There’s no reason that the government should prevent homosexuals from entering civil marriages because some religions object to the concept, any more than the government should ban atheism because some religions object to it.

Lisa Pampuch
I don’t know who Lisa Pampuch is. There are dozens of her on the Net. I couldn’t find the original source [...]

Apparently the Mormon church set an official spokesperson to a public hearing on a non-discrimination ordinance that would protect LGBT people from housing and job discrimination. In a nutshell,

The Church supports this ordinance because it is fair and reasonable and does not do violence to the institution of marriage. It is also entirely consistent with [...]

If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So

. . . It’s a simple matter of logic, really. God made me who I am, and who I am is a cold, anti-gay zealot. Thus, I abhor gay people because God made me [...]

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results.

No idea where this comes from. Found it on a boy blog I follow. I suspect it’s not original to the author of the blog. I see sentences constructed like this [...]

I finally got around to watching Obama’s comments to GLBT leaders at the White House. I must say I was impressed. His comments about repealing DADT in “a way that will take” seem especially relevant and wise given the recent murder of gay Navy sailor August Provost. He was shot multiple times and set on [...]

When I first heard about the raid on the Rainbow Lounge I knew something was fishy. However, these comments from the Ft. Worth chief of police are unreal.

You’re touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that’s offensive. I’m happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that.”

OK. For starters, [...]

Joe.My.God (re)posts his annual response to the hand-wringing that invariably follows Pride season. Folk with assimilationist tendencies fret about the “freak show” that can only hurt our chances to be accepted by society at large. Joe does an excellent job of responding to such impulses and I couldn’t agree more. I would only add that [...]

It was the most polite event I’ve been to since I can remember. But then I wasn’t a street preacher.
On the northwest corner, a couple of preachers were telling passersby they were going to hell, and in turn being told to “[deleted] off.”
The one with the “Homo Sex is Sin” sign was besieged by a [...]

I saw Swan Lake at the Vienna Opera House when I was on my mission. I left somewhat underwhelmed and haven’t been really big on ballet ever since. Maybe it was because we were in the stehplaetze (standing places) and even with rails to lean on, three hours is a damn long time to be [...]

A 9-year old has plead down a premeditated murder charge to negligent homicide in Arizona. A 9-year old. Apparently the kid shot and killed his father and a man renting a room in the home. No one really knows why. I haven’t been able to find any talk of a history of violent behavior. There [...]