BurningbirdThe importance of supporting diversity
Feministe has an extraordinary essay today on Rape is a Men’s Issue. She writes: My boyfriend roasted a customer at work this week for his choice of attire. A college student walked into his store wearing a “Free Kobe” t-shirt. When B saw the smug student wearing the shirt, he whipped his head around, put on […]
A new story just came out that Multnomah County in Oregon will be issuing marriage licenses for gays tomorrow. For the first time since the first license was issued in San Francisco, the gay marriage issue has hit close to home. And I am so pleased. There is one couple, let’s call them Jamie and Barbara, who I’ve known […]
Two stores in the New York Times today on Gay marriage. The first is a new article about how Bush won’t reference the Marriage Amendment again, because, according to the article, he was really pressured into this by the conservative groups. In actuality, he’s really a good friend to gays all over. This after a State of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If we’re going to have an amendment to the Constitution to ensure the sanctity of marriage by denying gays the right to marry, then I think it’s only fair that we do a good job of it: let’s make divorce unconstitutional. No, I’m serious. If we’re asking gays to give […]
President Bush just came out with support for a Constitutional Amendment to ban same-sex marriage. I don’t think anyone is surprised about this – it suits Bush’s religious agenda, and it should satisfy those who can’t leave others alone. Make no mistake on this one: no matter the semantic games we play, this is an amendment […]