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Next time your fellow representative asks you for campaign money, tell them to suck it.

The marriage equality bill was defeated 38-24, falling 8 votes short of a majority. A sad day. Marriage equality will come however. Stay strong. As Senator Perkins said, “It is inevitable.”

And the question is, which democrats voted AGAINST gay marriage?

• Joseph Addabbo (D-Queens) — NO
• Darrel Aubertine (D- Cape Vincent) — NO
• Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) — NO
• Shirley Huntley (D-Queens) — NO
• Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) — NO
• Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens) — NO
• George Onorato (D-Queens) — NO
• William Stachowski (D-Buffalo) — NO

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    The Star-Ledger, the largest newspaper in New Jersey, published an editorial on Friday that takes to task Democrats wavering on marriage equality in recent weeks.

    The Newark-based newspaper invoked the results of a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released on Thursday that shows voters support marriage equality, albeit by a slim margin of 46% to 42%.

    “Maybe they should take a look at the latest poll, and man up,” wrote the Star-Ledger. “Like other polls on this question, this one shows that most people in New Jersey are greeting this supposed threat to civilization with a collective shrug. The public is way ahead of the politicians on this one,” the newspaper writes.

    Both houses of the legislature could vote on the marriage equality bill in the lame duck session that begins Monday, but this week Democratic senate majority leader Steven Sweeney seemed to suggest that the bill should take a backseat to the economy. The suggestion sparked a sharp rebuke from state senator Loretta Weinberg (pictured), the lead sponsor of the marriage equality bill and former running mate of governor Jon Corzine, who lost to antigay governor elect Chris Christie.

    Sweeney later clarified his remarks to say he thinks the bill should come up in the lame-duck session.

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    It would appear that the National Organization Marriage’s spokesh0r isn’t too happy discussing “her lil solo sex tape”

    Carrie Prejean threatened to walk off Larry King Live Tuesday night, in the middle of her interview with Larry King.

    Prejean’s threats came after King asked the former beauty queen about the reasons behind her recent settlement with the Miss California USA pageant. King asked Prejean why she agreed to strike a deal with the Pageant and drop her claims of libel, slander and religious discrimination. “Why settle since you had a fight to carry on?” King pressed.

    Prejean demurred. King asked again: “You can’t even say why you settled?”

    Prejean, visibly displeased, refused to answer: “Larry, it’s completely confidential and you’re being inappropriate.” The inappropriate issue at hand isn’t King’s probing question, but the alleged reason why Prejean settled: TMZ reported that she decided to strike a deal only after the lawyer for the Pageant revealed a home-made sex tape of a 17-year-old Prejean. King: “So the agreement discusses the motive behind why each party agreed?” Prejean: “Larry you’re being inappropriate. You really are. So, I’m not going to talk about –” (This back and forth goes on for a full minute.) Finally, King concedes: “Okay, I, uh… inappropriate King Live continues.” He drops the subject and goes to a caller.

    But the damage is done: before the person on the phone line is halfway through his introduction (“I’m a gay man and I love pageants”), Prejean reaches to disconnect her mic and mouths something to someone off camera. “Did she hear the question?” King wonders.

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    HRC’s Sultan Shakir — who is at the DC Council Committee’s mark-up of the marriage bill — reports that the committee has passed the amended bill 4 to 1!  It now goes to the full council which is expected to take an initial vote on December 1 with a final vote by the end of the year.

    Same-sex couples in the District are now one step closer to equality!

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    You attended the protests last year after Prop 8, now is the time to do it FOR MAINE!!

    Join us for a night rally, November 4th! We will know the results of Maine’s “No on 1″ ballot proposition, which will dictate whether we celebrate or protest! A New Orleans-style funeral, full of jazz and charisma, will lead us around the march route until we finish in front of “The Black Cat”/Le BarCito, where WE FOUGHT BACK against police raids even before Stonewall!

    LINKS TO FLIER GRAPHICS:
    * Small: http://bit.ly/4lRU89
    * Medium: http://bit.ly/2oIrSM
    * Large (Printable): http://bit.ly/3x4rNX

    SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE:
    * Marquita Thomas
    * John Perez
    * Father Geoff Farrow
    * Eugene Hedlund (Truth & Hope)
    * John Henning

    Voice of God: Rick Watts

    SPONSORED BY:
    * Equality Network
    * Love Honor Cherish
    * OUT West
    * Courage Campaign
    * Allied Women for Equality
    * Stonewall Democratic Club

    Please let us know your ideas for an action on November 4th!

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    DING DONG THE WITCH IS NOT GONE!

    We were beginning to wonder where Maggie was, she has been pretty much absent during the Washington state and Maine campaigns, but the witch is back!

    Hofstra University hosted a debate on marriage equality between National Organziation for Marriage (NOM) President Maggie Gallagher and Marriage Equality New York Board President Cathy Marino-Thomas last week.

    Said Gallagher to Marino-Thomas: “[Your relationship with your parter] may be better, but it’s not a marriage. It may be better than a marriage. It’s probably better than my marriage, to hear you talk about it. I wouldn’t talk about my marriage in such glowing terms.”

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    To make awesome ads like the below!

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    Well well well,

    Those lovely people over at Farm NOM, are under the distinct impression that…

    Gays can teach the ghey!

    Lets check out this wonderful piece of crap below shall we?

    Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t have enough time on my hands to teach little children which brand of lube is longer lasting than the other, or that Madonna will always be better than Mariah, and that Maggie Gallagher (president of Farm NOM) just loves getting down and dirty with farm animals (I finally got that damn chicken to confess, go me!!!).

    Now Mirta, you want to know what I would do or say if my hypothetical child who I had brainwashed into being ghey from child birth suddenly decided to go straight?

    I would shoot the fucker!!! Seriously, I spend fucking years…and yeaaarrsss teaching him/her/it, how to be ghey and then they throw it in my face like that? How dare they!!!

    But alas, Mirta, the above would never happen, for one simple reason..

    You cannot teach someone how to be gay.

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    In an article for the National Review Online, Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage has stated that, “Polygamy is not worse than gay marriage, it is better. At least polygamy, for all its ugly defects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children.”
    Now Maggie, that’s hardly ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN now is it, but lets not be too hard on her, as I’m sure when her school friends were learning about Math, Maggie was behind some shed showing her pussy to anyone that wanted to look.
    I am sure Gallagher would feel the same if she were born into a polygamist cult and forced to marry a man at 15 years-old. Or maybe she’d feel great about those “secure stable mother-father families” after her son was abandoned because he’d be competition for the other men in the camp? I’m not sayin’… I’m just sayin’.
    Our final words, Polygamy as a concept may not offend dear ol’ Maggie, but ignoring the way that it’s practiced is inexcusable.

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    And unable to think for themselves.

    WTFBlogs readers know I am a staunch supporter of gay rights, and to post any kind of articles I have to do research. When it comes to gay marriage, when researching the opposition, I go to the same place, National Organization Of Marriage, its many websites and also its face book page.

    Not only are  these websites full of fabricated bullshit, but the people that support them remind me of sheep. NOM tells them to BAAHHH and guess what they do? They BAAHHH!

    Prime example is below, on the NOM facebook page, Leigh Boland Healy, took the opportunity to inform her fellow sheep that civil unions were OFFERED the same rights as marriage, but us petty gays rejected them.

    Now this struck me as kinda odd,  but to make sure I did a lil research myself, because I like to know the fact before I comment on anything.

    Read the below,

    The first civil unions in the United States were offered by the state of Vermont in 2000. The federal government does not recognize these unions, and under the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA), other U.S. states are not obliged to recognize them. By the end of 2006, Connecticut and New Jersey had also enacted civil union laws; New Hampshire followed in 2007. Furthermore, California’s domestic partnership law had been expanded to the point that it became practically a civil union law, as well. The same might be said for domestic partnership in the District of Columbia, domestic partnership in Washington, and domestic partnership in Oregon.

    So tell me Leigh (pictured to the left), how could gay people of been offered those 1200 federal rights in 2000 when it was not even legal to offer them? because…you guessed it, DOMA was passed 4 years previously.

    Now… I don’t know Leigh, although her picture makes her  look like a 2 cent hooker, and I imagine with those 4inches of makeup on her face, that she is no longer a virgin (her parents must be so proud) and not married, she probably also LOVES shellfish, but thats just MY OPINION, I’m going to be nice to Leigh…I am going to try and educate our lil Leigh.

    Leigh, when voting to take away somebody’s rights, RESEARCH what you are voting for, take the time to REALLY research, do NOT rely on ONE organization for all your “fact”s.

    Should you feel the need to message Leigh, send her some love, and not hate mail, although should you decide to WTFBLOG will not be held responsible.

    Full conversation can be found below:

    UPDATE: After posting the blog in the NOM FB page, of course our number 1 fan  Leigh was going to read it, she even replied about the blog!

    Leigh Boland Healy
    James what you don’t seem to realize is that nothing you do bothers me. I’m not here to be your friend or try to impress you. What God thinks of me is the only thing I’m concerned with. You can’t change that. Only I can. It’s fine if you want to laugh at me and make fun of me. I’m sure you’ve spent the majority of your life being laughed at … Read Moreand made fun of and you probably feel the need to push that off on others. Your mockery doesn’t change the fact that your lifestyle will never be normal or acceptable to God or people with morals. Nothing you can do can change that either. Your actions will always be perverted and despicable. The word “marriage” won’t make your lifetsyle normal. It’s really hopeless.
    Since then she has removed her picture form Facebook and made her profile private, I would like to remind you that she is NOT bothered by the article.
    Besure to check out:

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