According to a post on Freedom To Marry:

On September 23, 2010, Ms. Bush attended a fundraiser for the pro-freedom to marry American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) in New York City at the Mandarin Oriental in the Time Warner Center. The fundraiser was co-chaired by former Republican National Committee Chair/Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts partner Ken Mehlman, Paypal Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Elliott Management hedge fund CEO Paul Singe.

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The economy was destroyed, the environment moved closer to being destroyed, foreign relations were destroyed and a new weapon of mass destruction was being built right here in America to destroy liberty, freedom, justice and rights for a part of the population Republicans would love to put on a one-way boat to Cuba…the LGBT population.

And now that NOM, one of Georgie boy’s pet projects has been successful in removing justices from the Iowa bench, that has destroyed our hope that the judicial branch in the country may do the right thing, even if voters and and the legislative branch won’t…which is give EVERYONE equality.  Why?  Because now they have a great deal more momentum behind the millions of dollars they have to pump into their anti-gay agenda.

According to a post on Care2.com:

The recent removal, via a retention vote, of three Iowa Supreme Court Justices over their part in the 2009 ruling to legalize same sex marriage in the state, has encouraged other social activist groups to take another look at intimidating the judicial system. As a means to roll back the clock on abortion rights, pro-gay civil rights, and other positive social gains that they oppose for moral reasons, activist groups believe bullying judges is the next battleground.

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According to the post:

Spoken from the Heart, Laura Bush’s memoir, will be released next week, and excerpts from the book are starting to appear. Atlantic politics editor Marc Ambinder highlights two passages from the book that were leaked by Politico this morning: one about the former First Lady’s position on gay marriage in the 2004 election, and one about an incident where the Bushes may have been poisoned on a trip to Germany.

Read more this post by Eleanor Barkhorn at: The Atlantic!

So you can hardly fault us for being swept up in the “hope” and “change” whirlwind that blew through our country with Barack Obama’s presidency. Young folks from coast to coast turned out in droves to knock on doors, work phone banks, and register new voters. Even people steeped in radical politics, deeply critical of the American two-party system, got on board. Some volunteered for his campaign, a task in which they had never imagined themselves participating; others decided they would vote for him, despite taking previous positions that they would never participate in electoral politics; many put forth a sharply critical stance in public or print, but one-on-one, maybe after a few beers, admitted that his campaign’s energy was infectious, and they were doggedly attempting to evade the grasp of that excitement—to no avail.

More at: Dissident Voice!

In spite of all that the program has accomplished, however, a persistent problem remains: the promotion of homophobia by African governments receiving American aid money. In no nation is this problem more acute than in Uganda, one of 15 PEPFAR “focus” countries that collectively account for half of the world’s HIV infections. Homosexuality is considered a taboo in most of Africa, yet few governments have gone to the lengths of Uganda’s in punishing it. The consequences are devastating not only for the people directly affected by these adverse policies but for the fight against AIDS in general.

Uganda’s campaign against homosexuality took a disturbing turn last month when a member of parliament in the nation’s governing majority introduced legislation that would stiffen penalties for actual or perceived homosexual activity, which is already illegal under Ugandan law. According to the proposed law, “repeat offenders” could be sentenced to death, as would anyone engaging in a same-sex relationship in which one of the members is under the age of 18 or HIV-positive. Gay-rights advocacy would be illegal, and citizens would be compelled to report suspected homosexuals or those “promoting” homosexuality to police; if they failed to do so within 24 hours, they could also be punished.

Rachel Tiven, Immigration Equality’s executive director cheekily observes her organization was “proud to be the only national LGBT organization included in the Bush Justice Department’s list of dangerous organizations” and that “opponents of equality and justice are right to fear us.”

Read the rest at Daily Kos!

In spite of Bill O’Reilly and the other talking heads, as well as the rest of the right-wing media, the people were tired of trickle-down, move-down and shake-down. It is clear that these policies are no longer valid in today’s world.

Unfortunately, Texas and the Panhandle have chosen to remain in the 19th century. They have aligned themselves with the likes of the regressive states of Mississippi, Kansas, Georgia and Alabama, states that still believe in fighting a war of racism and a fail to accept that this country was founded and based on a diversity of culture and opinion.

Read the rest at Amarillo.com!