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Religious Freedom and the Destruction of Civil Marriage
Two and a half years ago, I offered up this ridiculous, extreme scenario as I tried to puzzle out just how far the advocates of “religious liberty” want to take us: Suppose an on-duty police officer...
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Q&A: Arizona and Lawless Anarchy
I could use some lawyers to chime in here, because to me it looks like Arizona is on the verge of abolishing the rule of law statewide. Arizona legislators, as you know, are working on a “religious...
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Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law Can Imprison You Forever Just For Opposing It
Media reports are understating the horror of Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law. For instance, from the Associated Press: It sets life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” defined as...
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Marriage Equality Foe Accidentally Rebuts Arguments Against Marriage Equality
With NOM collapsing like a crumbling tenement, the main political force opposing same-sex marriage seems to the Heritage Foundation, working through its resident expert Ryan T. Anderson, a co-author on...
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Anti-Gay Advocate Reveals It’s Not About Religious Freedom After All
Are all these religious freedom bills really about religious freedom? And by that I mean the principle of religious freedom — freedom for everyone, not just for members of the anti-gay tribe....
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Huh?
I’ve been surveying the anti-gay reaction to the epic crash-and-burn of Arizona’s religious freedom law. I can sum it up like this: The bill failed because liberals lied about it: This bill was needed...
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Ideological Incoherence (with a picture!)
Lately I’ve been trying to point out the contradictions and hypocrisy of those pushing “religious freedom” laws, and influential conservative Erick Erickson has done me a favor by making it all too...
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Stephen Colbert: Independently Verify Your Gayness
Some arguments are too incoherent to be refuted. They’re grounded in so many ridiculous assumptions, so much misinformation, that it’s impossible to find the one key flaw on which to base your...
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The Negro Motorist Green Book. And The Assault on Our Liberty.
I recently discovered “The Negro Motorist Green Book.” Here’s the cover. And here are the first two pages (don’t worry if you can’t read them; I’ve transcribed some bits below). It’s a fascinating...
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Some Friday Silliness
I’d like to lighten things up with a few fun little items. These are too dumb to feed your outrage monster. They’re just good for a chuckle. You’re gay because climate change. I’ve seen a lot of gay...
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Too Much Safety is a Dangerous Thing
I went to grad school at Stanford and I am appalled that the university has decided to protect its students from anti-gay speech. Is appalled the right word? “to fill or overcome with horror,...
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What infuriates us the most about our friends is often the flip side of what...
[I contribute to Box Turtle Bulletin, which has recently seen huge and occasionally ugly arguments in the comments sections about the appropriate response to anti-gay speech, especially after the...
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When the Arguments of the Best and the Brightest are Mediocre and Dim
Ryan T. Anderson of the Heritage Foundation is one of the most active, best funded, and intellectually respectable opponents of marriage equality. Of course, that’s a very low bar. To see just how poor...
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A Reader Participation Request
Blogging’s been stressful lately, and I’m afraid it drove me back into self-destructive behavior, indulging an addiction that’s nothing more than a cheap thrill, a dopamine high, an escape satisfying...
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The Self-Defeating Folly of Robert Oscar Lopez
Robert Oscar Lopez is a maybe-bisexual man raised by two lesbians (well, sort of: one full-time mom and one part-time). He spouts such vicious garbage that he’s finding it hard to find places in...
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Yep, I Signed It
As you may know, I signed the controversial petition, Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both. This has caused an uproar over at Box Turtle Bulletin, where I also blog. If you’re...
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Marriage Equality, Bigotry…and Don Sterling
A great deal of opposition to marriage equality is based on anti-gay bigotry. I’ve read it, experienced it, documented it and called it out, again and again and again. Homophobia, like racism,...
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Please, please, PLEASE — be my straight best friend!
The Public Discourse is a publication of the Witherspoon Institute (which financed Regnerus) and it has an odd pattern of inviting gay authors to talk about how much it sucks to be gay. These articles...
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Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism
What should we call perpetrators of hate crimes? “Hate criminals” hasn’t caught on. “Perpetrator of a hate crimes” is a mouthful. So what’s an alternative? I vote for “terrorist.” Or, if you prefer,...
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Ignorance as a tool for persuasion
Now that the Equal Rights Amendment is back in the news, I’ve read two long articles from conservatives decrying how terrible it is. Neither article provided the amendment’s actual text, which is only...
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