Fake fundamentalist, Reformed Fundamentalist, Unrepentant Fundamentalist, and Scary Fundamentalist

This post has a cute theme yay!

First is Fake fundamentalist Betty Bowers who satirically examines the various “Biblical” definitions of marriage. (via Joe.My.God)

Next is Reformed Fundamentalist Dick Cheney who has now taken a more pro-marriage-equality position than our current president. (In all fairness Dick is more of a neo-con than a “fundamentalist” but I needed to call him one for the post to work.) (via gayzetteblog)

Unrepentant Fundamentalist Marilyn “mad cow” Musgrave sent out a fundraiser letter this week portraying herself as a political victim who stood up for family values and then goes on to quote the Bible. Her letter included a special shout-out for us queers:

“It’s certainly not easy to lose your seat in Congress. And harder still to be true to your values as I have been, but the radical homosexual lobby, abortionists, gun-grabbers and all the rest of the extremists finally spent enough money, spread enough lies and fooled enough voters to defeat me.”

(via the Denver Post)

Lastly in Scary Fundamentalist news the U.S. Marshals are providing 24 hour security for Dr. Warren Hern who runs the Boulder Abortion Clinic and is one of a few doctors who performs late-term abortions. (via 5280)

gayzette examines when marriage will come to Colorado

Civil rights in this country move in one direction, forward, so it’s not a question of if but rather a question of when Colorado will legally recognize gay marriage.  Nic Garcia has an excellent two page article in the new issue of gayzette examining that question.

• Could a court declare equal rights in Colorado?
• How about the Supreme Court?
• What about another ballot initiative?
• What’s being done currently to achieve equal rights in CO?

To answer these questions Nic got a diversity of differing opinions of activists, politicians, and community leaders and citizens.

Click here to read the full gayzette issue online (the article is on pages 8 and 9) or click here for just the article on gayzetteblog.

CA Supreme Court issues ruling on the legal challenge to Prop 8

Six of these people believe your civil rights can be decided by a popular vote.

The CA Supreme Court has upheld the validity of Prop 8 but also chosen to uphold existing marriages performed prior to Prop 8′s enactment. You can download a PDF of their full decision here or read CNN.com’s online coverage here.

And just a reminder Soulforce has a protest/rally planned this afternoon downtown from 3:00-5:00pm.  Here’s the Facebook event invite which has all the details.  There’s a good old fashioned picket along Colfax but the fun part comes around 4:00pm when several volunteers are going to stage a sit-in at the clerk and recorder’s office (where marriage licenses are issued) and quite likely get arrested.  Again, the protest is open to everyone and the whole arresting part is only for the few people who have already volunteered and received special training.

The GLBT Center of Colorado has released a statement on how today’s decision affects couples here in CO:

“A tremendous number of Colorado couples traveled to California from May to November last year while the state recognized same sex marriage,” said Mindy Barton, legal director of the GLBT Community Center of Colorado. “We continue to encourage those couples here in Colorado to use their marriage as an opportunity to educate others about the importance of having the government, not just friends and family, recognize their relationship.”

Meanwhile in CA already swooping into action the Courage Campaign which is running the following TV ad.  God bless them.

Cryptic blog post

Seen posted on gayzette blog:

Wanted: 5 Male Strippers who want to work for tips and drink free on Tuesday nights from 9pm-Midnight.

Interested? Send your resume pictures and contact information to social(at)gayzettedenver.com

I’m sure whatever they’re planning has got to be good.

But yeah, all you out-of-work strippers out there get your asses to gayzette.

Update: And we have ourselves an answer found in the current issue of gayzette.  Did you know you can read gayzette online?  Cool, no?