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GOP Gubernatorial candidate marches in Boston gay pride
Timothy Kincaid
June 20th, 2010
We are accustomed to Democratic candidates – often for high office – showing support and seeking voters among their gay constituents. But last weekend an event occurred that is telling about the future of our community. Charlie Baker, the Republican candidate for Governor, joined the Democratic candidate Deval Patrick, by marching in Boston's gay pride parade.
Well, yes, it is Massachusetts. And Baker's running mate is openly gay. But still, this is the GOP candidate.
And perhaps the most interesting aspect is that no one even seem to think that this is in any way interesting. No national party members are ranting. Local GOP officials are happy. Senators from Alabama and Oklahoma are not calling for his head. Rush isn't frothing and Newt isn't out looking for a write-in to support.
No one cares.
Oh, the MassResistance crowd is angry (especially because he marched with the guys who set up KnowThyNeighbor.org). But they can't get anyone to return their calls these days.
And that is an encouraging sign.
Massachusetts Legislature Passes Anti-Bullying Measure
Jim Burroway
April 29th, 2010
Both houses of the Massachusetts legislature approved an anti-bullying law spurred on by the deaths of two youths who committed suicide following episodes of bullying by their classmates. The unanimous votes in both houses was on a reconciling bill which ironed out difference in two earlier bills from each house. The legislation will require school employees to report all instances of bullying and require principals to investigate them. A spokesman for the governor's office said that Gov. Deval Patrick (D) will review the bill, but that he saw its passage as a "top priority."
The impetus for the bill came from the suicides of Phoebe Prince and 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, who killed himself just over a year ago over taunts about his perceived sexuality.
Baker/Tisei win MA GOP nomination
Timothy Kincaid
April 19th, 2010
The Republicans in Massachusetts have selected their nominee for Governor. And this year, they can choose between a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independent, all of whom are pro-choice and all of whom support same-sex marriage.
Charles Baker, the Republican, had a primary opponent going into the state convention. Christy Mihos also supports gay marriage but believes that "the people should be able to vote on it." As Mihos did not get at least 15% of the nomination vote, and Baker will be the candidate without a primary election vote.
The convention also endorsed Baker's running mate, Senate minority leader Richard Tisei; as the sole candidate he won unanimously. If Tisei is elected as Lieutenant Governor, he will be the highest ranking openly gay politician in the nation.
It is six years since same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts and it is so non-controversial that there were no candidates who favor "traditional marriage" laws. And the one candidate who supports "let the people vote" wasn't able to get more than 11% of Republican Party delegates to vote for him.
How does that fit with your "poll", Maggie Gallagher?
Nearly half of all Americans live where there is some recognition of same-sex couples
Timothy Kincaid
March 3rd, 2010
About 5.1% of Americans (15.5 million) live in areas in which same-sex marriages are legal and equal to opposite-sex marriages: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the District of Columbia.
Another 58.4 million (19.2%) live in states which have either civil unions or domestic partnerships that offer all the rights and protections of marriage without the name: California, New Jersey, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington. To that we can add two more states (New York and Maryland) in which the local state government will honor marriage occurring elsewhere and we have a total of 32.6% of Americans living with the rights and responsibilities of marriage available to their family.
There are also five states which recognize same-sex couples and offer them limited itemized rights. They are Hawaii, Colorado, Wisconsin, Maine, and Rhode Island and they add an additional 14.2 million Americans (4.7%).
But recognition does not stop there. There are dozens more counties and cities who provide what local recognition and benefits as they can, adding another 14.2 million local residents (4.7% of Americans) who can appreciate that their city officials see them as a couple. Local municipalities include the populations of Salt Lake City, UT; Phoeniz AZ; Tuscon AZ; Duluth, MN; Minneapolis, MN; St. Paul, MN; Lawrence, KS; Columbia, MO; Kansas City, MO; St. Lewis, MO; Ann Arbor, MI; Cook County, IL (Chicago); Urbana, IL; Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Heights, OH; Toledo, OH; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Harrisburg, PA; El Paso, TX; Travis County, TX (Austin); Eureka Springs, AK; New Orleans, LA; Carrboro, NC; Chapel Hill, NC; Clarke County, GA (Athens); Fulton County, GA (Atlanta); Broward County, FL (Fort Lauderdale); Key West, FL; Miami-Dade County, FL; and West Palm Beach, FL.
In total about 140 million Americans – about 46% of the nation's population – live where there is some form of official notice of same-sex couples. So NOM can proclaim "victory" when they have an election in California or Maine, but this ball is rolling and the momentum is in the direction of recognition.
Senator-Elect Scott Brown talks gay issues
Timothy Kincaid
January 31st, 2010
Massachusetts' newly elected Senator, Scott Brown, spoke with Barbara Walters on ABC This Week and part of the conversation included his stance on issues of importance to the gay community.
On Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Military's ban on service by openly gay men and women.
WALTERS: You have been a member of the National Guard for 30 years. You've talked about how important that service is.
BROWN: Yes.
WALTERS: You're a Lieutenant-Colonel. On Wednesday the president announced that he wants to work with Congress to repeal don't ask, don't tell. What's your view?
BROWN: I think it's important, because as you know we're fighting two wars right now. And the most — the first priority is to — is to — is to finish the job, and win those wars. I'd like to hear from the Generals in the field — in the field — the people that actually work with these soldiers to make sure that, you know, the social change is not going to disrupt our ability to finish the job and complete the wars.
WALTERS: But Senator, your own view.
BROWN: That's my view.
WALTERS: So you can't say whether you're for or against it?
BROWN: No. I'm going to wait to speak to the generals on the ground.
I find this exchange both encouraging and troubling.
Obviously Scott Brown has an opinion and is just hedging his bets. And I am not happy that he is discussing the issue as a "social change" and see it in terms of "disrupting". But it is also nice that the Republican whom the party is lauding as the face of a cultural change is not speaking against the repeal.
Also encouraging is that much of the information that we hear suggests that our problem is with the Pentagon, not with generals in the field. If Brown is sincere – and for now we should give him the benefit of the doubt – there is a good chance that if he does speak to field operations, he'll hear that good troups are more valuable to the war effort than anti-gay policies. It all depends on whether the officers to whom he speaks have had to lose soldiers that they valued and did not want to let go.
But if Brown is simply looking for an excuse to take an anti-gay position, I'm certain that he can readily find "generals on the ground" who will agree with him. When reporting what you heard from "generals on the ground" (anonymously, of course), they can say anything that your imagination can contrive.
On marriage:
WALTERS: And gay marriage is legal in the state of Massachusetts. But the Republican party platform language calls for the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, and they want a federal ban on gay marriage. Are you out of step with your party, or do you think that the party has to broaden, and change its platform?
BROWN: Well I've always been a big tent person, you know? We need more people to come into our tent to express their views in a respectful and thoughtful manner.
And on the marriage issue that you brought up, it's settled here in Massachusetts, but I believe that states should have the ability to determine their own destiny and the government should not be interfering with individual states' rights on issues that they deal with on a daily basis.
Again, this seems to be language that can leave open a lot of options.
It would seem clear that Brown will not support a Federal Marriage Amendment. But if the Supreme Court overturns Proposition 8, will that be justification for him to vote for a federal amendment to reverse that decision?
And what does this mean for DOMA? Can one truly be "states' rights" and not support having the federal government honor the marriages of states that provide marriage equality?
We know from his efforts in the Massachusetts legislature that he is not an advocate for marriage equality. But he's had five years to see that the sky hasn't fallen and that churches aren't being shuttered and that his neighbors, liberal and conservative, have come to accept and support the change.
I think there is much to hope for from Scott Brown. We should not expect an ally or even a secure vote on any issues, but if we do not approach him as an enemy I think that it is possible that we will find that Scott Brown could be a crucial bi-partisan vote on some issues of concern to our community.
Scott Brown wins Massachusetts Senate seat: what does that mean?
This commentary is the opinion of the author and may not necessarily reflect that of other authors at Box Turtle Bulletin
Timothy Kincaid
January 19th, 2010
A month ago it was all but certain that Martha Coakley would be the successor to the US Senator from Massachusetts seat that had been held by Teddy Kennedy for four decades. And the Whitehouse, along with congressional leadership made a decision that now seems foolhardy and arrogant: they assumed that they would have a filibuster-proof majority for another year.
So they made the strategic decision to freeze out Republican involvement in running the government, most specifically in reforming healthcare. Choosing to have this reform be the centerpiece of the Party's image for the next decade, they excluded Republicans from the talk, instead negotiating among Democrats behind closed doors.
Today this looks to have been a major mistake. With the election of Scott Brown to the Senate, Republicans now control 41 votes, effectively killing President Obama's efforts to revise the health industry as he wishes. Scott Brown's election has put the brakes on what has been a rapid gallop in a new direction, definitely eliminating such possibilities as a "public option".
What Brown's election means to the administration is that the honeymoon is over. And the election of a Republican to represent the state of Massachusetts sends a signal that November may be a sad time for Democratic Party leadership.
But what does Brown's election mean for our community?
Not good, but perhaps not catastrophe.
The irony is that while many progressive gay activists support the "public option" and were hoping that Coakley's election would allow Democrats to pursue this dream, it may be advantageous to our community that such a provision is no longer likely.
Any movement of health care coverage from private industry to federal oversight could have disastrous impact on the lives of gay men and women. While a great many private companies provide spousal coverage to same-sex partners, such provisions are banned by the Defense of Marriage Act. And as I understand it, the legislation that has been proposed takes little notice that gay people and gay couples exist.
On specific gay issues, Martha Coakley would have been an ardent supporter of our community in the Senate (filling in Kennedy's shoes). I think, however, there are signs that Scott Brown will likely not be an ardent opponent.
Although Brown has recently been cast as "homophobic", it does not appear that he is comparable to, say, Sam Brownback. Brown is a dedicated enemy to marriage equality but has stated that he supports civil unions. Further, he has commented that in Massachusetts, the decision has already been made.
On a Federal level some have suggested that he would support a Defense of Marriage Act to change the US Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, but that appears to conflict with the following statement on his website:
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. States should be free to make their own laws in this area, so long as they reflect the people's will as expressed through them directly, or as expressed through their elected representatives.
And Brown appears to have avoided running an anti-gay campaign.
None of which suggests that he is a friend. The Boston Globe says that he opposes the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (I would welcome a more direct source, which I'm having difficulty finding). He also is credited with opposition to lifting the ban on open service in the military. Also, Brown may feel that he owes much of his success to social conservatives, like National Organization for Marriage, who provided substantial financial and strategic support.
So I think we can safely assume that he will not vote with us on marriage or military issues. But I don't see him as a likely to seek to attract too much attention by being sharply anti-gay. He does, after all, still have to answer to the voters in Massachusetts who prefer their Republicans to be at least moderately supportive.
I am reasonable hopeful that on such issues as discrimination, immigration, and the like we have a decent chance at competing for Scott Brown's vote. Perhaps now is a good time to try think about building bridges to the Senate's newest member.
Church marriage comes to E. MA Episcopalians
Timothy Kincaid
November 30th, 2009
A favorite tactic of anti-gay activists is to pretend that changes to civil marriage law will require churches to change their religious practices in some way. But to do so requires a willful determination to ignore the evidence to the contrary (or a willful determination to lie).
And a decision made by an Episcopal Bishop in Eastern Massachusetts proves the point. Although gay and lesbian couples have had the right to legally marry in that state, they could not do so in an Episcopal Church or with an Episcopal priest presiding. Priests could "bless their union", but not declare "by the power vested in me" that they were married.
Until now. (Boston Globe)
Five years after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, the local Episcopal bishop yesterday gave permission for priests in Eastern Massachusetts to officiate at same-sex weddings.
The decision by Bishop M. Thomas Shaw III was immediately welcomed by advocates of gay rights in the Episcopal Church, who have chafed at local rules that allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, but not sign the documents that would solemnize their marriages.
This change in policy should cause anti-gays to worry. But not for any reason that they will admit.
Contrary to the political ads and fiery denunciations from pulpits, changes to civil marriage laws do not require churches to do anything. But they do provide the framework under which same-sex couples can live exemplary lives and show conscientious religious leaders that their objections are based not in principle but in presumption and false impression.
Civil marriage equality will in time lead many many churches to not only adapt to including same-sex marriages but to also hold up such commitments as the most appropriate venues for love and sexual expression for same-sex attracted persons. But this change will be voluntary, a change of heart based on decency, empathy, compassion, and their observation of married couples in their pews.
Anti-gays speak loudly of "religious freedom" and of the fear of coercive efforts to compel them to follow man-made laws rather than God's laws. But I believe that a voluntary change of heart is something that anti-gays fear far more than any coercion from government.
And I believe that their efforts to ban marriage equality are designed and intended more to deny religious freedom to those who, like the Episcopal Church, would celebrate such marriages than they are to stop that small percentage of the population who would avail themselves of the opportunity.
Yes, anti-gays lost political battles in Massachusetts over the last five years. But their real losses are felt in the announcement of Bishop Shaw.
Gay MA Lt. Gov. Candidate
Timothy Kincaid
November 23rd, 2009
Massachusetts residents are going to have the opportunity to vote for an openly gay Lieutenant Governor. Or, at least if they are Republican, they will be. (Boston.com)
Gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker followed a Massachusetts Republican tradition on Monday by selecting a veteran state legislator to be his running mate in next year's election.
Baker, the former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care president, tapped Sen. Richard Tisei as his ally for a primary against fellow Republican Christy Mihos. The winner faces the Democratic incumbent, Gov. Deval Patrick, and state Treasurer Timothy Cahill, who is running as an independent, in the November 2010 general election.
Tisei is the minority leader in the Senate. And while it was long an "open secret" that he's gay, last week he made his orientation public, saying "It is not exactly a news flash. I don\'t think people really care these days.\'"
Tisei, who owns a real estate company in Lynnfield, is the most veteran Republican in the Senate, have first won election in 1984 at the age of 22. Now 47, he served six years in the House before winning the first of ten consecutive two-year terms in the Senate.
While describing himself as a fiscal conservative, Tisei is considered a social liberal. He revealed last week that he is gay, and he has supported efforts to legalize gay marriage in Massachusetts. Baker recently revealed his brother is gay, and he has been a longtime supporter of gay marriage.
Baker has the support of the Republican party structure in Massachusetts and the endorsement of the four prior Republican governors (yes, including Mitt Romney).
Administration to Massachusetts: "You Can't Force Us to Treat Gay People Equally"
Timothy Kincaid
November 2nd, 2009
The State of Massachusetts is suing the Federal Government over what is, at heart, a states-rights issue.
For the history of our nation, the states have the right to determine and define marriage. Although the US Supreme Court placed limitations on the definition, barring states from denying mixed-race marriages, the states have enjoyed broad freedoms in this area. The age one can marry varies, as does blood test requirements, residency rules, pre-marital counseling, closely related relative rules, and a number of other issues.
And for the history of our nation, the Federal Government has said that if your state recognized your marriage, they would as well.
Until 1996. That year the Federal government passed the Defense of Marriage Act, in which it said "The federal government defines marriage as a legal union exclusively between one man and one woman."
In 2004 Massachusetts began allowing marriage between persons of the same sex. But the federal government, for the first time, refused to recognize the state's legal marriage. So Massachusetts is suing the feds claiming that not only do they not have the right to define marriageas "a legal union exclusively between one man and one woman", they don't have the right to define it at all.
The Obama Administration, announced that while the President opposes DOMA, his administration will defend it in court. On Friday we got a taste of the direction of that defense.
The Department of Justice is entirely ignoring the rights of states to have their marriages recognized and is instead posturing the argument as that of a state trying to dictate the benefits policies of the Federal Government.
Stating that "There is, however, no fundamental right to marriage-based federal benefits," the feds are saying that therefore they can pick and choose to whom they will provide benefits. They are, of course, failing to acknowledge that such benefits are, and have always been, based on qualifications that are defined by states. (A/P)
Justice Dept. spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said any state "can allow gay and lesbian citizens to marry and can make its own decisions about how to treat married couples when it comes to state benefits."
"Massachusetts is not being denied the right to provide benefits to same-sex couples and, in fact, has enacted a law to provide equal health benefits to same-sex spouses," she said.
But the issue isn't about forcing the Feds to offer joint tax returns; rather, it is much bigger. It is about whether the State of Massachusetts is truly free to define marriage for the residents of their state or whether that determination has been transferred to Congress.
Perhaps the administration believes that DOMA will be reversed before the SCOTUS could hear this case. Otherwise, I'm not sure that they are pursuing an argument that holds much weight.
Either the Federal Government recognizes marriages as defined by the states, or it has some unique recognition of its own. Either it accepts the registration of the states, or it applies a consistent nation-wide registry with rules relating to age, blood-line, testing, counseling all consistent from sea to shining sea. And considering that states have jealously held family law as their purview, such a usurpation of states' rights would likely result in political revolt.
But without such a registry, the feds may be facing a tough legal challenge. It is difficult to argue for recognition as defined by the various states – with a narrow exception solely to exclude same-sex marriages – without running foul of the problems that Colorado found in Romer v. Evans. You cannot create and define a group of people solely for the cause of denying them the rights shared by others. And with a handful of states now recognizing, registering, and solemnizing same-sex marriages, excluding just those couples seems to me to be a clear violation.
Consequences of Same-Sex Marriage: Lowest Divorce Rate Since WWII
Jim Burroway
September 4th, 2009
Massachusetts was the first state in the union to grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples. They've been at it now for five years, and what do we have to show for it?
According to the most recent data from the National Center For Vital Statistics, Massachusetts retains the national title as the lowest divorce rate state, and the MA divorce rate is about where the US divorce rate was in 1940, prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor that triggered the US entrance into World War Two.
Provisional data from 2008 indicates that the Massachusetts divorce rate has dropped from 2.3 per thousand in 2007 down to about 2.0 per thousand for 2008. What does that mean ? To get a sense of perspective consider that the last time the US national divorce rate was 2.0 per thousand (people) was 1940. You read that correctly. The Massachusetts divorce rate is now at about where the US divorce rate was the year before the United States entered World War Two.
Mass Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Is Pro-Gay
Jim Burroway
July 30th, 2009
A fiscal conservative and pro-gay in Massachusetts. Could this be the future of the Republican Party?
Republican Charles D. Baker officially entered the governor\'s race this morning, filing his paperwork and then swiftly launching into an attack of Governor Deval Patrick\'s handling of the state\'s budget and economy.
Baker immediately pledged not to raise taxes as governor, and even said he would try to lower the state\'s increased sales tax – which will go from 5 percent to 6.25 percent on Saturday – if he is elected.
…He said he was prochoice and was in favor of gay marriage – "My brother\'s gay, and he\'s married, and he lives in Massachusetts, so I\'m for it. Is that straight enough?"
Showing Christ
Timothy Kincaid
July 21st, 2009
Christians speak of "showing Christ" to the world around you. Sadly, too often this is expressed in forms of self-righteousness and public condemnation of others. Frankly, I often think that if this is Christ that you are showing me with your arrogance, condescension, and careless condemnation of those whom you don't think are as good as you, then I want nothing of him.
But some have found a Christ to show the world that is quite unlike the one whose primary purpose seems to be passing laws to impose religious adherence by non-believers. Their Christ is more interested in helping the needy, healing the hurting, and loving the loveless.
Such a Christ is observed in the actions of Christians in Worcester County, Massachusetts. They have become a haven of safety and help to gay men and women from around the world who are fleeing oppression and torture in their homelands. (Worcester Telegram)
For the past year, Hadwen Park Congregational Church has provided gay immigrants with food and money for clothes and rent, as well as spiritual and emotional support. Lutheran Social Services, which helps many immigrants apply for asylum, established a program to help gay immigrants apply for asylum.
Immigrants such as the Ugandan tortured for two days by men trying to get him to give the names of the patrons of his gay bar. Or the Jamaican who was beaten by crowds four times. Or the Lebanese man sent to the hospital with a broken neck.
The United States government allows those persecuted for their orientation elsewhere to see asylum in America. But few social service programs are available for these victims of brutality, and they are not allowed to work while waiting.
The church's program is unique in the United States, church members believe; the Lutheran Social Services asylum program for gay immigrants is one of only a handful nationwide.
And theirs is no hand-off missions program designed to placate liberal guilt.
The church started by feeding the gay immigrants with its food pantry, then paying their rent and cell phone bills. Parishioners took immigrants on shopping trips for clothes and other essentials. Two parishioners offered to host two immigrants in their home. The immigrants started coming to the church, telling their stories, and connecting with people who don't judge them.
Now the Christ of the Hadwen Park Congregational Church and Lutheran Social Services in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a Christ that the world could see much more of.
"We're Going To Suffer Some Kind Of Infrastructure Collapse" — All Because Of The Gays
Jim Burroway
July 16th, 2009
In an amateur video posted this week on YouTube, Scott Lively talked about his work in "re-Christianizing America," which is threatened by an "infrastructure collapse" brought on by that dreaded gay agenda:
Frankly, I see things simply disintegrating very rapidly and I believe that we're going to suffer some kind of infrastructure collapse in this society because of the failure of moral culture, and that Christians have a responsibility to continue to oppose this disintegration."
Scott Lively is famous for his book, The Pink Swastika, which claims that the Nazi party was, at it's core, a murderous homosexual movement, and that fascism is the inevitable result of any expansion of gay rights. Last spring, he appeared at an anti-gay conference in Kampala, Uganda with Exodus board member Don Schmierer. That conference called for a strengthening of that country's already draconian law against homosexuality which already provides for a lifetime imprisonment for those convicted. That conference kicked off a long-running public anti-gay vigilante campaign which is still reverberating through the country. A bill has been announced before Uganda's parliament to rescind free-speech protections for LGBT people and place an outright ban on all advocacy on their behalf.
In this latest video, Lively sees himself as a missionary to Massachusetts, saying he moved to Springfield from Temecula, California, because "Massachusetts is the most morally corrupt state in the union." He offered his latest brain-droppings while preparing to speak before a committee of the Massachusetts House against a bill which would provide hate crime and non-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual identity and expression. Lively identified that bill as one of "two hundred other bills that's being heard today" which he thinks are just as bad, so he has to pick and choose his battles. "We don't have time to deal with them all," he shrugs. You can guess which one he chose:
The only solution we have to this kind of a problem is for good people, godly, god-fearing people who hold to the truth of the Bible to be sitting in those seats and making the decisions. Lacking that, we have to scramble to try to come and testify on the ones that are the most critical, like this transgender hate crimes bill, and sort of live with the frustration that our efforts are not sufficient to stop the trend.
Lively is optimistic though. He's convinced that things will get so bad that people will eventually turn back to his particular version of God:
…[A]s it has always happened in the past, people are going to cry out to God, and they're going to repent. They're going to look for a way out of that problem, out of that crisis, just like happened right after 9/11. You remember it lasted three weeks or so after 9/11 you saw a little glimpse of that. But I think that's going to happen again, and if those of us who are true to His Word are preparing ourselves for that day, then we will be able to begin to rebuild on a more Biblical and more logical and more family-friendly footing."
Watch it:
Scott Lively's Abiding Truth Ministries is one of only twelve groups on the Southern Poverty Law Center\'s list of anti-gay hate groups. His is also co-founder of Watchmen On the Walls, another international group that is listed by the SPLC as an anti-gay hate group. Last January, he was a featured speaker at the MassResistance fundraiser, and appears to be forming links with that group. That would be a third SPLC anti-gay hate group he has ties to. The man certainly gets around.
Earlier this month, Lively announced that he would "no longer be monitoring the day-to-day developments of the culture war regarding homosexuality as closely." I was skeptical. He's not going away anytime soon.
Massachusetts AG Challenges DOMA In Court
Jim Burroway
July 8th, 2009
The Massachusetts Attorney General has announced that the state is suing the U.S. government in U.S. Federal District Court over the Defense of Marriage Act which limits the definition of marriage to opposite sex couples. Massachusetts was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, and state Attorney General Martha Coakley calls the federal law an "overreaching and discriminatory" infringement on rights and powers normally reserved for the states:
Before the law was passed, Coakley said, the federal government recognized that defining marital status was the "exclusive prerogative of the states." Now, because of the U.S. law's definition of marriage, same-sex couples are denied access to benefits given to heterosexual married couples, including federal income tax credits, employment benefits, retirement benefits, health insurance coverage and Social Security payments.
"In enacting DOMA, Congress overstepped its authority, undermined states' efforts to recognize marriages between same-sex couples, and codified an animus towards gay and lesbian people," the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit defends Massachusetts' decision to allow same-sex marriages, saying it provides security and stability to families:
The lawsuit said that more than 16,000 same-sex couples have married in Massachusetts since the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled that gay marriage was legal in 2004 "and the security and stability of families has been strengthened in important ways throughout the state."
"Despite these developments, same-sex couples in Massachusetts are still denied essential rights and protections because the federal Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] interferes with the Commonwealth's authority to define and regulate marriage," the lawsuit said.
Opponents often point to the stabilizing influence of marriage as one reason opposite-sex marriage needs to be somehow "protected" from gays marrying. But in doing so, they ignore the fact that gays and lesbians are forming families — and raising children — without that same stabilizing influence. It's good to see an Attorney General recognize that children of same-sex couples, if not the couples themselves, are no less deserving of that security and stability that heterosexual couples enjoy.
This is the second lawsuit filed in Massachusetts challenging DOMA. The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is also challinging DOMA for denying married same-sex couples access to federal benefits that other married couples automatically receive.
An Unequal Flag For Unequal Citizens
Jim Burroway
July 6th, 2009
This six star "Flag of Equal Marriage" represents the six states which have marriage equality, by order of their entry into the Union. The stars are arranged according to the order in which each state was admitted to the union, skipping over the states that do not have marriage equality. The six stars represent:
- Connecticut – #5.
- Massachusetts – #6.
- New Hampshire – #9 (Effective Jan 1, 2010)
- Vermont – #14 (Effective Sep 1, 2009)
- Maine – #23 (Effective of Sep 14, 2009)
- Iowa – #29
If this flag had been around in 2008, we would have seen California' star (#31) go dark. There's a move on right now to darken Maine's star in November.
[Hat tip: David Schmader]


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4 thoughts on "Yankees will face Orioles in ALDS"
Better get my tickets
Get your popcorn ready for a 2009 encore performance.
how bout just doing ok unlike 2010 and 2011
Is anybody talking about the epic collapse of the Rangers? I mean, this combines the elements of the '78 Red Sox collapse (blowing 13-game lead in the division) with the 2004 Yankees collapse in the ALCS (needing just one win and instead losing four straight). All Texas had to do was take ONE GAME of their last three against Oakland or the one against Baltimore (for which they had Yu Darvish, not Kevin Brown and Javy Vasquez pitching), but they choked like George W. Bush at a pretzel festival.

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Bad Machinery 5: The Case Of The Fire Inside is in comic shops today, and in bookstores next week! Find your nearest comic shop here.
As ever, you can get hard and softcover versions direct from me via Topatoco! As a special early-bird incentive, the first 100 purchasers get a free copy of my 32-page mini, MORDAWWA, featuring the recent tale of the Queen Of Hell. Act while stocks last! We also have bad Machinery combo packs for cost-conscious purchasers. Something for everyone.
[Note: I don't currently have any stock in the UK - sorry! But Topatoco have new, much cheaper DHL Tracked shipping options I think you will appreciate.]
An event of note occurs next week!
I believe all the relevant details are on the poster below, but you can find out more here on Orbital's website. I talk a pretty good game so I think we'll have a decent time together. I'll sign anything you've got, and should have the new MORDAWWA books with me too.
I spent much of this weekend trying to make the poor Scary Go Round site easier to navigate. It has so many bolted-on bits and miniseries that getting around it had become a chore. I'm still tidying up, but it's a lot better, I think. Most importantly, there's a new readers' guide that features a complete timeline at the bottom, showing how all the stories fit together - something I've been asked for a lot recently.
It's double Giant Days day today, as issue 13 (featuring a return to Tackleford and several long-unseen characters) and Volume 2 (containing issues 5-8) hit comic shop shelves, and Comixology (if they're not up yet, they will be later today). I'd like to welcome new Giant Days inker LEGIT LIZ FLEMING, who has freed Max up to draw some some amazing backgrounds in this issue, alongside colourist Whitney Cogar and letterer Jim Campbell. I have no reason not to believe that this is the hardest working team in showbusiness. So head to your local comic shop, or get Giant Days vol 2 on Amazon (UK | US) - you can pre-order now, the book is in regular bookshops next week.
Thank you for continuing to make this series a success, we have some great issues coming up (featuring house-hunting and "the movies"), and each one tells a done-in-one story so there's never a bad time to jump aboard.
Today's episode was the last MORDAWWA, thank you to everyone who told me they enjoyed it. I don't know when or if we'll ever revisit this particular setting, but I may well catch a wild hair down the road and check in with these characters again.
Bad Machinery is on hiatus until later in the year while I work on the now-ongoing Giant Days monthly and a number of other projects (mostly unannounced). But that does not mean no webcomics. There will be brand new Bobbins.horse comics Monday to Saturday for the next couple of months. I don't know exactly how long they'll run for, or exactly what ground they'll cover, but as always I will endeavour to entertain you.
I'll put them up on the Scary Go Round site while they run, but bobbins.horse has a permanent archive, its own RSS feed, daily commentary, and a nice responsive mobile-ready layout. Take your pick.
(If you've not read Bobbins.horse, I wrote a bit about the project here.)
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UPCOMING APPEARANCESApril 23rd 2016 - Giant Days Vol 2 signing and director's commentary, Orbital Comics, London (5.30pm onward)
May 7th 2016 - Free Comic Book Day Kids' Workshop, Gosh! Comics, London (TIME TBC)
November 5th-6th 2016 - Thought Bubble Festival, Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK
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Deference Lotteries
Mathews, Jud, Texas Law Review
When should courts defer to agency interpretations of statutes, and what measure of deference should agencies receive? Administrative law recognizes two main deference doctrines-the generous Chevron standard and the stingier Skidmore standard-but Supreme Court case law has not offered a bright-line rule for when each standard applies.
Many observers have concluded that courts' deference practice is an unpredictable muddle. This Article argues that it is really a lottery, in the sense the term is used in expected utility theory. Agencies cannot predict which deference standard a court will apply or with what effect, but they have a sense for how probable the different possible outcomes are. This Article presents empirical support for the "deference lottery" hypothesis, and then conducts a simple game theory analysis to understand how judicial review bears on agency behavior in statutory interpretation under deference lottery conditions.
The Article concludes that, in fact, the deference lottery can function as a flexible tool for managing agency behavior. The lottery can curb agency opportunism by imposing a risk that agencies' interpretations of statutes will face elevated scrutiny rather than Chevron deference. This analysis offers a new perspective on deference doctrine, and in particular on the Supreme Court's Mead decision, which sets out the standard for when Chevron applies. Mead's vagueness, widely derived as a bug, may in fact be a feature. Still, the deference lottery can backfire badly if Skidmore is applied too stringently, as the Article shows.
I. Introduction
When should courts defer to agency interpretations of statutes and what measure of deference should agencies receive? Administrative law recognizes two main deference doctrines-the generous Chevron1 standard and the stingier Skidmore2 standard3-but Supreme Court case law has not offered a bright-line rule for which standard applies when.4 Further, even when a court purports to operate within a given deference regime, it is not clear that the standards are applied consistently from case to case.5 Empirical work has confirmed that courts often fail to apply deference standards in circumstances where their own doctrine indicates they should.6 Moreover, courts continue to apply other deference doctrines in special contexts, driving the predictability of judicial practice further down.7 Taken together, all this means that agencies seeking to defend statutory interpretations in court can anticipate with confidence neither what standard will be applied nor how the court will apply it.
The confused state of deference doctrine has attracted its share of critical commentary.8 The Supreme Court's 2001 United States v. Mead Corp.9 decision, which declined to mark offthe border between Chevron's domain and Skidmore's with a bright-line rule, has been a focal point for criticism.10 To be sure, a lack of clarity over the scope of deference an agency interpretation will receive-an unpredictability in the law generally-imposes costs.11 Here, the costs of an unpredictable deference regime might include increased litigation,12 more agency reversals in court,13 "defensive rulemaking" on the part of agencies,14 or perhaps a move away from rulemaking entirely.15 A fuller accounting of our deference practice, however, should consider whether unpredictability might yield benefits as well as costs. This Article begins that work.
The key to this Article's unique contributions is the insight that agencies face a "deference lottery" when they advance a statutory interpretation in a notice-and-comment rulemaking or formal adjudication.16 The Article uses the term "lottery" in the sense it is used in expected utility theory. A person faces a lottery any time he or she does not know what the outcome of a process will be, but does know what the different possible outcomes are and what the probability of each is.17 In more formal terms, a lottery refers to any discrete probability distribution over outcomes. …


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Look alive fellow killjoys! the boys are up against Death Cab for Cutie in MTV's Musical Madness!
Lets show MTV what the MCRmy is made of and get the guys into the final four. According the MTV MCR is the ONLY band to make it into the final four twice! Lets work extra hard and get them the top spot this year! They deserve it!
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Keep voting everyone!!! We might lose to Metallica >
Nickelback beating Rise Against? Nooo! D:
Let's show em what we're made of, MCRmy!!
GAAAAAAHHH!!!!! I LOVE BOTH OF THEM!!!! I'm just gonna go and collapse now.
Yeah, MCR really deserves to win. Though it doesn't matter, they'll be number one in my eyes whether they win any awards here or not.
XD so far none of the bands I like are in the same draw, but I might have to skip voting on the rise against/my chem if it comes to that, because I love both of them soo much :3
I hear ya there. it does come down to hard choices at times.
IKR!!! Grrr.... And if green day and MCR get iin, I wont know either, cos Ive been with green day since orever, but MCR has my favourite songs... I dunno wheather to go with long time loyalty, or with fresh and new... (Technically) even though I was listening to MCR since TBP
I just killed the button voting. I voted like 30 times...i feel content.
Yes they do deserve it
they really do!
YAY c: I voted for My Chem and Blink182. They've got to get up to the final fourrrr ~
We can vote multiple times too!
Just faved like crazy^^
Shit, I mean voted! I've spent too much time here in dA...
lol. that's alright. I tend to slip up like that from time to time. I'll be on facebook trying to do something and be like...damn, this isn't da. stupid facebook. lol
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5/12/2013 @ 1:51 PMA resident of Heritage Woods on Route 161 East in Centralia received facial burns after a flash fire broke out while he was smoking a cigarette while hooked to an oxygen tank.
Centralia Fire Officials say Jim Mandrell who lived in the Autumn Leaves portion of the complex was taken to St. Mary's Hospital for treatment. Firemen say the flash fire also spread to a small area of carpeting that was burned. The fire was out on the fire department's arrival. They removed smoke from Mandrell's room and a nearby hallway.
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It's time to reread John 15:1–8 to remind us of who and whose we are. One of the privileges of becoming older and gaining wisdom is to reflect on and share what God has done in our lives. God is with us in the good times as well as the challenging times of life. It is up to us to continue to spread the good news!
One of the joys of becoming older and wiser is the recognition that God is with us—all the time. God knows us inside and out, and as we mature we have the privilege of growing in this awareness of being known—and loved.
It is important for us to share our story. Passing on our experience to other generations spreads the good news and helps others get through some difficult times.
As God relates to us and we share the fruit of this relationship with others, we keep God's story—and ours—going.
The good news continues—through sharing. This In sharing your stories, be sure to take time to smell the flowers.
Peace and love be with each of you.
—Helen Morrison, elder, Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church, Michigan
Let us pray
Loving God, we remember being part of your family. We are blessed in many ways. You call us to share our love with others, and so we continue to spread the good news that you are with us forever. Amen.
Sunday Lectionary and Hymns
Acts 8:26–40
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Ps. 22:25–31
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1 John 4:7–21
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We're now in the key second full month for The Elder Scrolls Online. Those that are still enjoying their time in Tamriel have stayed past the first free month and the five free days Zenimax gave out to help make up for extended downtime. This despite the rocky beginnings, with Craglorn ahead of us sometime soon. Yet, it has been a couple of weeks since Matt Firor posted about the game's road ahead, and some are getting restless, since the Craglorn update has no confirmed release, and much anticipated key fixes are coming in that update too.
Read more of Christina Gonzalez's Elder Scrolls Online: Zenimax's Update Mistake?
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Scouting Oregon RB LeGarrette Blount
A constantly-updated progress report on Blount from the 2010 Senior Bowl.
Editor's note: Practice notes are updated daily and a final report will be completed on Friday.
On the field, Blount needs to run with passion, power and good pad level and power. He's not overly fast and he lacks great lateral quickness, so it will be important for Blount to stand out during inside run drills. He needs to show good vision to find cutback lanes and the ability to stick his foot in the ground and explode upfield. Blount must also show reliable hands and stand out as a pass blocker.
Off the field, Blount needs to win scouts over during one-on-one interviews. It will not bode well for Blount if he appears insincere or his answers about the punch he threw at a Boise State player seem too rehearsed.
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National institutional differences and cross-border university–industry knowledge transfer
Does inter-national institutional difference hamper technology transfer from the foreign university to the business enterprises? A multinational study on institutions suggests that some elements of institutions of nations positively influence international technology transfer, some other elements of institutions negatively influence the international technology transfer, and yet some other elements of institutions of nations have no influence on the international technology transfer. The empirical analysis on six institutional dimensions reveals variegated results: (i) religious distance has a positive effect on international technology transfer when listed companies are controlled; (ii) social distance has a positive effect when listed firms are not controlled; (iii) education distance has a positive effect when listed companies are not controlled; (iv) political distance has no effect on international technology transfer; and (vi) industrial distance has negative effect on international technology transfer. However, Hofstede's measures on national cultural dimensions show no significant effects. The non-significant results could be due to the measurement of national cultures, characteristics of the biopharmaceutical industry, or due to changes in the patterns of national cultures over time.
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Yesterday we gave you the Seven Worst Days for Seattle Sports in 2010, a list that was unsurprisingly top heavy with Mariners misadventures. Today we try to do the opposite: count down the best days for Seattle sports in the past year. And man was today's list a lot harder to compile.
Undefeated at home. Undefeated in the playoffs. The most successful Seattle sport's franchise of the decade, and it's not even close.
2) Felix Hernandez wins the Cy Young award, November 18
This analogy for King Felix winning pitching's highest honor has yet to be topped: it was like getting a brand new pair of shower sandals for the prison sentence that is being a Mariners fan. But still: what a pair of sandals!
3) Seattle U Redhawks clinch winning season in return to D1 hoops, March 2
Seattle's U's win over Portland State didn't make many waves in the Seattle sports scene. But as editor Mike Seely pointed out, the 93-80 victory was an historic one: it marked the first time a school returning to Division 1 (and playing an all Division 1 schedule) had posted a winning record.
4) Washington Huskies clinch first bowl game in eight years, December 4
About fucking time.
5) Sounders win second straight U.S. Open Cup title, October 6
The high point of a season that, starting off, looked like it'd be the worst in franchise history.
Annnnnnd...that's it. Presumably, the Huskies have a chance to make this list again by winning their bowl game on the 30th. But, um, yeah. Probably not gonna happen.
So here's to a new, hopefully less shitty year in Seattle sports. May our home teams be at least 15 percent better, starting with the Seahawks becoming the first NFL team to make the playoffs with a losing record.


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The Olympic Promised Land
Had God not preserved me already? I broke my neck in warm-ups for an insignificant competition, when I fell from the horizontal bar and landed awkwardly on my back and shoulders, loading pressure on my cervical spine. At first, it was not painful. It felt as though a hot water balloon had burst within my neck. I checked to make sure I could move my extremities, then I leapt back on the horizontal bar. I went on to tumble on the floor exercise, continuing my warm-up. The competition started, and I am one of few people who can claim to have competed with a broken neck. I only withdrew as the pain began to mount, and two more days passed before I walked into the Stanford Hospital.
I could have been paralyzed for the remainder of my natural life. I am grateful that I was spared this fate, and grateful that God found me through gymnastics and through suffering.
I regret neither my gymnastics career nor the way in which it ended. To regret gymnastics would be to regret the hand of God in my life, to regret how God formed and used me. And to regret the suffering I have endured would be to regret one of the greatest instruments God has used for that purpose, a crucible God has used to refine and reform me.
Gymnastics was my school of faith, and the pain with which it left me is my hidden companion, my secret with God, a constant reminder of the one thing I must never forget: that I need God and nothing else. Thank God, thank God that I was not allowed to waste my life buying sweets.
The Olympics, it turns out, was never the Promised Land. I found the Promised Land in that hospital room, and God used gymnastics to bring me there.
For similar articles, including interviews of Samantha Peszek and Dominique Moceanu, please see our series on Gymnastics, Faith and Olympic Glory.
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CBS is off to a rosy start as the 2012-13 season logs its first week.
That network claimed a solid lead in total prime-time viewers, took 10 of the top 20 program slots, and had the two most-watched series premieres.
CBS' new period-piece drama, "Vegas," debuted in sixth place, while its contemporary Sherlock Holmes whodunit, "Elementary," premiered in 10th place, according to Nielsen Co. figures released Tuesday.
ABC's "Last Resort" was the third-highest-premiering series, ranked in 32nd place.
NBC's "Sunday Night Football" was No. 1 in the rankings, but CBS' "NCIS" was second for the week, "NCIS: Los Angeles" was fourth and "Big Bang Theory" was fifth.
NBC had some good news, too. In the important 18-to-49 demographic, NBC vaulted from fourth-place for the 2011 premiere week to first-place last week.
NBC's audience in that audience category increased by 12 percent year to year — the only network to see an increase. It was NBC's highest-rated premiere week in that demo since 2008.
Overall last week in total viewers, CBS scored 10.69 million (6.8 rating, 11 share), while runner-up ABC had 8.33 million (5.4 rating, 9 share). NBC averaged 8.19 million (5.2 rating, 8 share), Fox had 6.90 million (4,2 rating, 7 share), ION Television had 920,000 (0.6 rating, 1 share) and the CW had 680,000 (0.5 rating, 1 share).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3.54 million viewers (1.9 rating, 3 share). Telemundo had 1.20 million (0.6 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura had 630,000 (0.3 rating, 1 share), Estrella had 230,000 and Azteca had 120,000 (both 0.1 rating, 0 share).
NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts, as it had for the previous 158 weeks. But ABC's "World News" was nipping at its heels, even beating "Nightly News" on Tuesday and Friday. For the week, "World News" was only 42,000 viewers behind "Nightly News" — the smallest gap since September 2009, when the ABC newscast most recently claimed first place.
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