Gender & Sexuality

• Now, somehow, we’ve come to a decidedly indecent place that, yes, even in an emergency, a corporation’s beliefs are more important than a woman’s life.
• 9 New Items including:
  • Lazy Writing In Hollywood Has Huge Repercussions For Women's Rights
  • Archbishop Nienstedt Responds to A Catholic Gay Mother's Concerns
  • 5 Crazy Things the GOP Is Still Saying About Women, Rape and Abortion
  • Why Sexual Fundamentalists Dominate Politics and How We Can Stop Them
  • Denying communion to those who disagree
  • Naomi Wolf on Kate Middleton Topless, Pussy Riot, and the Sexualized Female Body
  • Republican Judge: If You Don’t Want To Get Sexually Assaulted Then You Should Stay Home
  • How Helen Gurley Brown Sold (Out) Sex
  • The One-Two Punch

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Joe Heller

Lazy Writing In Hollywood Has Huge Repercussions For Women's Rights, Rollie Williams, Upworthy

Why Sexual Fundamentalists Dominate Politics and How We Can Stop Them

Archbishop Nienstedt Responds to A Catholic Gay Mother's Concerns, Truth Wins Out

• "I urge you to reconsider the position you expressed in your letter. Your eternal salvation may well depend upon a conversion of heart on this topic." 
• Child abuse in my church

5 Crazy Things the GOP Is Still Saying About Women, Rape and Abortion, Lauren Kelley; Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet 

• As the convention pivoted away from social issues, conservative figures couldn't stop saying weird stuff about rape.
• Legitimate Rape Is Back
• Why Sexual Fundamentalists Dominate Politics and How We Can Stop Them

Why Sexual Fundamentalists Dominate Politics and How We Can Stop Them, Mandy Van Deven, AlterNet 

• The author of "Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America" says the extreme right-wing is less popular yet more powerful than we imagine.
• Naomi Wolf on Kate Middleton Topless, Pussy Riot, and the Sexualized Female Body

Denying communion to those who disagree, Michael Sherrard, Faithful America

• Tell Archbishop Myers: Don't use communion as a political weapon.
• Keep partisan politics out of our pews

Naomi Wolf on Kate Middleton Topless, Pussy Riot, and the Sexualized Female Body, Naomi Wolfe, Truthdig

• Sexuality under the aforementioned circumstances represents a bigger threat: power.
• As a result, what passes for scandalous isn’t a staged strip show, but a public display in which a female shows she’s in control of her own body.
• Royal Breasts Are Special
• Republican Judge: If You Don’t Want To Get Sexually Assaulted Then You Should Stay Home

Republican Judge: If You Don’t Want To Get Sexually Assaulted Then You Should Stay Home, Class Warfare Exists

• (Arizona trial Judge Jacqueline) Hatch told the victim, "If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you."
• Victim calls for judge to apologize

How Helen Gurley Brown Sold (Out) Sex, Sady Doyle, In These Times

• In Gurley-Brown's book, accepting furs or jewelry from a wealthy man in exchange for sex was not selling out. It was a paycheck for a job well done.
• The Cosmo mogul’s legacy wasn’t feminism; it was turning romance into a sales transaction.

The One-Two Punch, Ricardo Levins Morales, rlmarts.com

• The blueprint for eliminating fifty years of LGBT advances in all areas of life and law is to be found in their voter suppression strategy, not the Marriage Amendment.
• The Marriage Amendment As Decoy and How to Fight The Real Danger

• February 14, 3:00pm, State Capitol Rotunda
• Sign our petition urging legislators to support the freedom to marry
• What Homophobes Are Afraid Of

Richard Carlbom, Minnesotans United

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January 21, 2013 | Election Day 2012 is more than two months behind us, but I can still hardly believe what we accomplished that day.

After more than 30 losses in other states, Minnesota became the first state to say that we should not use our constitution to limit the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Combined with victories in Maine, Maryland and Washington, our win clearly demonstrated that the tide is turning - and that more and more people in Minnesota and across the country believe that same-sex couples should no longer be excluded from marriage. 

Going forward in 2013, I hope you'll join us for our first public event at the Capitol: 

Freedom to Marry Day

February 14, 3:00pm

State Capitol Rotunda

On Valentine's Day at 3:00pm, we will gather at the Minnesota State Capitol in the Rotunda for the annual Freedom to Marry Day rally. This will be the first time this year that supporters of the freedom to marry show up at the State Capitol to show our legislators that it is time to change state law to reflect our share belief that no one should be told that it is illegal to marry the person they love. 

For more information or to RSVP for the rally, please visit www.mnunited.org/events/freedom-to-marry-day. And stay tuned, because we'll be announcing key speakers and exciting news in the coming days. 

See you on February 14!

Related:

On Friday, January 18, we asked folks to start to signing our petition urging legislators to support the freedom to marry... and in less than 72 hours, more than 11,000 people have signed it! If you haven't signed the petition, now is your chance! Visit www.mnunited.org/petition right now.

What Homophobes Are Afraid Of, Rollie Williams, Upworthy   

• It's time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.
• Pope Benedict Takes Anti-Gay Marriage To New Level In Christmas Speech

• Yesterday, on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said: "You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun."
• Send a clear message to Rush Limbaugh: your violent language toward women is unacceptable.

Stephanie Schriock, Emily's List

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January 17, 2013 | This is appalling. Yesterday, on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said: "You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun."

That's right. At a time when we need to have a serious conversation about gun safety and mental health -- and when we still have a Republican House unwilling to protect women through the Violence Against Women Act -- Rush Limbaugh decides to spew even more hateful vitriol toward women.

None of us has forgotten the vile anti-woman abuse leveled at Sandra Fluke last year by Rush. We can't let this latest outrage go unchallenged.

Click here to send a clear message to Rush Limbaugh: your violent language toward women is unacceptable.

Our community knows just how devastating gun violence can be, especially for our country's families. Join us today in taking a stand against Rush's verbal attacks against women.

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• "People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being," he said. "They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves.
• "The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned," he said.
• 50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church

Nicole Winfield, Associated Press / Huffington Post

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December 21, 2012 | The pope pressed his opposition to gay marriage Friday, denouncing what he described as people eschewing their God-given gender identities to suit their sexual choices – and destroying the very "essence of the human creature" in the process.

Benedict XVI made the comments in his annual Christmas address to the Vatican bureaucracy, one of his most important speeches of the year. He dedicated it this year to promoting traditional family values in the face of gains by same-sex marriage proponents in the U.S. and Europe and efforts to legalize gay marriage in places like France and Britain.

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50 Reasons to Boycott the Catholic Church, Adam Lee,AlterNet

• The Church uses its resources to oppose social progress and positive change all over the world.
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• Churchgoers, save yourselves