Frank Schubert is the president of Schubert-Flint Public Affairs, the political shop hired to manage the campaign to revoke the right of gay people to marry in California.
Under Schubert’s direction, California voters were bombarded with false advertising, including ads that purported that if Prop 8 failed, school children would be forced to learn about […]

New York Times:
Protect Marriage estimates [that] as much as half of the nearly $40 million raised on behalf of the measure was contributed by Mormons.

Best line is at about 8:05:
SAVAGE: I hope Tony Perkins doesn’t pray to Jesus with that mouth, because he bears false witness against his gay and lesbian neighbors, and that’s a violation of one of the Ten Commandments.
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Sorry for the short notice but we just found out ourselves. Simultaneous nationwide protests against California’s recently passed Proposition 8, which overturns a state law legalizing gay marriage, are set for tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Pacific (1:30 p.m. Eastern). To find out where to protest in your state and town, visit JoinTheImpact.com.
If you live in […]

“This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President

The Ahmanson name is attached to some of the most familiar institutions in Los Angeles, including the Ahmanson Theater, the Ahmanson Foundation and Ahmanson Ranch, just to name three. But very few people in these parts — or anywhere, for that matter — know that the heir to the Ahmanson banking fortune that bestowed these […]

As usual, The Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts Jr. nailed it in his commentary on the intolerance blacks showed in their opposition to gay marriage in last week’s elections:
Sometimes, progress carries an asterisk.
That’s as good a summary as any of a sad irony from last week’s historic election. You will recall one of the major storylines […]

El Coyote is an unintentionally kitschy Mexican restaurant on Beverly Blvd. that is famous for its margaritas. It has not been in the news much since August 1969, when Sharon Tate imbibed her last margaritas there before heading up to her home on Cielo Drive, where the Manson family laid in wait.
The restaurant is […]