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It's no small honor to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom, like the one President Barack Obama gave Harvey Milk today, along with 15 others, including Billie Jean King. The medal recognizes those who make "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant [...]

Bitchin'? "AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) today announced that it intends file suit against California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the ground that his line-item vetoes of the state Legislatureâ€™s July budget revision bill are unconstitutional." [APLA] Interestingly, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is using discretionary funds there to fill the budget gap for AIDS services. Permalink | 1 [...]

To allÂ of you thatÂ love going to INTEGRATION,Â this Wednesday before INTEGRATIONÂ we haveÂ a special treat that’s going to be taking place, what is it?Â Â Well, for all of you that saw her back at Reel Pride, it’s Amy Tee! She is bringing her great comedy show to Starline at 8pm.Â The cover to see the show [...]

Ah yes, once again, Jamaica My Weekend, an event sponsored by the Tower District Marketing Committee,Â filled the property of The Shrine of St. Terese on the corner of Maroa and Floradora in Fresno, Ca. with family, friends, and guests to sit around, relax, and enjoy reggae music and enjoy all of the great Jamaican [...]

Fresno Stonewall Democrats will meet on Wednesday, AugustÂ 12, 2009 at Carrow’s Restaurant 4280 N. Blackstone avenue at Ashlan in Fresno. Dinner and Social 6:00 P.M. meeting 7:00 P.M. Our speaker will be Louise Bauer-Davoli candidate for Fresno City Council District 5 which comprises southeast Fresno. We will also be discussing positions on when the next [...]

Because the daily updated signature validation numbers are of ongoing and intense interest for some of us, I will bump this updated diary to the top of the page each afternoon (Pacific time) after the previous morning's results have been released. All the action will remain below the fold so as to keep the diary profile slender. Last updated: 5:30 pm on August 12, 2009. Data are provisional.
It's clear that we need to make the most of time between now and the November election. Repeat this to everyone you know until they can say it by heart: If the referendum qualifies, Washington state voters supporting the new domestic partnership law will need to vote APPROVED on the November ballot. Sign up with Washington Families Standing Together to help get the word out. Here's why:

Totals as of 5:30 pm Wednesday, August 12, 2009:

Signatures in Volumes	Accepted	Rejected	% Rejected	Registration Not Found	Signature Image Pending	No Match	Duplicate
48,299	43,147	5,142	10.65%	4,491	21	388	242

The percent rejected increased slightly from yesterday's value of 10.41%, but is still significantly below the rate of 12.43% needed for the referendum to fail to qualify. About 35% of the raw signatures submitted have been examined so far.

Numbers reported are not final until all signatures have been verified.

137,689 raw signatures were submitted.

120,577 validated signatures are needed to qualify the referendum for the ballot.
The break point comes when either 17,113 signatures are invalidated or 120,577 signatures are validated.

The overall signature invalidation rate the petition needs to stay below to qualify for the ballot is 12.43% (17,112/137,689).

Definitions of the various categories can be found at the SoS's page.

Below is an update on the latest developments for Referendum 71 and Washington Families Standing Together. Many of you have been asking how you can help. Beginning today, WAFST will run weekly phone banks from the ERW and WAFST offices at 7th and Columbia in downtown Seattle.
Please send an email to volunteer@wafst.org to participate in one or more phonebanking days or evenings. Hours for phone banks are Monday through Thursday, 10am until 8 pm, and Friday, from 10 am until 5 pm. Additional questions or immediate scheduling can be directed to Kate Fredenberg by phone at (206) 324-2570. We also ask those who are able to bring personal laptops or cell phones to use during your phonebank session.
As our coalition moves forward, we ask that you make a personal commitment through both financial support and volunteering your time. Join us for this important work.
Sincerely,
Connie Watts
Executive Director
CONTRIBUTE
CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Washington Families Standing Together (WAFST), the campaign to retain the Domestic Partnership law, has had teams of observers every day from 7:30am to 10:00pm in Olympia monitoring the signature vote count. Please contribute today so that WAFST can continue to vigorously work on behalf of Washington families.
Remember, there is a very low threshold in Washington State to qualify a referendum for the ballot. Even with that low number of signatures needed, because so few were turned in by those trying to repeal the Domestic Partnership law, the Secretary of State must review every signature. WAFST will have trained observers there every day, three shifts a day, until every signature has been checked.
CONTRIBUTE
The signature verification process has three steps to it, and the initial numbers reported in the press and on line were based only on the initial step. After signatures are initially checked, any that appear to be invalid are re-checked, and can be added back as valid, if additional information is found. The third step is that counties are consulted to see if they have voters on file who are not in the statewide database. If so, those are added back as well. That's why initial numbers change as the process continues. It will take until the week of August 17 or later before this multi-step review is completed.
That means, if the Secretary of State determines there are enough valid signatures, there will be fewer than 8 weeks before mail-in ballots for the November election will start going out to voters. We cannot sit back and wait. WAFST is moving forward with fund raising, voter contact, social networking, media and all of the other critical elements of a campaign. The WAFST coalition now includes more than 130 organizations and continuesntinues to grow daily.
CONTRIBUTE
Today we ask you to make a meaningful contribution to the campaign so that we are all doing our part to keep the religious right from rolling back the Domestic Partnership Law. This law protects thousands of families all across Washington State. If Referendum 71 is on the ballot, voters will be asked whether they want to APPROVE or reject the law. To keep the law, we have to make sure voters know they vote to APPROVE it.
Key rights and obligations in the law include death benefits for the partners of police and firefighters killed in the line of duty, pension benefits for the partners of teachers and other public employees, victims' rights, including the right to receive notifications and benefits allowances, the right to use sick leave to care for a seriously ill partner, to have workers' compensation benefits if a partner is killed in the course of employment, to receive unemployment benefits if an employee must leave a job to care for a seriously ill partner and to adopt a partner's child without paying for a home study.
Phone Bank Volunteers Needed: We have already started phone banking out of our Seattle office. We are calling Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday, 10am-5pm. If you live outside Seattle we do have the ability to allow people to do phone banking from their homes and in the future will have other phone bank locations. If you would like to volunteer sign up by e-mailing - volunteer@wafst.org or calling 206-324-2570.
CONTRIBUTE
Together we will win
Joshua Friedes
Campaign Manager Washington
Families Standing Together
PS: Click here to download our approve Referendum 71 placard that you can hang in your window or post at your favorite coffee shop. Use this as your personal image on Facebook:

Referendum 71 voters will be asked to approve or reject the domestic partnership law.

REFERENDUM 71
Ballot Title
Statement of Subject: The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners [and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill].
Concise Description: This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.
Should this bill be:
Approved ___
Rejected ___
Ballot Measure Summary
Same-sex couples, or any couple that includes one person age sixty-two or older, may register as a domestic partnership with the state. Registered domestic partnerships are not marriages, and marriage is prohibited except between one man and one woman. This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of registered domestic partners and their families to include all rights, responsibilities, and obligations granted by or imposed by state law on married couples and their families.

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This time, it was USAir, thank you very much. When we arrived at the gate the agent said that there was some sort of delay (not weather, not technical, not crew over hours), so I have no idea what the problem was. But get this -- when I asked her if there was a chance it would be cancelled, she said

"Oh no, the weather is fine, there's a good plane on the ground. It will just be about an hour before it leaves Pittsburgh, and the flight is 57 minutes to RDU."

So Kate and I went to wait. Grabbed an ice cream at Carvel, walked back to the gate and the sign just had the flight info on it, and an 800 number beneath. Not good. I called and got the brain-deadening -- "the flight has been cancelled." I hung up and laughed so loud Kate had to tell me to pipe down.

The line of weary people waiting at the gate for the agent to reroute them. I called that 800 number back and waited on hold for a while, but finally got an agent and she couldn't book me on any USAir flight today or on any other carrier today. So we're going on a 6:18 flight that will get there (hopefully) at 7:40 AM. That will not give me much time to get the luggage, cab it to the conference center to check in, get my NN09 registration and to my panel by 9AM ("From Prop 8 to Full Equality in All 50 States: Fighting for Marriage Equality and LGBT Rights Across America").

Of course we already boarded the dogs, so flush that $ down the drain.

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Here's an item I came across while I was ~~not~~ airborne...a video of one of the local crazies. Facing South captures a teabagger/birther/nutbag protestor at a town hall held by Brad Miller (D-NC):

A protester at Rep. Brad Miller's "town hall" meeting in Raleigh, NC compares Obama to Hitler and says Democratic reform legislation will make people "55 and older will not be allowed to have hip replacements" and other surgeries. She also echoes erroneous claims that the legislation will allow government "grim reapers" (Sarah Palin's alleged "death panels") will tell the elderly to "take a pill and just die." She also bemoans the fact that she "was accosted by a woman who was Jewish.

Want some irony to go with this news? Check out what Stand For Marriage Maine posted on Facebook awhile ago (with a broken link; they aren't very good at this stuff apparently!):

Stand For Marriage Maine: It seems a boulder has been run right through our opposition's glass house today.
One of California's largest gay activist groups, Equality CA, announced today, after recognizing they have an uphill battle in their own state, that they would send troops and money to Maine to help keep gay marriage legal across the country. This announcement coming after we were accused of using out of state help..
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Source: www.standformarriagemaine.com

Here's how Porno Pete announced his travel plans today: by first posting an old photo (2005) of some long ago minor vandalism in Augusta.

ZOMG, it's the Apocalypse- and in its most evul red spray paint form, too!

With "666" (the sign of SATAN!)- it couldn't POSSIBLY be anything other than a vicious attack by lurking packs of gay activists who KNEW 4 years later in 2009 that they would be defending a newly minted marriage law in a referendum!

Wonder what all of the graffiti on railroad cars and highway overpasses around the nation represent to Porno Pete and his cronies?

Anywoo... to the grand announcement.

I will be visiting Maine next month to speak at the Christian Civic League, and plan to discuss how the current push for oxymoronic "gay marriage" is precisely an outgrowth of the homosexualist agenda - which will continue to threaten religious and moral freedoms even after Mainers pass the People's Veto and to and sweep "same-sex marriage" off the law books in November. As usual, AFTAH will keep you abreast of the ongoing, anti-democratic tactics of homosexual activists in Maine, California and across the nation.

Never MIND the fact that the graffiti occurred back in 2005; clearly this, along with the rainy weather in Maine, are signs that "Teh Homosexshul Agenda (TM) is all bad, M'kay"? and has to be fought, eradicated from every corner of the country.

So is THIS gonna finally be the long-awaited (and quietly without explanation postponed) "Truth Tour 2009"? Or just more opportunity to funnel in more cash?

And looky who The Peter claims as an ally!

Heath (Board Chairman of AFTAH) is participating in but not leading the current drive to overturn Maine's "gay marriage" law. He rejects the politically correct "spin" of fellow marriage defenders who argue that this battle (against homosexual "marriage") is not about homosexuality itself. Sure it is, which is why we can expect more intolerance and thuggery in the weeks and months leading up to the November vote.
Many homosexual activists, imbued with their own propaganda equating a sexual sin movement with "civil rights," have adopted an arrogant, ends-justifies-the-means attitude in the service of their misguided cause.
Like AFTAH, Mike Heath and friends are compared to bigots, anti-Semites and Nazis because ... well, doggonit, that's how judgmental "queer" activists and their liberal allies see it! (Don't expect logical reasoning from the pro-"gay" side on this - the modern liberal takes it almost as a matter of faith. Besides, it's much easier to simply claim the mantle of civil rights and keep repeating it with the media's help, even though this fiction has been has been roundly rejected by the vast majority of African Americans.)

THIS SETS THE TONE OF WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST. Anyone who thinks that the referendums in Maine and Washington State this year are in a vacuum is deluding themselves- Teh Peter, Heath and all those of their ilk want desperately hard to- well, I'm gonna let "Leatherman Pete" say it for himself!

Homosexual activists will lose the marriage referendum - of that we are quite confident, due mainly to the groundbreaking work that Mike Heath (executive director of the League), Catholic pro-family stalwart Paul Madore, and Paul Volle of the Christian Coalition of Maine did in fighting against homosexual special rights in Maine over the last two decades.
These valiant culture warriors never received the credit they were due from the larger, national pro-family movement because, well, Christian pro-family groups were so petrified of being labeled "anti-gay" that they rarely gave enthusiastic support to efforts to resist "gay rights" laws the way they should have.
That defensiveness, or perhaps we should say cowardice, now translates into a pro-family movement that still defends traditional marriage (sometimes in name only), but is woefully under-funded and inadequate when it comes to stopping the rest of the pro-homosexual agenda.
(Americans For Truth supports a full repeal of all "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" laws, which began undermining religious freedoms long before the onset of "same-sex marriage.")

It doesn't get any clearer than that, folks. This is out-and-out war.

Join Vote n Vote No on 1/Protect Maine Equality now....

In honor of Gay Pride, honor yourself and/or your loved ones and find out the latest on HIV prevention! Come join HIV Alliance for an important community panel discussion on HIV prevention amongst gay and bi men with speakers including an Infectious Disease Specialist, a local licensed psychologist working with gay and bi men [...]

The Portland Art Museum in collaboration with Bottlenotes will be hosting a wine tasting extravaganza Thursday, August 13th in which a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Basic Rights Oregon. With over 80 of the finest wines from around the world, come ready to experience a night fullgon. With over 80 of the finest wines from around the world, come ready to experience a night full of flavor and fun!

Wicked & Wacky Wednesday: fabTV’s Ryan Carter gets scientific in an effort to undercover the essential (and hilarious) dating tips for gay men during the sometimes frightening and confusing months after Pride has ended.

Entertainment News for Wednesday includes: Gay Movies; TV Homophobia; Celeb life; Queer Lit News; Some sports; Question of the week; and Pride in Iceland. Celeb Life: Not-so-glamorous life of an Idol star on tour Film Opinions: Monkey Uncaged: The Ten Most ‘Important’ Gay-Related Movies Homophobia TV: The Food Network doesn’t want you to think Brian Boitano might be [...]

Wednesday’s News Post includes: an update on an U.S. Army investigation; Mayor Newsom on Prop. 8 challenge; Several updates from Israel; Secrets in Washington state; Alter servers dismissed for being gay; An interview with a pro-gay-marriage Muslim; and an opinion piece on Harvey Milk. Military Watch Update: Last week I mentioned that the Washington Blade had [...]

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