Tag: Gay Issues
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On Gay Marriage, NY vs. NJ, and the Maplewood Bubble
Same-sex marriage is a basic civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. With every passing year America will bend further in that direction. Faster, please.
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Obama Swats the Gay Ping-Pong Ball
While I was at the Karen Armstrong lecture last night, President Barack “Marriage is between a man and a woman” Obama was walking back his position on one of the few issues where I have found myself politically to his left: Same-sex marriage. He didn’t use the word “marriage,” but last night at a New […]
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A Brief History of Presidential Betrayal, Through the Prism of Andrew Sulllivan
If Obama has lost Andrew Sullivan, has he lost the Left, the Right or the Center? For reasons that will become clear, I’ve been watching off and on to see what might happen when Obama does something that Sullivan perceives as a betrayal. The time may have come with Obama’s shocking decision to intervene in […]
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DADT: Some Days It’s Not Easy Being a Socially Liberal Republican
For national security and economic reasons I generally vote Republican, but I’m quite liberal on social issues. For example, my support for same-sex marriage equality puts me to the left of Barack “marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman” Obama. This occasionally leads to cognitive dissonance, when people I otherwise admire take positions I find offensive. I voted for Jon Corzine […]
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The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
After the New Jersey Senate’s disgraceful vote to deny equal rights to same-sex couples, the fight for marriage equality turns to federal court. Testimony began today in the effort to overturn California’s Proposition 8. A fascinating subplot can be found in the fact that the lead legal adversaries in Bush v. Gore have joined forces […]
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Today’s NJ Gay Marriage Vote Hurts Real People
Same-sex marriage is a straightforward civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. I believe I’ll see it in my lifetime. But New Jersey took a step in the wrong direction today, and I weep for my friends.
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Civil Rights, and the Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation
Not long after the Presidential election last year, the Web Goddess and I had dinner with four of our closest friends, who happen to be a black couple and a lesbian couple. There was exactly one McCain voter in the room.
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Witnessing a Step Toward Marriage Equality in NJ
The Web Goddess and I journeyed to Trenton yesterday in support of marriage equality for same-sex couples. (The picture makes me look fatter than I am.) Pictured in the background is our priest, Father Bernie Poppe. A Senate committee approved the bill, which is to be voted on by the full Senate on Thursday. My […]
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Lobbying for Marriage Equality in New Jersey
The Web Goddess and I are headed to Trenton Monday morning to lobby for pending legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey. We’ll be car-pooling with friends both gay and straight from St. George’s Episcopal Church. I’m covering the event for Maplewood Patch, a charter member of the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM. Patch already has […]
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Resolved: Western Civilization is Morally Superior to Certain Other Cultures. Discuss.
Even though the bishop in question supports the comprehensive anti-gay legislation in question, he doesn’t actually WANT to kill gay people. He wants scientists to cure them. I suspect this qualifies him as a liberal by Ugandan standards.