Get Out of Jury Duty

Well, here's one way to make a statement and get out of jury duty. Follow the lead of gay New Yorker, Jonathan D. Lovitz.

"Just had an intense day at jury duty. During voir dire we were asked who would not be impartial. I raised my hand and said "since I can't get married or adopt a child in the state of New York, I can't possibly be an impartial judge of a citizen when I am considered a second class one in the eyes of this justice system." You wouldn't believe how people in the room reacted."

Ted Haggard!

My obsession with Ted Haggard continues.

(Thanks AD)

NOM Loves Rainbows

Hahahaha. How the NOM* website ended up with a big, gay rainbow.

*National Organization for Marriage, founded by that unfortunate soul, Maggie Gallagher.

Barbara Bush the Younger & Marriage Equality

She strikes me as unappealing, but I'm glad to see that she supports marriage equality.

Naval Academy Treats Surviving Gay Spouse With Dignity

Maybe that headline shouldn't be that impressive, but it is. Here is a touching story of a man whose husband -- a graduate of the Naval Academy -- died of a heart attack. They had been legally married in Iowa two years prior. When he approached the Naval Academy with his husband's request to be buried at the Naval Academy's Columbarium, he was treated like any other surviving spouse, and was offered the flag at the funeral. It's worth a read. Here's a snippet referring to the obituary published in the US Naval Academy Alumni magazine:

It noted his two Purple Hearts for “having been shot down from the sky twice in military missions.” It noted “for the rest of his life he would joke about his ‘government issued ankle.’ ” It noted “his burly but warmly gentle manner.” It noted he was “survived by his husband, Mark Thomas Ketterson.”

Dumb Shit or Satirist?

We Need a Christian Dictator
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I couldn't be bothered to look up whether this idiot is for reals or not. But, man, is he a hoot and a half, or what?

Prop 8

I generally have some compassion for far-right gay haters who turn out to be closeted homosexuals. However, when Tony Perkins has a big fat gay scandal, I'll really have to dig deep to find any compassion. Click here to see him being a lying liar and getting called on it. (I can't get the embed code to work...clearly my blog doesn't care for Tony Perkins either.)
Also, I really love that being gay makes the judge biased in a case that supposedly affects heterosexual marriage. I mean, that's the basis of their entire case. So wouldn't a heterosexual judge also be biased? Silly me, applying logic.

Here's a video of Ted Olson being smart and well-spoken on Fox News.

Gay Marriage

And They Shall Surely Be Put To Death

A poster from Maggie Gallagher's National Organization For Marriage's bus-tour campaign in Indiana. (Link from Sullivan.)

Here are some other relevant biblical quotations I'd like someone to put on a poster (KJV):

Matthew 5:31-32.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I [that's Jesus, folks] say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Leviticus 20:10.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And here is an interview with one of the Traditional Marriage people. Some things to note: his physical revulsion in response to a man he thinks is gay (or just a gay supporter?) compared to his not as-hatey-as-it-could-be language. And hang around for the whole thing. It takes a FASCINATING turn around the 3 minute mark.

The Gays

Support for Same-Sex Marriage

Is increasing. I find it particularly heartening that 1/4 of conservatives & almost 1/3 of Republicans are in favor of legalizing. I think that although those numbers are still far from over 50%, they are higher than you'd expect from the public discourse.

Gay marriage in Portugal

is legal.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Focus on the Family's response to Laura Bush's stances on abortion rights & gay marriage:

"It's disappointing to hear Laura Bush, who is a well respected and admired former first lady, espouse positions on marriage and the value of human life that are contrary not only to her husband's but arguably, according to polls, in conflict with the majority of Americans," said Carrie Gordon Earll, spokeswoman for the conservative group Focus on the Family.

I guess that means her views are not disappointing, per se. Rather, expressing views that are not her husband's and that are not informed by polls seems to be the problem.


Except that most Americans do support abortion rights, to some extent.

Gay Marriage

A pro-marriage speech from the New York Senate Floor.

Perez Hilton & the Gay Rights Movement

A thoughtful piece on Advocate.com that begins about "Putrid Perez," and what a hateful waste of space he is. The meat of the article, however, is the writer's argument that it is unfair and counter-productive to label all opponents of same-sex marriage as hateful homophobes. Moreover, he defends Carrie Prejean's (Miss California) statement, which was not actually all that offensive. (Although he recognizes she's kind of a famewhore too, but argues that it doesn't excuse Perez Hilton's treatment of her--he called her a "dumb bitch.")

DNC losing LGBT support

More prominent gay supporters are boycotting the DNC LGBT fundraiser to express their anger over the Justice Department defense of DOMA.

Obama & the Gays

Hey, Obama! Stop being a doofus about gay rights. They are peeved and so am I.

Andrew Sullivan on Gay Rights, Obama, & Cheney

I love Anderson Cooper...I don't even begrudge him his glass closet.

"Let's keep this Arma-gay-don at bay."

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"They're gonig to eat the Baby Jesus."

Making fun of wingnuts.