Gay marriage opponents in Scotland criticised for doctored petition

Scotland For Marriage, the campaign against same-sex marriage, have come under strong criticism for wrongly including the names of equal marriage supporters on an online petition that opposes equality. Lothians MSP Kezia Dugdale has written to Nicola Sturgeon asking that the petition be discounted after having been contacted by "furious" constituents raising their concerns that their names had b...

PinkPaper • Dec 16, 2011

Slim majority of Republicans support legal recognition of gay relationships

Only 12 per cent said gay couples should be allowed to marry. Support for civil unions was higher, with 39 per cent agreeing with them. This meant that 51 per cent back either marriage equality or civil unions. But 48 per cent said there should be no recognition at all of gay relationships....

PinkPaper • May 12, 2011

Proposition 8 back to the ballot in 2012?

Equality California launched a campaign yesterday to gauge community support for heading back to the ballot in 2012 to try to undo Proposition 8. Approved by voters in November 2008, Prop 8 amended the state constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage, which had been legal for 4 and a half months. EQCA said the ongoing federal lawsuit against Prop 8 "could take years to resolve" and so it wants to ...

PinkPaper • Apr 5, 2011

Judges hint at Prop 8 case twists and turns

And has the 9th Circuit perhaps hinted that it plans to uphold Walker's decision but in a way that would limit the case's impact to California, the only state that ever let gays get married and then later took that right away from them? The court spent a fair amount of time discussing a 1996 case from Colorado in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a state constitutional amendment that depriv...

PinkPaper • Dec 9, 2010

Twittering for Proposition 8 repeal

"SignForEquality.com will make history by using custom social-networking tools, as well as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, to support an all-volunteer signature drive to repeal Prop 8," said Love Honor Cherish Executive Director John Henning. "People throughout California can now help us win marriage back by the simple act of signing and collecting signatures." The Web site features a downloadable...

PinkPaper • Nov 27, 2009