Bill Maher says: “Everyone deserves equal rights. That’s why they’re called “equal” and “rights”, which, as far as it goes, is certainly the goal of the American culture. But beyond the sound bite where the real thinking takes place, it’s painfully obvious that there’s no such thing as absolute equality. Nor should there be. Society…
Category: Gay Rights
Time for a Gay Supreme Court Justice?
Satyam Khanna says that Senator Jeff Sessions’ statement, “I think that would be a big concern that the American people might feel — might feel uneasy about that”, qualifies him as anti-gay.
Typical Think Progress hyperbole. Citizens might indeed be concerned about a gay member of the Supreme Court and the rulings that might stem from such an appointment.
Iraqi Gays Murdered By Their Own Tribe
The latest news about the repression of homosexuality in the Islamic world comes from Iraq where 6 gay men were murdered by members of their own tribe after members decided in a group meeting to kill them. For all the hand-wringing about alleged repression of homosexuals in the U.S. and other western nations, this news,…
Debating Gay Marriage
The Anonymous Liberal has an interesting post up entitled Being a “Public Christian” in which he slams Rod Dreher for his post in which he quotes a lawyer friend as saying “as soon as homosexuality receives constitutionally protected status equivalent to race, then ‘it will be very hard to be a public Christian.'” Well, what of it? Individuals and society as a whole have always judged behavior, rewarding the good and punishing the bad. And they always will.
Judges Should Eat More Fortune Cookies
My fortune read: “Common sense is all the sense there is.” I nodded knowingly, thinking of the Ward Churchill case and how Colorado University will most likely be forced to reinstate the horse’s behind. The little slip of paper seemed even more appropriate after the Iowa Supreme Court struck down the state’s marriage defense law. Where has the common sense gone in our judiciary branch? Methinks judges should pay more attention to their fortune cookies.
Barney Frank: Antonin Scalia is a Homophobe
Modern politicians are often cagey speakers, carefully measuring their assertions so as to allow for maximum wiggle room later if needed. Not so much with Barney Frank who is apparently feeling his oats these days: The Democratic lawmaker, who is gay, was discussing gay marriage and his expectation that the high court would some day…
Gay Marriage Poison Pill: Equality or Abolition
Michael Lindenberger of Time says that civil unions are the way to break out of the quagmire that gay marriage activists find themselves in, giving voice to the lies that the word marriage means nothing and that a church wedding after the fact would have all the same meaning for couples. give gay and straight…
The Virtue of Minding One’s Own Business
Catholic Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho’s excommunication of the mother of a 9-year-old girl who had an abortion after being raped by her step-father has infuriated many people in Brazil and elsewhere. This is a case when being right in principle results in being wrong in fact. Sobrinho: Abortion is much more serious than killing an…
Sued, eHarmony Must Couple Gays
In 2005, eHarmony, a leading on-line matchmaking service, began to fight a discrimination lawsuit filed by a gay man in New Jersey. In 2007, the state’s attorney general found probable cause that eHarmony had violated N.J.’s Law Against Discrimination. Today the company gave in to legal pressure and agreed to pair homosexual couples. By strong-arming…
Gays’ Entitlement and Incivility
The aftermath of Proposition 8’s passage in California has put the spotlight on the glaring incivility of homosexual activists in the state. Understandably disappointed, they’ve gone too far by staging high-profile personal attacks on individuals who sided against their cause. It seems that everyone in America mistakenly believes that they are entitled to have their…