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Slippery slope...

The things you can find on the internet, right here in our xanga backyard... If gays should have the right the same type of marriage as heterosexuals, so should brothers and sisters, and multiple people (2 wives and 3…
Gonna be on TV again, this time opposing DADT

I received an email today inviting me to be the guest on Ozark News Journal's "hot seat" segment. It will be filmed over a couple hours tomorrow and will air on local cable, though I'm not sure when. If it's online, I…
How can I caricature religion today?

I know! How about talking about how the pope, the head of a religion claiming a billion followers? Even more, how about talking about how religious people can feasibly get enough votes to infiltrate our government? D…
Once more: we don't need delusion to be better, but we do need it to be worse

This may be the saddest thing I've read in a while. Isabella Jenkins-Miller is the daughter of two women, Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller, who procured a civil union in Vermont once it became legal and went through the l…
Gay rights in Missouri

I just read this on Pharyngula and it struck me close to home, since I live in Missouri. The people who have put this system in place are the people we fight against every single day. There is an enormous contingent i…
They hold up stupidity like a bulls-eye

My father recently posted a bit on the procreation argument against marriage equality. He doubled this post on his blog with his local newspaper and got a magnificently typical response: Next we will have someone want…
Prop 8 trial and faith

Make no mistake that the defenders of marriage equality know precisely where the problem lies: Other evidence presented by the plaintiffs Wednesday provided new details confirming reports from the 2008 campaign that Ca…
Pleasant surprises

From Yahoo News: Throughout his career, Sen. John McCain has been a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage. He opposed it during his 2008 presidential campaign and was vocal in his support for California's Proposition…
Repeal of DOMA

According to the Constitution, we are all born with certain "inalienable rights" -- meaning that the government cannot take them away. What the State can do, however, is infringe upon rights. The purpose of the Bill of…
Karl Rove divorced

I'm not a big fan of Shadenfreude. It's simply not in my nature to delight in the suffering of others, even without a godly moral compass to guide me. However, when somebody like Karl Rove, who was responsible for ant…