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Rick Santorum chosen by anti-gay groups as preferred candidate

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins announced on a conference call that social conservatives had officially settled on Rick Santorum as their preferred candidate for the Republican nomination.

The decision was made today after three rounds of balloting at a meeting of more than 150 social conservative leaders and political activists held over the last two days in Brenham, Texas.

Though the meeting was widely seen as an effort to settle on a candidate to stop Mitt Romney, Romney’s own campaign sent a representative to make an appeal to the group and Perkins said it was “not a bash Romney weekend” and “not a lot of time” was spent discussing him.

Jon Huntsman’s campaign was the only campaign not to participate in the meeting.
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George Clooney speak out on behalf of gay marriage

George Clooney tells E!’s Marc Malkin that he’ll be playing AFER attorney David Boies in the L.A. production of Dustin Lance Black’s ‘8’.

Clooney’s participation was announced in December, but until now it was unclear what role he would be playing.

Said Clooney to Malkin: “I think the world is changing and it’s becoming less and less of an issue and I think it shouldn’t be long now,” Clooney said. “I think younger people are looking at this like, ‘Who cares?’ I do believe it’s generational, much like the civil rights movement. Young people started taking to the streets and things changed. This really is the final leg of the civil rights movement.”

Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter in December: “It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people — like all human beings — are born equal in dignity and rights.”

‘8’ will run one night only at Los Angeles’ Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3.

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Random pics in Sydney

A few random funny/cool pics of Sydney since we arrived.
Click on a pic to see larger view.

First Welcome sign we saw in the airport.  Excited to be here!

As we left the plane, the excellent flight attendant gave us a bottle of champagne
and a bottle of chardonnay! It clearly pays to be nice to everyone 🙂

Right outside our hotel and all over Sydney:
the movie poster for Olivia’s new movie “A Few Best Men”
We’re here for the world premiere!

Burger King is called “Hungry Jacks” in Oz. Who knew?

My radio show co-shot Candi tasked me with trying as many new Aussie wines
as I can.  I take up the challenge and began my mission here. More wine!

Favorite sign so far. This sign is on the ground at practically every corner.
Clearly a lot of Americans and Europeans who don’t pay attention – like this blond boy –
get hit stepping in front of the wrong lane of traffic.
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Michael and Randy in Sydney – Day 1

First day in Sydney, Australia, and we had fantastic summer weather. So we HAD to get the famous, iconic, tourist pics done just in case the weather turned.

By the way, click on a pic to see a larger view.

Some more fun Sydney pics coming up too. Thanks for indulging me the “tourist pic” thing 🙂

This had to be the first pic we took.
Two famous structures: Michael and the Sydney Opera House.

Me in front of the Sydney Opera House
Um, am I beveling?

Your tour guide Michael Caprio, traveller internationale.

Michael in front of the Sydney Opera House

Michael said we really needed to take this pic.  Cool, huh?  Amazing day.

Two iconic pics in one – Sydney Opera House & Harbor Bridge
OH!  And me of course…

I’d love to call this “on the steps of the palace” – Sydney Opera House

Michael and I with that famous building

The view from our room of the Opera House and Harbor

Michael and I on the sandstone steps overlooking the harbor
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Is Gov. Christie moving towards accepting marriage equality?

As it becomes clear that New Jersey’s marriage equality legislation is practically guaranteed to pass both of the state’s lawmaking chambers, the once adamantly-opposed Gov. Chris Christie is now speaking in more ambiguous terms.

Under a headline entitled “Gov. Christie Mum on Gay Marriage Bill,” the Star Ledger reports statements the governor gave on Friday. “They have a right to set their agenda, I’ll set mine, we’ll see who gets there first,” Gov. Christie said while speaking in Camden . “When forced to make a decision, if forced to make a decision on it, I’ll make a decision.”

In the past Christie has been more aggressive about promising to veto any marriage legislation that lands on his desk. However, most LGBT groups in the state are waiting with bated breath, worried it will be between two and six years (dependent upon another Christie term) before same-sex couples are considered equal in the Garden State.

The bill’s backers claim to have the votes to pass it in both chambers. Yesterday the Star-Ledger editorialized their expectation that Christie will block it:

“Let’s face it: This is not likely to succeed while Christie remains in office. He will veto it, as promised, and obedient Republicans in the Legislature will fall in line behind him, as always. That’s the political lay of the land for the next two years, at least. If Christie wins re-election, this stalemate could drag on for six years. To most New Jersey citizens, that is simply not acceptable.”
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Maryland Dem Senate President speaks out against marriage equality

Democratic Maryland Senate President Mike Miller spoke out against efforts to pass marriage equality in that state using rhetoric he compared to “one of the Republican candidates for President,” saying that he considers same-sex marriage to be an attack on the family.

The conversation took place yesterday morning on The Marc Steiner Show, and also featured Speaker of the House Michael Busch (D), who called marriage equality “a civil rights issue”.

Said Miller: “I’m a historian and I look at civilizations, I study civilizations, I read history every night. And I see it’s an attack on the family, I think it’s an attack on traditional families. That’s the way I see it.”

The Log Cabin Republicans lashed out at Miller and at LGBT advocacy organizations in a press release today:

“Democrat Maryland Senate President Mike Miller is trying to divert attention away from his anti-gay pandering by hiding behind certain conservative candidates, but the truth is he is badly out of step with Marylanders, including Republican State Senator Allan Kittleman, who voted in favor of marriage equality last year and continues to be a champion on this issue,” said R. Clarke Cooper, Executive Director of Log Cabin Republicans. “Between this and his attack on a transgender rights bill last session as also being ‘anti-family,’ it appears that Senator Miller has taken it upon himself to be the arbiter of what Maryland families deserve protecting. It is particularly frustrating to watch certain advocacy organizations, such as National Stonewall Democrats, let him get away with it again because of his partisan affiliation. Miller’s disrespect for LGBT Maryland families is backwards, and everyone should hold him accountable for it.”