Quote of the Day: January 2009
Queers for Palestine?
Filed by Ed Team | January 31, 2009 7:30 AM |"What makes QUIT oxymoronic is that their affinity for Palestine isn't reciprocated. There may be queers for Palestine, but Palestine certainly isn't for queers, either in the livable or empathetic sense. Like all Islamic polities, the Palestinian Authority systematically...Read More
Judge rules against Prop 8 donor shielding suit
Filed by Ed Team | January 30, 2009 7:30 AM |"If there ever needs to be sunshine on a particular issue, it's a ballot measure." --U.S. District Judge Morrison England in ruling against Prop 8 supporters' suit to hide the names of donors...Read More
Saddlebacking
Filed by Ed Team | January 29, 2009 7:30 AM |"Saddlebacking: the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities." --The new definition of "saddlebacking," created by Savage Love readers from the name of Rick Warren's church...Read More
Oscar Wilde
Filed by Ed Team | January 28, 2009 7:30 AM |"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." --Oscar Wilde...Read More
Arizona's conservative shift
Filed by Ed Team | January 27, 2009 7:30 AM |"Even before taking office now Governor Brewer-R signaled her agenda would include repeal of many progressive gains made over the past six years under Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano. True to form the first bill introduced at the start of the...Read More
Teh gayz will rule California with an iron stiletto!
Filed by Ed Team | January 26, 2009 7:30 AM |"The homosexual activists never stop claiming to be victims, even when they have an iron stiletto heel upon your neck. They will claim that they are being victimized by you. They're intolerant, and now they're pushing even more legislation in...Read More
Mr. President, I Hope for...
Filed by Ed Team | January 25, 2009 7:30 AM |...the beginning of a more participatory kind of citizenship--activist civics--as we all talk about our government, write to our representatives (including you), contribute our time to service projects and other works. I hope that the age of "I'm gonna...Read More
Dale Carpenter on Rick Warren
Filed by Ed Team | January 24, 2009 7:30 AM |Many gay conservatives pounced on Obama's choice as proof that he's Clinton redux, totally uncommitted and ready to ditch gays to serve his own interests. That could be correct. But another interpretation is also plausible: Obama is doing exactly...Read More
Jesus didn't lie
Filed by Ed Team | January 23, 2009 7:30 AM |"Jesus didn't lie, and look what you did to him." --"Notorious Kelly," a commenter on a Portland Tribune story...Read More
DNC on the Donald Hitchcock settlement
Filed by Ed Team | January 22, 2009 7:00 AM |"We appreciate Mr. Hitchcock's intense advocacy of LGBT equality and have never doubted his strong commitment to Democratic principles or the goals of the Democratic Party. Mr. Hitchcock is and has always been a valued member of the DNC community,...Read More
Donald Hitchcock on the DNC settlement
Filed by Ed Team | January 21, 2009 7:00 AM |"I appreciate all the things the DNC, Governor Dean, Rev. Leah Daughtry, Andy Tobias, Julie Tagen - and the Democratic Party generally - have done to advance equality. I had hoped for even more, but the dialogue is not over...Read More
Bob Herbert on today
Filed by Ed Team | January 20, 2009 6:30 AM |"My grandparents, who struggled through the Depression and World War II, and my parents, who worked tirelessly to give Sandy and me a wonderful upbringing in the postwar decades, seemed always to have believed that all good things were possible....Read More
The precipice of Dr. King's vaunted dream
Filed by Ed Team | January 19, 2009 7:30 AM |"Our annual celebration of Dr. King's birthday is particularly meaningful this year. For as we commemorate the life of an unparalleled freedom fighter, a man who stood firmly for all Americans being judged by the 'content of our character,' we...Read More
Barack Obama - Inaugural Whistle Stop Tour
Filed by Ed Team | January 18, 2009 7:30 AM |"But I also believed something else. I believed that our future is our choice, and that if we could just recognize ourselves in one another and bring everyone together - Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, north, south, east and west,...Read More
Kevin Naff - Change is Coming
Filed by Ed Team | January 17, 2009 7:30 AM |"The choice of Warren, an anti-gay Proposition 8 supporter and evangelical megachurch pastor, to deliver the invocation prompted stinging criticism from gay circles over the past few weeks. Some critics won't be mollified and are determined to stay mad...Read More
Short of killing each other...
Filed by Ed Team | January 16, 2009 7:30 AM |"It has been my experience and reading of history generally that politics is rarely a gentlemanly debate about the public good but is rather a struggle between competing interests. And ideology is usually what binds these interests together through common...Read More
Gene Robinson on fighting aggressive Christianity
Filed by Ed Team | January 15, 2009 7:30 AM |"I am very clear that this will not be a Christian prayer, and I won't be quoting Scripture or anything like that. The texts that I hold as sacred are not sacred texts for all Americans, and I want all...Read More
Being gay sure is a gift from God
Filed by Ed Team | January 14, 2009 7:30 AM |"I meant exactly what I said. It is so important for every human being to understand that he or she is a gift from God." --Rev. Ed Bacon on his statement that being gay is a gift from God...Read More
From the "Glass is Half Full" file
Filed by Ed Team | January 13, 2009 7:30 AM |"President-elect Obama's wise choice of Bishop Robinson, as well as that of Rev. Lowery and Rev. Watkins, continues to add to the historic nature of this inaugural celebration. For the first time in history, an out gay man will lead...Read More
Vote for lesbians as "Best New Blog"
Filed by Ed Team | January 12, 2009 7:30 AM |"The Weblog Awards may seem like a kind and gentle competition among affable geeks to the uninitiated, when in fact it is a free-for-all among not-so-affable geeks that often includes unlikely alliances formed behind the scenes, ne'er-do-wells attempting to circumvent...Read More
Gay by Divine Right
Filed by Ed Team | January 11, 2009 10:22 AM |"We're not talking religion, we're talking spirituality. People don't just happen to be gay. When people are born, they have that type of orientation, so he is gay by divine right." -- Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder and spiritual director...Read More
On Blagojevich's Impeachment
Filed by Ed Team | January 09, 2009 7:30 AM |"We wanted him. We elected him. We supported him. And he's disgraced us," -- Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) about the 114-1 vote to impeach Governor Blagojevich....Read More
The Rev. Pam Shepherd on marriage licences
Filed by Ed Team | January 09, 2009 7:30 AM |"I've been for civil rights for gay and lesbian people for a long, long time, but I never thought, 'I'm helping the discrimination every time I sign a license.' Every time I sign a license, it's like I'm saying, 'OK,'...Read More
Kenneth Starr pretends like he understands self-restraint
Filed by Ed Team | January 08, 2009 7:30 AM |"We will not mince words. The attorney general is inviting this court to declare a constitutional revolution." --Kenneth Starr on Jerry Brown's suit to overturn Prop 8...Read More
Ohio
Filed by Ed Team | January 07, 2009 7:30 AM |"The Court correctly declined an invitation to treat gay and lesbian Ohio parents differently from other families, and to deprive the children of these families of the protections and support other children receive." --Lambda Legal attorney Camilla Taylor on the...Read More
Defense of Marriage Act author: "DOMA has to go"
Filed by Ed Team | January 06, 2009 7:30 AM |"In 2006, when then-Sen. Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, he said, 'Decisions about marriage should be left to the states.' He was right then; and as I have come to realize, he is right now in concluding that...Read More
Portland Mayor Sam Adams
Filed by Ed Team | January 04, 2009 7:30 AM |"This is a testament to how fair-minded Portlanders are that it wasn't an issue. I spend my time on the basic issues of life. A part of that includes equal rights, but that's not even close to a majority...Read More
Matthew Stucky: Religious nutjob
Filed by Ed Team | January 03, 2009 7:30 AM |"According to the Bible homosexuality should be punishable by death. I would be overjoyed if every single queer in the entire world died today. The Bible makes it clear they are reprobates who are past the point of salvation. The...Read More
Making it to breakfast
Filed by Ed Team | January 02, 2009 7:30 AM |"Today you realize that nothing has changed, if your resolutions never made it to breakfast." -- Bilerico contributor Nathan Strang over instant messenger on New Year's Day....Read More
