Uploaded to YouTube over a year ago. Just saw it again and was taken aback by how simple yet powerful the message is. It’s just time.
Forward.
Laugh of the day
PSA: “Sinead’s hand in marriage”
Speaks for itself. And makes it’s point well, no?
Paris: Over 100,000 show support for same-sex marriage in France
The streets of Paris were filled today by over 100,000 supporters for the passage of marriage equality there.
From the New York Times:
Demonstrators waved banners emblazoned with phrases like “Equality of rights is not a threat” and chanted: “What do you want? Equality! When do you want it? Now!”
Another placard showed a version of the French government’s seal, but with two Mariannes kissing. Under the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” was the slogan “No more, no less!”
According to the police, the march attracted about 125,000 people, twice the number that took part in a similar demonstration in mid-December. Two weeks ago, a rally by those opposed to the proposal drew what the police said were 340,000 people into the streets of Paris.
In contrast to the opponents who demonstrated two weeks ago, many of the marchers on Sunday were relatively young and personally invested in the future of the law.
Nicolas Marquart, 37, a physiotherapist, made the trip from Strasbourg with his partner, with whom he is in a “civil solidarity pact,” and another gay couple. “I’m here as a gay man, and because it would be nice, since we are still in the 21st century after all, to see our morals evolve. It would be a good thing to all have the same rights.”
Other estimates say today’s crowd may have been as large as 400,000.
(via Towleroad)
Support for marriage equality increases in France
A new poll out of France shows a small improvement in the number of voters who support marriage equality.
From Reuters:
The number of people who support the legalisation of same-sex marriage in France has risen despite major protests against the government’s planned reforms earlier this month, a new poll by Ifop for news website Atlantico.fr showed.
The proportion of those surveyed supporting the change in the law rose to 63 percent from 60 percent in early January and December.
Support for adoption rights for gay couples also rose by 3 percentage points, although the country remains divided on the issue, with 49 percent in favour, according to the international marketing firm.
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King for a night – the “awesomest” time ever
Tyler Morris is elected homecoming king by his fellow students in the largest margin in ten years.
Tyler is also autistic, and clearly loved by his student body. How uber-cool is this story?
From the ABC affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida.
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NOM to protest SCOTUS Prop 8 hearings
The National Organization for Marriage announced today that they’ll rally in Washington DC on March 26th, the day the Supreme Court begins hearing arguments in the Proposition 8 marrage equality case.
From their press release, via JMG:
When the Supreme Court convenes to hear oral arguments in what could be the Roe v. Wade of marriage, we’ll be there — and we hope you’ll be there with us!
…[We] hope that you can show up in person to stand with us on March 26th for what we pray will be an unprecedented outpouring of support for society’s most fundamental and sacred institution: marriage between a man and a woman.
Together, we’ll stand before the Supreme Court and make sure our voices are heard that we will not allow the dismantling of marriage by Judicial fiat to happen on our watch!
JMG reminds us that at NOM’s recent hate rally in the Bronx, thousands of attendees heard one preacher declare that homosexuals “are worthy of death.”
If you want to prevent abortions…
From the Go Left Facebook page
Sarah Palin and Fox News no longer a team
Former half-term Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has parted ways with the network, according to RealClearPolitics.
Palin had been a contributor the cable news network since January 2010. That means she stayed with Fox longer than she did her elected job as Governor for the state of Alaska.
The Fox spokesperson did not say whose decision the departure was, but the New York Times said that Palin’s contract had expired, and was not picked up, despite negotiations that continued as recently as last week.
“We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin,” Bill Shine, Fox News’ executive vice president, programming, said. “We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”
Interetingly, Palin has remained silent on the split on her Facebook page and Twitter account, which she regularly uses to to share her news and opinions.
Bye-bye Ms. Palin, seems like we hardly knew you…
Christian radio hosts: Feminists are “selfish, narcissistic, family-destroying whores”
I can’t believe these guys aren’t some kind of ironic comedy act.
According to Christian radio hosts Pastor Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner, feminists are ugly, narcissistic, family-destroying whores who refuse to submit to a man.
What all these feminists have in common, Swanson argues, is that “all of them want to be free from the family” and together with “the homosexuals” are “destroying society.” Buehner speculates that in the future, feminism will be remembered as “a time in which women lost the love of their children” and “decided to become selfish, narcissistic, family-destroying whores.”
This is from the official description of Generations Radio:
Heard in all 50 states and over 60 countries around the world, Generations Radio brings a fast and fresh perspective to issues touching Christian families.
Kevin Swanson is the host of Generations Radio and a homeschool father of five children. Homeschooled himself in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Kevin went on to run for US Senate and has since traveled around the US and world speaking on the family, education, and biblical worldview.
One clip I listened to began with Kevin Swanson explaining that his show was “just two home school dads hanging out in his basement studio.”
I think that explains a LOT.
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