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Why Marriage Equality Is Important for Mississippi
Why Marriage Equality Is Important for Mississippi
Why is marriage equality so important? I want you to ask yourself, “What if I walked into the Circuit Clerks office to apply for a marriage license and I was denied because of the gender of my fiancé?” In a moment you are stripped of your rights, your dreams and even your dignity because the State that you call home treats you as a second-class citizen, and says that your family doesn’t count.
U.S District Judge Carlton W. Reeves recently ruled that Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage was indeed unconstitutional. Our state officials quickly appealed this decision to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, where another hearing took place earlier this month. While we wait in Mississippi to hear from the 5th Circuit, the U.S Supreme Court has announced they will hear cases on this issue. Either way, we expect marriage equality by summer from a 5th Circuit decision or from the Supreme Court.
Although we expect marriage equality from the court systems, which makes us equal in the eyes of the law, it is also important that we achieve equality in the eyes of our fellow human and our society.
We don’t have to agree and no one is asking anyone to change his or her beliefs, after all freedom of religion is another inalienable right that should be afforded to all citizens. We just want to have the same God-given rights and respect as everyone else and we want our lives and our families to, not only be equal, but to matter.
Why is marriage equality important? Because people are important, all people. You don’t have to approve of ones life to accept them as equal. You don’t have to agree with same-sex marriage to respect others’ freedoms. If God afforded humanity the freedom to choose, who are we to deny that right to anyone, regardless of race, gender, religion, social status or yes, even orientation.
What if you woke up one day and suddenly everything around you was different? What if everything that protected you and your family were abruptly stripped away? Your freedom, your dignity and even your marriage were null and void. What if the Constitution of The United States no longer applied to you? This may sound outlandish to you, but it is the harsh reality for many of us. Although I was born into the Land of the Free, my freedom is limited because of who I love.
Equality, quite literally, means to be equal. Equal in rights, status and opportunities. This is what our great country was founded upon. Many battles have been fought for, what is supposed to be, a God-given right; that right is freedom. Freedom is something that most people take for granted, unless you lose it, or you were never afforded those rights in the first place.
You may have heard the derogatory cliché “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” Each time I hear this, I am indeed reminded of the first family and the events that took place in the Garden of Eden. God undeniably created Adam and then, as I like to jokingly say, He improved the situation by creating Eve; this is the biblical foundation and argument that many people use to justify the denial of marriage equality. But God did something else in that garden that most people forget; He gave humanity the freedom of choice.
As we await the ruling on marriage equality in Mississippi I ask you to step back and ask yourself, “What if?”
Community Town Hall Discusses the Future of Equality in Fayetteville
Community Town Hall Discusses the Future of Equality in Fayetteville
On Tuesday, January 27, a group of 45 gathered in the Parish Hall of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
HRC.org
Mary Cheney Compares Men In Drag To Offensive Blackface
Mary Cheney Compares Men In Drag To Offensive Blackface
Why is it socially acceptable — as a form of entertainment — for men to put on dresses, make up and high heels and act out every offensive stereotype of women (bitchy, catty, dumb, slutty, etc.) — but it is not socially acceptable — as a form of entertainment — for a white person to put on blackface and act out offensive stereotypes of African Americans?”
— Mary Cheney, out and married daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, in a note posted to Facebook and questioned by CNN, after she caught an ad for RuPaul‘s Drag Race
Jeremy Kinser
12 Men Arrested In Northern Nigeria In Violation of Sharia Law Forbidding Gay Marriage
12 Men Arrested In Northern Nigeria In Violation of Sharia Law Forbidding Gay Marriage
Yet another group of men suspected of being gay have been arrested in Nigeria, this time in the northern, predominantly Muslim city of Kano where Sharia law is in effect. The 12 men were accosted by Sharia law enforcement at what was described as a “gay wedding.”
“We got information of the wedding four days earlier and our men stormed the venue while the wedding was about to start,” said commading officer Aminu “We have 12 men in custody, including the bride. We arrested them at the venue of a planned gay wedding.”
Faruk Maidguri claims that the people taken into custody had actually gathered to celebrate his birthday. He went on to accuse the police of singling out his friends because of their outwardly feminine demeanor.
In accordance with Nigerian law same-sex marriage is expressly forbidden, as is being a part of LGBT activist organizations. Sharia law in Nigeria features similar prohibitions, but carry much more severe, though rarely exercised, penalties such as physical punishment and death.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
ExxonMobil Finally Updates Worker Protection Policy
ExxonMobil Finally Updates Worker Protection Policy
After years of lobbying and finally an executive order from the president, ExxonMobil now says it will protect its LGBT employees from discrimination.
Michelle Garcia
www.advocate.com/business/2015/01/30/exxonmobil-finally-updates-worker-protection-policy
What Time Is The Super Bowl?
Marriage Equality and Communities of Faith in Alabama
This Fake Super Bowl Ad Quickly Evolves Into A Locker Room Fantasy
This Fake Super Bowl Ad Quickly Evolves Into A Locker Room Fantasy
With the Super Bowl right around the corner, Amurrka once again becomes an Onion article about itself by celebrating, of all things, television advertisements. Because Super Bowl ads, right?!
Well one group has banked on the fact that people will click on something titled “Shocking Super Bowl Commercial 2015″ by creating this very odd, fake commercial for a product called “Queer Beer.”
But the joke’s on them — we watched it because it ends with a bunch of hot guys making out in a locker room, not because it has the words Super Bowl in the heading. Oh. Maybe that’s even worse?
Either way, here it is, complete with bizarre post-video thank yous. And hi Davey Wavey:
h/t The Backlot
Dan Tracer
Scruff Posts Huge Gay Ad On Billboard Outside University Of Phoenix Stadium Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday
Scruff Posts Huge Gay Ad On Billboard Outside University Of Phoenix Stadium Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday
It looks like Scruff is appealing toward its “masc4masc” demographic as the dating/hookup app bought a billboard outside of University of Phoenix Stadium ahead of the Super Bowl and posted a 48-foot ad featuring two guys in a locker room sizing each other up with the slogan “Play On Our Team,” reports Refinery29. A press release from Scruff explains why they bought the Super Bowl themed ad.
Said Scruff:
“At a time when professional NFL players like Michael Sam and Kwame Harris bravely come out to the world and some coaches admit to not wanting gay players on their teams, [Scruff]… is sending a message to the NFL — by putting up a Phoenix billboard advertisement that’s certain to start a conversation about perception and acceptance among both gay and straight sports fans.”
Scruff’s bold move to challenge the NFL on its homophobia may elicit homophobic criticism and condemnation from sports fans and players alike, that is if the scores of straight men pouring into the stadium on Sunday can even figure out what Scruff even is.
Anthony Costello
