NEW YORK – Bce Sprgsteen has e out support of gay marriage his home state of New Jersey, where a marriage equaly bill will go to vote this week. The rocker released a statement via his official Web se Wednday backg the legislatn.
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- BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- BCE SPRGSTEEN STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN (PHOTO)
- BCE SPRGSTEEN ROCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
- BCE SPRGSTEEN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE NEW JERSEY
- BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- BCE SPRGSTEEN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE N.J.
- SPRGSTEEN FEATURED GAY MARRIAGE MPAIGN
- BCE SPRGSTEEN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE
- ROCKER BCE SPRGSTEEN ENDORS N.J. GAY MARRIAGE BILL
BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Bce Sprgsteen has e out support of gay marriage his home state, where a marriage equaly bill will go to vote this week. * bruce springsteen gay marriage *
Bce Sprgsteen has e out support of gay marriage his home state, where a marriage equaly bill will go to vote this week.
BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Bce Sprgsteen has e out support of gay marriage his home state of New Jersey, where a marriage equaly bill will go to vote this week. The rocker released a statement via his official Web se Wednday backg the legislatn. * bruce springsteen gay marriage *
’ I uldn’t agree more wh that statement and urge those who support equal treatment for our gay and lbian brothers and sisters to let their voic be heard now. Though ’s unclear whether the bill has the 21 vot will need for passage, gay rights advot are eager for legislatn to be approved by January, when Republin Gov. Christie has said he would veto a bill supportg gay marriage.
Bce is far om gay; some might argue he is one of the straightt men alive. A quick poke around the Inter reveals as much: the amic texts readg his work as “homoerotic or queerly suggtive, ” as Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel wr; the “We’re Here and We’re Queerg Bce Sprgsteen” roundup at one of the longt-nng s for queer women, Autostraddle; the queer wrer Tennsee Jon’s short story llectn Deliver Me From Nowhere, based on the album Nebraska; and of urse, the many, many queer Bce Sprgsteen z, om Bee the Boss Belongs to Us to Butt Sprgsteen. Wrer Muna Mire once asked Twter, “Can anyone name a straight man that qualifi as [a gay in]?
Is his extreme butchns, so practiced and so precise that he might as well have learned om the olst lbian at a gay bar? Straight upl at our school were bondg over study ssns on the quad, not close lls wh gay-bashg. Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rabow” has been a gay anthem for s.
BCE SPRGSTEEN STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN (PHOTO)
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If “Somewhere Over the Rabow” is a gay mil theater anthem about the dream of a eer existence, “Born to Run” is unqutnably s rock ’n’ roll tw.
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Bce Sprgsteen has e out support of gay marriage his home state of New Jersey, where a marriage equaly bill will go to vote this week.
Though ’s unclear whether the bill has the 21 vot will need for passage, gay rights advot are eager for legislatn to be approved by January, when Republin ernor-elect Christopher J. Bce Sprgsteen has been an outspoken advote for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights for some time, but now "The Boss" has gone a step further by starrg a social media ph for marriage equaly. After quotg former New Jersey Governor Jon Corze's earlier scriptn of marriage equaly as "a civil rights issue that mt be approved to assure that every cizen is treated equally unr the law, " Sprgsteen not the ad, "I uldn't agree more wh that statement and urge those who support equal treatment for our gay and lbian brothers and sisters to let their voic be heard now.
BCE SPRGSTEEN ROCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
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(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Addg his voice to the ntent bate on gay marriage, native New Jersey rint Bce Sprgsteen lled for lawmakers his state to pass the measure. He also exprsed support for outgog Democratic ernor Jon Corze, who scrib the regnn of gay marriage as a "civil rights issue that mt be approved to assure that every cizen is treated equally unr the law.
BCE SPRGSTEEN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE NEW JERSEY
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Corze's succsor, Republin Chris Christie, has said he would veto gay marriage if pass the legislature. While Christie nsirs himself a diehard Sprgsteen fan, havg attend 122 ncerts to date, his posn on gay marriage may be keepg him apart om his rock idol. While this latt of celebry circ is unfoldg, the Iowa Supreme Court is the news bee has given the green light to gay marriage.
So too is the Vermont legislature snarg headl for overridg a gubernatorial veto and legalizg gay marriage that state.
BCE SPRGSTEEN SPEAKS OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Bce Sprgsteen posted a statement on his Web se urgg support of the gay marriage bill that's up for a vote New Jersey's Senate on Thursday. * bruce springsteen gay marriage *
Vermont, you will rell, was the first state to legalize civil unns for gays, a cisn by then Governor Howard Dean that mak the hard-left former printial ndidate and Democratic Natnal Chairman now look like your downright average bigoted right-wg homophobic zealot.
Not to be left out, the Obama Whe Hoe has announced the appotment of gay activist Harry Knox to s Advisory Council on Fah-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Knox is the director of the relign and fah program at the Human Rights Campaign, an activist group for gays, lbians, bisexuals and the transgenred (GLBT the vernacular). What the world is the nnectn to gay marriage, the Iowa Supreme Court, Vermont and for that matter Proposn 8 California and the legalizatn of gay marriage by urts elsewhere — Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachetts?
BCE SPRGSTEEN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE N.J.
The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg opens his lightful piece on his trip to a Bce Sprgsteen ncert wh New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie by notg that Christie "would marry [Sprgsteen] if he were gay and if gay people were allowed to marry the state he erns," but the rt of the piece dit they'd have a pretty rocky unn. (And not jt bee Christie's the biggt reason the gays n't wed there.) * bruce springsteen gay marriage *
Gay marriage is on s way, one way or another, to beg the law of the land. So if the strategy of fightg gay marriage Ameri is failg, what to do?
SPRGSTEEN FEATURED GAY MARRIAGE MPAIGN
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But the progrsive activists behd the gay marriage movement have a problem.
Unlike the dranian picture pated by the lik of Harry Knox, everyone who believ marriage should be limed to one man and a woman is not a knuckle-draggg, sp-flicked homophobe. Along wh lots of straight Amerins wh gays their fai or circle of iends, the Print is not homophobic for so believg.
He and they — make that we sce I too am a straight guy the “gays fai and iends” tegory — simply believe the man-woman dynamic, sacred for human history, is the bt societal-stabilizer there n be and that Moms and Dads are the bt fay mol there n possibly be for kids and the society that is filled wh nothg but kids and ex-kids.
BCE SPRGSTEEN BACKS GAY MARRIAGE
A day before a historic vote New Jersey on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, Bce Sprgsteen says gay upl serve the right to marry. * bruce springsteen gay marriage *
Many believe once the legal prohibn on gay marriage is removed, once the sacredns of marriage between a man-and a woman is ma relative, there will be no stoppg the sli down the proverbial slippery slope.
In the words of the Hoover Instutn’s Stanley Kurtz a lengthy 2003 article the Weekly Standard: “Among the likelit effects of gay marriage is to take down a slippery slope to legalized polygamy and ‘polyamory’ (group marriage).
” Kurtz, a masterful rearch job, troduc all to a world where the legalizatn of gay marriage effectively ends the ncept of marriage as now exists, and has existed.
ROCKER BCE SPRGSTEEN ENDORS N.J. GAY MARRIAGE BILL
Those who wish to stop gay marriage should learn somethg om this. Instead, opponents of gay marriage should play offense.
Force the hand of gay marriage activists. Hard-left gay activists are furiated by the parison between gay marriage and polygamy, sistg srnfully that the two are neher parable nor will the legalizatn of one lead to the other. Canada’s cisn to legalize gay marriage has paved the way for polygamy to be legal as well, a fense lawyer said Wednday as the two lears of rival polygamo muni ma their first urt appearance.