With the recent announcement by the Religious Society of Friends that the church would now allow and officiate same-sex marriages, another wall has been conquered in the fight for marriage equality.
A blog post over at Southwest Libertarians sums it all up pretty well:
I have little doubt that by the time the main stream media wake [...]
A fascinating article in USA Today on a new study by two Columbia University political science professors describes how the proportion of Catholics in a state is a great determinant of how effectively the state defends gay rights.
Want to predict which state might move next to legalize same-sex marriage? You might count Catholics. The higher [...]
Matt Galli, a writer from Christian Today Magazine, lays out what he perceives to be the logical and nonreligious argument against marriage equality. While perceptive of the current state of affairs in how the debate has moved forward, Galli’s piece still falls short on the implications of marriage equality.
Galli’s argument rests on two thoughts: we’re [...]
A CQ Politics piece on the Reverend Eric P. Lee, Chariman of the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who hs fought against Proposition 8, despite his organzation’s neutral stance on the ballot measure.
CQ’s Tracie Powell interviewed Lee and goes into the racial and historical direction of the organization, founded after the [...]
A thoughtful and practical look at the recent battle over same-sex marriage in California from Colin Liddle of Examiner.com, a writer based in Salt Lake City.
Disregarding the battle of religious convictions over the righteousness of gay marriage, Liddle brings up the fact that it can only hurt Christians to violently attack gays and their wish [...]
“Sodomite” is one of the oldest, ugliest homosexual slurs. The word is from the name of a town, Sodom, in the Bible. It is said some of the first gays, (a particularly angry desert breed, apparently), lived there.
My theory is, if you examine the story of the Sodomites with attention, you will find it a [...]
From 365 Gay:
Six weeks into an investigation by California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, the Church of Latter-Day Saints has admitted that it spent nearly $188,000 more on the campaign to approve Proposition 8 that it had initially stated.
The Mormon Church previously insisted that it spent only $2,078 to support the ban on same-sex marriage, something [...]
Queerty has posted as open letter to Rick Warren. Here’s an excerpt, but the whole thing is worth reading:
I struggle to love you, Pastor Rick, because I know you are not a stupid man. You know full well that people like me - gays and lesbians - have no interest in telling your church how [...]
I’m not thrilled about Obama’s choice of Rick Warren as his inaugural pastor, however, I’m inclined to agree with Ryan Davis over at HuffPost:
After the passing of Prop 8, our community could have taken the high ground: candlelight vigils, community organizing by making a passionate, thoughtful case for our rights. We didn’t. We just yelled [...]
Andrew thinks we should take a deep breath.
I think Obama is different. I think the earnestness and sincerity of his campaign, and its generational force, have given us a chance for something new, and I fear that in responding too viscerally to the Warren choice, we may be throwing something very valuable away far [...]
