Cheeks takes on apathy in the gay male community toward Prop 8 and marriage equality.

Here’s the text of the order from the Ninth Circuit, vacating the previous schedule and asking parties to address the issue of standing. No marriages this week, it appears….

The proponents of Proposition 8 — the folks who got the civil right to marry stripped from gay and lesbian couples at the 2008 ballot box — are now petitioning Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown to defend Prop 8 in court. According to reports from the offices of the two highest law enforcement officials in California, calls to their offices are running strongly in favor of H8. Can you please call Arnold as well as Jerry Brown and ask them to continue to stand up for equality?

The National Organization for Marriage launched a bus tour earlier this summer to convince people that same-sex marriages are terrible. Problem is, around the world, courts and legislatures are finding the exact opposite.

The hard-core homophobes in the House GOP caucus have revealed themselves, and they are a sorry lot indeed. These are the people American history books will cast into the dustbin: bigots, haters, the sorry folks who see civil rights as a zero-sum game. If you get your civil rights, I lose mine.

Congressman Henry Waxman endorsed federal Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to overturn California’s Proposition 8 and told NBCLA he hopes the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court uphold Walker’s decision that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

Here’s the actual text from Vaughn Walker’s court.

Awaiting Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision today about a stay on his Perry ruling, lesbian and gay couples are lined up at San Francisco’s City Hall to take advantage of what might prove to be a narrow window again for legal same-sex nuptials in California.

The right-wing is in overdrive attacking Judge Vaughn Walker’s bias, since they say he is ‘openly gay.’ Of course, Walker isn’t openly gay by any stretch of the imagination. But Michaelangelo Signorile perpetuates a dangerous stereotype, difficult to shed for men of my generation and Vaughn Walker’s, by calling these lies ‘smears’ in his otherwise excellent HuffPost article today. It’s not a smear to call someone openly gay, since there’s nothing wrong with being gay in the first place.

Rachel Maddow very skillfully wove together the story of George Rekers, the rent-boy luggage handler, David Blankenhorn, and the Prop 8 ruling today. This one’s really worth a watch, when you see exactly how flawed the “scholarship” presented by Defendant-Intervenors was.

It’s as if today was the day Judge Vaughn Walker finally got to say to these idiots, “You made me sit through all this bullshit, that had nothing to do with the case, while I had to be polite because it’s my job. Well, here’s what I think of your case.”