Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of California’s gay marriage ban rested their case Monday after screening a video of San Diego pastor Jim Garlow, influential in mobilizing far right evangelical Christian support for Proposition 8, the voter initiative that amended the state constitution to define marriage as that only existing between a man and a woman. The video shows supporters of Proposition 8 linkng gay marriage to bestiality and polygamy. The six minute work served as evidence of anti-gay hateful hysteria cultivated by gay marriage opponents, creating a climate of deceit and grotesque misinformation that in large part played into the fears of voters who helped passed the proposition.
The Menifee Union School District, in California, has removed any and all copies of Merriam Webster’s 10th edition dictionary after a parent complained that an elementary student had found the definition to oral sex. According to reports, school officials are prepared to review the dictionary to determine whether it should be permanently banned because of the graphic entry, according to spokesperson Betti Cadmus, who added “it’s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we’ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature.”
A report that an unidentified gay rights group from the Netherlands has donated monies to the Gay Malawi m Movement in part, as an effort to assist the two Malawi men arrested and accused with public indecency and unnatural acts after they married in December in a traditional ceremony. The report also suggests that the group intends to initiate a massive campaign in Malawi to lobby the parliament to legalize gay marriage.
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