IOWA COURT RULES SAME-SEX COUPLES CAN MARRY

Almost 2 years since filing their lawsuit, 6 same-sex couples in Iowa are on their way to pick up their marriage licenses. In the 63-page ruling written by Judge Robert Hanson, he states: "Couples, such as plaintiffs, who are otherwise qualified to marry one another may not be denied licenses to marry or certificates of marriage or in any other way prevented from entering into a civil marriage pursuant to Iowa Code Chapter 595 by reason of the fact that both persons compromising such a couple are of the same sex."



Lambda says the six couples are all in long-term relationship - one couple has been together for six years, another couple has been together for 17 years. "Three of the couples are raising children, others are planning families, and all want the responsibilities of marriage and the protections only marriage can provide," according to the organization.



Of course lawyers for the state are asking for a stay of the decision and are more than likely going to be asking for an appeal very soon. If they lose the appeal or are turned down by the Supreme Court, we may soon see Gay Marriage in the Heartland. For a link to the story, Click Here

Republican Senator Plays In Airport Men's Room

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/27/craig.arrest/index.html

Ohio For-Profit Schools Cheated Election Laws

Last week, lawyers for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and a pro-charter school PAC named All Children Matter Ohio squared off before the Ohio Elections Commission.
Brunner alleges the Ohio PAC exceeded contribution limits and illegally received $870,000 from a sister PAC based in Virginia that never registered in Ohio.
The true source of the money was hidden because the Virginia PAC dumped the dollars into Ohio through five and six-figure checks.
The Ohio PAC spent the money on 29 Republican candidates for statewide office, the General Assembly and the State Board of Education.
There is an Akron angle. David Brennan, the charter school entrepreneur, gave money to the Virginia PAC.
The Ohio PAC either contributed directly to or paid for direct-mail pieces and radio advertising for Mary Taylor, who was elected state auditor, state Sen. Kevin Coughlin, R-Cuyahoga Falls, failed state House candidate Tom Cousineau and state school board member Deborah Owens Fink, who was unseated.
Let's clear the legal cobwebs here.
Brunner is arguing that so-called fat-cat contributors such as Brennan are maxing out on their contribution limits to candidates in Ohio. They then contribute to a PAC in Virginia. The out-of-state PAC launders the money back to Ohio in a way that cannot be traced directly to the fat cats.

Cincinnati bigots fail

Update in Cincinnati election fraud controversy
A Cincinnati judge has renewed his call for Ohio state Rep. Tom Brinkman to be charged with election falsification over an unsuccessful bid in 2006 to repeal Cincinnati's ordinance protecting LGBT people from discrimination, 365gay.com reported yesterday. In addition, two women who worked for Equal Rights Not Special Rights, headed up by Brinkman, pleaded guilty last month to election falsification. The women had been accused of knowingly placing fraudulent names on the petition. Equal Rights Not Special Rights asked the Cincinnati Board of Elections last August to remove its anti-LGBT referendum from the November 2006 ballot, an acknowledgment of fraud in its signature gathering and the likelihood of defeat at the polls. The Task Force, Inc., had invested heavily in the local campaign that was geared up to defeat the initiative.

kennedy

"....if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~ John F. Kennedy

Voters Accept Gay Support

Right-wing Fox pundit Bill O'Reilly said on his show Aug. 13 that a majority of Americans would not vote for a presidential candidate backed by a gay rights group .
The media watchdog site MediaMatters. org debunked O'Reilly's statement Wednesday, having scoured the Web for the poll O'Reilly cited and finding one that said the opposite.
In the exchange between the host and correspondent Kirsten Powers, O'Reilly said a recent poll, possibly by the Pew Research Center, showed candidates would lose votes for being endorsed by a gay group. The context was last week's HRC/Logo Democratic presidential forum.
"OK, but say a gay -- the question posed, 'If a gay rights organization endorses you, would that make you more or less likely to vote?' (sic) And most Americans said less likely," O'Reilly said, according to MediaMatters.
Powers argued that most Americans are not knowledgeable about what groups are endorsing which candidates.
Media Matters was unable to find such a Pew poll, but instead found an Aug. 6-8 Quinnipiac poll that showed voters from Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio would be willing to vote for a candidate backed by a gay rights group.
Sixty percent of Florida voters said it would make no difference, as did 54 percent from Ohio and 59 percent from Pennsylvania.
Ten percent of voters from Florida and Ohio said they would be more likely to vote for a gay-friendly candidate; 11 percent said the same in Pennsylvania. Nearly a third of voters in each state said they would be less likely to vote for such a candidate. ( The Advocate)

Canadian Congressman To Marry Gay Lover

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/08/081607brison.htm

Lutherans Begin To Accept Gays

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/us/17lutheran.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Sen Voinovich Votes For Bush Dictator Powers, Sen Brown Votes No

60 Senators Being Called Traitors, Voted For Bush Spying

To see who the 60 members of the senate are that voted in favor of giving Bush more spy powers go to:http://www3.capwiz.com/y/issues/votes/?votenum=309&chamber=S&congress=1101&tally=1They voted against the constituton, therefore they are traitors.I would also like to remind the war mongers that it is NOT traitorous to disagree with the president or congress but it IS traitorous to vote for or support something that is contrary to what the U.S. Constitution says. The fourth amendment states:
Amendment IV: Warrants and searches.The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Trumbull Prosecutor To Have An Opponent

http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/289547066662018.php