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Top Lawyer Urges Voiding California Proposition 8 – NYTimes.com

Top Lawyer Urges Voiding California Proposition 8 – NYTimes.com. California’s attorney general, former Governor Jerry Brown, said on Friday “that the measure was constitutionally indefensible and should be overturned.” He continued: “Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification.” According to the New [...]
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An Open Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Selection of Rick Warren for Inauguration Invocation

Earlier today, PFLAG National President John R. Cepek, Vice President Rabbi David Horowitz, and executive director Jody Huckaby sent the following letter to President-Elect Obama regarding his selection of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the January 20 inaugural in Washington, D.C.  Dear President-Elect Obama: As people of faith, and as friends and family members [...]
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Not a Disagreement among Friends … NCLR on Rick Warren

From Kate Kendell, at NCLR Even as we endured the passage of Prop 8 and three other anti-gay measures on November 4, we took comfort in the near end of the most treacherous administration in recent history and the historic election of a man who seemed to live and breathe a genuine commitment to equality, [...]
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Obama Selects California Evangelist for Invocation at His Inauguration

Obama Selects California Evangelist for Invocation at His Inauguration – NYTimes.com. President-elect Barack Obama has selected Rick Warren, pastor of the conservative Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Described by the New York Times as “an outspoken opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage,” Warren’s selection “set off a [...]
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Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham on Gay Marriage

The Editor’s Desk | Newsweek Editor’s Letter From Newsweek.com: On the campus of Wheaton College in Illinois last Wednesday, in another of the seemingly endless announcements of splintering and schism in the Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan and other leaders of the conservative forces of reaction to the ecclesiastical and cultural acceptance of [...]
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The Bible and Gay Marriage: Newsweek Receives 40,000 Letters

The Bible and Gay Marriage | Newsweek Letters to the Editor Newsweek received over 40,000 letters in response to its December 15 cover story, “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage,” the vast majority generated by a letter-writing campaign organized by the American Family Association. Go to the Newsweek article to read a sampling of letters [...]
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