Sometimes a little chocolate can help.
In which Illinois Rep. Ron Sandack, a Republican, gets booed for supporting marriage equality but sticks to his convictions anyway. That’s how it’s done. (via Buzzfeed)
Yes, I am about to suggest that you do something that rail against often. But to adhere to purity ignores the reality of how politics work as they are right now: money moves campaigns.
This Northern Chicagoland district isn’t a gay haven as far as I know. I don’t know how representative this mob that Sandack is confronting in this video is of his district, but they do seem comfortable enough to spew anti-gay bigotry in the daylight. The best way to support someone holding office taking an unpopular position that you agree with, particularly if they are a member of the anti-gay Republican party, is to contribute to his re-election. Yep, you need to put your money where your mouth is.
Atta boy messages from far outside of the district don’t win elections yet.
What you can’t see in this picture is the reverse window application on the rear window and the license plate holder which announce to the world that the person who owns this urban assault vehicle is a graduate of Harvard University.
Now we know what one of the most esteemed institutions of higher education cannot fix.
The Wisdom of Harvey Milk
Marriage, not to be confused with Holy Matrimony, is a legal contract requiring a license issued by the state. As such, it is inherently unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to enter into such a contract that is afforded every other consenting couple of legal age.
If you’re a Citizen, You’ll leave Out Your Religious Beliefs Out of Your Opposition to Same Sex Marriage
It’s much more expedient to have this discussion reminding people that the United States is a secular republic because the Constitution is much clearer about the the matter than The Bible.
Most court cases challenging prohibitions against same sex marriage are based on those prohibitions being violations of the 14th Amendment. I take another tact and focus on the etiology of that opposition being a violation The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. There is very little coherence, if any, in an argument in opposition to same sex marriage that isn’t based on a theology, faulty or otherwise.
Bigots who oppose same sex marriage forget that that outside of their church, beyond the intended sight of God, that marriage is a contract between two consenting adults. To insist and codify that people Here be obliged to marry as part of a religious act is theocracy - in opposition and defiance of the rules written down in the Constitution.
Stand With Bayli As She Stands Up To Bullies
An eighth grade student named Bayli has been trying for over a year to form a student-led club that would help combat name-calling and bullying at her school, but rather than allow her to create the Gay-Straight Alliance, the school board is trying to ban ALL student extracurricular clubs. This is a drastic move to squash any conversation about the discrimination happening at Carver Middle School.
I just signed a petition calling on the Lake County School Board to drop this attack on students’ freedom of expression.
So lemme guess: all you can afford is cubic zirconia for your woman and you just found out she has a friend who can tell if a “jewel” is fake with a loop. Next you panicked and got desperate for some traffic to your web site to scrape together a few more bucks for a real diamond and sunk to put up some bigoted crap as an attempt to generate more traffic on your site.
It’s gotta be pathetic to be you, tumblrtribune.
My first time seeing this. WOW!
I like the reaction from all the white people.
I like how it’s in Russian LOL.
Great shot, Marquez. Only if you could deliver more right jabs like that to other anti-LGBTQ legislators who work in opposition to the rights codified in their national constitutions.
