti-gay bias through her introduction of a federal gay marriage amendment in both 2003 and 2006, congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) has now signed on as a co-sponsor of the latest version of the proposed ban: Musgrave re-enters gay marriage debate [Coloradoan] Because apparently Marilyn believes in the "if it's totally broken, still don't fix it" style of policy-making. But will this reinvestment in this tired, overwrought issue hurt Musgrave's chances for re-election in the fall, where she faces a formidable challenge from Democrat Betsy Markey? Well, that ...

(hat tip Joe.My.God) Republican presidential candidate John McCain has endorsed the upcoming ballot measure to attempt to amend the California constitution to ban (and possibly repeal) gay marriage. He sent an email to Protect Marriage saying: "I support the efforts of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman, just as we did in my home state of Arizona. I do not believe judges should be making these decisions." Unfrtunately, California will not be the only Western state voting on a measure to amend its constitution to define marriage ...

Yesterday I posted that the proposed ballot measure that would put a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage before Arizona voters had been rejected in the Arizona senate by a 14-11 vote. I mentioned also that the senate voted to reconsider the measure at another date. Turns out that date could be as early as Friday: "When it became apparent the proposal had just 15 votes, one fewer than it needed, Phoenix Republican Sen. Linda Gray — a supporter — switched her vote in a procedural move that will allow her to request the measure be brought back for reconsideration in ...

Pam's House Blend has the scoop that the heterosexual supremacists have failed (again!) to place an anti-gay marriage measure on the Arizona ballot.AZCentral.com has the news:The Arizona Senate has rejected a proposal that would have asked voters to amend the state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage.The 14-11 vote fell two votes shy of what was required to send the proposal to the November ballot. Senators later voted to reconsider the measure at another unspecified date.The proposal would define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. ...