First, I didn’t talk at all yesterday about the statement of motivations in The Marriage Vow that preceded its fourteen provisions, which included two claims that have since been removed: Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in.
This is not a marriage. No matter whatit might look like. No siree-bob. If they havekids, they will not be a family. Nope.This message brought to you by a lot oforganizations with the word “family”in their names, so they know whatthey’re talking about. So far, Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann are the two presidential candidates.
Ed Brayton has a very moving (to me) post today about the progressive acceptance of equality in the face of absolutist proclamations that the faith of the majority rejects it. Using an argument from Southern Baptist Al Mohler which appeals entirely to tradition and biblical exegesis as an example, he notes that advancements in equality.
Pat Robertson declares that just as every other country to accept homosexuality and gay marriage has failed, so shall the U.S. One wonders exactly how Robertson defines failure, given that Denmark legalized civil unions in 1985 and many other countries have embraced gays as equal to a similar or greater extent since. They seem to.
From Radley Balko: “New York legalizes gay marriage. In protest, Newt Gingrich promptly divorces his third wife.” From Popehat: “I felt a great disturbance in the derp, as if millions of derpers suddenly wharrgarbled at once in rage and were suddenly less relevant.”“Enjoying quiet evening with amazing wife. Annoyed at suggestion that NY vote could.
From How to be a Retronaut: Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1935-1958 The description at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library site reads: Included here are twenty-five illustrated front and back covers from pulp fiction novels dating between 1935-1958. This small collection of novels is part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s growing collection of.
On Monday the 18th a trans-woman attempted to use the womens’ restroom at a McDonald’s in Baltimore, MD and was beaten by at least two women. From the video (taken by a McDonald’s employee) it looks like a manager tried to prevent the attack for a while, but then disappeared as it continued. The other McDonald’s.
New Hampshire Tea Partiers’ opinions of gay marriage range from apathetic to vaguely supportive. I wonder how many of those people are members of the Free State Project. Check out the guy at 42 seconds in. Iowa, Florida, and Minnesota are trying to ban covert photography of factory farm operations. I would’ve thought that unauthorized.
A commenter at Dispatches From the Culture Wars remarks, in response to conversation about Kobe Bryant’s recent $100,000 fine for calling a referee a “fucking faggot”: Most people who fight for ‘equal rights’ do it because they, or people close to them, are members of the group being discriminated against. They fight – and this.
I’ve written before about how LGBT issues are ultimately about gender role conformity in general, and Dan Savage posted on that topic today in relation to the It Gets Better Project: Got this question last night at Cornell University… Cornell professor Ritch Savin-Williams said in the New York Times that he’s concerned that it’s not.