Found a video on same-sex marriage
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/393041/july-25-2011/y2-gay

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Team Meeting 10/18

Yesterday our team met to discuss what we wanted to focus on for our project on same sex marriage and delegate research/different tasks. The emphases we picked to focus on are 1. Proposition 8 in California 2. The Hot Spots of same sex marriage in the U.S. 3. Same sex marriage policies in other countries in comparison with the United States' policy 4. Same sex marriage and religions, plus an introduction page.


We all came into the meeting with specific editorial cartoons that we had picked and we went through each cartoon together and decided if it was positive or negative and what section it would fit under. However, we decided not to go through and code/analyze the cartoons this time as our background knowledge in these areas still needs to be built up.

After we went through each cartoon together we delegated certain topics to each group member as follows:
-Allie: Blog introduction page and assembly of the team notebook/scrapbook
-Ami: Same sex marriage policies in different countries blog page
-Bradley: Proposition 8 blog page
-Spencer: Hot spots blog page
-Travis: Same sex marriage and religion blog page.

We decided that by the time we have the next group meeting to have all of our research done and each of our individual pages up and running. The next time we meet we will then go through and code and analyze each cartoon together. This was the extent of our meeting but we got a lots done!

More Cartoons.....yay!

Ok this should be all of the cartoons that we looked at together. Let me know if there's anymore, or if you find a new one don't hesitate to post it. Also let me know as soon as possible what cartoons you'll be using in your sections so that I can print them out and get the book started. Good luck in the research and let me know if you guys need anything!

More Editorials to Consider

Positive Framing Cartoons

Negative Framing Cartoons

Editorials

Here are some interesting editorials. I also liked Ami's idea of looking at other countries gay rights and laws.

Proposition 8

Election results
Yes or no	Votes	Percentage
Yes	7,001,084	52.24%
No	6,401,482	47.76%
Valid votes	13,402,566	97.52%
Invalid or blank votes	340,611	2.48%
Total votes	13,743,177	100.00%
Voter turnout	79.42%
Electorate	17,304,428

http://www.protectmarriage.com/prop8

      For proposition 8

http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm

      Voter guide for proposition 8

http://www.rcbo.org/site/images/stories/respect_life/myths_and_facts_about_proposition_8.pdf

http://www.whatisprop8.com/

Hey Guys!

I thought it would be really cool if we had a page on the blog about other countries' laws about gay marriage. I think that would be really unique. So here is a list of countries and some information about each of them. There are about 16 countries here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Argentina : Argentina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Belgium: Belgium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Canada: Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_partnership_in_Iceland: Iceland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Netherlands: Netherlands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Norway: Norway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_South_Africa: South Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Spain: Spain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Sweden: Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Mexico_City: Mexico City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_civil_de_solidarité: France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_unions_in_New_Zealand: New Zealand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Germany: Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Ireland: Ireland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_partnership_in_the_United_Kingdom: United Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_partnership_in_Switzerland: Switzerland