Living: November 2006
Rethinking Morality
Filed by Sheila S. Kennedy | November 29, 2006 | 9:36 AM |Call me an optimist, but I think November's repudiation of Bush Administration policies was a sign that "the times they are achanging," and--even more significantly--a sign that Americans are beginning to recognize that "values" are considerably more complicated than ostentatious,...Read More
Well-Intentioned Alternative
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | November 27, 2006 | 2:04 PM |Rev. Jeff Miner went on the road to provide an alternative to hate writes Timothy Kincaid in "An Alternative to Love Won Out" on Ex-Gay Watch. The comments to the piece are as edifying as the original post. I'm no...Read More
Thankful
Filed by Bil Browning | November 23, 2006 | 11:37 AM |My annual list of things I'm thankful for. Feel free to leave your "thankfuls" in the comments. You know you've got some... 1. For the first time since we've been together (8 years), Jerame's parents have invited us to a...Read More
Help hone the blade
Filed by Bil Browning | November 20, 2006 | 9:09 PM |I'm going to plug the American Values Alliance now. *grins* Art Farnsley, the Executive Director, just returned from a trip to Washington DC. He met with quite a prominent group of people and they talked about some things that would...Read More
ReachOut Service at St. Luke's Methodist Church
Filed by Annette Gross | November 20, 2006 | 1:42 PM |My good friend Jane Cutler, who is doing so much to advance GLBT rights in our community, sent this to me and asked me to pass it on. St. Luke's ReachOut (their GBLT group) is holding a Christmas Service "Holiday...Read More
Things I really don't give a rat's a** about
Filed by Bil Browning | November 19, 2006 | 7:09 AM |Not ranked. TomKat's wedding Brangelina's non-wedding Pat Bauer's really bad toup Daylight savings time Rudy's announcement...Read More
Elton John: Religion Creates "Hateful Lemmings"
Filed by Annette Gross | November 13, 2006 | 11:46 AM |In an interview yesterday (November 12, 2006), Elton John remarked that organized religion fuels anti-gay discrimination. "I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the...Read More
Israelis Hold Gay Pride Rally in Jerusalem
Filed by Annette Gross | November 10, 2006 | 5:16 PM |I read an article on-line about a gay pride event that was held in Jerusalem today. The event, which was supposed to have been a parade, was instead held behind fences in a stadium on the grounds of Hebrew University....Read More
Back pats...pat's back...but no time for complacency
Filed by Don Sherfick | November 08, 2006 | 8:01 AM |Indiana, marriage,amendment, bauer, speaker, Democrats, BosmaRead More
Cock-a-doodle-doo! It's been a good night! Hee Haw!
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | November 08, 2006 | 3:28 AM |2006 election update: Dems retake Indiana House, gay marriage loses strength as wedge issue, control of Congress flips, and more good news.Read More
On Conservative Judicial Activism and Election 2006
Filed by Chris Douglas | November 05, 2006 | 8:32 AM |Under an earlier post by Bil Browning, there is a debate going on which speaks directly to a type of Judicial partisanship that should dishearten every Hoosier, let alone those who are its victims. A fundamental guarantee of Indiana's Constitutional...Read More
Being Queer at a Bridal Shower
Filed by Melissa Williams | November 04, 2006 | 8:44 PM |Sigh....I just got back from a bridal shower that I couldn't really get out of attending. I NEVER feel comfortable at such gendered activities, and I literally had a knot in my throat the whole time. I tried to convince...Read More
Being Queer at a Bridal Shower
Filed by Melissa Williams | November 04, 2006 | 8:44 PM |Sigh....I just got back from a bridal shower that I couldn't really get out of attending. I NEVER feel comfortable at such gendered activities, and I literally had a knot in my throat the whole time. I tried to convince...Read More
