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From Raw Story:  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0726/polls-show-legalize-pot-support-growing-higher-higher/

By Ron Brynaert
Monday, July 26th, 2010 — 1:04 pm

“Every man got to legalize it, and don’t criticize it,” Reggae legend Peter Tosh sang in 1976.

While US support for marijuana legalization may never hit the “every man” level — at least not publicly, that is — two recent national polls definitely show that it is growing higher and higher.

“Americans are evenly divided over whether marijuana should be legalized in the United States, but most expect it to happen within the next decade,” a Rasmussen Reports press release states.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults nationally shows 43% believe marijuana should be legalized. But 42% think it should remain an illegal drug. Another 15% are not sure.

These results show a slight shift toward legalization from February of last year.

Continue reading at:  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0726/polls-show-legalize-pot-support-growing-higher-higher/

From Queerty

Penny Wong, Australia’s Despicable Lesbian Senator Suddenly Slamming Gay Marriage

Sen. Penny Wong, Australia’s Labor Party climate change minister, is backing Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s opposition to same-sex marriage. Which is an interesting position for Wong to take, given she’s a lesbian.

The first lesbian cabinet member in Australia’s history, Wong says she backs her party leader’s stance on marriage equality — because that’s the party’s position. She is, quite clearly, a charlatan and a traitor to the LGBT community, more concerned with politics and appearances and towing the line than equal rights. “On the issue of marriage I think the reality is there is a cultural, religious, historical view around that which we have to respect,” she said yesterday. “The party’s position is very clear that this is an institution that is between a man and a woman.”

Gender as determining who is really a man or who is really a woman not sexism is the problem but Greta Christina is expressing a similar idea.

By Greta Christina, AlterNet
Posted on July 24, 2010, Printed on July 26, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147626/

If you have a scrap of progressive politics in your bones, it’s no surprise to you that sexism hurts women. Like, duh. That’s kind of the definition of the word.

But we don’t talk as much about how sexism hurts men. Understandably. When you look at the grotesque ways women are damaged by sexism — from economic inequality to political disenfranchisement to literal, physical abuse — it makes perfect sense that we’d care more about how sexism and patriarchy and rigid gender roles affect women, than we do about how they affect men.

But men undoubtedly get screwed up by this stuff, too. Not screwed up as badly as women, to be sure… but not trivially, either. I care about it. And I think other feminists — and other women and men who may not see themselves as feminists — ought to care about it, too.

Continue reading at:  http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/147626/5_stupid%2C_unfair_and_sexist_things_expected_of_men/