What is it the so-called “conservative” establishment’s support of Mitt Romney? Given what is known about the guy, it’s utterly amazing — and, as I’ll demonstrate in the coming days, disgusting. Kathyrn Jean Lopez has had a hankering for Mitt Romney ascending to national office since the primaries. She’s got it real bad. Her column at Townhall today should be an embarrassment to her bosses at National Review, but unfortunately, I’m fairly confident that it isn’t. Behold one of the most disg

It's still a few months away, but the anti-gay forces are losing according to the latest Field poll in California.Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in California, is opposed by 51 percent of likely voters with 42 percent in favor, according to a new Field Poll. Those results put the proposed ban in a politically perilous position in the Nov. 4 election, said Mark DiCamillo, director of the nonpartisan Field Poll. “Starting out behind is usually an omi

It is commonly said by those on all sides of this debate that Jesus said nothing whatsoever pertaining to “homosexuality.”  Traditionalists conclude that Jesus simply accepted the Levitical prohibitions (and the negative view of 1st C. Judaism) without question.  Revisionists conclude that Jesus was unconcerned about same-sex issues and that contemporary Christians are free to take Jesus’ overall liberating views on the dignity and equality of all persons as our guide. But there is one ambigu

3:20: This panel features Ali Savino, David Sirota, Garnet Coleman, and Austin Guest. 3:21: Guest: Says that there are structural problems in D.C. that prevent many problems from getting solved at the national level. Based on the setup of the Senate, senators representing only 3% of America can block legislation favored by the other 97%. 3:23: On many issues, states passed legislation significantly in advance of the federal government. 3:24: States spend about as much money as the federal go

From the lovely Avedon: Massachusetts is shaking off the lint that was Mitt Romney by getting rid of an old law no one had ever removed from the books (because it was obsolete), which Mitt had invoked to ban gay marriages. That law barred out of state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state did not recognize their marriage, and was intended to prevent interracial couples coming to Massachusetts for marriages that were illegal in their home states. ... Good on my northern nei

There is a ridiculous column by Clown Hall's Glen Lavy and his objection to comparing same-sex marriage to the legal battle to legalize interracial marriage. It's nothing to write home about, but here's a tired snippet.In yet another attempt to excuse bypassing the democratic process, California Chief Justice Ronald George recently asserted that a 1948 court decision legalizing interracial marriage in California is analogous to the May 15 ruling granting same-sex couples the "right" to marry. He

Some of the dumbest and meanest things that anyone says about homosexuality-and a lot of other issues - are said in church. This is truly scandalous. -- David Gushee, professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, in his column for Associated Baptist PressIn this fascinating, brutally honest opinion piece, we can see the internal struggle of socially conservative churches to rethink how to treat gay parishioners.It is clear that insofar as "Christianity" or "the church" is primarily assoc

(Please note that this article provides important background information for the posted article below--KSH). Retired United Methodist clergy in northern California and Nevada could face disciplinary charges if they perform same-gender marriage ceremonies in the wake of a California court ruling that allows gay couples to marry, their bishop says. While the church’s California-Nevada legislative assembly approved a resolution in June commending retired clergy who have offered to perform suc

We may be a long way from same-sex marriage here in Idaho but there is something we can to help our brethren in California, boycott the McCall, Idaho Whitetail Club & Resort. Resort owner, Doug Manchester (left) contributed $125,000 to the campaign to ban marriage equality in California. Money collected, from Manchester and others across the country supported the effort by opponents of marriage equality to get Proposition 8 on the November ballot. If passed, the California’s State Constitutio

From WXIA:A few days ago, the presiding bishop, leader of America's Episcopalians, sat down for an exclusive interview with 11Alive's Denis O'Hayer. "We're challenging some other parts of the communion to have conversations that they're not comfortable having in public," said The Most Reverend Doctor Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop. That's a bit of an understatement. The Most Reverend Dr. Schori and the Episcopal Church she heads, are two targets of the nearly one-third of th

Same-sex “Marriage” Will Not be Counted in 2010 U.S. Census July 19th, 2008 Posted in Gay Marriage | By Jenna Murphy, LifeSite News WASHINGTON, July 18, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com)- The American Census Bureau has announced that the 2010 federal census will not recognize homosexual "marriages" in the nation’s 10-year count, despite the fact that Massachusetts and California currently permit same-sex ceremonies to take place. The director of the Census Bureau, Steven Murdock, told the AP on Th

Three new presidential polls were released since Friday morning, two of which are from battleground states rated “toss-up” or “lean” in my latest ratings: In Virginia, Rasmussen finds the two candidates tied at 44%, with McCain leading by 1% when leaners are included. Last month, Obama got 45% to McCain’s 44%. The bad news for Obama is his favorability rating: 47% of respondents now have an unfavorable opinion of him (compared to 36% for McCain), including 31% who say their view is very unfav

Ys is one of those mythic cities, it's to Brittany as Atlantis is to the Atlantic, (or the Mediterranean, depending on which theory you subscribed to), a place submerged beneath the waves. Le Roi D'Ys is the opera by Edouard Lalo (libretty by Edouard Blau) based on the Breton folktales of the lost city, and today Saturday Afternoon At The Opera (Saturday 1:00 p.m., 1:30 NT) presents the tale of what lies beneath the Bay of Biscay, in a production conducted by Canadian conductor Yves Abel,from

19 Jul 08 From Frankie (Letter 6) Frankie - A Mexican Mafia hitman and leader of prison "booty bandits" who first proposed our gay marriage when he saw me applying antifungal ointment to the bedsores on my buttocks at the Madison Street jail, where he was held on murder charges. Now incarcerated in the super-maximum prison housing Arizona's death row. 7-13-2008 Englandman my friend, Why does it take you so long to answer my letters? I’m not a friend that died. It was my older brother that

I think it would be quite a big deal if California's Proposition 8, the one which would ban the newly legal gay marriage, is defeated. Do the right thing Californians.

Obama in Berlin - und alle sind begeistert. Alle? ‘Berlin wählt Obama‘, titelte die Netzzeitung während der US-Vorwahlen. Am 24. juli 2008 ist Barack Obama nun in Berlin. Da er (noch ?) kein Präsident ist, darf er nicht am Brandenburger Tor sprechen. Aber an der Siegesäule, am Donnerstag um 19:00 Uhr, mit ‘Fanmeile’, mit Blick auf Brandenburger Tor und Pariser Platz - auch eine imposante und medienwirksame Kulisse. All denjenigen, die nun in den breiten Chor der Obamamanie einfallen, sei ange

Oklahoma politico Brent Rinehart creates anti-gay campaign comic book. Here's it is! New Yorker under fire for Obama cover. Barack reacts. Editor reacts. Miss USA upholds metaphor for America's current world status. Gay Bishop Gene Robinson called 'heretic'. Wales solidarity, Anglican boycott! Former Aussie Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe in love with someone. Christopher Ciccone unleashes on Madonna, and more... McCain says he's against gay adoption, sparks outrage, then backtracks..

Well, maybe not the best book from an objective point of view, but from where I am standing, the arrival of my very own copy of this book is pretty amazing. I just got my advance copy of How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. It is an analysis of the complex dynamics of opposing movements, wrapped in a fascinating historical account of the lesbian and gay movement and the religious right. It gave me chills (who knew that writing a book was so similar to influenza?) to see it

Thomas Frank, who wrote that brilliant insta-classic "What's the Matter with Kansas?", has a new book coming out called "The Wrecking Crew." In it he examines the depth of Republican corruption and what it has done to Washington and our perception of self-government. (Wait! There's Democratic corruption, too -- it's just that the Republicans have been at it longer and Republicans have a more insane, skewed view of their own corruption.) Frank points to the hallucination that Republicans harb

“Chuck Baldwin is the best candidate for voters who cherish the institution of marriage between a man and a woman,” says the Pro-Traditional Marriage page at Chuck Baldwin’s new Web site. “Chuck does not consider the issue of marriage to be a contoversial [sic] issue or an issue that is exclusionary. It just makes common sense.” Although Baldwin says he’s the best candidate for marriage traditionalists, he does not explain why. He doesn’t champion (or oppose) a federal definition of marriage,