Monday, August 9, 2010

[Peckers_Pics] Model Wars; Aug 10, 2010; Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated G



Model Wars; Aug 10, 2010
Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated  G
 
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    This group is called "Peckers PICS."  The English -  slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health and Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues.  In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!"  Whereas, who is the model that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit?"  Warning: This may stoke you!
     
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    Kevin Gribbin (in single photos)
    Kevin Gribbin & Matthew Gribbin (in photo with 2 guys)
     
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    Alan Prinz
     
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    Brighton Pride; Aug 8, 2010
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    Gay marriage debate hits airwaves after California's Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional
    August 9, 2010 / Examiner / Matthew Emmer
     
    Yesterday, in the wake of a federal district court ruling striking down California's "Proposition 8" gay marriage ban as unconstitutional, David Boies and Ted Olson, the unlikely legal duo who successfully argued the Prop 8 appeal, took to the airwaves.
     

    Boies appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" with Tony Perkins, President of the conservative Christian organization Family Research Council, which had submitted a "friend of the court" brief supporting Prop 8 in this case.  During their appearance, Boies pointed out that the parties favoring continuation of California's Prop 8 gay marriage ban were unable to provide any empirical evidence that same-sex marriage harms anyone.  Perkins admitted that "this is so relatively new that there is not conclusive evidence to suggest that children who grow up with two moms or two dads fare as well as children who grow up with a mom and a dad."  Perkins then shifted gears, saying there was evidence from "the social sciences that show us that public policy that has devalued marriage through laws such as 'no-fault divorce' has truly impacted children and impacted the institution of marriage."  Boies answered that Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker "did deal with it, and he pointed out, which is obvious, is that 'no-fault divorce' doesn't have anything to do with the issue that's here."  Boies stated that "unlike abortion, the court is not creating a new legal right."  Rather, according to Boies, California sought to take away the well-recognized right to marry from certain people, and that his side proved at trial that there was no harm to anyone from same-sex marriage, and thus no basis for California to treat gay couples differently regarding marriage.

    At about the same time, Boies' co-counsel, Ted Olson, appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.  In this case, Olson was alone, and Wallace raised many of the points that the anti-gay marriage side has raised, both in court and in the media.  Wallace mentioned that "seven million" Californians voted to ban gay marriage, and asked whether it wasn't "judicial activism" for Judge Walker to overturn their will. The actual figure is 6.8 million votes for Prop 8, and 6.2 million votes against, but, as Olson responded, "we do not put the Bill of Rights to a vote."  Olson also said that "most people use the term 'judicial activism' to explain decisions that they don't like," and asked, "would you like your right to free speech, would you like Fox's right to free press, put up to a vote?"

    Olson compared gay marriage to interracial marriage, saying that 41 states once prohibited interracial marriage, which would have outlawed, for example, the marriage of President Obama's parents. Olson, like Boies on CBS, added that Judge Walker was not creating a new right, but rather, upholding the fundamental right to marriage, which, he said, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld fourteen times before.  Olson stated that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was at issue in the Prop 8 case, guarantees equal rights to all citizens, and that "it's not judicial activism when judges do what the Constitution requires them to do, and they follow the precedent of previous decisions of the Supreme Court."  When Wallace asked, "where is the right to same-sex marriage in the Constitution?" Olson shot back, "where is the right to interracial marriage in the Constitution?"

    Olson, a well-known conservative who beat Boies in the December 2000  Bush v. Gore case before the U.S. Supreme Court to give George W. Bush the U.S. Presidency, even explained why gay marriage furthers conservative principles, saying, "we believe that a conservative value is stable relationships and a stable community and loving individuals coming together and forming a basis that is a building block of our society, which includes marriage....  It should a liberal and a conservative value, it is a fundamental American value, all men and all women are created equal under the law." Wallace was left saying to Olson, "I gotta say after your appearance today, I don't understand how you ever lost a case in the Supreme Court, sir."

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