When talking about same-sex marriage, it is often a muddy subject where the religious and the civil collide or overlap. But when discussing, a state’s recognition of a same-sex marriage in another state, the dialogue is free from the religious discourse.
So many activists are busy screaming about equality and equal rights, and that isn’t really a bad thing. But if we don’t do more to voice how our rights are connected the the founding and foundational documents of our states as well as our country, we may as well be screaming where no one can hear us. The very nature of everything we hold as Americans is up for grabs, if the constitutionality of laws doesn’t matter.
Ginny LaRoe, writing on Legal Pad offers further comment about the status of the Pro 8 Appeals case, currently before the Federal Ninth Circuit panel of judges. Here is my earlier recap/commentary on the state of the case. LaRoe writes about how a Washington DC ruling could offer the Californai panel direction in the question of if the Prop 8 proponents have standing. She writes: With the panel judges on the Prop 8 appeal so[Read More…]
Update: The charges seem to be 6 acts of child molestation (http://sfist.com/2011/01/03/pastor_who_backed_prop_8_held_on_se.php) The link below is to the Advocate.com, and a short post about a pastor accused of  child molestation who is now being held in a Sacramento County jail. On first read, I thought the tone of the piece was to fault the church board for supporting the pastor, but after reading it a few times, I’m not sure about that anymore. Unfortunately, the[Read More…]
Update 8:10 PM This is from David Badash: At this afternoon’s GOP debate, during which five candidates are vying to be elected GOP Chair, the second question, after the obligatory, “What would you focus on?,â€Â came from a representative of the Susan B. Anthony List, Marjorie Dannenfelser, who said that the GOP should not have “some sort of truce on social issues.†She claimed that 80% of Republicans support traditional marriage, and added, “certain Republican elites try to[Read More…]
Bills like this are going to be showing up all over the place in a concerted and strategized way, supported by big money and groups like the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Because of the recent wins for Marriage Equality on all fronts, they are stepping up there efforts to get anti-gay legislation on the books in as many states as they can, and get that legislation as deep into the constitution as they can get it.
The God gene hypothesis proposes that human beings inherit a set of genes that predisposes them towards spiritual or mystic experiences. The idea has been postulated by geneticist Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, who has written a book on the subject titled, The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes. The God gene hypothesis is based on a combination of behavioral[Read More…]
The Tea Party movement, while played up to be about fiscal responsibility, and small government, is really all about social purity first and foremost. That’s why we have seen a number of far right wing hate groups, like the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) pull out of CPAC, the conservative convention because the gay group, GoProud is a sponsor.
The linked story is really about the GOP, Sarah Palin and her pro-obesity campaign, but it was the reference to former Senator, Rick “Man on Dog sex” Santorum that prompted me to post this. Sarah Palin has taken to assailing Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiative on her reality show and elsewhere, while former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, the Republican Party’s resident authority on obesity and a potential Palin rival, has been defending it from Palin’s salvos.[Read More…]
Yesterday, I posted the first in a series of Year in review posts, listing the top 10 posts based on page views. Today, I want to list the top stories or topics more generally, and say something about what I think is coming in the new year. The Election The midterm election was a huge topic occupying 5 of the top 10 spots for my blog, and many of the top 50 posts as well.[Read More…]