The Spencer Hamilton Blog

The video companion is here: http://youtu.be/1V7sFXar4Ts Remember these guys: Ed Schrock and his voice personal ad? Larry Craig and his wide stance? Ted Haggard’s meth and man ass? George Alan Rekers and his rentboy scandal? What about that Puerto Rican Senator Roberto Arango who was “documenting his weight loss” (I personally wonder what his naked exposed butt hole has to do with weight loss, I guess it could take a cannon and now it could hardly take a cucumber). This was exposed to the media after pushing a constitutional amendment banning marriage? A local example: Craigslist Chris Lee who was looking for trans women to have sex with. Then there’s Ken Mehlman…a man who basically was successful in getting 11 states to put bans in their constitutions, and when you really think about it, this was only the start of the backlash that would begin after Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said that a statute was unconstitutional that prohibited gay couples from marrying. In a 4-3 de...

1996 The Supreme Court rules that making gays strangers to the law is unconstitutional in Romer v. Evans . They overturn Amendment 2 from CO which bans any municipality or the state from enacting sexual orientation protections and also bars the three branches of government from granting relief 2003 Lawrence v Texas establishes a right to privacy for consensual non commercial sex between the same gender 2004 MA Supreme Judicial Court says the mini DOMA the state has is unconstitutional, later that year 11 states put bans in their state constitutions 2008 FL & CA put a DOMA in their constitution and AR passes an adoption ban 2008 CT becomes another state to recognize marriage between gay and lesbian couples in their 4-3 Kerrigan decision 2009 Iowa becomes the first Midwestern state to rule that their statutory DOMA is unconstitutional in a unanimous ruling 2010 Ted Olson and David Boies come together to challenge Prop 8. In a 13 day case starting in Janu...

This year was a great year for marriage and Democrats: Let's take a look at some of the things that happened during the 2012 Elections:  ME Q1 rejected their new marriage law by a 57-43% margin, by 14 points in 2009. MD like ME and WA passed a Civil Marriage and Religious Freedom Act that was put on the ballot promptly by opponents of marriage equality. Those measures are Q6 and R74 MN in May 2011 needed a simple majority in both chambers of the Legislature (37-27 in the Senate and 70-62 in the House) to pass a constitutional amendment to the people “resolving” the question of gay marriage. Like NC they have a statute that is in place regardless. That statute is being challenged in the Benderson v. Alvarez case and could be overturned. The Catholic Church in MN said that this is why we need Amendment 1 in MN because of the challenged statute. Something of note is Sen Dibble who said I can’t see how anyone could think that my marriage would hurt someone else. Rep...

 In NC, anti gay black pastors and leaders have said simply that because most of the NC State Government believe as they do that marriage is between a man and a woman, that this ideal should be placed in the state's Founding Document. What's ironic is that the SAME ONES proposing this amendment put a voter ID bill on the Governor's desk which was promptly vetoed. this law would've kept the congregations represented away from the polls to vote May 8th on the proposed amendment if enacted immediately. It would've affected so many seniors, out of state students, and low income individuals who don't usually get state or government issue-ID. I've railed against theocratic anti gay Christians who believe that religious laws should be upheld just because they're religious and people have told me: We're not all like that. I am not the one you need to tell that to. Tell it to Tony Perkins and Patrick Wooten the 'Diaper Pastor' the "Prolific...

Hello Everyone, Today I am distressed now that I know one thing: Minnesota has the opportunity to become another state that has discrimination in their Constitution. I have listened to two representatives Murphy and Kreisel speak out against the proposed Constitutional Amendment to bar civil marriage between gay and lesbian couples. They currently have a statute. It will go to the ballot box in 2012 and the next 18 months will be tireless, families will be torn apart as people become even more polarized, friends will now be bitter enemies and vitriolic sentiments will be spewed out all over the state. I can't describe how lawmakers can fight to amend to take rights away from the constituents that they say they represent. I am going to have to keep an eye on this, and we need to send all the support we can to MN to fight against this amendment. Keith Olbermann said of CA's Prop 8: You have laws that protect farm animals, but you can't allow two people who l...