Rick Warren, the pastor that wrote The Purpose Driven Life, says “They can’t accuse me of homophobia. I just don’t believe in gay marriage.” And yet, in the video above he can be seen comparing gay marriage to incest and pedophilia. Yes, in the context of his statements he meant that they are all aberrations of traditional marriages, but likenin...

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While African-Americans achieved a victory that many thought they would never see in their life time, the gay community took a major blow. A proposition banning gay marriage passed in California, Arizona and Florida this past election with California's ban receiving the most attention after all of the celebrity financing and endorsements of a no...

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In an unexpected move from what is considered to be a very conservative campus, USC's Daily Trojan encouraged students to vote "No" on Proposition 8, the California Proposition to ban same-sex marriages. 

At first, I (and I'm sure many) assumed that the headline on the website was an Op-Ed piece from one of its liberal writers. While the piece...

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California is in the midst of what some would call a "cultural crossroads." Only months after dropping the ban of marriages is California, the state will be voting on Prop. 8, which aims to amend the state consititution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman. The recently hired Dean of Law at UC Irvine, Erwin Chemerinsky, has spoke...

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On Tuesday, a mock wedding was held in the student union building between Jeffrey Epperson and Nathan Aiken. Surprising enough, there were no protests.

The cultural center put on this wedding to publicize the fact that only one state allows marriage between same-sex couples, three honor domestic partnerships and four recognize a same-sex civil...

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For anyone who thinks that Perez Hilton is just a bitchy gossip queen, today we find evidence to the contrary. Hilton, i.e. Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., has a soft side. In unusually snark-free blog posts, Hilton today wrote gushingly of the marriage of Star Trek’s George Takei (Mr. Sulu) to his longtime partner Brad Altman.

Hilton wrote of T...

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Today, just months after finally being able to marry her longtime partner Phyllis Lyon, lesbian rights activist Del Martin died. In 1955, Del helped form the Daughters of Bilitis, the first national organization for lesbians in the United States.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle:

Ms. Martin died this morning at UCSF Hospice, nearly tw...

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