Bigotry News

We scour the Internet looking for news reports of marriage-related bigotry, then offer them here for your education.


Group analyzes Prop 8 battle (The Spectrum)
ST. GEORGE - Though the case will be decided in California, Cedar City Attorney Nadine Hansen told a gathering of the Southern Utah Post Mormon Association Sunday the upcoming decision on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 would have an especially large impact for Southern Utah.
8 Mar 2010 at 5:57am

Court: California gay groups must share Prop 8 memos (KPCC Pasadena)
SAN FRANCISCO ? A federal magistrate is ordering several gay rights groups that campaigned against California's 2008 same-sex marriage ban to furnish some internal memos and e-mails to lawyers for the measure's sponsors.
5 Mar 2010 at 8:09pm

Gays have right to privacy, too (CNN)
Today is the first day same-sex weddings will be performed in the District of Columbia.
9 Mar 2010 at 3:32pm

Sacramento jury convicts man with marijuana in luggage of a felony (The Sacra...
In a test of how much marijuana reasonably can be carried for personal medical needs, a Sacramento jury Tuesday convicted a man of felony transportation for attempting to take 3 pounds of pot through Sacramento International Airport.
10 Mar 2010 at 12:57am

Same-sex wedding bells toll around Washington, D.C. (Los Angeles Times)
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty attends the ceremonies for three of the first gay couples to legally marry in the district. As a cellist and soloist performed Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are," Darlene Garner and Candy Holmes walked down the aisle Tuesday morning and became among the first gay couples to legally marry in the District of Columbia.
9 Mar 2010 at 10:47pm

Letters to the editor (The Sacramento Bee)
Toyota , lobbyists, 'green' jobs, health care, etc.
9 Mar 2010 at 9:13pm

Court: Calif gay groups must share Prop 8 memos (Channel 8 San Diego)
Associated Press - March 5, 2010 8:04 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal magistrate is ordering several gay rights groups that campaigned against California's 2008 same-sex marriage ban to...
5 Mar 2010 at 7:05pm

David Rivkin To Square Off With Bush V. Gore Attorney Over Prop. 8 (OfficialW...
The heated issue of same-sex marriage is likely to produce plenty of fireworks when two of the nation?s most notable attorneys square off in a debate over the constitutionality of California?s Proposition 8, which restricts marriage to heterosexual unions.
4 Mar 2010 at 3:04pm

Proposition 8 Means More Than A Law To Local Attorney (Grunion Gazette)
Nov. 4, 2008, was one of the happiest ? and one of the most disappointing ? days of Christopher Fowler?s life. It was the day Fowler received the call matching him with the birth parents of his now 9-month-old son.
5 Mar 2010 at 2:32pm

Weed Wars: Sacramento airport pot patient jailed after felony conviction (The...
Matthew Zugsberger, an injured former oil rig worker and medical marijuana user, was convicted today of felony transportation of marijuana for attempting to take three pounds of pot onto a Sacramento flight to New Orleans in December, 2008.
9 Mar 2010 at 2:05pm