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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Gay Rights</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>The Personal is Political</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/the-personal-is-political/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming out as political act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the heady early days of the women’s movement, activists fashioned a slogan: the personal is political. It was a rejoinder to those men and women who denied the political nature of social attitudes that kept women “in our place,” social attitudes that dictated “proper” and decidedly unequal feminine behaviors and occupations. That slogan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Marginalized Micah&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/poor-marginalized-micah/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/poor-marginalized-micah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 10:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay gene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Micah Clark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his most recent newsletter &#8211;shared with me yesterday by a friend who follows pronouncements from the fringes&#8211; Micah Clark of the American Family Institute  professes amazement at the notion that there is anything newsworthy about the recent &#8220;coming out&#8221; of NBA player Jason Collins. &#8220;When asked about this previously unknown mid-level player, I said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born That Way</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/born-that-way/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/born-that-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minorities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a relatively recent internet site called &#8220;Upworthy,&#8221; that culls videos from around the web that the site&#8217;s managers deem worthy of a wider audience (they&#8217;r &#8220;UpWorthy&#8221;) and promotes them. This morning, I saw one of them&#8211;a clip from comedian Wanda Sykes in which she explains why it is more difficult to be gay than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Prognosticating and the Supremes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/prognosticating-and-the-supremes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/prognosticating-and-the-supremes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predicting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As any lawyer will attest, predicting the outcome of Supreme Court cases is foolhardy in the extreme. But I&#8217;ve never let the prospect of making a fool of myself stop me, so I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and do just that. Yesterday, as practically everyone within earshot of a news report knows, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Personal and the Political</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/the-personal-and-the-political/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/03/the-personal-and-the-political/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a flurry of publicity in the wake of Ohio Senator Rob Portman’s announcement that he has changed his position on same-sex marriage. Portman had been a reliable vote for pro-discrimination measures—he’d supported DOMA and voted for a Constitutional amendment to declare marriage a union between one man and one woman, among other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Christians a Bad Name&#8230;Again</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/giving-christians-a-bad-name-again/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/giving-christians-a-bad-name-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sullivan prom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to blog about the controversy in Sullivan, Indiana (somewhere south of Terre Haute, as best I can locate that metropolis), where a few teachers,  students and parents at Sullivan High School are upset that gay students are actually allowed to attend the prom. They are so upset that they are planning to hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consistency is the Hobgoblin of &#8220;Little Minds&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/02/consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inconsistency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I took some liberties with that Emerson quote&#8211;but if you want a great example of hypocritical inconsistency, look no farther than this. These twisted people will make any argument, no matter how stupid or contradictory, if they think it will persuade others to deprive GLBT folks of equal treatment under the law. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Improvement</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/signs-of-improvement/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/signs-of-improvement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boy Scouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=3990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. left Iraq (mostly) over a year ago. We seem to finally be departing Afghanistan. And yesterday brought welcome signs that yet another war is ending: the Culture War. (This must be Eric Miller&#8217;s worst nightmare&#8230;) Nationally, there were reports in several news outlets to the effect that the Boy Scouts would abandon their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Culture War</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/the-end-of-the-culture-war/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/01/the-end-of-the-culture-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=3925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Granted, reports like this one suggest that gays and lesbians still face formidable amounts of bigotry. But a recent Political Insiders poll conducted by the National Journal suggests that even those who exploited the bigots for political advantage know the culture war against gay folks is pretty much over. And while that North Carolina restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scalia&#8217;s Morality</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/12/scalias-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/12/scalias-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scalia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=3744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As has been widely reported, Justice Antonin Scalia made a controversial&#8211;albeit illuminating&#8211;remark on Monday, during a speech at Princeton. In response to a student who asked him about previous anti-gay writings in which he had compared laws criminalizing homosexuality to those banning bestiality and murder, Scalia defended the comparison, saying that&#8211;while he wasn&#8217;t equating homosexuality [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Give Me a Break!</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/12/give-me-a-break/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/12/give-me-a-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amicus brief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Zoeller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zombie arguments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=3736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Bill Groth has been posting to Facebook bits and pieces of the amicus brief that Indiana&#8217;s Attorney General has filed in the Supreme Court in the Proposition 8 case. &#8220;The decision below invalidating California’s traditional definition of marriage represents about as radical a departure from deeply ingrained American legal traditions and precedents as one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Those Referenda&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/11/about-those-referenda/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/11/about-those-referenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=3594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of encouraging things happened Tuesday. Elections are always dicey propositions. People’s votes are affected by so many imponderables—I’d love to think, as someone who teaches public policy, that voters make their decisions after considering contending positions and evaluating them, but we all know better. Especially when measures affecting the lives of GLBT people are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Little by Little&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/little-by-little/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/little-by-little/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=3458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court recently became the second such court to declare DOMA&#8211;the federal &#8220;Defense of Marriage Act&#8221;&#8211;unconstitutional. The challenge was brought by an 83-year-old resident of New York State, where same-sex marriage is legal. When her partner&#8211;pardon me, her wife&#8211;died, DOMA allowed the IRS to assess an estate tax nearly 400,000 higher than she [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Speaking of Love&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/09/speaking-of-love/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/09/speaking-of-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slippery slope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=3323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine takes some sort of twisted delight in sending me the Indiana Family Institute&#8217;s newsletters. I think he just enjoys my incredulous reactions. The latest one was filled with &#8220;the usual suspects.&#8221; Planned Parenthood is prowling the state killing babies, the poor economy is another consequence of our departure from morality&#8211;or something. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting It Backward</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/09/getting-it-backward/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/09/getting-it-backward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill of Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article about the experiences of gay Supreme Court clerks, I came across the following paragraphs: Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas, has authored some of the most caustic dissents against gay legal rights. In his dissent in Lawrence v Texas, Scalia said the majority had &#8220;signed on to [...]]]></description>
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