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Movin to Canada

I’m thinkin the Canadians have their shit together… Check it out:

Canadian Commons Passes Gay Marriage Bill

by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

Posted: June 28, 2005 9:06 pm ET 
Updated: 9:56 pm ET

(Ottawa) Canada’s lower house Tuesday night passed legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry in those regions of the country where courts have not already ruled it legal

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Maybe we should move.. I hear Vancouver is cool.. Or Toronto… Or maybe to Calgary to hang out with Ray and Ian :):)

REALLY Damn Lucky

I was cleaning out my office today and found a letter I had saved from my mom to her representative some years ago… Its things like this that make me feel SO lucky to have a family that is so wonderful and supportive. I still get choked up reading it… Just had to share

Tom – We’ve met a few times, most memorably at Amdahl corporation’s Good Government series talk and your activities with Amdahl and high school students. And, of course, I’ve voted for you consistently! 🙂

Now, I want to bend your ear and urge to hear my vote on gay adoption. My son is gay. He is also a very talented and responsible software engineer and manager at Apple Corporation. He is also a generous, moral, loving and giving individual… the type of individual who would be a blessing for any potentially adoptive child to have as a parent. However, because of ignorance, hatred, or other misguided reasons, he, and other gays, are continually lumped into groups of misfits, deviants, and others unsuitable for parenting. This stereotype not only is incorrect and hateful… and limiting to a gay individual’s ability to live well and without being an object of prejudice (and worse), but the stereotype also robs the community of a gay person’s ability to give. Adoption, with sufficient investigation of anyone’s qualifications and suitability, is a gift that an adult can give to a child in need. We, as a community, need these gifts.

I have been told that Rep. Steve Largent (R-OK) is planning on offering an amendment, perhaps as early as this evening (Tuesday),that would ban gays and lesbians from adopting in the District of Columbia. The amendment is to the DC Appropriations Bill (HR 2587). I strongly urge you to not only vote against this bill, but to use your influence to ensure that it is soundly defeated. You carry great influence in the House. Please use it here.

I’m so saddened to have to continually make sure my voice is heard about these awful anti-gay initiatives. I’m particularly disappointed at the extent to which the radical “religious right” seems to be disproportionately impacting the direction of the Republican party. However, I’ll stick to the issue at hand. Please tell Rep. Largent to stop – he’s dead wrong and we’re not going to tolerate his position.

Thanks for all you do.

Judy Abraham

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SLOWLY Getting there

Starting to get my main page back to normal… next trick wil be all the second level pages… uggg… this is killin me! 🙁

Bear With Me

Please bear with me.. I upgraded my blog to MT 3 and, in the course of doing that, managed to kill all of my templates so i’m rebuilding the blog from scratch.. unfortunately that means that, while i’ve got all of the content (which is the important stuff) a whole bunch of the little tweaks and formatting were lost which sucks… So i’m gonna start re-building it but in the mean time thigns are a little rough…

Oh Yea….

HAPPY PRIDE

San Francisco Street Fairs / Festivals

Thanks to the wonderful folks at JacksonFuller (shameless plug for Matt and Britton) below is a list of all of the various street fairs and festivals in San Francisco this summer…

Enjoy! 🙂

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