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Giving NOM’s March4Marriage the Attention It Deserves
It seems like we ought to talk about NOM’s March4Marriage, but watching the live feed for just a few minutes was enough to show nothing of substance was going on. Really, the only appropriate response...
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Regnerus Shoots His Own Foot
Mark Regnerus has gotten a lot of flack lately for publicly criticizing a positive Australian report on same-sex parenting, a classic example of the pot calling the kettle incompetent. Hidden in his...
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Social Conservatives on Anti-Gay Discrimination: Incoherent or Just Cowardly?
Gays present mainstream social conservatives with a great dilemma, because they try to hold such contradictory positions. For instance They want to oppose laws outlawing anti-gay discrimination by...
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BAD ANALOGIES: Gay Marriage is Like 2 + 2 = 5
Anti-gays hate the word homophobia, but we need it for those times when someone’s reaction to homosexuality makes them take leave of their senses, lose their ability to think clearly, and fail at...
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Press Release of the Day
As a blogger I get some weird, random press releases, but this one, well, read it: Below, please find the product announcement for the one and only Step And Go. Call it a “poop stool,” a...
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Ryan Anderson on Anti-Gay Discrimination: The Contradictions Continue
I had a long, intense twitter exchange with Ryan Anderson! I have to thank Michelangelo Signorile — he started the conversation and I jumped in. I used it as a chance to ask Ryan about his views on...
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Time to Invest in Target?
The National Organization for Marriage might just turn into my personal investment guru. See, NOM is twirling itself around in boycott frenzy these day. It launched one against JP Morgan Chase on July...
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Stupid Transphobic Dickhead, er, Douche, er, Person
My genetics gave me terrible vision. I’ve never met anyone with correctible vision worse than mine. Over the years, I’ve had three surgeries involving scalpels slicing into my eyes, and four surgeries...
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Privilege, Michael Brown, and Harvey Milk
I posted this on Facebook the other day, and the reaction was pretty strong, so I figured I’d share it here. I’m such a white guy, an all-American-looking white guy whom old ladies trust on sight. No...
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A few of my favorite things
Maybe it’s just because I’m on Vicodin (details below, not for the squeamish), but it’s delicious to listen to the 7th Circuit judges ask Indiana’s attorney general why he wants the adopted children of...
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Louisiana Logic
I’m having some trouble with Judge Feldman’s decision upholding Louisiana’s ban on marriage equality. I’m not a lawyer, though, so perhaps others can correct me. For instance, in explaining why...
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That’s Entertainment!
Court decisions on marriage can be inspiring, lovely, even wry, but they’re rarely laugh-out-loud funny. The 7th Circuit’s decision on Indiana and Wisconsin is an exception. In the bit I’m about to...
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I’m getting married today
Today, at 5pm, at the beautiful Los Angeles Arboretum, I’m marrying Will, the love of my life and partner of six and a half years. I was 46 when I met Will, and resigned to being single forever. But on...
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A Prediction
A hundred years from now, Christians will proudly recall how they fought for LGBT rights at the beginning of the 21st Century, and if anyone reminds them of Christian opposition to our equality, they...
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The Swaggart Legacy: “If one ever looks at me like that, I’m going to kill...
I’ve long suspected much of the paranoia coming from our opponents is projection: they worry if we gain popular support we’ll start treating them the way they treated us for years decades centuries...
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The People We’ll Never Reach
What I say: My husband and I went to a gay charity event for L.A. Children’s Hospital, and it was lovely to see all the clothes and toys this group of good people had brought to the party. What they...
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Dangerous Medical Experimentation on Teens
Laurie Higgins is the “Cultural Analyst” for the Illinois Family Institute, and she’s quite agitated about the state’s attempt to ban conversion therapy for teens. …they want minors to be prohibited...
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The Best Worst Graphic Ever
I recently saw an anti-gay graphic on JoeMyGod that excels so thoroughly at destroying its own message it feels like the best worst graphic ever. I’m an instructional designer and a big part of my job...
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More questions, more answers (part 1)
I don’t know why I find it so compelling, this anti-gay strategy of asking scary gotcha questions instead of offering substantive arguments, but I always feel a near-irresistible urge to answer them....
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More questions, more answers (part 2)
This is part 2 of my answers to questions posed by Jason Salamone, who “is a former liberal agnostic, but surrendered to Christ on April 7th, 2011.” You can find part 1 here. It covered his first 11...
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