How sad and ironic that the revocation of citizen’s rights via Constitutional bans, is not on the SCLC’s radar. Is it a Movement or Museum?
Response: Gay or Black, It’s Still Church-Sanctioned Discrimination
To deny the parallels between the Civil Rights Movement and the fight for LGBTQ civil rights obscures the fact that the forces opposing both used the Bible and Christianity to do their dirty work.
UPDATED: Warren is... Heterogeneous on Gay Marriage; In Hot Water for Equivocation
Last week on Larry King, "America's Pastor" downplayed his opposition to gay marriage. That was not always the case.
Has Iowa adhered to its long history of justice or is preventing two men from marrying each other no different than prohibiting a man from marrying his house plant.
The Great Secret of Constitutional Law: Why Proposition 8 Will (and perhaps should) Be Upheld
“The Constitution is not what the Court says it is. Rather it is what the people…eventually allow the Court to say it is.” A careful read of the history of great advances in American freedom reveals that high court decisions like Brown v. Board of Ed. actually relied both on the clarity of the argument and the perception that the nation was ready.
How Are The Justices Hanging in the Challenge to Prop. 8?
A peek into the status of the legal challenge to the ban on gay marriage in California, and an update on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
After winning an Oscar for Milk Sean Penn called shame on Prop. 8 supporters and Dustin Lance Black spoke candidly of his Mormon upbringing.
Conservative Black Preacher Leads Crusade Against Hate Crimes Legislation
Bishop Harry Jackson, the African American head of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, has raised his profile by joining with top-shelf Religious Right groups in opposing gay rights and the inclusion of gays in hate crimes legislation.
Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder
Plus: Bill Maher’s “Christian Bashing”; African-American support for Prop. 8 exaggerated; Trouble in Narnialand and Worst anti-Gay voices
If you live in California and are a Republican, attend church at least once a week, hold socially conservative views, and are 65-years-old or older, you most likely voted “Yes” on Proposition 8...
Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy
Expecting the not-yet-commander-in-chief to attend to each of my parochial concerns is a little, well, precious.
RD News Round-Up—December 15, 2008: Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative after 8 years; ‘War on Christmas’ mash-up; Religious Right layoffs and cutbacks, ‘Prop. 8—The Musical,’ Prop. 8 Gear, and the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress.
RD News Round-Up—December 8, 2008: Proposition 8—The Rematch; California Supreme Court Justice in Religious Right’s Crosshairs; American Family Association’s 40th Birthday; and “The Last Languages Campaign,” Breakaway Episcopalians, and “Counterfeit Pro-Lifer[s].”
Pollsters ask voters why they supported Prop. 8, and it turns out religion played a major role: LGBT folk have a lot of work to do.
Ironically, the precedent that may be set by the anti-gay marriage initiative could clear the path for the ultimate anti-Christmas legislation
RD News Round-Up—November 24, 2008: Religious Right’s ‘Obama Watch’; RaptureReady.com getting readier; Focus on the Family’s ‘I Stand for Christmas’ campaign; Proposition 8: The Aftermath; Huckabee’s revenge; Christian doctrine cures OCD?
What Prop 8 opponents believe in is the power of the government to shield the minority from the tyranny of the majority—to prevent mob rule.
Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party
While the LDS Church’s leadership role in the passage of Proposition 8 may have been a surprising new direction for observers here in the United States, the Church has been instrumental in the organization of a world-spanning alliance of right-wing Christians and Muslims.
To say otherwise is disrespectful.
Don't Blame Black Voters: The Obama Non-Effect
It has become common to blame the black community for the passage of California's same-sex marriage ban. A look at the statistics and logic put the lie to this seductive and simplistic narrative.
Gay Marriage: Can We Get a Little Respect?
Is it really about morality? And if so, should only “moral” people be allowed to wed? Think harder, people.
Misdirected finger-pointing and flat-footed social analysis has accompanied purposeful protests and mass social action in the response to the passage of Prop 8.
The Mormon church may be first in line to deny gay people the right to marry, but Catholic bishops are hurrying to join them.
The loss on Prop 8 is like a death for gay and lesbian people, who have witnessed their civil rights murdered at the polls—the grieving is just beginning.
A video from Catholicvote.com trots out shopworn stereotypes about the single-issue Catholic voter.