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The First Gay Jewish Marriage Ceremony in the Netherlands

by Rose Schwartz on January 17, 2011 in News

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The First Gay Jewish Marriage Ceremony in the Netherlands

This is quite an interesting nugget. On Sunday, the first ever Jewish ceremony confirming a same-sex marriage was held in the synagogue of the Liberale Joodse Gemeente (Liberal Jewish Community) in Amsterdam. As of this week, Jewish same-sex couples can have their relationships confirmed in one of the community’s ten synagogues in a ceremony called [...]

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Proposition 8 has been declared unconstitutional. Finally.

by Rose Schwartz on August 4, 2010 in Images, News, Rants

Loving Relationships: Prop 8 Protest (May 26, 2009)

Prop 8 is overturned. Activists and progressives who are concerned with equality and justice just exhaled the biggest rainbow-colored breath. I have written about this divisive and ugly proposition and the following protest (one of the many). So how cool is this news on this blogger’s 48th birthday: Proposition 8, the horrible and neurotic (Who cares who [...]

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Stripping Mormon Church of Tax Exempt Status

by Rose Schwartz on February 11, 2009 in News

Bad new for Mormons and fundies alike, this Prop 8 stuff isn’t going away: During the election, the Mormon Church pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into the push to ban same-sex marriage in California — a campaign that deprived people in a different state [from where the church is based] of a fundamental civil [...]

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Love is Love

by Rose Schwartz on November 19, 2008 in Images

Here are some photos from the Protest Prop 8 March in downtown Los Angeles, CA. (Click to see entire set.) I had a very short conversation with a coworker regarding this issue. Apparently he didn’t even understand what Prop 8 is. WTF? After explaining it, he informed me how he believes marriage is between a [...]

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Here are some images I made that you may enjoy

by Rose Schwartz on November 11, 2008 in Images

“Hope”: “some things shouldn’t be put to a vote”: Disclaimer: When referring to Christians voting on/for Jews to Atheists, I was speaking legally. I realize atheists are discriminated against – whether in politics, in the workplace, even within our own families. However, we have not been stripped of rights constitution-wise. Mainly, I can only fight [...]

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