Gay Rights
Toxic Times
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on July 28th, 2010
I returned to Indianapolis after a week of being blessedly unconnected to “the usual suspects”—otherwise known as the media/chattering classes/punditocracy—to find that the National Organization for Marriage had been through town. Some forty “pro-marriage” demonstrators had promoted loving relationships with signs suggesting that gay people should be murdered. One particularly nasty poster featured a picture [...]
Continue reading...Beam Me Up, Scotty
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on June 27th, 2010
I should probably be ashamed to admit it, but my TIVO is set to copy episodes of Star Trek—mostly, the “Next Generation” but also the Deep Space Nine and Voyager spinoffs. I’ve watched some of these so often, I can repeat the dialogue. Verbatim. And although I like most science fiction, I vastly prefer those [...]
Continue reading...Missing Hearts and Souls
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on May 26th, 2010
I’m going to ask for the indulgence of my readers, and quote a relatively long excerpt from an article that recently appeared in the Miami New Times in the wake of revelations about George Rekers, a leading Christian Right figure. (If somehow you missed those revelations, the short version is that Dr. Holier-than-Thou visited “Rentaboy.com” [...]
Continue reading...I Will Never Understand
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on April 22nd, 2010
I always thought that advanced age would bring wisdom—or if not wisdom, at least a greater understanding of the world and the human beings who populate it. I was wrong. There are things I will never, ever understand. A month or so ago, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled that the rights of high school [...]
Continue reading...Times that Try Us
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on March 27th, 2010
It seems to be increasingly fashionable—at least among angry Teabaggers—to quote (selected) Founders. So perhaps I should begin this column with Thomas Paine’s famous “These are the times that try men’s souls…” Of course, Paine was writing during some of the darkest days of the Revolution, not during a sustained snit by people with a [...]
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