I think 1998 will be a great year. It is certainly beginning the right way. On Freedom to Marry Day, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union will hold a press conference to publicly announce what I am…
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CommentsA jaundiced look at the world we live in.
I think 1998 will be a great year. It is certainly beginning the right way. On Freedom to Marry Day, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union will hold a press conference to publicly announce what I am…
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CommentsOkay, so I’m getting old and cranky. When I opened the paper and read that the voters in Maine had rescinded the state’s new gay antidiscrimination law in a
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Recently, the publisher of the Word shared with me a “critique” of this paper, and my column, from a national gay paper. The writer had evidently come across a copy, and professed amazement upon learning that my “earnest” efforts were not in the…
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CommentsUntil you can express a thought clearly and cogently, that thought does not yet exist.
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Accountability is problematic when there is not clarity of expectations or agreed-upon goals, and that lack of clarity has long been a characteristic of social welfare in the United States.
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