YES.
Just... YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES.
Proposition 8 OVERTURNED!
YES!
Unconstitutional.
Unofficial Copy of the Prop 8 Decision
Thank the people who made it happen
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Proposition 8 case Perry vs. Schwarzenegger decision due tomorrow
It's happening tomorrow. The monumental court decision that will decide on the civil rights of gays and lesbians across California, declaring their right to marry or pushing them back to second-class citizenship.
The federal court announced today that it will release its decision in the American Foundation for Equal Right’s landmark case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, on Wednesday. Text “EQUAL” to 69866 to get a text message with the official decision on your mobile phone the moment the court releases its decision, or sign-up for an email alert at equalrightsfoundation.org. Join AFER on its Web site to watch a live press conference with our plaintiffs and co-counsels Ted Olson and David Boies following the release of the decision. As we receive news about the details of the release, AFER will update our Facebook and Twitter profiles, along with our Web site.
(via Joe. My. God.)
Groundbreaking. Monumental. Historic. Immense. Significant.
Excited. Nervous. Anxious. Waiting. Hoping. Dreading. Expecting.
Monday, August 2, 2010
The Military
Here are some troubling statistics I bet you've never heard of:
In 2003, in a survey of female veterans conducted by the University of Iowa, funded by the US Department of Defense, 30% of the 500 female veterans interviewed reported an attempted or completed rape.
90% of rapes in the military are never reported.
84% of Navy women said they have been victims of sexual harassment.
Another 2003 report financed by the Department of Defense revealed that nearly one-third of a nationwide sample of female veterans seeking health care through the VA said they experienced rape or attempted rape during their service. Of that group, 37 percent said they were raped multiple times, and 14 percent reported they were gang raped.
A 2004 study of veterans from Vietnam and all the wars since, who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder, found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while in the military.
In an earlier study conducted in 1992-93 with female veterans of the Gulf War and earlier wars, 90 percent said they had been sexually harassed in the military, which means anything from being pressured for sex to being relentlessly teased and stared at.
The results of a change in policy in 2005 allowing sexual assaults to be reported confidentially in �restricted reports� resulted in the number of reported assaults across the military jumping 40 percent, to 2,374, but still most are not reported.
A nine-month study of military rape by the Denver Post in 2003 found that nearly 5,000 accused military sex offenders had avoided prosecution since 1992.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8511010.stm
http://dissidentvoice.org/Apr07/Zeese14.htm
http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/Military%20Harassment.pdf
So, clearly heterosexual men should be banned from the military because they cannot control their lustful urges.
In all seriousness, these stories and statistics are not being reported on at the rate they're happening, but false statistics and ridiculous pretend situations are being studied and reported on at a rapid pace on how gay men will go on a crazy raping spree if allowed to serve openly in America's military. Yes, because that has been happening for years in the UK, Canada, Israel, Sweden, and Australia. Their militaries have just turned into one gigantic gay orgie.
So... taking the ASVAB this year should be fun.
In 2003, in a survey of female veterans conducted by the University of Iowa, funded by the US Department of Defense, 30% of the 500 female veterans interviewed reported an attempted or completed rape.
90% of rapes in the military are never reported.
84% of Navy women said they have been victims of sexual harassment.
Another 2003 report financed by the Department of Defense revealed that nearly one-third of a nationwide sample of female veterans seeking health care through the VA said they experienced rape or attempted rape during their service. Of that group, 37 percent said they were raped multiple times, and 14 percent reported they were gang raped.
A 2004 study of veterans from Vietnam and all the wars since, who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder, found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while in the military.
In an earlier study conducted in 1992-93 with female veterans of the Gulf War and earlier wars, 90 percent said they had been sexually harassed in the military, which means anything from being pressured for sex to being relentlessly teased and stared at.
The results of a change in policy in 2005 allowing sexual assaults to be reported confidentially in �restricted reports� resulted in the number of reported assaults across the military jumping 40 percent, to 2,374, but still most are not reported.
A nine-month study of military rape by the Denver Post in 2003 found that nearly 5,000 accused military sex offenders had avoided prosecution since 1992.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8511010.stm
http://dissidentvoice.org/Apr07/Zeese14.htm
http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/Military%20Harassment.pdf
So, clearly heterosexual men should be banned from the military because they cannot control their lustful urges.
In all seriousness, these stories and statistics are not being reported on at the rate they're happening, but false statistics and ridiculous pretend situations are being studied and reported on at a rapid pace on how gay men will go on a crazy raping spree if allowed to serve openly in America's military. Yes, because that has been happening for years in the UK, Canada, Israel, Sweden, and Australia. Their militaries have just turned into one gigantic gay orgie.
So... taking the ASVAB this year should be fun.
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