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Teabaggers Fail Again
Posted Nov 20, 2009 4:02pm
by Robert Cruickshank, Courage Campaign
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Julia Rosen's Blog - April 2009
"We the People" stand together for marriage equality and religious freedom
Some amazing volunteers put together this video for us. Unlike some other ads out there (NOM NOM NOM), individuals appearing in this video are real people, including a carpenter, lawyer, priest, and a soldier discharged under the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy.
Speaking of NOM...they are out today with their latest ad, playing the victim and trying to claim that they lose their rights when gay people want to get married.
As "We the People" explains, marriage equality and religious freedom are not in conflict. The constitution provides for a separation between church and state, meaning that no religious organization can be forced to perform or acknowledge same-sex marriage if they choose not to.
They are sowing fear and distorting the facts in an attempt to try and hold on to an increasingly smaller share of the American public.
NOM is putting Miss California up as theirspokeswoman victim. They probably correctly assume that she is a better mouthpiece than their most prominent board member, best-selling fiction writer Orson Scott Card. PFAW: Read More »
Some amazing volunteers put together this video for us. Unlike some other ads out there (NOM NOM NOM), individuals appearing in this video are real people, including a carpenter, lawyer, priest, and a soldier discharged under the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy.
Speaking of NOM...they are out today with their latest ad, playing the victim and trying to claim that they lose their rights when gay people want to get married.
As "We the People" explains, marriage equality and religious freedom are not in conflict. The constitution provides for a separation between church and state, meaning that no religious organization can be forced to perform or acknowledge same-sex marriage if they choose not to.
They are sowing fear and distorting the facts in an attempt to try and hold on to an increasingly smaller share of the American public.
NOM is putting Miss California up as their
Camp Courage San Diego closed with an amazing speech from the legendary Torie Osborn. In the grand tradition of Marshall Ganz, this is the California marriage equality movement's Story-of-Now.
Please share widely and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Here is: "It's Time to Make Hope and History Rhyme" by Torie Osborn as prepared for Camp Courage San Diego April 19th.
You probably think this weekend is about marriage equality. That's why you signed up. Left your weekend plans, your partners and family to come here.
Sorry. You've spent the last 36 hours at Camp Courage under false pretexts.
This is not about gay marriage.
What is being launched at Camp Courage is about something bigger. As enormous as history. And you are the force for change. Read More »
Please share widely and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Here is: "It's Time to Make Hope and History Rhyme" by Torie Osborn as prepared for Camp Courage San Diego April 19th.
You probably think this weekend is about marriage equality. That's why you signed up. Left your weekend plans, your partners and family to come here.
Sorry. You've spent the last 36 hours at Camp Courage under false pretexts.
This is not about gay marriage.
What is being launched at Camp Courage is about something bigger. As enormous as history. And you are the force for change. Read More »
Our team has been hard at work creating a central location where anyone can find and join one of our 23 Equality Teams around the state. Check out the Equality Teams page now!
It has a great interactive map where you can zoom in on your area and find a team near you. If you click on those oh-so-cute little gay bears it will pop-up information on the team along with contact information and a link to their group page within the Equality Hub. I've included a screen grab to show you what it looks like, clicking it will take you to the Equality Teams page.
All of the teams are listed below the map along with a featured team leader. Andrew Davey from Team Courage OC has the high honor of being our first featured team leader. In addition to helping run Team Courage OC, Andrew is also a blogger over at OC Progressive.
The page also features the next 10 upcoming team events. Just click on one to RSVP and come to one of our many canvassing events across the state. You can also purchase individual team t-shirts. All proceeds go to that team to cover expenses.
We will be adding new teams to the page as they are launched.
As always, we love feedback on any and all aspects of our website. So please tell us what you like and what you don't here in the comments.
Enjoy the page!
It has a great interactive map where you can zoom in on your area and find a team near you. If you click on those oh-so-cute little gay bears it will pop-up information on the team along with contact information and a link to their group page within the Equality Hub. I've included a screen grab to show you what it looks like, clicking it will take you to the Equality Teams page.
All of the teams are listed below the map along with a featured team leader. Andrew Davey from Team Courage OC has the high honor of being our first featured team leader. In addition to helping run Team Courage OC, Andrew is also a blogger over at OC Progressive.
The page also features the next 10 upcoming team events. Just click on one to RSVP and come to one of our many canvassing events across the state. You can also purchase individual team t-shirts. All proceeds go to that team to cover expenses.
We will be adding new teams to the page as they are launched.
As always, we love feedback on any and all aspects of our website. So please tell us what you like and what you don't here in the comments.
Enjoy the page!
It was a compelling scene: Rep Dennis Cardoza and Rep. Devin Nunes brought in a bowl of 3" long smelt and pictures of unemployed farm workers and their families to a House Natural Resources Committee meeting. They were hoping to provide an effective contrast and convince their colleagues to make an emergency exemption to the Endangered Species Act.
The state is in the third year of a drought and it has gotten so bad that in order to protect a federally endangered species a federal judge in 2007 ordered the state and feds to cut down on the amount of water pumped through the delta to save the smelt.
This is not simply about a species of little fish. The smelt, as Kevin Freking at the AP writes "a bellwether for the health of the delta, the heart of California's water-delivery system." More from the article:
I can't just picture that scene in my head.
We have lacked a sensible water plan for decades. To allow more pumping risks devastating the entire ecosystem. It is not about just a couple of little fish in a bowl.
The farm workers are devastated right now with the cutbacks to water supplies, but we need long term solutions, not short term actions that cause irreconcilable harm.
The state is in the third year of a drought and it has gotten so bad that in order to protect a federally endangered species a federal judge in 2007 ordered the state and feds to cut down on the amount of water pumped through the delta to save the smelt.
This is not simply about a species of little fish. The smelt, as Kevin Freking at the AP writes "a bellwether for the health of the delta, the heart of California's water-delivery system." More from the article:
With that, he offered to submit a fishbowl filled with nine minnows for the Congressional Record. The fish were rainbow smelt, not the endangered delta smelt, which are illegal to possess without a permit.
Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Norwalk, responded by asking him to take the plastic wrap off the bowl so the fish could get some air, which Nunes did. Napolitano served as chairwoman for Tuesday's hearing.
I can't just picture that scene in my head.
Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, said some of the lawmakers were "cherry picking history" and ignoring that water has been pumped into the valley at rates that exceeded what was appropriate.
That's one of the reasons the judge ordered state and federal wildlife agencies to revise how much water should be pumped out of the delta. Most of the pumping occurs from late spring through summer.
"The judge had no choice because the system was run right down to the margins where in fact he did kick in the protections of the Endangered Species Act," Miller said.
We have lacked a sensible water plan for decades. To allow more pumping risks devastating the entire ecosystem. It is not about just a couple of little fish in a bowl.
The farm workers are devastated right now with the cutbacks to water supplies, but we need long term solutions, not short term actions that cause irreconcilable harm.
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