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The Almighty Creator Weighs In

By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 20th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

So it seems that God Herself has finally decided to get off her duff and chime in, via an amicus brief, on the California same-sex…

Other Countries Are Catching On

By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

If you or someone you know is a gay Nepali, Monday was a good day:
Kathmandu, Nov 18 (IANS) Close on the heels of an…

Obama’s Gay Agenda

By Dylan Matthews - Nov 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Only two weeks after winning the election, President-elect Obama has posted his civil rights agenda to Change.gov, the largest portion of which is devoted to…

Andrew Sullivan Knows Everything About Black People

By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:57 am

It seems that Andrew Sullivan really can’t help but make broad generalizations about the black community.  In a post about Prince’s homophobia, for example, Sullivan…

Newt on Tolerance

By Jesse Singal - Nov 17th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

There’s a brand of progressive who loves to tout their cross-ideological credentials by pointing out that Newt Gingrich is a really interesting, smart type of…

In Massachusetts, Gay Marriage Turns Out to be Quite Vanilla

By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 17th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Last week on his show, Bill O’Reilly wailed that gay marriage would basically destroy the fabric of American life.  Here’s the relevant quote:

O’REILLY: So…

Wanda Sykes Comes Out

By Rob Anderson - Nov 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Over the weekend, comedienne Wanda Sykes outed herself at an anti-Proposition 8 rally in Las Vegas. Sykes noted that the passage of the California ballot…

Campus Beat: After the Election Life Goes On

By Emily Rutherford - Nov 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am

For at least the two weeks leading up to the election, and the week after it, no campus paper had anything of local import to…

National Day of Protest Against Prop. 8

By Emily Rutherford - Nov 17th, 2008 at 9:27 am

On Saturday, folks in at least one city in each of the 50 states gathered together at exactly the same time (10:30 Pacific; 1:30 Eastern)…

No, Marriage Doesn’t Have an “Ageless Meaning”

By Jesse Singal - Nov 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby on Prop 8:
If black voters overwhelmingly reject the claim that marriage amendments like Proposition 8 are nothing more than…

Dan Savage Defending Gay Marriage, Awesomely

By Rob Anderson - Nov 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

Silver on Prop 8

By Jesse Singal - Nov 12th, 2008 at 10:05 am

Nate Silver has a compelling argument for why attempts to blame African-Americans for the failure of California’s Proposition 8 don’t make sense:
Certainly, the No…

After 8: The Way Forward

By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 11th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

Part three of a three-part post (here are parts one and two).
If we are to undo the injustice done by Proposition 8 and the…

Angry Conservatives Celebrate Prop 8

By Jesse Singal - Nov 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Over at the conservative Ace of Spades blog, Gabe Malor wrote:
On Prop 8: I know most of you disagree with me about it. But…

After 8: What Went Wrong

By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am

Part one of a three-part post.
The best hopes and dreams of proponents of marriage equality were dashed in the small hours of the morning…