Gay Couple Weds In DC After 60 Years Together

The Advocate reports: After a 60-year romance, a gay couple in their 80s tied the knot in Washington, D.C., June 20. Henry Schalizki and Bob Davis exchanged their vows at the J. W. Marriott in Washington in front of 60 friends and family members, according to The Washington Post. The couple reveals that while Schalizki immediately […]

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Rational Passional Persuasion

Andrew writes: So atheists don’t have emotions which inform them of the truth of something? And their rhetoric is completely dispassionate to the point where logic and reason are not fully objective? I have addressed the proper ways to consult the emotions in looking for truth in the post, Disambiguating Faith: Heart Over Reason, so for […]

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Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family?

I am a bit late on this story but wanted to offer a contrary viewpoint to the dominant one of the outraged blogosphere. Though I have never seen the show, I was interested in the controversy over the show Modern Family which apparently features a gay couple among its lead characters.  The controversy centers not […]

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Obama Acknowledges Two Father Families In Father’s Day Proclamation, Christian Right Flips Out

Secular News Daily reports: As part of his Sunday proclamation, Obama included a reference to “two fathers”: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. Tim Wildmon, president of the far-right American Family Association, responded […]

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“Ex-Gay” Adam Hood Argues That Homosexuality Is A Sin

To understand how this kind of self-loathing is manipulated into being please read A Gay Blogger Undercover At “Love Won Out” and for insight into how it can be overcome, watch Rejecting The Ex-Gay Movement. Your Thoughts?

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On The “Compassion” In The Catholic Bishops’ Letter To Congress Against Gay Rights

Recently, United States bishops petitioned Congress to not protect gays from being fired for their sexual orientation.  Andrew Sullivan already precisely attacked the bishops’ immoral political calculation by which they explicitly committed themselves to a perverse moral contradiction whereby they simultaneously concede that homosexuality is to a significant extent not a choice and argue that […]

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Con Edison Celebrates LGBT Pride Week

Their official YouTube page explains: Con Edison celebrates LGBT Pride Week by displaying the Rainbow Flag in lights on its 425-foot historic tower on 14th Street in Manhattan. When played in real time, the “Rainbow Effect” takes one minute for each of the colors to circle the tower. The new LED lighting system was installed […]

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How Not To React To Gay People

From Craigslist (in a post has since been flagged and taken down, so I’m glad I took the liberty of reproducing it unedited here), comes a humorous lesson in the form of a likely apocryphal story: A mutual friend of ours threw a big party for her 30th birthday, tons of people were there and […]

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Is This What Lesbian Wedding Vows Might Sound Like?

By Kirk Anderson, via United Atheist Front Your Thoughts?

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Follow The Closing Arguments Of The Proposition 8 Trial Today

And you can follow them as they are live-blogged on the Proposition 8 Trial Tracker website, which was an invaluable resource during testimony, filled with fascinating in-depth accounts of the arguments everyday.  They’ve also started rolling already today on their Twitter feed and on their Facebook page. Here is the schedule for the arguments, all […]

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Confronting Conservative Christians With The Consequences Of Their Homophobia

Last month there was a day of silence in schools to promote awareness of schools about the dangers gay students experience. In solidarity with their gay peers who are frequently bullied into silence, students were encouraged (by outside activist groups, not by schools themselves) to voluntarily refrain from speaking in school all day. Unsurprisingly, for […]

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Iceland Unanimously Approves Gay Marriage

Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance. The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between “man and […]

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Rejecting The Ex-Gay Movement

Michael Bussee co-founded the “ex-gay” ministry Exodus International. In the videos below he explains the problems with the movement and how he came to reject it.  Here are a bunch of the videos, and more can be found on his YouTube channel.

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Family Research Council Lobbied Congress NOT To Denounce Uganda Bill

Enraging: Your Thoughts?

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Children Of Lesbians Did Better In Study Than Traditionally Raised Children

Nanette Gartrell and Henny Bos (author of Parenting in Planned Lesbian Families (UvA Proefschriften) have the authored the first longitudinal study to track the outcomes of children created through artificial insemination through their teenage years.  The results? The authors found that children raised by lesbian mothers — whether the mother was partnered or single — […]

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Michael Sandel On “The Lost Art Of Democratic Debate”

A good video from Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, who recently wrote a book on justice for a popular audience, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, and who last year released on YouTube high production value videos encapsulating his lectures for his standard introductory level ethics class at Harvard. You can start watching those videos here. […]

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Make Homosexuals Marry

Starring Mike White, writer and co-star of two of my favorite movies (The Good Girl and School of Rock), a look at the realities of gay marriage: Your Thoughts?

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The McDonald’s Ad About Gays: Iranian Style

The original ad is here, Bill O’Reilly’s despicable reaction and my denunciation of it is here. Your Thoughts?

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8: The Mormon Proposition

8: The Mormon Proposition, a new movie out in theaters next Friday and available on DVD in July, explores the way that a tax exempt organization has waged a “secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights”: Thanks to Richard for the link. Your Thoughts?

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Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)

Diana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world.    Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve […]

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A California Attorney General Candidate Who Supports Gay Marriage

His name is Steve Cooley and he could use your support in a primary for the Republican party’s nomination.  Think about it if you’re qualified to vote for him and live in California: Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley is running for the Republican Party nomination for California State Attorney General. And those readers who […]

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U.S. Bishops Argue Employers Should Be Allowed To Consider Being Gay A Fireable Offense

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote a letter addressed to the United States Congress people opposing ENDA, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act For the sake of clarity, permit us first to state two basic tenets of Catholic Church teaching on this issue. First, persons with a homosexual inclination “must be accepted with respect, compassion, […]

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Bill O’Reilly Compares Gays To Al-Qaeda

A little over an hour ago, I posted this McDonald’s commercial, running only in France thus far, which gently sends a pro-gay message.  Little did I know yet that Bill O’Reilly got seriously O’riled up about it tonight: His physical hostility towards such a remarkably understated and delicate ad and his adamant insistence that the […]

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“Come As You Are”

McDonald’s takes a social stand, in France: Vos pensées?

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Justice Stevens’s Legacy On Liberty

Cliff Sloan, a former clerk of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, makes a four part case that he was the greatest (non-chief) Justice in American history.  His second point of evidence is Justice Stevens’s vigorous defense of personal liberty, including his contribution to the long overdue overturning laws criminalizing gay sex: Second, Justice […]

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