Proposition 8
June 1, 2009
- The final Jack Straw Writers reading was a lot of fun for me. The chance to share my work is probably one of the greatest motivations for creating. I do it to connect with people and talk about what we share and hope to share. As usual, the audience laughed in unexpected places and seemed compelled by poems I find very close to me. Though one person did thank me for writing/sharing poems from my ...
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March 22, 2009
- Keith Olbermann said it best in his 'Special Comment' on November 10. "What is it to you?" Olbermann, of course, was referring to the passing of Proposition 8 in California, which repealed same-sex marriage laws in the state. His six minute, emotion-filled discussion of the issue was genuine, practical and to the point. He cites past redefinitions of the term 'marriage' as reasons why ...
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March 15, 2009
- I was a little scared to go back.Someone with that much anger could go ballistic. I’ve experienced a person at the negative tipping point who’s tipped himself right into a psych ward. Society, bad formative experiences early in life, the culture–too much can overwhelm one’s coping mechanisms. But not everybody snaps. I took solace in that.Michael was nice, after our Good Walk Gone Bad ...
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December 4, 2008
- Mondays are hard enough. But it helps to start out a new day walking to school with Megan. We tried to walk last year, but Tropico is a narrow, curving, hilly, blind-spotted road, and to get to school we thought we had to suck in exhaust from the zillions of SUVs flying past, as parents race to drop off their kids. And the school driveway is a snarl of cars, as well. It sucked so much I made ...
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November 24, 2008
- I am, as the Scots would say, still a little fashed with the results of the election in California earlier this month. Who was it said "you'll never go broke under-estimating the stupidity of the American public"? These sites list the companies and individuals, national and state, who supported Proposition 8. Please read these lists and boycott these companies where ...
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November 12, 2008
- I'm as upset about the outcome of Proposition 8 as anyone else is, but I don't think that it is the signature issue of our times.The President-elect's plans for what to do with detainees, once he closes Guantanamo Bay, how to handle military tribunals, whether to incarcerate indefinitely without charges, should be of more concern, as well as ongoing infractions to the First and Fourth ...
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November 11, 2008
- A Q&A With Novelist and Skadden Lawyer, G. Carlos Smith By Dan Slater To finish up this historic week, let’s take one more look at Proposition 8 in California. Again, voters approved the initiative, which adds to the state constitution the following sentence: “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” In what strikes us as a timely ...
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November 7, 2008
- I've had a few days of celebrating, accompanied by mixed emotions. While Obama's election and the clear rejection of the GOP brand by the majority of the country is certainly something to celebrate, the fact that Prop. 8 in California passed and Michele Bachman was re-elected showed me that too many of our people are still entrenched in a painful paradigm of separation and hate. And I ...
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November 6, 2008
- CLAYTON, N.C., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- P.D. Publishing announced today the release of A Matter of Choice, a novel by G. Carlos Smith that explores the lives of two young men as they find their way during unforgiving but changing times. In a moving but delightful love story, the novel considers the tragic effects of laws like Proposition 8 while offering a new hope. Like thousands of ...
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November 5, 2008
- Yesterday, Californians voted overwhelmingly to elect the first African American president of the United States. They voted to extend the rights of farm animals. And they voted to take away rights from human beings who happen to be lesbian or gay. What's wrong with this picture? I'm trying not to let my deep sadness about Proposition 8 overshadow the elation I feel about Obama's ...
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