Dec 22 2008
I just surfed past 30 seconds of Morning Joe Scarborough Country and heard Joe Mika and Pat all whine:
as soon as someone who’s against gay marriage is called a bigot, the conversation is over. Oh the humanity, it’s so awful, if you are a conservative Christian who believes in traditional marriage you’re a bigot, oh my Gosh this is so terrible, to be labeled a bigot!
Nodding heads all around the table.
FUCK YOU PAT! YOU ARE A BIGOT!
Nov 15 2008
cross posted from The Dream Antilles
In the continuing post Prop 8 fall out, the Mormon Church is ramping up its attacks on gay people, slurring gay people and even accusing them of domestic terrorism. The campaign of hate continues to rage, just as it simultaneously continues to claim that it is a victim of attacks. Let’s fight back.
I know. The Mormon Church denies that this was ever a campaign of hate. There I pointed that out. In a wonderful circumlocution, the Church even denies that its work on Prop 8 is anti-gay. No, it’s about being “pro- marriage,” they say.
Jump with me across the broom.
Oct 25 2008
In the interest of full disclosure:
I was married for twenty-four years, from March of 1969 until some time in 1993. We got married because there was a pregnancy and there was going to be Hell to pay with the in-laws. So I agreed to run off to Miami, OK, to get a quicky marriage…and to spend at least the next 18 years of my life raising our daughter, who was born in August of that year.
In 1992 I began my transition from male to female. Lawyers were contacted. Papers were filed.
I quote myself from Sexual Disorientation (poor form, I know):
Me: Personally, I was married to a woman for 24 years. Then I had a sex-change. Now I cannot marry a woman. Go figure. Aren’t I still me?
Me, again: Follow-up thought: Then again, in many states, I can’t marry a man either, but such is life for transsexual people.
Oct 05 2008
Inspired by this little comment right here:
“We see America as the greatest force for good in this world,” Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, “Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
linky: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI…
Now, CNN goes on to explain that:
…the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called ‘somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.’ ”
Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The National Review, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
But, if Sister Sarah wants to go there…
Aug 21 2008
CNN’s explosive interview with John McCain last night, where he talks about his first marriage:
Okay, fine, grannyhelen. You got me. Put “sex” in the title and have McCain squirm on CNN while trying to defend cheating on a sick woman who faithfully waited for him the entire time he was in Vietnam, and I’ll take a peek.
But what does this have to do with policy?
Follow me, young grasshopper…
May 15 2008
Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship.” The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when the decision takes effect in 30 days.
The ruling set off a celebration at San Francisco City Hall. As the decision came down, out-of-breath staff members ran into the mayor’s office where Gavin Newsom read the decision.
Today’s ruling by the Republican-dominated court affects more than 100,000 same-sex couples in the state, about a quarter of whom have children, according to U.S. census figures. It came after high courts in New York, Washington and New Jersey refused to extend marriage rights to gay couples. Before today, only Massachusetts’ top court has ruled in favor of permitting gays to wed.
Bigots will attempt to overturn this by constitutional amendment. Even Schwarzenegger, who has twice vetoed bills legalizing gay marriage, says he will fight an initiative to ban it.
Oct 28 2007
They came from different places . . . different as much in how they lived their lives as in where they lived them.
Debbie’s cousin, Laurie, cancer survivor, came from Hesperia, CA. Better here than in fire country. And Debbie’s twin brother Jim, a lawyer, and his new bride Nooshin came from near the La Brea tar pits. So there was some tension about back home.
Robyn was supremely thrilled that people came from Oregon. Her sister Jan, a cardiologist from Corvallis, and Jan’s son Ian, newly graduated from Santa Clara and embarking on an internship in PR with the University of Washington athletic department, and Robyn would see each other for the first time since 1993. They were all younger back then. We were pretty much different people on that occasion.
And there were some amazing women and men, who happen to be friends, who had been invited. There could be . . . and will be . . . a paragraph (and more) written about each and everyone of them of them, but not here, and not now. These people were Debbie’s and Robyn’s colleagues at Bloomfield College, their family at this time in our lives, their new cousins and brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. And there were a couple of students, one of who was taking the ‘official’ photos (which have not been received yet, but which will be shown when they become available), witnesses from another viewpoint…another world. And they brought with them children from still another.
Learning was going to take place.