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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>Another Year (Almost) Over</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/another-year-almost-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coming year is going to be ugly. The economy is still in the toilet, environmental degradation is edging dangerously close to the point of no return, our infrastructure is crumbling, and Republicans in Congress remain committed to one thing and one thing only—defeating Barack Obama—even if they have to take the country down to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is a Test</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/this-is-a-test/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/this-is-a-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana Equality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said &#8220;eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.&#8221; He was right; and that vigilance can be taxing. Similarly, social progress requires persistence, and most of us tire of activism in the long run. &#8220;Cause fatigue&#8221; is human&#8211;but not helpful. I&#8217;m beginning to see that fatigue in Indiana&#8217;s gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mississippi, Arizona, Ohio, Indiana</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/mississippi-arizona-ohio-indiana/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/mississippi-arizona-ohio-indiana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay candidates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another election day has come and gone, and while I’ve grown leery of predicting anything in an era when crazy is the most prominent characteristic of our political environment, the results may justify a cautious optimism. Despite the constant references to the “gay agenda,” anyone sentient has long recognized that the group having the real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bully Pulpit</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/the-bully-pulpit/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/the-bully-pulpit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["moral conviction"]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gay children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, when Chicago&#8217;s Second City was the source of then-scandalous satire, I attended a performance. This was during the Cold War (I&#8217;m old), and I still recall one skit titled &#8220;Kill a Commie for Christ&#8221;&#8211;a take-off on a widespread attitude of the times. The more things change&#8230;.Well, you know the rest of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priscilla&#8211;15 Years Later</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/priscilla-15-years-later/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/priscilla-15-years-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Priscilla Queen of the Desert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are in New York for a long weekend, and last night, my husband, son and I went to see the Broadway musical version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. We&#8217;d loved the movie when it came out in the early 90s&#8230;a poignant, funny depiction of life from the perspective of three Australian drag queens. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting (some of) the Troops</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/supporting-some-of-the-troops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most readers of this blog probably already know, a gay soldier asked a question about gay service members at a recent GOP Presidential candidate debate, and was roundly booed by the audience. The Tea Party members who were present in large numbers in that audience—and the candidates who remained silent then and afterward—evidently saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question for the Godly</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/a-question-for-the-godly/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/a-question-for-the-godly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY clerk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently reported on a town clerk in upstate New York who was refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite passage of the recent New York law recognizing such unions. She cited evangelical Christianity as a bar against performing her official duties. “For me to participate in the same-sex marriage application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Me a Story</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/tell-me-a-story/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/tell-me-a-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lambda Legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zach Wahls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a fair amount of research that confirms what most of us know&#8211;humans are hard-wired to respond more emotionally to individual stories of hardship than to news of large-scale tragedies. We may sympathize and even send contributions when we hear of famine in Africa, for example, but we are much more likely to empathize and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Cry At Weddings</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/i-cry-at-weddings/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/i-cry-at-weddings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HJR 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I cry at weddings, and last week I had yet another opportunity to borrow a tissue. I was invited to this particular ceremony by someone I have come to know through service on a nonprofit board. He’s the sort of quiet, solid citizen that others depend on, the guy down the street who works hard, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress is Hard Work</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/08/progress-is-hard-work/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/08/progress-is-hard-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lambda Legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How does change happen? Too often, we think of broad cultural changes as part of an inevitable sweep of history,  sort of like the process of maturation we go through as individuals: as we grow up, we understand more. This analogy conveniently overlooks the people who grow older but do not grow up. And it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You See What I See?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/do-you-see-what-i-see-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/do-you-see-what-i-see-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently not. Our local Pride Festival has come and gone, but the annual culture war over it goes on. And on. I never cease to be amazed at the descriptions of our Pride Parade emanating from the “family values” folks. Our local American Family organization sent out an email alert a couple of days before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Down Ugly</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/going-down-ugly/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/going-down-ugly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Micah Clark]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a March, 2011 survey from Pew, 58% of Americans believe that homosexuality should be accepted, while 33% believe it should not be. Leaving aside what the individuals surveyed thought constituted “acceptance,” this is yet another indicator that the cultural tide is flowing in the right direction; indeed, when the survey responses were broken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Says It All</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/this-says-it-all-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/this-says-it-all-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 16:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[veteran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This Minnesota Republican veteran represents the party I used to call mine. His heartfelt, gutsy speech to the Minnesota legislature right before the vote to place a ban on same-sex marriage on the state&#8217;s 2012 ballot says it all. File this under &#8220;must watch and share.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>True Colors</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/true-colors/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/true-colors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 13:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-gay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hospital visitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sponsors of anti-gay legislation and proponents of measures to &#8220;save marriage&#8221; nearly always deny that they are homophobic. They just love their gay friends, and care deeply about the welfare of their gay neighbors. In a phrase I&#8217;ve heard so often it makes me want to upchuck, they &#8220;hate the sin, but love the sinner.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Planet is This?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/what-planet-is-this/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/what-planet-is-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 00:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ideologues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never in a million years did I think I’d write what I am about to write: progress on gay rights and same-sex marriage is the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal political landscape. Yes, you read that correctly. Think about it. Within the past couple of months, the Justice Department concluded that DOMA is [...]]]></description>
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