California's Randy Thomasson (who recently compared those county clerks who have to perform same-sex marriages with Nazi officers who were once forced to "gas the jews") is continuing on his quest to exact angry mob rule above reasoned constitutional interpretation. The latest? Well Randy and his fellows a the so-called Campaign For Children and Families have drafted an ordinance wherein they're encouraging the Board of Supervisors of various California counties (especially in conservative counties like Kern) to go on record with their belief that the Supreme Court's ruling was wrong, and that denying marriage licenses ...

One thing that often annoys us about our socially conservative opposition is how myopically focused they are on what divides us as a people rather than on what unites us. This idea was just brought to mind this morning when we saw this quip in a commentary from Renew America, where Bryan Fischer of the Idaho Values Alliance lashes out against marriage equality for same-sex couples: Further, men and women are fundamentally different from each other, in every cell of their bodies, meaning that a father has a unique contribution to make to the lives of his children as does a ...

Plans to create a subcommittee aimed at reducing incidents of domestic violence among same-sex couples were approved today by a Los Angeles City Council committee. The City Council still must approve setting up the subcommittee, which will be overseen by the city's Domestic Violence Task Force. If approved, members of the subcommittee also would be charged with reviewing how laws are enforced in domestic violence cases involving same-sex partners.  Task force set to cut same-sex domestic violence LA Daily News ...

Audry Delucia of San Francisco spent most of Sunday afternoon in San Luis Obispo’s Mission Plaza helping local gay couples commemorate their recent marriages on T-shirts and hats. It was her first time as a vendor at Pride in the Plaza. And half of her orders were from local newlyweds buying shirts that said: “Justly married.” “It feels good,” said Delucia, who married her partner in San Francisco on June 17, the first full day that marriage between two people of any sexual orientation became legal in California. “We’re not just second-class citizens now.” Organizers of the 13th annual ...

Louise Young and her partner, Vivienne Armstrong, have been together for 37 years, but the same-sex couple are still two single people in the eyes of Texas law. Like others in their 60s and approaching retirement, the Dallas women are thinking about the next stage of life and what to do if their health fails. Because they don't enjoy the rights automatically granted to married couples, they've turned to legal advisers to make sure each will have a say in the other's fate. "We've done everything possible to draft documents that reflect our commitment to each other," Young said. They've ...