POLITICS BUZZ: A Google Maps mashup that shows the name and addresses of people who donated to Proposition 8. Once again, the equation of Google plus something that's been around forever (in this case, pubic donor info) equals a great big handwringing session!

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1. Eightmaps.com
2. This is New and Scary and Bad!
3. A Great Use of Eightmaps: Turns Out My Aunt Donated
4. Oh No! Eightmaps is a Terrible Idea!

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa...

Outspoken gay activist Melissa Etheridge seems surprisingly okay with Proposition 8 supporter Rick Warren delivering the invocation at Obama's inauguration. Melissa, come any closer to our window and we'll shut it on your purpose driven fingers. Not cool.

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1. Rick Warren, Homophobe, to Give Obama Invocation
2. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

POLITICS BUZZ: President-elect Obama has chosen Proposition 8 supporter and minister of the evangelical Saddleback Church to give the invocation at his inauguration. You may remember him for his pseudo-debate on “faith issues” with Obama and McCain.

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1. Obama Defends the Choice
2. A Public Supporter of Proposition 8 Added to the Festivities
3. Obama: In His Own Words.
4. HRC’s Letter to Obama
5. Warren: In His Own Words.
6. “First Real Rift With Progressives”
7. “He Knows Better”
8. The Rick Warren Kerfuffle
9. The Full Line-up
10. Warren is the new Billy Graham
11. Warren is the new James Dobson

The true potential of the “ballot initiative” system.

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POLITICS BUZZ: Newt Gingrich's sister, who happens to be a gay activist, writes a letter after watching Newt bash Prop 8 protestors on the Bill O'Reilly Show . Hopefully, the whole family will make up at Thanksgiving dinner and set their squabbles aside. One love!

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The Best Links:

1. Candace Gingrich: A Letter to My Brother Newt Gingrich
2. Proposition 8 Protest Signs: Pics, Videos, Links, News
3. Candace Gingrich Wants Newt to Stop Being Such a HATER
4. Candace Gingrich on Wikipedia

POLITICS BUZZ: A new grassroots movement is urging people to “call in gay” from work on December 10 ( International Human Rights Day ) and spend the day volunteering. Straight allies are encouraged to participate too, so the opportunity to find out how your boss will react to an “I'm too gay to come to work today” phone call is available to everyone.

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The Best Links:

1. FAQs: “Will this get me on Oprah?”
2. Day Without A Gay, December 10, 2008
3. Lavender Flu Strikes Dec 10: I Can’t Come Into Work Today, I Feel Really Gay
4. Day Without a Gay: Great Idea, Terrible Name
5. Prop 8 Protest Signs: Pics, Videos, Links, News

POLITICS BUZZ: While Americans welcomed their first black president with open arms, it seems they’re still not down with the gays getting, y’know, equal rights and stuff. You’d have thought that the country’s favorite talk show host could have at least warmed California over, for goodness’ sake.

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The Best Links:

1. Did Prop 8 Pass?
2. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
3. Why We Lost Prop 8
4. California, Arizona, and Florida Vote Against Gay Rights
5. Andrew Sullivan: “We Shall Overcome. Do Not Be Discouraged. But We May Still Win.”

Sascha Baron Cohen’s alter ego Bruno, a gay Austrian reporter, went undercover at a Proposition 8 rally in California this past weekend. This is all in preparation for his next film, Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male .

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1. Bruno Sightings- Buzzfeed