Same-Sex Couples Face Jail Time If Married

Same-Sex Couples Face Jail Time If Married
Wisconsin, USA
http://www.allvoices.com/userevents/847152-wisconsin-sex/stories
With the option to obtain legal marriage licenses as of its June 17 legalization in California, many same-sex couples are making the journey despite laws in their home state. In Wisconsin, the pairs that attempt to obtain the certificate, which some have called "the missing piece of the puzzle" or the "the final part" to a family, are facing legal trouble with the state government and in many cases, jail time.

The state of Wisconsin imposes criminal penalties on residents if they enter a marriage outside the state that would be prohibited within state lines. The law was originally created in 1915 to prevent under age couples from crossing state lines to marry, but can, and will, be applied to same sex couples to attempt the same "crime."

Many couples acknowledge that jail time is at stake to obtain "outside recognition" of their union, and are willing to take that risk. The penalty for such actions could be a fine of up to $10,000, 9 months in jail or both. One lesbian couple notes, "We'd rather face prosecution than persecution."

The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes

The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/the-week-that-should-have_b_111983.html
This is the week that should have effectively ended John McCain's efforts to become the next president of the United States. But you wouldn't know it if you watched any of the mainstream media outlets or followed political reporting in the major newspapers.

During this past week: McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, his top economic adviser called the American people whiners, McCain released an economic plan that no one thought was serious, he flip flopped on Iraq, joked about the deaths of Iranian citizens, and denied making comments that he clearly made -- TWICE. All this and it is not even Friday! Yet watching and reading the mainstream press you would think McCain was having a pretty decent political week, I mean at least Jesse Jackson didn't say anything about him.

But let's unpack McCain's week in a little more detail.
(more in the article)


An interesting run down of the free pass McCain has been getting with the mainstream media in the US. Compare that to the constant scrutiny and accusations leveled at Obama (and any non-Republican candidate), right down to micro-analysis of Obama's bodylanguage and the way he did a pound (aka "terrorist fist jab") with his wife...yeah...this bias and one-sidedness is why people don't buy it when someone says America has a 'liberal media'.