(1) I guess the big news was that the U.S. Navy rescued that skipper from the pirates. Skipper? Pirates? This sounds like a bad episode of "Gilligan's Island". But no, it happened. Obviously, it is a good thing since (1) Obama's first serious military rescue operation was a success [guess those concerns about the 3 am call were unfounded]; (2) … Read More
The Future Of Marriage (Rough Cut)
You know that ad I featured in a post below? The one where all these "regular people" talk about what will happen to them if gay marriage is passed (lose their freedoms, be forced to accept things they don't want to accept, be in a storm of some kind, etc)? Well, some intrepid somebody loaded the audition/rehearsal cuts of the … Read More
The Future of Marriage
I know I am harping on this a lot lately, but the rightwing fear of gay marriages is at once both hilarious and disturbing. To many of these wingers, the fact that some guy they don't know will marry some other guy they don't know represents an infringement on the freedom of the wingers. And the end of mankind. Take … Read More
Gay Marriage, Coming (Soon?) To A State Near You
Nate Silver, statistician extraordinaire, took the states in which a gay marriage ban was constitutionally struck down (as in Iowa), and came up with a statistical model. The timing of these events for each state, he says, is a factor of: 1. The year in which the amendment banning gay marriage was voted upon;2. The percentage of adults in 2008 Gallup … Read More
Iowa Seanate Majority Leader Explains Why He Won’t Support A Constitutional Amendment To Ban Gay Marriage
Only two minutes long, but well-spoken:
Republican Blowback
I (among many) have been noting the extreme rhetoric exhibited by the right wing pundits and Fox News. Jon Stewart brought his A game last night to address this: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Baracknophobia – Obey comedycentral.com Daily ShowFull Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor To give you a sense of just how … Read More
Family Research Council Responds To Vermont Vote To Recognize Gay Marriages
Tony Perkins: Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins today condemned the vote of the Vermont State Legislature to overturn the Governor’s veto on same-sex “marriage” as well as the vote by the District of Columbia City Council to recognize same-sex marriages performed in the 50 states. “Same-sex ‘marriage’ is a movement driven by wealthy homosexual activists and a liberal … Read More
Vermont Joins Iowa, Massachusetts and Connecticut
Gay marriage is now legal in Vermont. But Vermont's new law is a first — it came about because elected officials chose to allow all of the consenting adults in the state to get married, not because of a court ruling or lawsuit. Vermont governor Jim Douglas vetoed the bill yesterday, but support for it was strong. Today, the Vermont legislature … Read More
Gay Marriage Available Nationwide, As Of Today
One interesting sidenote to today's Iowa court decision, which permitted gay marriages in Iowa. It's this: Iowa is one of the few states where you do not have to be a resident in order to get married. This means that gay couples from anywhere in the country can travel to Iowa for the weekend and get married. Legally. The next question on your … Read More
Kudos To Iowa
It's one thing when Massachusetts courts recognizes a constitutional right to gay marriage, but when it happens in the "middle America" state of Iowa, that's an entirely different thing: The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays’ right to marry. “The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection … Read More
Utah High School Drama Department Puts On SMUT!!!
Think of the children! How can we allow our public high schools to put on such raunchy musicals like…… Brigadoon? Actual letter to the editor: Dear Editor, We saw the high school play “Brigadoon” on Saturday. It was impressive to see all the effort that goes into such a production – it was evident that there was a lot of … Read More
The Kid Is Not The Kid’s Son
Update to a post I wrote a month ago — turns out that 13 year old kid isn't the father after all.
2,116 North Carolina Sex Offenders Are On MySpace
CNN has the story: More than 2,100 registered North Carolina sex offenders were found on the social networking site MySpace, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. In response to a subpoena from state Attorney General Roy Cooper, "MySpace turned over the names, IP and e-mail addresses of 2,116 convicted North Carolina sex offenders found on its social networking Web … Read More
Removing Three Bush-Era Policies In One Day
(1) Stem Cell Research — Executive Order of March 9, 2009: Sec. 1: . . . For the past 8 years, the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to fund and conduct human embryonic stem cell research has been limited by Presidential actions. The purpose of this order is to remove … Read More
Prop 8 Court Challenge Primer
Today is the day of oral arguments in California Supreme Court, as justices hear challenges to Proposition 8, which passed by citizen vote last election. Prop 8 prohibits gay marriages. Four of the seven justices were convinced last spring that a prohibition on same-sex marriage violated a "fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship." But that is not the … Read More