The backlash against gay rights is in full steam, powered by the hysteria and homophobia of people in power at all levels of government.
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CommentsThe New Theocracy
My religion teaches that boys must be circumcised eight days after birth. So someone needs to introduce a bill in the legislature requiring that all male infants be circumcised before they leave the hospital
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Throwing Stones
What I heard in the Senate chamber was not reasoned debate over the proper role of the state. What I heard was fear. If we can just keep ‘them’ in their place, the world will return to the way (I’m told) it used to be. People will be moral, children will obey their parents, and everything will make sense again.
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Throwing Stones
I have been mulling several reactions to the recent Indiana Senate hearing on a constitutional amendment that would (1) prohibit same-sex marriage and (2) ensure that gay couples never, ever enjoy any of the "incidents" of matrimony.
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Separate but Equal
The recent announcement that the New York school system intends to open the Harvey Milk School?a separate high school for gay teens?raised some troubling issues.
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