January 21, 2010
Pat Robertson's Theodicy on Haiti
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | January 21, 2010 7:30 PM |Religion-based bigotry has been the main-stay of Rev. Pat Robertson's bully pulpit. And he mounts this pulpit as an uber-God, possessed with an inherent omniscience in knowing not only the mundane and wicked thoughts and actions of man but also...Read More
A Notre Dame Student Viewpoint: All Eyes on Us
Filed by Guest Blogger | January 21, 2010 6:30 PM |Editor's Note: Guest Blogger Jason Coleman is a senior accounting major at Notre Dame University. He originally expressed his views on the Observer Comic controversy in a article in the Observer on Jan. 20th. Last week, the national LGBT scene...Read More
Mais je rêve: More from the Prop 8 trial on queer political power
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2010 5:30 PM |Back in San Francisco, the homophobes had a chance to cross examine Prof. Gary Segura, who was there to testify that gays and lesbians (they stuck to those categories) aren't politically powerful. My eyes rolled when I saw that apparently...Read More
NOM wants Indiana
Filed by Donna Pandori | January 21, 2010 5:00 PM |The National Organization for Marriage sure is a busy organization. Brian Brown, Executive Director of NOM, sent an alert to his sheeple just as the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee was considering the marriage discrimination amendment. The Senate Judiciary Committee and...Read More
Iowa Catholic Church Fires Woman Over Transgender Counseling
Filed by Betty Greene Salwak | January 21, 2010 4:30 PM |A recent article in the Des Moines Register reports that in September of last year a housekeeper at a Catholic student center at Drake University was fired by the parish bishop. Susan McIntyre, a transgender woman, is a certified social...Read More
More Queer/Trans Maine Activists Speaking Out Against Equality
Filed by R Conrad | January 21, 2010 3:30 PM |More and more queer and trans activists in Maine are finally speaking out against the parasitic campaign for gay marriage here in the pine tree state. During the last election in November 2009 any dissent around the issue, particularly why...Read More
Testifying at Indiana State Senate Hearing on January 20, 2010
Filed by Annette Gross | January 21, 2010 2:30 PM |Last week I was asked to testify at yesterday's Senate hearing of SJR-13. Of course I said yes, being very happy to be able to tell the Senate committee how I feel about this issue. As a PFLAG mom, I...Read More
Explosive Revelation on Mormon Church Involvement in Prop 8
Filed by Bobby Parker | January 21, 2010 2:30 PM |Good Morning, President Monson. Hope you slept well. Bit of bad news out of California. Seems there are some internal Church documents admitted into evidence in the Proposition 8 trial that prove we were more involved in Yes on Prop...Read More
As Haiti crumbles, the US sends in troops -- get ready for a long occupation!
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | January 21, 2010 1:30 PM |I'm standing in line at Walgreens and some white guy is yelling at one of the cashiers, a Latina woman, about Haiti, spouting racist corporate media lies about how Haitians are corrupt, they steal from their own people, they can't...Read More
Web ads against prison rape
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2010 12:30 PM |Just Detention International is a group that works to stop sexual assault in prisons. This problem affects gay and transgender inmates more than straight and cis ones, and results in the spread of HIV and other STD's as most prisons...Read More
Prop 8 Trial Twitter Feed: Day 8
Filed by Bil Browning | January 21, 2010 12:00 PM |Our live Twitter feed of the Prop 8 trial was really popular last week, so I'm bumping it back up to the top to make it handy for Projectors to find. Contributor Davina Kotulski is in the courtroom today and...Read More
Nepal: Proud to be gay capital of Asia
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | January 21, 2010 11:30 AM |I'm officially on hiatus this month, working on a new book, and completely utterly obsessed with it... but there's just too much news to ignore. Anyone want to move with me? Nepal is set to legalise gay marriage later this...Read More
What Men Want
Filed by Father Tony | January 21, 2010 10:30 AM |Dear Father Tony, What the hell do men want? Running on Empty...Read More
Cindy McCain, Wife of Sen. John McCain, Poses for NOH8 Campaign
Filed by Waymon Hudson | January 21, 2010 9:30 AM |Update on John McCain's Reaction, after the jump. Cindy McCain, wife of former GOP Presidential Candidate John McCain, has posed for the NOH8 Campaign, the project from photographer Adam Bouska that was started as a response to California passing Prop...Read More
Always room for one more!
Filed by Bil Browning | January 21, 2010 8:30 AM |I get to announce a new contributor today! *does happy dance* Please join me in welcoming R. Conrad to the site. Conrad is an outlaw artist, terrorist academic and petty thief dividing his time between Lewiston, Maine and Montreal, Quebec....Read More
Tea partiers
Filed by Ed Team | January 21, 2010 7:30 AM |"The tea partiers are enjoying their day in the sun, but coffee is the beverage preferred by most Americans." --Garrison Keillor...Read More
Barney Frank on Coakley's loss
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2010 7:00 AM |Barney Frank doesn't think reconciliation should be used to pass health care in the Senate. I don't think there was much chance of that happening anyway....Read More
