ANTI-PROP 8 PROTEST SET FOR DALLAS 11-15-08
posted by Kelli Busey
planetransgender
On election day of this year while the LGBT community was celebrating the end of Bush politics our inequality was being written into the California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas constitutions. In California where LGBT people had enjoyed marriage equality since June our rights were ripped away from us over night.
Since the elections tens of thousands of people have been pouring into the streets throughout California in disgust over the passing of Prop 8. This Saturday, November 15 at 12:30 PM, we in Dallas will stand in front of City Hall with those in California in expressing our abhorrence of the passing of this hateful measure.
Dallas’ Protest is part of a nationwide day of action against Prop 8. This effort coordinated through the website www.jointheimpact.com will take place at exactly the same time this coming Saturday in front of City Halls throughout the country.
Although last Tuesday’s vote in California prompted officials in that state to cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, it’s an open question whether the Supreme Court in that state will confirm the ballot referendum or throw it out. Officially, their decision will probably hinge on a legal technicality, whether or not the referendum language broke a vaguely worded provision of the state constitution that says that referenda cannot be overly-broad in the matters they cover.
However, the real reason for the court’s decision will probably have much more to do with the amount of protest heat that LGBT people and our allies can generate outside of the courtrooms. While courts are always loath to admit that public protest influences their decisions, some of the most important progressive decisions have in fact been the direct results of such public protest. A large women’s movement in the streets of America made the Nixon-packed, anti-abortion US Supreme Court give us the Roe v. Wade pro-choice decision in the 1970s to name one example.
Saturday’s nationwide protests are aimed at pressuring the California Supreme Court to reaffirm its earlier pro-gay decision and restore the state’s reputation as a beacon for progressives elsewhere. Also on the agenda is repealing the Texas state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage and advancing LGBT equality here in our home state, this is not an impossible task that our elected leaders often present it as being.
For more information about Saturday’s demonstration please contact the following individuals:
Blake Wilkinson
214-679-6321
fromabilitiestoneeds@hotmail.com
Etta Zamboni
469-323-3060
stoptheh8@ymail.com
Dallas Voice Instant Tea
11/9/08
Stu Rasmussen Oregon Transgender Mayor
The Silverton Appeal maybe the small town atomsphere of trust and understanding that accompanies fresh air living.
Silverton Oregon just elected lifetime resident Stu Rasmussen Oregon Mayor. Stu is a self described man who is comfortable looking and dressing as a woman.
Gender diversity rocks and Stu you are the king of Rock and Roll!
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Dallas Baptist Hate Mongers promote death
Sunday November 9th 2008
The smug, smiling members of Dallas First Baptist Church greeted the 100 angry protesters with robotic programed message "we love you". But soon this smugness was replaced with a look of horror as they learned of the reality of advertising homophobic bigotry as their own church has done.
Look what you have done
You put up a message as this and it will push a killer to believe that they you are morally justified in their killing such as gunman at the Unitarian Universalist church, the 10 year old killer of Lawrence King who walked up behind Lawrence and blew his head off, the murderer 18 year old Angie Zapata who smashed "it again" with a fire extinguisher because he saw....
"IT MOVE AGAIN".
2008 = 20 transgender smashed bloody mutilated corpses.
There has been much gloating from "religious" figures who were instrumental in the recent Marriage Equality initiatives. The Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20. And you love me?
DO YOU LOVE THEM?
The lady nearly in tears as I shown her my own scars. This is the reality. A gang beat me nearly to death and you good Baptists stepped over my lifeless body on the cold city street.
Do you really love me?
Or her?
or her?
How about this baby?
We want you to leave us live. We have our faith, our gods, or none at all.
GOD.
North Texans say "GAY IS OK"
Some North Texans said they plan to picket a Dallas church because of a sign reading, "Why gay is not OK."
The topic of Sunday's sermon at the First Baptist Dallas Church is, "Why gay is not OK." It is written on the church's sign at the corner of Ervay and Patterson streets in the heart of downtown Dallas.
"I am surprised that in 2008, any church would have a sign like this out," Grace McFerrin said.
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies supports marriage equality
11/8/08
Chicago Protest TONIGHT Against Prop. 8 Leader James Dobson
Focus on the Family's James Dobson spent $800,000 on Proposition 8 to stop gay people form marrying in California. Tonight, this dangerous ideologue will be inducted into the Museum of Broadcast Communication's Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago.
He will be met with a protest this evening from LGBT organizations at 5:30 PM, outside of the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, 1 W. Wacker Drive (corner of Wacker & State).
Focus on the Family's James Dobson
It truly is mind-blowing that the Radio Hall of Fame would honor a leader of Proposition 8 on the same week he played a key role in helping the amendment pass. Dobson put his Media Empire and vast amounts of money into the service of denying equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. And, the Radio Hall of Fame reacts disgracefully by giving this demagogue a trophy.
If you live in the Chicago area, join us tonight and participate in our demonstration. If you cannot actually be with us, please be there in spirit by giving a generous contribution. We are only able to make our voices heard with your help.
Wayne Besen"
wbesen@truthwinsout.org
kelli Busey
Planetransgender
kellibusey@yahoo.com
11/7/08
Protest set Sunday over anti-gay sermon at First Baptist Dallas
"Not ok to be Gay" says First Baptist senior pastor, the Rev. Robert Jeffress.
Rev. Jeffress is known for his failed effort to ban books books from the Wichita Falls TX library which resulted in the public donating hundreds of copies to replace those that Rev. Jeffress refused to return.
Many who people have been upset by the Mormons November 4th interference in California's civil rights efforts are equally disturbed to learn that right here in our beloved Texas religious demagogues are seeding homophobia and bigotry.
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A street demonstration is scheduled across the street from the church entrance on San Jacinto Street at 10 a.m. Sunday. Those attending are encouraged to bring signs.
For more information about the protest, e-mail Fulcher at samblade8@yahoo.com.
By kelli Busey
Nov.08, 2008
planetransgender
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