Weekly Political Roundup
- The ACLU launched Get Busy, Get Equal, a toolkit building and protecting the rights of LGBT people.
- ExxonMobil shareholders voted down a resolution to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the company’s non-discrimination statement. Before Exxon and Mobil merged in 1999, Mobil had provided these protections to gay employees and benefits to their same-sex partners. After the merger, the company dropped them.
- Same-sex couples in California will be able to marry starting June 17. . .
- . . . assuming the attorneys general of Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah fail in their attempt to get the California Supreme Court to stay its ruling until after the November election. They seem peeved they would have to determine whether their states should recognize the marriages.
- A new Field Poll said a majority of California voters now support legal marriage between same-sex couples and oppose a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Read the rest of this post »
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