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This is what the other side is doing.

Next they SHALL be attackign DOMA.

“No civil rights movement has EVER lost. Never. It is not a matter of if our community will win full equal rights, including marriage. It is only a matter of when. But as in all civil rights movements, we will have to fight like hell for it.”
-Robin Tyler, petitioner-case to overturn prop 8

Anti-Prop 8 Protests
In Over 100 Cities Tonight

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 — With the California Supreme Court’s decision minutes ago upholding that state’s anti-gay Proposition 8, pro-gay activists in at least 108 cities have vowed to react with angry protests tonight to denounce they see as the brazen taking away of their equal rights.

While the court’s decision preserved the 18,000 same-sex marriages already performed, the main point of contention, the anti-gay Prop 8, was upheld, and therefore gay activists will respond tonight with protests.

Day of Decision co-founder Robin Tyler and her wife, Diane Olson, were the first and only couple married on June 16, 2008 in Los Angeles County. They married during the months after the California Supreme Court embraced same-sex marriage rights and before Proposition 8 cut off that right. They were the first plaintiffs in the suit which brought about the original court decision and were co-plaintiffs in the suit just decided by the court today.

“Even though our marriage is preserved by today’s decision, we take no joy in the fact that marriage equality for almost everyone else has been removed from our state,” said Tyler. “The upholding of Proposition 8 by the court is a cowardly retreat from the pro-equality stance it took last year, and makes our state a laggard behind pro-equality states like Iowa and most New England states.”

Andy Thayer, Day of Decision’s other co-founder, is also co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network and recently received widespread news coverage for his arrest with 30 others while participating in a Gay Pride protest in Moscow, Russia.

After tonight’s protests Tyler and Thayer see the next step for gay equality to be repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. DOMA prevents same-sex couples in even the marriage equality states from accessing federal benefits that their heterosexual peers take for granted.

Most critically, DOMA allows non-marriage equality states to directly flout the U.S. Constitution’s “full faith and credit clause” under which contracts made in one state cannot be invalidated in others. Currently states that have, say, higher ages for legal heterosexual marriage are required to observe “underage” marriages performed in other states, but DOMA allows states to flout this same requirement for gay people.

“Many civil rights struggles historically have started with a state-by-state strategy to begin with, but at a certain point they must break out of that localism and take things onto the national stage if they are to be successful,” said Tyler. “By taking on DOMA, the lynchpin of federal anti-gay policy, we will be doing that.”

“The Democrats control both houses of Congress and the Presidency,” said Thayer. “They gave us the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, and now it’s their responsibility to clean up their mess, and we will do all in our power to force them to do so.”

“If President Obama does not repeal DOMA and DontAsk, DontTell, both of which he promised our community while running for President, the only gay Divorce you will see, for those of us who supported him, is the gay community’s divorce from the Democratic Party,” adds Tyler.

A full listing of tonight’s actions in over 100 cities in the U.S. and Canada can be found at www.DayOfDecision.org.

Please plan on participating in the Day of Decision action in your city Tuesday night –

117 Day of Decision City Event Locations - Click for Event Details

Alaska
1. Anchorage
Arizona
2. Phoenix
3. Tucson
California
4. Auburn
5. Bakersfield [x3 event locations in Bakersfield]
6. Big Bear Lake
7. Chico
8. Claremont
9. Concord
10. Danville
11. Davis
12. Delano
13. Escondido (North Inland San Diego County) (Note: Event was not canceled, new facebook)
14. Eureka (Humboldt County)
15. Fairfield
16. Fort Bragg
17. Fremont
18. Fresno
19. Hermosa Beach (South Bay)
20. Hollister
21. Lakeport
22. Long Beach
23. Los Angeles County (x5 locations: Downtown, East LA, UCLA, WeHo, Santa Monica)
24. Modesto
25. Monrovia
26. Monterey
27. Napa
28. Norwalk
29. Oakland
-— Orange County
30. Palo Alto [2 events, day & evening, same location]
31. Palm Springs
32. Pasadena
33. Pittsburg (Contra Costa County)
34. Rancho Cucamonga (Inland Empire-Riverside & San Bernardino Counties)
35. Redding
36. Sacramento
37. Salinas
38. San Diego (Note: Event was not canceled, new facebook)
39. San Francisco (Marin County)
40. San Jose
41. San Luis Obispo
42. San Mateo
43. Santa Ana (Orange County)
44. Santa Barbara (South Santa Barbara County)
45. Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz County)
46. Santa Maria (North Santa Barbara County)
47. Santa Monica
48. Santa Rosa
49. Stanford
50. Stockton
51. Temecula
52. Thousand Oaks
53. Ukiah
54. Ventura
55. Visalia
56. Walnut Creek
57. Watsonville
58. West Hollywood, LA
Colorado
59. Boulder
60. Denver
Connecticut
61. New Haven
Florida
62. Fort Meyers
63. Lake Worth
64. Sarasota
65. Tampa Bay/Hillsborough
66. Tampa Bay/Pinellas
Georgia
67. Atlanta
Hawaii
68. Honolulu
Idaho
69. Moscow
Illinois
70. Carbondale
71. Champaign-Urbana
72. Chicago
73. Peoria
74. Springfield
Indiana
75. Bloomington
76. Indianapolis
Kentucky
77. Lexington
78. Louisville
Louisiana
79. New Orleans
Massachusetts
80. Boston
81. Northampton
Michigan
82. Lansing
83. Kalamazoo
Minnesota
84. Duluth
Missouri
85. Joplin
86. Kansas City
87. St. Louis
Nevada
88. Las Vegas
89. Reno
New Jersey
90. Highland Park
New Mexico
91. Albuquerque
New York
92. Albany
93. Ithaca
94. New York City
95. Rochester
North Carolina
96. Asheville
Ohio
97. Kent
Oregon
98. Medford/Southern Oregon
99. Portland
Pennsylvania
100. Philadelphia
Rhode Island
101. Providence
South Carolina
102. Columbia
Texas
103. Austin
104. Dallas
105. Denton
106. Houston
107. San Antonio
Utah
108. Salt Lake City
Virginia
109. Charlottesville
110. Richmond
Washington
111. Bellingham
112. Seattle
113. Spokane
West Virginia
114. Charleston
US Capitol
115. Washington D.C.
International
116. Toronto, ON Canada
117. Vancouver, BC Canada

117 Total Day of Decision City Events:
115 U.S. City events
+2 Canadian City events
32 States + D.C.
55+ California City events

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