(2015/07/03) It is so ordered (Marriage Equality)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 July 2015
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #935
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Gay Marriage Is Now Legal Nationally, But Bigots Will Keep Fighting It - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 06-29-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Victory - Trampled By Turtles
Ch. 4: Act 2: The view of marriage equality from inside the court - @GAY_USAtv - Air Date: 7-1-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: "Equality" - Todd (Tif) Fernandez
Ch. 6: Act 3: The Secret History of Marriage - @DecodeDC - Air Date: 4-17-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Words Are Seeds - My Gay Banjo
Ch. 8: Act 4: Dissenting Justices Cling To Ancient Hate In Opposing Gay Marriage - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-27-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Those Were The Days (All In The Family Theme) - Television Heroes
Ch. 10: Act 5: A look at the holdouts against same sex marriage - Le Show (@theharryshearer) - Air Date: 6-28-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Sundown Town - Ry Cooder
Ch. 12: Act 6: Anti-Gay Bryan Fischer Equates Gay Marriage Ruling with 9/11 & Slavery - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 06-29-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: Opinions - The Haymarket Squares
Ch. 14: Act 7: The newest 'It gets better' video after SCOTUS rules on marriage equality - @TWiBnation - Air Date: 7-1-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: It Gets Better - Single - Jay Kuo, Blair Shepard & Broadway Sings For The Trevor Project
Ch. 16: Act 8: #Not1More via FAMILIA: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (@familiatqlm) — Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Time for Action - the Very Best Of - Secret Affair
Ch. 18: Act 9: Historic marriage ruling opens new chapter for America - Rachel @maddow Show - Air Date: 6-26-15
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Olive branch from a libertarian - Inaudible from Maryland
Ch. 20: Pushback on Adreana's pushback - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments on the possibility of left/right alliances
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: #Not1More via FAMILIA: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (@familiatqlm)
Take Action:
SIGN: "Tell President Obama, Don't Discriminate Against LGBTQ Immigrants” via FAMILIA: Trans Queer Liberation Movement
JOIN the movement to end deportation of undocumented LGBTQ people with #Not1More
Sources/further reading:
“#Not1More RESPONSE TO ICE NEW MEMO ON PROCESSING TRANS DETAINEES”
"A transgender woman of color on the hypocrisy of the gay rights movement” by Raquel Wilis at Quartz
"Obama's reply to a trans woman proves LGBT advocacy stops at gay marriage” by Meredith Talusan at The Guardian
"Was Obama’s Heckler Actually A Transgender Hero?” by Kristina Marusic at MTVIssues
"The Obama Legacy: Inequality, Corporate Trade Deals, Worldwide War” by Kit O’Connell
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:20.0 | Pacman Show, Gay USA, D.C.O. DC, The Young Turks, Let's Show, This Week in Blackness, and The |
| 0:26.3 | Rachel Maddo Show. I can only assume that most of you have heard that the Supreme Court has |
| 0:34.4 | decided that state bans on same-sex marriage are not constitutional, effectively legalizing |
| 0:42.4 | same-sex marriage across the entire country. We knew this ruling might happen, but just a few |
| 0:49.6 | years ago we were thinking, well, this will eventually happen, but I certainly had no idea |
| 0:56.2 | Lewis that by 2015 we might have full national gay marriage, even with the acceleration that we |
| 1:03.4 | saw in individual states legalizing, we thought this was still a ways away. We did. We thought maybe |
| 1:11.0 | even five, yeah, I would say a minimum of five years away. So it is a little bit shocking, yeah. |
| 1:18.1 | This is just such great news and it's great news because this is just not something we should |
| 1:24.0 | be putting energy into. Of course, two consenting adults should be able to get married to each other. |
| 1:29.6 | We have so many other issues and Lewis, maybe if everything was just perfect in our world, |
| 1:35.6 | we could put more time into analyzing the specifics of which consenting unions between individuals |
| 1:42.8 | should be legal or not, and even then I would say that it's a waste of time. But especially when we |
| 1:48.8 | have so much going on on our planet and in our country, this is one of the biggest waste of time, |
| 1:54.8 | and I resent the primarily religious fanatics who have been pushing this into the issue that it |
| 2:02.7 | has been because it's been energy and dollars and and mind power that could have gone into |
| 2:08.9 | something better. And fortunately, the Supreme Court has decided that it's not going to go any |
| 2:13.3 | further. No, but that doesn't mean that we still won't have the distractions and the noise being |
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