Cheney Favors State-by-State Decisions on Gay Marriage

The Washington Post reported this week that former vice president Richard Cheney has come out in favor of Gay Marriage as decided on a state-by-state basis.

Cheney is quoted as saying, "people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kid of arrangement they wish."

Cheney has a personal interest in the matter, given that his youngest daughter is a lesbian and has a longtime partner.

That someone as prominent in the Republican party would make such a clear statement favoring Gay Marriage brings to mind the issues discussed by TwoMinuteBriefing in its analysis, Moral Right or Political Might which noted that some Republican party insiders were encouraging the party to acquiesce on Gay Marriage in order to stay politically viable.

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PepsiCo Helps Support the Gay Agenda

On January 8th, the American Family Foundation set an email to its Action Alert subscribers with the headline, "PepsiCo gives $1,000,000 to help promote the gay agenda.

The American Family Foundation (AFA)notes that in the last two years, Pepsi has given $500,000 to both the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a pro-gay political action group which describe itself as working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender equal rights, and to PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).

Because PepsiCo is donating to these Gay actions groups is such a significant manner, AFA is calling for a boycott of Pepsi products, including the products of its subsidiaries including Frito-Lay, Quaker Oats, Tropicana, and Gatorade.

AFA's email

Hallmark Introduces Gay Marriage Cards

AP reported today that Hallmark Cards, the nation's largest greeting card company is now producing same-sex wedding cards.

The AP story indicated that Hallmark was doing this in response to consumer demand. American Greeting, Hallmark's biggest competitor, apparently has no plans to market same-sex wedding cards.

One wonders what Hallmark would do if consumers "demanded" that Hallmark not produce same-sex wedding cards.

Click below to read the full AP story.

Gay Marriage Cards

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Hallmark

PG&E Supports Gay Marriage

On July 30th, 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported that the California utility PG&E had donated $250,000 to the No on Proposition 8 campaign. The proposition would define marriage as between a man and a woman.

The Times reported that PG&E was working to form a business advisory council to encourage other California businesses to work toward defeating the initiative.

That businesses are entering this initiative battle is a change from the initiative battle in 2000 in which businesses generally did not participate.

The full story can be found at - http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs30-2008jul30,0,5258899.story