Facebook It’s fun to eat cannabis infused edibles. It’s even more fun when the edibles you’re scarfing benefit a worthy cause. Periodic Edibles, a Portland producer of cannabis caramels, has started a great new program in which a limited run of 1,000 Sea Salt Caramels with 15mg of THC are available at select dispensaries. The […]
Gay Marriage
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County Official Denies Kentucky Gay Couple a Marriage License, Staffers Heap Abuse on the Couple, the Cops Are Called
David V. Moore and his fiancé have been together for 17 years and have lived in the county where they applied—or tried to apply—for a marriage license for a decade. The Advocate: A same-sex couple in Morehead, Ky., went to the county clerk Monday requesting a marriage license—but were met instead by local police after […]
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Same-Sex Couples Still Can’t Get Married In Alabama
Illustration by Matty Newton Gay marriage is legal … but not in Alabama Despite Friday’s landmark U.S. Supreme court decision ending the gay marriage ban, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an order of his own banning probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples for the next 25 days. “In that 25-day […]
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Don’t Worry, Bigots! You’re Still on Top
Shutterstock Chill out, bigots. It’s not like they’re replacing the stars and bars with the rainbow. Dear Bigots, I know, I know, I know, you’ve had a bad week. Your flag’s coming down. You can’t even buy one at Walmart anymore. Yesterday you found out that millions of people won’t be denied access to health […]
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Obama’s Remarks on Historic Marriage Equality Decision
We are people who believe every child is entitled to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is so much more work to be done to extend the full promise of America to every American. But today, we can say in no uncertain terms that we’ve made our union a little more perfect. […]
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Supreme Court Wrap-Up: Did Scalia Just Accidentally Help Marriage Equality?
Orhan Cam/Shutterstock This morning, in a giant marble box perched high atop a swamp on the other side of the country, eight old people in robes chattered about who should be allowed to get married. Meanwhile, a ninth old person, a man whose name you might be able to guess, bounced in his chair and […]
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Scenes from the Portland Counter-Protest that Drove Off the Westboro Baptist Church
Portland’s propensity for the cute and strange and clever is usually cloyingly annoying. But then, sometimes, it’s absolute pure genius. Take Saturday night, when a couple of hundred people showed up outside the Moda Center to shame the anti-gay trolls from the Westboro Baptist Church—who’d decided to try picketing the Portland Trail Blazers for their […]
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NOM Tries (Again) to Stymie Oregon Marriage Equality
Leo Zarosinski With a federal judge in Eugene set to rule at noon on Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban, couples and allies around the state are preparing to celebrate/marry. If District Court Judge Michael McShane were to uphold the ban, he’d be the first federal jurist to okay a state same-sex marriage prohibition since the US […]
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Pope Francis Says Catholic Church Could Support Same-Sex Civil Unions
CNN says: Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage on Wednesday, but suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions. The Pope reiterated the church’s longstanding teaching that “marriage is between a man and a woman.” However, he said, “We have to look at different cases […]
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Ohio Catholic School Teacher Fired Because He Got Engaged to a Man
Here’s some class-A bullshit: A Ohio Catholic school has forced its choir and band director to resign after telling schools officials he and his boyfriend recently became engaged. Brian Panetta, who worked at Sandusky Central Catholic School for almost five years, was terminated Jan. 3 on the grounds that his engagement violated the religious teachings […]
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Utah Puts Gay Marriages in Suspended Animation
Derek Miller, chief of staff to Utah governor Gery Herbert, has issued a letter putting all of the 1300-plus gay marriages that happened in Utah over the last few weeks in deep-freeze. Brooke Adams And Matthew Piper report for the Salt Lake Tribune: “Wherever individuals are in the process of availing themselves of state services […]
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Supreme Court Halts Gay Marriage in Utah
From NPR: The United States Supreme Court has put same-sex marriages on hold in the state of Utah. The order issued by the court on Monday halts same-sex marriages until an appeal is decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. If you remember, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby struck […]