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Gay Couple Takes Adopted Doll Around the World (and They All Wear Matching Outfits)
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe urge to baby something is innate in many humans. So is the urge to get dolled up. For 20 years, a gay couple from New York has done both with the help of "Digby," a doll they purchased from a Paris flea market on a cold spring weekend. According to The Daily.com, Mark Kirby and A.J. Sapolnick decided to "adopt" Digby for the same reason other couples decide to have kids or adopt children. ...
Elton John in Us Weekly: Too Hot for an Arkansas Grocery
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyArkansas has a way of making it onto the national stage -- and sometimes the publicity isn't very complimentary. The latest from Bill Clinton's home state: Harps grocery store in the small town of Mountain Home in northern Arkansas deemed a magazine story on gay singer Elton John to be obscene. The store placed gray "family shields" over copies of the Us Weekly magazine, which features the singer, his partner, and their new adopted baby. Printed on the shields were the words: "To protect our young shoppers." But the shields didn't stay up for long -- not after members of the Arkansas' GLBT ...
Florida Gay Adoption Ban Overturned, but 3 States Still Restrict It
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 22) -- For the past 33 years, the state of Florida has officially banned gay and lesbian couples from adopting children. Today, however, a court of appeals sided with a lower court and ruled that such restrictions were unconstitutional. The case, which was brought by a gay couple, will now likely head to the Florida Supreme Court, the Miami Herald reported. A 2009 Quinnipiac poll found that 55 percent of the state's residents favor doing away with the ban on gay adoption, while 39 percent of those questioned said they would keep it in place. If Florida's law, which is the only one ...
NY Assembly Passes Gay Marriage Bill
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyBy a wide, bi-partisan majority, the New York State Assembly passed a bill legalizing gay marriage, setting the stage for a tougher fight in the state senate: (h/t Jake Tapper) The State Assembly approved legislation on Tuesday night that would make New York the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage - a pivotal vote that shifts the debate to the State Senate, where gay rights advocates and conservative groups alike are redoubling their efforts. In a sign of how opinion in Albany has shifted on the issue, several members of the Assembly who voted against the measure in 2007 voted in favor of ...
Mike Huckabee Opposes Happy Marriage
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyGay civil rights have been a hot topic in recent weeks, what with the passage, this election cycle, of anti-gay legislation like Proposition 8 and Arkansas' adoption ban. The debate raged on last night, as Jon Stewart and Mike Huckabee had a long talk about gay marriage on Stewart's Daily Show (video below). Huckabee's opposition to gay marriage is a disappointment to me, as I really thought he was a better guy than that. The conversation was a textbook case in conservative deflection. Every time Stewart would challenge a Huckabee rationale, Huck would abandon it and simply switch to another ...
Should Obama Appoint First Openly Gay Cabinet Member?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyVia The Wall Street Journal comes word that another glass ceiling may be about to shatter. Here's the lede to Jonathan Weismann's "Union Activist Mary Beth Maxwell on List for Labor Secretary":For the rainbow cabinet of the nation's first African American president, Mary Beth Maxwell is the perfect labor secretary you've probably never heard of: a gay woman, community organizer and labor leader with an adopted African American son.All true, but, as you may be asking yourself, how many tie-dye T-shirts does she own? Maxwell, The Journal implies, is currently being vetted for the T. Sec. post. ...
Conservatives Pass Adoption Ban
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyLost, amid the (completely justified) outcry over California's passage of the hateful Proposition 8, is the fact that Arkansas passed an even more heinous bill banning adoptions or foster care by gay, or otherwise unmarried, couples. From the NY Times: Strong opposition to the candidacy of Barack Obama in Arkansas may have helped conservatives pass a measure blocking the adoption of children by unmarried couples. The measure, which voters overwhelmingly approved Tuesday and which prevents unmarried cohabitating couples from adopting or fostering children, won strong support from conservatives, ...
McCain Heroically Opposes Gay Adoption
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyJohn McCain has tiptoed around the issue of gay adoption enough this month, but he's finally taken a mighty, manly stand against these pantywaist kids, littering our orphanages, driving the other waifs mad with their constant warbling of showtunes. Excuse me...(hand to earpiece)...oh, the parents...got it. John McCain is right to keep our orphan population out of the hands of the gays. We were all shocked when his spokesperson said this earlier this month: However, as an adoptive father himself...he recognizes that there are many abandoned children who have yet to find homes. McCain believes ...
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