Marriage equality is the current enormous focus of the bigger goal of full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and via TPM, one response from Thursday’s pro-marriage equality vote in Minnesota reveals something about why the goal of equality is broader than marriage. After the bill passed, state Rep. Peggy Scott (R) said: [...]
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Queer Talk: Illinois GOP Chair Resigns Over Gay Marriage
The Chicago Tribune reports that the chairman of the Illinois GOP, Pat Brady, has resigned over controversy of his support for marriage equality. With same-sex marriage legislation pending in the Illinois legislature, Brady this year voiced his support for the proposal despite a plank in the state GOP platform that said marriage should be reserved [...]
Queer Talk: Rhode Island Approves Marriage Equality
Even before the vote by which Rhode Island became the 10th state to recognize marriage equality, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, wrote a “pastoral letter” to the state’s Catholics. … I wish to invite members of the Catholic Church in Rhode Island to a moment of prayer and [...]
Queer Talk: OFA Pushing For Marriage Equality in Illinois
As John Aravosis writes, at AmericaBlogGay, “This is a big deal.” OFA was originally the Obama campaign’s “Obama for America.” As Aravosis recalls, that original OFA created a “DNC-connected offshoot,” Organizing for America, in 2009. In January of this year, that “off-shoot” became “an independent non-profit,” Organizing for Action. The Obama connection, of course, remains [...]
Michael Bloomberg Tilts Illinois Race with Gun Safety Cash
MAYOR MIKE just kicked up the anty and the pressure on the tiny minority of Americans who are against gun safety. Dumping millions into the Illinois race to replace disgraced Jesse Jackson, Jr., he put Robin Kelly over the top. From Politico: A multimillion-dollar ad blitz by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to stop [...]
Illinois’ Joe Walsh Joins the Todd Akin Wing on Women’s Rights [Video]
TAMMY DUCKWORTH got some help in her campaign for Congress from the guy she’s running to unseat. Joe Walsh is making the case for why we need more women in Congress every time he’s given the microphone. Asked by reporters after the debate if he was saying that it’s never medically necessary to conduct an [...]
Meet the Republican “Flat Earth Five” of 2012
THEY ARE Rep. Dan Benishek (MI-01), Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-24), Rep. Dan Lungren (CA-07), Rep. Francisco Canseco (TX-23), and Rep. Joe Walsh (IL-08). Joe Walsh might ring a bell. He’s the guy who likes to mock his Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee. He’s also got a bad reputation [...]
Joe Walsh on Veteran Tammy Duckworth: ‘What else has she done?’
Notorious Tea Party pol and accused deadbeat dad, Rep. Joe Walsh, slimed two-limb amputee Tammy Duckworth, thinking he could get away with it. “What else has she done? Female, wounded veteran … ehhh,” Walsh told POLITICO. “She is nothing more than a handpicked Washington bureaucrat. David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel just picked her up and dropped [...]
Progressive Notes: Sheyman’s Big Loss in IL-10, a Case of GOTV
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The loss of Ilya Sheyman, a 25 year old charismatic progressive community organizer in Illinois’ 10th congressional district primary to Brad Schneider, the establishment favorite backed by Rep. Hoyer, has heads shaking. Schneider raised the ire of progressives due to his “centrist” stands, his support for [...]
Blago Convicted
A Chicago jury has found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty of 17 of the 20 charges in his corruption trial. Blagojevich was found not guilty on one of the counts, and the jury deadlocked on two. – TPMMuckraker
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