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Equality news round-up: Reports from Netroots Nation’s transgender equality panel, and more
June 11, 2012
By Scottie Thomaston
- The Prop8TrialTracker.com team is back from Providence, now that Netroots Nation ’12 has concluded. We will be posting lots of interviews and highlights this week so please stay tuned!
- A NOM-aligned anti-gay group in Minnesota will be allowed to evade campaign disclosure.
- Autumn Sandeen over at Pam’s House Blend has a piece about the ‘Blogging for Transgender Equality’ panel at Netroots Nation. She participated along with Jennifer Levi from Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) and some great bloggers.
- The New York Times talks about gay parents and marriage equality. It’s a skeptical take. And at AmericaBlog, a rebuttal to the study that is the basis of the report.
- After NAACP Marriage Stance, Discord And Discussion
- Nike holds LGBT sports summit.
- A campaign manager of a Colorado lawmaker who voted against civil unions wrote a letter that outed the lawmaker’s gay son.
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Seth from Maryland | June 11, 2012 at 10:16 am
Jeb Bush: Loving Same-Sex Parents Should Be ‘Held Up As Examples For Others’
In an otherwise comfortable interview with Charlie Rose last Thursday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) struggled to answer questions about his stance on marriage equality. Although his brother supported a constitutional ban on gay marriage as president, the younger Bush believes America needs all forms of families as parenting examples. He clarified that he personally still opposes same-sex marriage, but despite his platitudes offered a contrast to many of his GOP cohort:
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Seth from Maryland | June 11, 2012 at 10:16 am
BUSH: I don’t think people need to be discriminated against because they don’t share my belief on this, and if people love their children with all their heart and soul and that’s what they do and that’s how they organize their life that should be held up as examples for others to follow because we need it. We desperately need it and that can take all sorts of forms, it doesn’t have to take the one that I think should be sanctioned under the law.
Bush’s statement is not an endorsement of marriage equality. Still, coupled with his other observation about how his father and Ronald Reagan would have a hard time finding common ground in today’s GOP, it does show the potential of a party shift on marriage equality similar to President Obama’s own evolution.
–Steven Perlberg
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/06/11/497268/j…
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Sagesse | June 11, 2012 at 10:28 am
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Bob | June 11, 2012 at 10:44 am
this pastor has a great message bang on the truth
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Bob | June 11, 2012 at 10:48 am
sorry try this,,,, it's good
http://youtu.be/s2yIaNSFBBw
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Str8Grandmother | June 11, 2012 at 11:06 am
About that new study out of Texas that supposedly shows that kids are harmed if their parent (s) are gay. The conversation is to long to repeat here but i am having e-mail exchanges with Dr. Regnurus's just released study and posting them at Box Turtle.
I feel we all need to know about this study because this is going to be used again and again against Sexual Minorities. Actually the study is about children who were raised in a Mixed Orientation Marriage, one parent gay and one parent straight. This says nothing about 2 loving lesbains or 2 loving gay men creating and raising a family and how those children do. <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/06/11/45557” target=”_blank”>www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/06/11/45557
and a lot of comments on the article that broke the story http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/06/10/45512
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DaveP | June 11, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Lots of very good info over there from the various commenters, especially you, SGM. I read some of your back-&-forth emails with the guy who created this "study". I think you may have frightened the poor man. Good for you!
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Steve | June 11, 2012 at 8:07 pm
It should also be noted that this whole thing is indirectly a NOM creation. The co-founder of NOM sits on the boards of both of the right-wing think tanks that funded the study and also on the advisory board of the Mormon propaganda rag Deseret News which first reported it.
And the author of the study is an ultra-conservative Catholic who has a habit of writing op-eds about family issues which frequently have an anti-gay slant. He makes a huge deal about his religion in public.
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Walter | June 12, 2012 at 7:49 am
The study seems to be getting a significant amount of bad press. Link shows an article this morning on Huffington Post. It seems researchers take a group of dysfunctional families, label them as gay, and then proceed to compare them to stable straight families. They, then, conclude children fair better with straight parents.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/gay-pare…
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