Brazil's President backs Civil Union and makes Homophobia a Crime

So you think John McCain might do this 'IF' he becomes President?

Calling homophobia the "the most perverse disease impregnated in the human head," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pledged to "do all that is possible" to enact civil unions and to make homophobia a criminal offense. Lula made his comments at the First National Conference of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transsexuals.

The president of Brazil has become the first nation leader to launch a conference with the sole purpose of promoting gay equality.

The First National Conference of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transsexuals was inaugurated by president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who called for a "time of reparation" in Brazil.

click me at Brazilian President call homophobia a 'perverse disease" from Pink News!

Issuing Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples the Moral Equivalent of Gassing Jews

Sometimes ignorance and stupidity can really just leave you dumbfounded ---

"Save California, an anti-gay group that is calling asking it supporters to call county clerks and demand that they refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples."

Ask your county clerk if they were a Nazi officer during WWII and had been ordered to gas the Jews, would they? At the Nuremberg trials, they would have been convicted of murder for following this immoral order.

This has since been removed from their website: Save California - Campaign for Children and Families. I mean they are seriously funny but they are emotionally crippled.

Yet, these are the kind of so-called moral and God abiding Christians that if the opportunity presented itself would kill you as you walked down a public street.

Sad little creatures aren't they?

California Supreme Court Rejects Gay Marriage Ban, But No Impact On Religious Doctrines

Everybody is not jumping up and down in regards to The California Supreme Court 4-3 decision, that under the California Constitution, same-sex couples have the right to marry. As a matter of fact, Chief "Justice Ronald M. George declared that any law that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation will from this point on be constitutionally suspect in California in the same way as laws that discriminate by race or gender, making the state's high court the first in the nation to adopt such a stringent standard." (sure wish it was like this all over the world).

Yet, just because the California Supreme Court has made this ruling it does not require any religious officiant to solemnize a marriage in contravention of his or her religious beliefs and no religion will be required to change its religious policies or practices.

Here are some links that maybe of interest In re Marriage Cases/In The Supreme Court of California, The LA Times, and links to the briefs and recordings of the oral arguments in the case.

California Ends Gay Couple's Exclusion From Marriage

as reported by Freedom To Marry --

The California Supreme Court handed down a historic decision upholding the freedom to marry in In Re: Marriage Cases. The second state high court to rule in favor of ending the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage said, “in view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right [marriage] to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples.”

“This righteous decision of this most respected state high court will give Americans the chance to experience what they've begun to see for the last few years in Massachusetts, South Africa, Canada, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands – the lived reality that ending exclusion from marriage helps families and harms no one,” said Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry and author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality and Gay People's Right to Marry. “California's sun will illuminate the nation.”

The milestone California ruling comes as the country marks the 60th anniversary of another historic ruling, Perez v. Sharp. In Perez, the California Supreme Court became the first court in the country to strike down race restrictions on marriage, also by a vote of 4-3, at a time when polls showed 90% opposing interracial marriage. Wolfson noted, “Today, the justices of the California Supreme Court again lived up to their oath to uphold the Constitution for all, and as with their courageous past stands against discrimination in marriage, we will all be the better and history will vindicate them.”

Noting that opponents of equality have submitted signatures that may trigger a November vote on an anti-gay measure aimed at amending the state constitution to bar committed same-sex couples from the equal freedom to marry, Wolfson said, “Thanks to the Court's just decision, voters will get to make an informed decision, having the chance to see actual married couples and realize it is wrong to put obstacles in their path.”

Freedom to Marry salutes the leadership of National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, Heller Ehrman LLP and the Law Office of David C. Codell, and the City of San Francisco, who represented fifteen same-sex couples, Equality California, and Our Family Coalition in this case.

Freedom to Marry is the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Launched in 2003, Freedom to Marry is headed by Evan Wolfson, nationally recognized as a central "architect of the marriage equality movement." Freedom to Marry guides and focuses this social justice movement on a nationwide level, serving as a strategy and support center for national, state, and local partners, a catalyst that drives and shapes the national debate on marriage equality, and an alliance-builder fostering support from non-gay allies.