Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Every four years, the United Methodist Church holds a meeting to set church policy. At this year’s conference, the delegates: – Upheld a church law that says gay and lesbian relationships are “incompatible with Christian teaching.”– Kept a…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I still need your help again to fix the language on California EDD Form DE1-HW. I wrote to you in July 2007 complaining about the checkbox for HUS/WIFE. As members of a California Registered Domestic Partnership trying to…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – My sister-in-law lives in Germany. There, gay or straight, everybody gets “civil unions” in the eyes of the state. The churches are left to themselves to decide who they will marry in their ceremonies and bless with the…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Researchers at Hunter College, Rutgers and New York University asked gay Americans if there is a federal “nondiscrimination” law barring the firing of workers based on their sexual orientation. Only six in 10 gay Americans got the right…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Do you think civil rights should be decided by an emotional popular vote, or by the ultimate popular vote, the Constitution? Every human rights victory we hold dear (like suffrage, apartheid, the United Nations and slavery) was installed…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – In a development that bodes well for a favorable decision in the same-sex marriage case pending in California’s Supreme Court, today’s Wall Street Journal reported that the highest court of the Presbyterian Church ruled that a Northern California…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – A comprehensive survey of Gay America was released today, with important implications to California. The researchers at Hunter College, Rutgers and New York University confirmed that gay Americans are considerably more involved in public life than heterosexual Americans,…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I’ve been having problems figuring out how to refer to my spouse. A lot of people try to insist that I call him my “registered California Domestic Partner,” but that doesn’t seem right to me. We have been…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – When President Gerald R. Ford was running for his first term in congress in 1948, he delayed his marriage to Elizabeth Warren until after the election because he was worried that voters would punish him for marrying a…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Charles Chesnutt was born in 1858 to two “free persons of color.” This heterosexually-married couple offered to sell their son to slavery, but could only get $23 for him, and turned down the deal. In the new movie…Read More »
