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Entries Tagged as 'Gay marriage'

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Protecting marriage by…

This one, really, speaks for itself.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Here come the brides (at last)

 
This is a picture of Del Martin, 87 (left), and Phyllis Lyon, 84. They were the first gay couple to get married in California, yesterday. They’ve been together since the early 1950s.
We’re told they represent some sort of mortal threat to the moral fabric of the United States.
I ain’t buying it.

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Without religion, nothing

There’s a pretty interesting video making the rounds this week in which Bill O’Reilly has a guest on who opposes gay marriage, and O’Reilly asks him - well, why do you oppose gay marriage - and the guy simply can’t come up with anything coherent. And O’Relly sort of gets on the guy’s case. Which, […]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Jenna Bush backs marriage equality

Jenna Hager these days, actually:
John McCain may disapprove of Ellen DeGeneres and partner Portia DeRossi’s intentions to marry, but there’s another Republican who is only too happy to help with the upcoming nuptials: Jenna Hager.
The first daughter, who herself got hitched May 10 at the Bush family spread in Crawford, Texas, appears with her mother, […]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Equality elicits a yawn

And so I’m sitting in a restaurant in a rural part of Lancaster County when the news flash comes across Headline News:
California’s top court overturns gay marriage ban
Far less grumbling than I would have expected, to tell the truth. “Isn’t everything legal in California?” the waitress joked.
“You can’t even smoke in a bar, but men […]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

California coming up

While Sen. Mike Brubaker’s initiative to Keep the Queers Down foundered in Pa., the California Supreme Court is expected today to announce a decision on gay marraige - and that decision is expected to be one that will surely incense Brubaker and constituents.
But already, as Kevin Drum notes, an initiative to strike down the expected […]

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

The hate loses

I’m not quite sure why I can’t find this online anywhere, but if you have a chance check out Peter DeCoursey’s column on the editorial page of today’s Intell, where he writes about how state Sen. Vince Fumo used a little legislative ju-jitsu to defeat Sen. Mike Brubaker’s “Hate The Gay” bill:
There were at least nine Senate […]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

One simple little question

Reading Obama’s speech, which seems to be a modern-day version of Nixon’s “Checkers” speech in terms of repudiating the now-famous Rev. Wright. But was caught by something more apropos to the discussions that we keep having around here, about Sen. Brubaker’s bill and what it seeks to regulate.
More after the jump.

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The ick factor

Joe, you’re setting yourself up here. So while bypassing the issue of abortion (for now), let’s go straight to where you’re leading with your chin:
Conservatives by and large oppose gay marriage because they see the benefits accorded to married couples as privileges meant to support those who will give us our next generation. That, in […]

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The eternal queer

E-mail of the day, again in response to last week’s bit on gay marriage:
I have read that gay activists are arguing for experimentation with new family configurations involving sperm donation, open marriage, group marriage, and polygamy. Traditional marriage is the central institution of our society. If we don’t save it right here and right now, […]

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

“All” means all

C’mon Joe, don’t call me “Mr. Smart,” that’s my dad. And by the way, I think it’s a good thing that LOL has a righty blogging on the site, we can play some rhetorical raquetball around here. Wear a helmet.
But back to the matter at hand. You say this:
The left doesn’t trust the people enough […]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

A true compromise

My ears were burning, and now I see why.
Joe Hainthaler has a piece over at his place suggesting a compromise on gay marriage - though, re-reading his post several times, I’m not sure exactly what his proposed compromise consists of. Letting the public vote on it? Isn’t that exactly what Brubaker wants to do?
There’s a […]