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Posts Tagged ‘Gay Marriage’

Declaration Demonstration Raised Awareness of Inequality

By Joel McDonald • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Blog, Lead Story

It is a foundational doctrine in the development of our nation, and it’s time that GLBT people stand up and demand that the promise of equality become a reality in their lives.



Get Involved: Declaration of Independence GLBT Demonstration

By Joel McDonald • Oct 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

Please join Virginia Beach Progressives , and other activists for equality, in demonstrating in front of the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library during the public viewing of the document.



Pictures from the National Equality March 2009

By Melanie Jones • Oct 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

Pictures showing both the magnitude march and the personal resolve of the activists demanding for equality for all people.



Reflecting on the National Equality March

By Joel McDonald • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

We did much more than put pressure on the grass during the National March for Equality. We marched in affirmation of who we are, with the knowledge of the rights that we, as Americans, should have.



For GLBT equality, a coalition must be built

By Joel McDonald • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Just for Fun

Building a coalition requires exposing the general public to the realities of what it means to be GLBT. It needs to become more than a concept to people. It needs to become personal.



Bob McDonnell’s fight against equality in Virginia [Video]

By Joel McDonald • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Campaigns & Elections

Bob McDonnell talks about his beliefs about marriage with CBNs Pat Robertson, and describes how he helped write discrimination into the Constitution of Virginia.



Gay marriage, equality, politics, and religion

By Joel McDonald • May 29th, 2009 • Category: Blog, But Wait, There's More

An online discussion on gay marriage, equality, politics, and religion, with a former colleague from the Colorado Colorado Springs Mission. Interesting contrast in viewpoints.



California upholds their unconstitutional constitution

By Joel McDonald • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

The California Supreme Court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage today, ratifying a decision made by voters last year that runs counter to a growing trend of states allowing the practice.



Amazing testimony from young man on gay marriage

By Joel McDonald • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

Amazing testimony from a young man who is fighting to be seen as an equal in the eyes of the State of Vermont. [Video]



Civil rights activists ought to be angry, determined, but not violent

By Joel McDonald • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Related News

I’ve been monitoring the backlash that has flooded throughout California, and is evident throughout the nation, caused by the passage of of California’s Proposition 8 which infringes on the fundamental right of some individuals to marry due to the gender of their partner.
The anger and the determination to somehow reverse the damage done by the [...]