The Almighty Creator Weighs In
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 20th, 2008 at 5:41 pmSo 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…
Posts Tagged ‘human rights’
Evangelical Christian Gays Looking For Long-Term Compatability are Now Covered Once They Fill Out That Weird Personality Test
By L. Russell Allen - Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pmYou probably know eHarmony.com. Their commercials are everywhere. They’re the dating service that promotes itself based on compatibility and long-term commitment. They’re also notorious for…
Assigning Blame
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pmOn the debate over which faction is to blame for the GOP’s current electoral woes (intensified somewhat by Kathleen Parker’s recent, kind of inflammatory, column),…
Other Countries Are Catching On
By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pmIf you or someone you know is a gay Nepali, Monday was a good day:
Kathmandu, Nov 18 (IANS) Close on the heels of an…
Ingrates*
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 19th, 2008 at 9:31 amCallous:
insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic: They have a callous attitude toward the sufferings of others.
Asshole:
a stupid, mean, or contemptible person.
Ladies and gentlemen, Andy…
Worth a Look
By Jesse Singal - Nov 18th, 2008 at 3:34 pmA few days ago Human Rights Campaign posted a list of organizations that contributed to the Yes on Proposition 8 efforts. Could be an easy…
Obama’s Gay Agenda
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pmOnly 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 amIt 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 pmThere’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 pmLast 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 pmOver 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 amFor 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 amOn 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 pmThe 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…
What’s Edwards’ Angle?
By Jessica Hillyard - Nov 13th, 2008 at 10:44 amThe infamous John Edwards has emerged, albeit quietly, from the Batcave. After making a public mockery of himself by admitting in August to having an…
