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Is Marching for Gay Rights a Waste of Time?

Barney Frank, whom I admire greatly, says it is.
Frank feels it would be a better expenditure of time and effort to lobby elected officials and get friends and family to do so, too.

Now, I’ve got to say this is a bit of an awkward slog for me.  Where do I get the nerve to think [...]

Top 10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

Brilliant

Gov Douglas edged out for Biggest Asshole in Vermont title.

Last night, the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill giving the OK to same sex marriage. Passed it by a healthy margin, too. 95-52. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

The frustrating thing is that’s just a handful of votes short of what it would take to override the veto Republican Gov. [...]

Love Forever – Phyllis and Del

PhyllisDel

How cute are they????? After 55 years (fifty-five years!!!!) together, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin still radiate love and sheer joy at being with each other. These two beautiful women will marry today at 5:01 Pacific time in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO – Dozens of gay couples planned to rush down to their county [...]

Gay in the womb – it makes evolutionary sense

So another study seems to indicate we are born with our sexual orientation already determined. We are straight or gay long before we even know there might be a choice to be made, so we may as well own it and celebrate it, whichever it is.

While the results of this particular study might seem [...]

The good, the bad, and the ironic

The good:

New US church leader says homosexuality no sin

Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.

The bad:

Pentagon lists homosexuality as disorder

A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, [...]

And God created Adam and Steve

I’m usually not very interested in the religious debates for/against gay rights.  Pinning your argument on a myth does little to clarify anything.

But I was waiting for Al Gore to appear on Countdown and surfing around the blogs and came across this.   Bearcastle Blog has a religious take that’s actually quite interesting:

Book burning, hate crimes, taking a stand, and going home.

AARGH! I hate oversleeping. I like to ease gently into the day. Jumping out of bed and rushing around leaves me foggy-brained and irritable for a good part of the morning.

Waiting for the coffee to kick in and jumpstart said brain, I am essentially on automatic pilot this morning. Normally, I [...]

It sounds like something you’d find swimming about in sour cream sauce

on a farm outside Sven’s Finger, Minnesota.

Podfisk

Gotta be something like lutefisk, no? Apparently not.

Living out in the wilds of Shit-To-Do, Illinois, ourselves, we are limited to dialup service and can’t verify for ourselves that it is

a podcast version of a fisking. A fisking – a term derived from the many [...]

Russ Feingold

We heart Russ.

Et tu, LOGO?

A message of inclusion. Well, gosh, who wouldn’t be offended by that???? CNN, Lifetime, BET, Hallmark, History, TBS, TNT, E!, Lifetime, SI-TV, and Azteca America wouldn’t. That’s who. Shame on the rest of you! Double shame on LOGO.

Each of the Big Three networks, plus Fox’s broadcast network, have rejected a paid [...]

Miranda was a slimeball, too

One of the slimier slimeballs of our time is undoubtedly Fred Phelps. He and his travelling band of hate-filled nutjobs are obsessed with gay people to a point that makes even some of the fundiest of fundies back off and disown them. These sick bastards are so consumed with other people’s sex lives [...]

Wednesday is the national Day of Silence

From Pandagon

This event is a day-long vow of silence taken by students who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools and to recognize and protest discrimination and harassment.

Would you buy a used car from this man?

In my own experience with car dealers, “integrity” is not a word that’s come up much.

But if you’re in the market for a new or used vehicle and live in or near Niles, Michigan, this is your guy. When a rightwingnut homophobe sent him an email telling him he had been considering a Ford, [...]

Easter Egg Blog

One of our favorite blogs, Republic of T., will have a report on the White House Easter Egg Roll. Watch for it!

Apt. at the White House « The Republic of T.