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“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...

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NOM’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...

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My 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...

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“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...

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Think 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...

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The 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...

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NOM, 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...

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Is 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...

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Asking 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...

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Things Never to Say on a Saturday

“Want to go to Ikea at 1?”

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Inevitability, 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...

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This 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...

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New 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.

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Bigotry, 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...

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Simply 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...

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Freakin’ 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...

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I might need to start working harder.

From Crew Magazine.

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OMG!

H/T to my excellent lolcat-obsessed friend BradP.

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In 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...

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Read 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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