“You know, prophets are just weird. We are so strange.”
The Lord said, “No, no, you don’t have enough intercessory prayer mobilized to really stabilize this economy.” So I wrote a friend of mine, a South African friend… She makes God sound like a brat on...
View ArticleNOM’s Mandatory Anti-Gay Discrimination Initiative
2012 was a tough year for the National Organization for Marriage. Will they react by pulling back to moderate their goals, or will they thrash about, careening desperately into greater and greater...
View ArticleMy Phone Had a Freudian Slip
I’m going to a Super Bowl pool party today (at the very home that inspired this article). “Bring a bathing suit and towel,” I texted a friend who’s coming along. My phone corrected it to “Bring a...
View Article“YOU! No Marriage for YOU!”
Self-described Catholic blogger Brandon Vogt recently published Rebuttals to arguments for same-sex marriage. He tries to disprove 10 common same-sex-marriage arguments, but merely highlights the most...
View ArticleThink About the Children
Self-described Catholic blogger Brandon Vogt recently published Rebuttals to arguments for same-sex marriage. He tries to disprove 10 common same-sex-marriage arguments, but merely highlights the most...
View ArticleThe Sandusky Principle
As the Boy Scouts ponders its policy toward gay, many of our opponents are clamoring about pedophilia, some of them even invoking the strange, self-negating example of Jerry Sandusky, the...
View ArticleNOM, you crack me up.
The National Organization for Marriage is upset. “For far too long, media outlets and reporters have allowed activist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center to label opponents of same-sex...
View ArticleIs Same Sex Marriage Just Like the 1960s Civil Rights Movement? Well, No.
Self-described Catholic blogger Brandon Vogt recently published Rebuttals to arguments for same-sex marriage. He tries to disprove 10 common same-sex-marriage arguments, but merely highlights the most...
View ArticleAsking for your help.
This year once again, I’ll be doing the AIDS/LifeCycle, a 7-day, 540-mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, raising money for AIDS treatment and prevention. It’s a big challenge and...
View ArticleInevitability, History, and the Moral Universe
Self-described Catholic blogger Brandon Vogt recently published Rebuttals to arguments for same-sex marriage. He tries to disprove 10 common same-sex-marriage arguments, but merely highlights the most...
View ArticleThis actually happened today.
A few hours ago: The goal of astronomy is to unveil the traces of God’s perfection and collect the echoes of His harmonies – Pope Pius XII — Vatican Observatory (@VaticanObserv) February 10, 2013...
View ArticleNew Rule
Drinking half of one bottle of wine, and then drinking half of a different bottle of wine, does not count as drinking a whole bottle of wine. New rule.
View ArticleBigotry, Part 1
Self-described Catholic blogger Brandon Vogt recently published Rebuttals to arguments for same-sex marriage. He tries to disprove 10 common same-sex-marriage arguments, but merely highlights the most...
View ArticleSimply Wrong
Yesterday I wrote our opponents love to claim they’re persecuted simply for opposing same-sex marriage — claiming it so falsely and frequently, I now interpret simply as code for there’s so much we’re...
View ArticleFreakin’ freaks are freaking out.
Today at 11:33am PST, during the Illinois State Senate debate on same-sex marriage, Sen. Kyle McCarter (R) said — no, you won’t believe me. Hold on, let me try. He said… He said… He said…most florists...
View ArticleIn case you ever wondered what a straw man is…
Technically, a straw man is “an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position.” And boy do I have an example for you. Gilles Bernheim, author of a new article against same-sex...
View ArticleRead This.
I’ve just finished reading the introduction of Olson and Boies’ Supreme Court brief against Prop 8. I’m so certain you’d love it that I’m reprinting the whole section here. For readability’s sake I’ve...
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