Over the Top Footage of Anti-Gay Rally in DC

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Tuesday October 27, 2009 · 8:42 AM PDT

2009/10/27 · 08:42

My girlfriend and I went to an anti-gay rally in DC on Sunday. She captured this footage.

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 12:27 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 12:27

With all of this coverage of Rev. Wright, why is it we never hear about John McCain’s fraternization with the radical preachers John Hagee and Rod Parsley? Hagee made headlines in 2005 for saying that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for hosting a gay pride parade. And now Mother Jones has published footage from one of Parsley’s sermons where he claims that "America was founded in part with the intention of seeing this false religion [Islam] destroyed."

You can watch the whole clip here.

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 2:06 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 14:06

The Michigan Supreme Court has ruledthat local governments and state universities can no longer provide health insurance to the partners of gay employees. Such benefits are now unconstitutional because Michigan’s 2004 anti-gay marriage amendment. Remember when the supporters of these amendments told us that they were merely aimed at preserving the traditional definition of marriage, that the amendments were not supposed to hurt gay couples? This ruling shows how spurious those arguments were.

It is kind of funny though, the rule of unintended consequences and all. Many universities in Michigan have altered their benefit policies to cover basically any person living with a state employee. Marriage used to have a special place in these University policies, now it isn’t even mentioned. In efforts to "protect" marriage by keeping gays out, this case shows that our opponents only undermine their supposed cause.

Gay Becomes Blasé

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 1:40 PM PST

2007/11/06 · 13:40

Gregory Rodriguez wrote a great piecein the LA Times yesterday highlighting a recent gay demographics study conducted by Gary Gates at the UCLA Law’s Williams Institute. The study found, among many things, that the gay population has been steadily diversifying. The number of out gay couples has also increased tremendously over the past decade–especially in non-urban and middle America. These demographic changes have been linked to growing tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality.

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Tuesday October 30, 2007 · 1:39 PM PDT

2007/10/30 · 13:39

There’s been a bit of a storm in the blogosphere over Obama’s gospel concert in South Carolina, which was aimed at courting black evangelical voters. Obama invited Donnie McClurkin, an "ex-gay" singer, to the event. After a bit of an uproar from gay bloggers, Obama hastily booked a white openly gay minister to deliver a short prayer. Rather than following the gay minister’s example of discretion, McClurkin decided to preach on how he was cured from homosexuality.

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Thursday October 25, 2007 · 11:18 PM PDT

2007/10/25 · 23:18

From pornography one learns that forcible violation of women is the essence of sex. Whatever is that and does that is sex. Everything else is secondary. –Catherine MacKinnon, Sexuality, Pornography and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy

A (wonderfully ironic)visual display of statistics on internet porn from GOOD Magazine:

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Monday October 22, 2007 · 6:37 PM PDT

2007/10/22 · 18:37

Here’s my slightly delayed response to the Values Voter Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council, in DC over the weekend, which I attended. I thought I’d skip over reactions to the candidate statements and the straw poll at this point, as a lot was already said on those topics. I’d like to concentrate on the more mundane aspects of the conference, which are somewhat significant in their own right.

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 8:08 AM PDT

2007/10/18 · 08:08

The Philadelphia Enquirer reportsthat the local chapter of the Boy Scouts will have to pay $200,000 in rent if they wish to keep their headquarters in a city-owned building. The Scouts previously had to pay just $1–the increase reflects the market value of the property. The local Boy Scouts chapter will now either have to vacate its old headquarters or take the $200,000 from its program budget, which fund a summer camp and 39 individual Scout packs.

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Wednesday October 17, 2007 · 9:25 AM PDT

2007/10/17 · 09:25

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal wroteabout labor advocacy on the part of liberal/mainline Christian leaders in America:

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Tuesday October 16, 2007 · 6:31 AM PDT

2007/10/16 · 06:31

I found this piecein Good Magazine on Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Chairman of NYU’s Politics Department and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. According to the article, Bueno de Mesquita has developed a game theoretical computer model that "can predict the outcome of virtually any international conflict, provided the basic input is accurate." The article goes on:

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Saturday October 13, 2007 · 7:48 AM PDT

2007/10/13 · 07:48

I was quite enthusiastic to learn about a new series of ringtonesoffered by the Obama‘08 campaign. Forget the iPhone, I was totally ready to awe all I met through catchy beats such as ‘2002 Speech Remix.’ And of course, nothing says true politico like having your cell phone ring off mawkish platitudes about "change" to the beat of hip hop during your 9am intro to american gov class.

But alas, it all seems to be a communications malfunction at best, or a dirty campaign trick at worse.

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Thursday October 11, 2007 · 11:54 PM PDT

2007/10/11 · 23:54

From Schmitz Blitz: schmitzblitz.wordpress.com

From looking over search terms that brought up my blog, one of the ones that stuck out was "rational behind gay people?" My response:

Then I was interested that someone searched ‘rationale behind gay people?’ to get to Schmitz Blitz. Beyond the fact that they do exist, I’ve not pondered much about why. I’m familiar with the standard evolutionary issues that often come up, but beyond that I was curious about what other people wanted to know about the question.

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On Pornography

My Weekend with the Christianists

It Doesn’t Pay to Discriminate

The Religious Left

The New Nostradamus

Dropped Call from Obama

Rationale Behind Gay People? A Discussion on Morality