Welcome to the Lake County Stonewall Democratic Club!
The Lake County Stonewall Democratic Club is a local Democratic Club serving the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) community of Lake County, California
Club Meeting Schedule For 2010 The new location for meeting is: Clearlake Oaks Community United Methodist Church 12487 The Plaza Clearlake Oaks, California (Located behind the Red & White Grocery Store on Highway 20 & is next to the Senior Citizens Center in Clearlake Oaks)
The Stonewall Democratic Club will no longer meet at the Redbud Library in Clearlake!!
Pot luck at 6:30 P.M. and meeing begins at 7 P.M. Date of meetings: September 27, 2010 (4th Monday) October 25, 2010 (4th Monday) November 22, 2010 (4th Monday)
December 27, 2010 (4th Monday)
Our Stories - Our Lives - Listen to KPFZ 88.1 FM on Lake County Community Radio. "Our Stories - Our Lives" broading casting to the LGBT our allies and friends of the Community - news and events concerning the gay community with your Rainbow Reporter Harold Riley also with co-host Roon Searcy.
Live broadcast on Wednesdays at 1 P.M. and rebroadcast on Monday's at midnight. California state won't be forced to defend Prop 8 By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
 California's gay marriage battle may run for another two years (Photo: Tim Schapker) California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney-General Jerry Brown will not be forced to defend the state's ban on gay marriage. The challenge was brought by a conservative legal group but a Sacramento judge at the 3rd District Court of Appeal rejected it. The Pacific Justice Institute argued that Mr Schwarzenegger and Mr Brown had a duty to uphold state laws and said it will appeal to the California Supreme Court.
Read rest 10/6 Jerry Brown Unsure Whether Gay Marriage Helping Or Hurting Campaign By Carlos Santoscoy, OnTop Magazine
California Attorney Jerry Brown is unsure whether his support for gay marriage is hurting or helping his bid governer.
Brown and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are under pressure by social conservatives to appeal a federal district court ruling that found the state's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, unconstitutional. Both officials – the named defendants in the suit – have refused to defend the law and urged the court to lift a hold on the decision as it's being appealed. Doubts have been raised about whether Protect Marriage, the sponsor of the measure, has legal standing to appeal the ruling as ordinary citizens.
Read rest 10/4 Obama’s Moral Cowardice The president needs to to find his principles.
newsweek.com
Barack Obama’s redecoration of the Oval Office includes a nice personal touch: a carpet ringed with favorite quotations from Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, both Presidents Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. The King quote, in particular, has become a kind of emblem for him: “The arc of the moral Universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” For all the carping about his every move, the only big problem with the Obama presidency is the gap between what’s written on his rug, and what’s under it—the distance between the president’s veneration of moral leadership past and his failure, so far, to exhibit much of it in the present. Obama has had numerous chances to assert leadership on values questions this summer: Arizona’s crude anti-immigrant law, the battle over Prop 8 and gay marriage, and the backlash against what Fox News persists in calling the “Ground Zero mosque.” These battles raise fundamental questions of national identity, liberty, and individual rights. When Lindsey Graham argues for rewriting the Constitution to eliminate the birthright-citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, or Newt Gingrich proposes a Saudi standard for the free exercise of religion, they’re taking positions at odds with America’s basic ideals. But Obama’s instinctive caution has steered him away from casting these questions as moral or civil-rights issues. On none of them has he shown anything resembling courage.
Cannabis Electric Cars: Canada 1, U.S. 0 by Nikki Gloudeman, change.org Hippies, rejoice: The world's first cannabis electric car may soon hit the roads of Canada. And guess what? The amusing auto is a truly inspiring feat of engineering.
Developed by Alberta-based Motive Industries, the car prototype—known as the Kestrel—is made from a biocomposite partly derived from local hemp. Because the material is uber-light, it reduces the car's electricity consumption. And it's cheaper, more renewable and less health-hazardous than standard fiberglass to boot. (The only possible hitch so far is the speed of the vehicle. It is projected to max out just under 60 miles an hour at maximum.) As the car's designer told Fox News (which wrote a surprisingly positive story about it), "Electric Cars need to be efficient, therefore the Kestrel design had to be simple and light weight, while still being unique and eye catching."
Read Rest 10/1 Greetings!  Glenn Beck's decision to hold an event at the same location and on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington has elicited outrage amongst civil rights organizations who accuse him and the radical right of hijacking the legacy of the Civil Rights movement.
Read commentary on this controversial event hereSharon Kyle, Publisher LA Progressive 9/30 Letter from Courage Campaign  Dear Friends --
Honestly, I'm offended by Meg Whitman.
Ninety years ago this August, women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was finally ratified in 1920.
I take that right seriously. Meg Whitman doesn't.
Whitman wants to be governor of California. But she has rarely voted in three decades. Shouldn't our next governor show more respect for our right to vote -- and for the struggles that earned women the right to vote?
That's why the Courage Campaign is joining the California Nurses Association to send a message to Meg Whitman about the voting rights she took for granted. On Thursday, August 26, nurses and activists from across California will travel to Sacramento for a rally celebrating women's right to vote. Many will take a train to Sacramento, honoring the suffragist movement and their success, and dressing in costumes from the suffragist era.
Even if you can't join the rally, you can still help us send a message to Meg. Click here to watch our video about how Meg Whitman has taken the 19th Amendment for granted. Then sign up to Vote-By-Mail -- the most reliable method of voting in every election. Show that you'll stand up for voting rights, even if Meg Whitman won't:Suffragists fought for decades to win the right to vote. They faced sexism, violence, and other obstacles in their effort to secure equal rights.
Ninety years later, full equality still eludes us. Many women are denied the right to marry the person they love. Others lack health care services, education, and jobs.
Meg Whitman supports Prop 8. She pledges to cut public funding for health care and education. She's already promised mass layoffs if she becomes governor, just as she did at eBay. And she can't even be bothered to exercise that most basic of rights -- the right to vote.
That's why the Courage Campaign and the California Nurses Association created this video to hold Meg Whitman accountable for her deplorable voting record. Please watch our video and then apply to Vote-By-Mail -- it's the most effective way to stand up for voting rights today:http://www.couragecampaign.org/VoteByMailThank you for showing Meg Whitman that you take women's rights seriously.
Sarah Callahan Chief Operating Officer, Courage Campaign Courage Campaign California is a part of the Courage Campaign's multi-issue online organizing network that empowers more than 700,000 grassroots and netroots supporters to push for progressive change and full equality in California and across the country. Supported by thousands of small donations from our diverse community, Courage Campaign California holds politicians accountable to progressive values, works for fundamental reform to our state's broken government, and trains and organizes activists to change their communities.
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Pentagon conducts survey of military spouses on potential repeal of 'Don't ask, Don't tell' By Christopher Brocklebank, Pink News/UK
 A new survey questions military spouses on their potential reactions to the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
The Pentagon has distributed a 44-question survey to 150,000 military spouses in the USA to gauge their views on potential situations that may arise should the "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy be repealed. It is hoped that the policy, which bars openly LGBT people from serving in the American military, will be repealed by Congress later this year. Taking this into account, questions in the survey include asking if a military spouse would encourage their husband or wife to leave the forces should the ban be repealed, whether it would effect their willingness to recommend a military career to family or friends and if the attendance of gay couples at social events would affect their decision to attend such gatherings.
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