Gays to protest at SF Archbishop's wedding mass
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activist community of the Bay Area upset over recent bigoted remarks and policies promulgated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will...
View ArticleI Can't Put Flowers on Their Graves
I was born in Indiana but we moved away when I was very little. I went back in 2004 to be a care giver for my Mom. My parents had moved back to Indiana from California when Dad retired. He always...
View ArticleGov. Mike Pence (R-IN) mad at Left’s intolerance as he won't say if law...
Governor Mike Pence appeared on ABC's ThisWeek to defend and clarify his new Indiana law that allows businesses to discriminate against gays and others. Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) signed the...
View ArticlePutting Indiana In It's Proper Place
This country really is in a bad way if we allow for all intents and purposes Indiana's ayatolla to in effect attack our citizens as if those citizens belonged to some foreign enemy state. With the...
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Indiana and The Great SMEAR
Indiana has been thoroughly trashed and defiled, as if a horde of journalists wearing Cossack attire rode slashing through her farm fields into towns all over the state and utterly defiled Indiana's...
View ArticleMemories Pizza closing! (temporarily)
Hahahahahahaha!!! Because of the backlash over the statements that it was a "Christian establishment" and wouldn't serve gays, Memories Pizza is closing "until things cool down".Hopefully, that will...
View ArticleA Righteous Rant - Memories Pizza can su$k it!
This is going to be sort off topic but sort of on topic (how is that possible)? I need to address this growing trend in the US (and world) of as soon as someone is considered, "wronged" or a "hero" or...
View ArticleRand Paul: Poisoning The Well
New! That is the new word repeated several times in Rand Paul's announcement that he will seek the office of the presidency, and why not? After all, something new is usually better than something old...
View ArticleSo What if they're Gay?
The Bible states very clearly, in several places, that it is not our place to judge. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Remove the log from your own eye, that you may better see the mote...
View ArticleRe: So What if they're Gay
So, let's try again. Dear Evangelicals who believe that God hates gays and wants you to discriminate against them. You're wrong. God said so. Jesus, your savior, said in your own holy book NOT TO...
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Whose Faith is it Anyway?
Whose Faith is it Anyway?by Barry Friedman(First Appeared in The Tulsa Voice)Just when we think we’re out, they pull us back in. But it wasn’t politics this time; it was faith. Two stories before we...
View ArticleScared, Selfish, Racist, And Callous. Recognize Yourselves, GOP?
Much of the discussion that goes on in politics and this world is handled with too much care and political correctness. Liars are called truth-challenged. Stubborn people who make bad decisions are...
View ArticleDoes The Bible Define Marriage?
NO! Not at all! Politicians often use the Bible for political gain and are not interested in the truth. They look for an ancient sound bite to convince people of whatever they already believe.
View ArticleDid Paul say homosexuals couldn't be part of the kingdom of God?
Today I read an excellent diary ("Has A Gay Man Really Filed A Lawsuit Against A Bible Publisher Over Offensive 'Homosexual' Language?")that dealt with the vice list in I Corinthians 6 that has often...
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Are you more afraid?
This should, almost literally, be the standard Republican stump speech.
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Mormon Church keeps affiliation with Boy Scouts despite gay leaders
When the Boy Scouts voted to stop discriminating against homosexuals it was a day to rejoice. The vitriol from the right continued and some historically homophobic organizations—religious...
View ArticleHow to shut your conservative friends up about Kim Davis...
You all have them, those annoying conservative friends who claim Kim Davis is being forced to do something her faith doesn't allow. Well, ask your conservative friends the following question..."If a...
View ArticleWho Baptized Uncle Sam?!
I ran across this video en route to trolling some wingnuts at some other site (really badgering some gun nuts on the "Muslim Kryptonite thread at youtube)But, I came across this video which clearly...
View ArticleVolkswagen hits a home run ad. RWNJ heads to explode.
I'll be honest, I hate t.v. commercials. The vast majority of them treat us as even bigger morons than scientific studies have shown us to be. Those that don't treat us as driveling idiots are just...
View ArticleHomophobes: Keep Out
Let me state plainly, up-front, I am not gay. That's neither here nor there for what I'm about to say, yet I simply wanted to be clear that I haven't lived the experience; I've not suffered the...
View ArticleAnother twist: Pope met with same-sex couple
Today the Vatican was doing damage control about the so-called meeting the Pope had with anti-marriage equality Kim Davis. New reports say that the Pope met with one of his former students, Yayo...
View ArticleWas DOMA Defensive or Political?
What are people who were gay activists and/or involved with the White House saying?“In 1996, I was President of the Human Rights Campaign, and there was no threat of a Federal Marriage Amendment”She...
View ArticleRachel Maddow's ACT UP boi photo on display till 1/3
Be sure to stop by the San Francisco public library's main branch before Sunday, January 3rd, and see Rick Gerharter's great photo of Rachel Maddow in her boi phase when she was in ACT UP.The library’s...
View ArticleThe GOP: One party, under Trump, with bigotry and intolerance for all
xEmbedded Content Donald Trump has said so many repugnant things on the campaign trail that recounting them has practically become hackneyed. But new data from YouGuv and Public Policy Polling now...
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This has been a tough week
I have to confess, lately instead of day-dreaming about Bernie winning, I allow myself to day-dream about moving to Vancouver. Start a whole new chapter in our lives. Maybe see how medicine really...
View ArticleWhy a Trump Presidency Does not Concern Me.
Having Mr. Trump as the president of my great nation does not concern me. It frightens me. Here’s why.Is it because he doesn’t know the things presidents have to know in order to rule effectively?...
View ArticleGod, the Pope, and Gays
Pope: How shall I tell the world to love gay people without condoning their gay behavior?God: I made the world, though not in seven days as one of your books claims....surely you see that is an...
View ArticleBathrooms are the New Battlefields for Politicians
by Walter Brasch When I was a junior at San Diego State, I had a sudden urge to need a restroom. The closest one was clearly marked, “Faculty Men Only.” The nearest one for male students was on...
View ArticleThe New Chasm in the Realm of the Acceptable
According to Bill Maher we’ve been too nice, and I agree. However I disagree with his concept of acceptance and moving forward with a pat on the back for the winning chap. I will not accept the...
View ArticleIt Starts Anew
It didn’t take long for the Democratic Leadership Council’s type of thinking to rear its ugly head again: The trouble with Democrats is that they won’t throw brown people and gays under the bus. But...
View ArticleWhy do we have Gay Conversion Therapy but not Adultery Conversion Therapy?
I was skimming through the stories on Daily Kos yesterday and I came across a story about the death of the man who created the Gay conversion therapy:www.dailykos.com/…For those who do not know Gay...
View ArticleUse Your Frequent Flyer Miles to Save a Life
“Chechnya’s president has reportedly vowed to “eliminate” the region’s gay population by the end of next month as the brutal persecution and torture of gay men in the region continues.Kremlin-backed...
View ArticleSessions' Justice Department says gays aren't protected from discrimination...
Despite their recent rift, Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are in sync on one thing: it's a perfect time to declare open season on LGBTQ Americans.After Trump declared a ban on...
View ArticleBetter Talking Points: The GOP is the Party of Fear
We on the Left need a Frank Luntz, someone who is truly skilled at distilling the issues of the day into bite-sized talking points that click with voters. Yes, yes, the Left has been trying to do so...
View ArticleListening to talk radio on a drive from Louisville to DC - Gays, Israel,...
Today I drove from Louisville, KY to Washington, DC and here are a few of the things I heard on talk radio:*Plastic "noodles" such as the things kids play with in a swimming pool may cause the children...
View ArticlePope Francis on gays and abortion.
There was, a bit back, about how more enlightened Pope Francis was towards gay men and abortion.Well… hold on a second..Speaking at an Italian group for Catholic families, in unscripted remark the Pope...
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Republican reps vote to let religious child-welfare groups discriminate...
Last week, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee okayed an amendment that sparked anger in the LGBTQ community because, advocates said, it could block lesbian and gay couples from adopting. As Heron...
View ArticleAt the midpoint of the school year, a reflection on more than school
Friday was the end of 1st Semester, and my grades were all in before the end of the school day. I will begin the week with my students having several days left to complete a mandatory exercise that...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney joins call for boycott of hotels linked to Brunei's...
There are nine hotels in the U.S. and Europe with ties to the sultan of Brunei that are facing a boycott, thankfully. George Clooney and Elton John are just some of the celebrities that have been vocal...
View ArticleChristian Clown Mike Huckabee Tells Beto to Ban Skateboards.
Mike Huckabee can always be relied on to offer a clever little ‘gotcha’ in reaction to a liberal position he scoffs at. His speech and tweets cackle with self-satisfaction in the smug belief he has...
View ArticleAnti-gay pastor who said COVID was G_d's judgement on Gays....died from? You...
Irvin Baxter Jr…...you live by the sword, you die by the sword.Baxter was a Pentacostal minister, saying G-d was upset at man for the lack of virgin brides around town and to gay folks. I’ve heard of...
View ArticleConservatives Lose, and Lose
Conservatives lose, and loseBy James A. HaughtThe 2020 Supreme Court decree that gays cannot be fired from jobs simply because they’re gay is a solid blow to white evangelicals, the heart of the...
View ArticleFundamentalist Intolerance
Fundamentalist Intolerance(Daylight Atheism – 1/25/21)By James A. HaughtAcross America, right-wing politicians pass “religious freedom” laws that have a single purpose: to let narrow-minded believers...
View ArticleGays and Lesbians earn more university degrees then do comparable heterosexuals.
Just came across an article that documents a research finding about GLB individuals and college degree obtainment. One good thing about our new sexual revolution is that there are data points to study...
View ArticleGOP candidate said it's "totally just" to stone gay people to death
God! I am so disgusted with hypocritical, lying “Christians” like Scott Esk, the GOP candidate in question, and their implied lie: “Well, gosh, I’m just a good ole Christian trying to follow the...
View ArticleChristianity’s Defective DNA and Gays
In 312, Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. In 380 AD, Roman Emperor Theodosius issued the Edict of Thessalonica, declaring Christianity the Roman Empire’s official religion. How much...
View ArticleFLORIDA'S LOSS
Friends were planning on retiring to Florida. Karen, who isn’t one, calls herself an iguana. She likes it hot, the hotter the better. She does not like cold and wet. She’s been living in Michigan...
View ArticleNo Gays allowed signs are the racist, intolerant people version of No Colored...
Sadly, the conservative Supreme Court has made it ok for “conservatives, so called Christian business owners to discriminate against the LGTB “A hair salon in Traverse City said it will no longer...
View ArticleNex Benedict, Tom Woods, and The Dark Side of Christianity
Often, the more Fundamentalist Christian someone becomes, the worse they get. They hate and persecute LGBTQ people. They want to replace American democracy with a theocratic nation, a Christian nation....
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