One of the more memorable moments at the recent Indiana Senate hearing on the Constitutional Amendment to ban same-sex marriage was provided by an African-American pastor. Testifying on behalf of the ban, he objected to any comparison with the miscegenation laws that formerly forbid interracial marriages, thundering "Don’t compare my God-given black skin with human learned perversions."
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Category Archives: Gay Rights
Sponge Bob and the Gay Agenda
Okay, what is it with you gay people, anyway? Take what you have managed to do to children’s cartoons: if recruiting Bert and Ernie wasn’t bad enough, you then sent Twinkie Winkie into the nation’s kindergartens with your none-too-subtle message about the desirability of the homosexual lifestyle. Now–crafty perverts that you are–you?ve made Sponge-Bob Square-Pants a soldier in the army of evil, and sent him off to do battle in the Great American Culture War. Have you no shame?
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The Mystery of Bigotry
There are some behaviors I have never been able to really understand—things I just can’t get my head around, as my students might put it.
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Comparing Cultures
At the end of December, 2004, Spain passed legislation recognizing the right of same-sex couples to marry. It thus joined Belgium and the Netherlands as the third European country to legalize gay marriage. Sweden and Denmark have previously extended civil union legislation to same-sex couples; under their laws, gays have most, but not all, of the rights accorded to heterosexual citizens.
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The New Jews
Well, it worked. Karl Rove’s goal was to get four million Evangelical voters who had skipped the 2000 election to come to the polls in 2004. His strategy was to use gay men and lesbians as the "bait," through ballot initiatives to ban same-sex marriage. And it worked. My youngest son, a lawyer, worked at the polls in Ohio, where he reported large numbers of voters who came in to "vote against the queers."
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