Thursday, July 23, 2009  The many untruths and bald lies of
Wisconsin Family Action  Wisconsin recently became the first
state with a standing constitutional ban on gay marriage to go
ahead and enact same-sex domestic partnership rights. Gov. Doyle
worked the provision into his 2009 budget, and after a memo from
the Legislative Council Staff confirmed that the rights did not
give "comprehensive, core aspects of the legal status of
marriage to same-sex couples" (and thus did not violate the
constitutional amendment), the legislature went ahead and voted
it into law.  It's a big step in the right direction, and a most
welcome advance after the depressing amendment vote in 2006.  Of
course, not content to abide by their own promises or common
decency, Wisconsin Family Action decided to file a lawsuit
challenging the provision, arguing that it does, in fact,
violate the ban by creating something "substantially similar to
marriage."  This is funny (not "ha ha" so much as "oh c'MON!")
in that several WFA spokespers