Mint Male Magazine

Prop 8 supporters have 6 days to prove if lifting ban will cause harm

by Joey Grant

Stay or No Stay, many news sources are reporting two side two today's ruling of Judge Walker. He denied the motion to stay his judgment pending appeal. This means that even though this case will crawl up the judicial system, same- sex couple will be able to marry on August 18th, Unless supporters can get the Ninth Circuit to uphold a stay marriage and prove "harm" which seems very unlikely The announcement came ?after ?lawyers, Gov. Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown filed legal motions to immediately start Friday asking that same-sex marriages be allowed to resume immediately.

"As it appears at least doubtful that proponents will be able to proceed with their appeal without a state defendant, it remains unclear whether the Court of Appeals will be able to reach the merits of proponents' appeal," Walker wrote.

"In light of those concerns, proponents may have little choice but to attempt to convince either the governor or the attorney general to file an appeal to ensure jurisdiction." ( which they already want marriage to start for this cash strapped state.)

So now we move forward and our fight continues, until we all get equal rights. We can not call this the fight for gay marriage, its a fight for marriage, its a fight to honor the constitution. It's not called inter-racial marriage, when two different races marry its called marriage. Its not a separate right, it's not a different right, it's the same right every American should receive. We are a divided nation, until we are all equal, we are lying to ourselves, and this country will not be free until we are all free to marry.

Thank you Mr. Ted Olson. Thank you for representing us, as a conservative and a individual who truly understands the constitution and the 14th amendment.

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For the left leaning crowd that enjoys websites like Huffintonpost.com and Dailykos.com , check out Netroots Nation. NN is a progressive conference that was satarted by Daily Kos. This year it is being held in Las Vegas as is their bizzaro?conference RightOnline.?The counter organization Americans for Prosperity is led by Erik Telford. We posted a live video stream that includes some of the speaker you may ahve already missed. It's a great view and sheds some postive light on the progressive movement. The movements focuses on civil rights, equality, corporate accountability, health care for all, and many other important social, finical and peaceful issues.

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Vital Bridges, at the forefront of the battle against HIV/AIDS
by T. Nichole Sayers
Since being established in 1988, the organization Vital Bridges has been a leader in fighting the AIDS epidemic in Chicago. Vital Bridges was originally known as Open Hands, a group of volunteers who prepared home cooked meals for patients dying of AIDS. Since 1988, the organization has grown tremendously. It's first step was to move to a hospital based organization that was able to provide more meals to more AIDS stricken individuals. With the advancement in HIV/AIDS treatment, Vital Bridges was able to move out of the hospital setting and into a grocery service that provided food to patients that were now able to live with AIDS. Following a merger with 3 AIDS organizations in 2002, Vital Bridges became a metropolitan wide organization, with 3 locations in the city and 2 in the suburbs, that now provides a continuum of services – meals, counseling, housing, prevention services, and case management.

The recession has impacted Vital Bridges in a number of ways. Not only are the goods and services provided increasing in cost, but less money is coming in. With the country focused on the economic downturn and loss of jobs, HIV/AIDS has vanished from the spotlight. The one this that holds Vital Bridges together is it's volunteers. Through good times and bad, the community involvement at Vital Bridges has been the glue that holds the organization together.

Please join Mint Male and K Dock Team on Saturday, July 24th at the Crimson Lounge at 333 N. Dearborn for a White Party benefit for Vital Bridges. Non-perishable food items will be accepted and given to Vital Bridges pantries. The event begins at 10 pm.

The annual Chicago AIDS walk/run will be held October 2nd at Grant Park. Please join the Vital Bridges Team and help raise money for a fantastic organization in need of your support.

To learn more about how you can help Vital Bridges, please call 1-773-271-5168.

AP – WASHINGTON D.C.'s highest court has ruled against opponents of the city's same-sex marriage law, saying they cannot ask voters to overturn it.

Opponents had wanted to challenge a law that took effect in Washington in March allowing same-sex couples to marry. They attempted to get approval to put an initiative on the ballot asking city voters to define marriage in the city as between one man and one woman. But city officials balked, saying a district human rights law barred initiatives that would authorize discrimination.

On Thursday, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled 5-4 that officials had the authority to keep the measure off the ballot and acted appropriately.

Copyright – Associated Press, 2010.

Mint Male is teaming up with various Chicagoans to seek NoH8 to come to chicago and do their infamous photo shoot. We also want to show support and how much hard work we would put into fundraising. The fight for Marriage equality is very important alive in our home city, considering we dont't even have civil union.

Join HERE