The original Gay Patriot weighs in at Big Journalism on the sea change at CPAC this year. He’s got both of the infamous videos up: the pro-GOProud cheering of Alexander McCobin and the pro-GOProud booing of Ryan Sorba. Bruce was the first one to point out that it was probably Sorba who provided the outnumbered—but [...]

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I’ve been remiss in not blogging about this; I was simply quite taken aback about the President baiting the Supremes in that setting, and in that way. Ilya Somin points out the obvious.
But the repeal of DADT is overdue. (For the sake of my husband, and some of my other SoCon readers, I’d like to [...]

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It’s time to wake up: the Democrats are not your friends. Not necessarily. And the Republicans are not necessarily your enemies. (Remember them? Party of Lincoln? First party to seat the same-sex in-law of a Vice President at official State functions at the White House?)
Zombie, at PJM:
Turns out Obama has been a major disappointment for [...]

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. . . by blowing up some of his own. Memo to Steve Schmidt: You are no Sarah Palin.
Sheesh; I used to like that guy, particularly after he took a stand in favor of gay marriage. But he’s really wigged out lately. What is it about Sarah that makes men take the razor to their [...]

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Joy plays “let’s crowd the celebrity” at CPAC. Photo: Ace of Spades.
I just don’t know about Meghan McCain. Like AllahP and Moe in their own ways, my own political positions even out to something only just right of center. God bless Meghan for speaking her mind, and one must remember that she is just a [...]

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Yeah, I know: she gets in a dig at Focus on the Family, though I don’t see a reference to the so-called “gay agenda” on their website.* The folks at FotF do maintain that gays should be celibate, a stance that is asserted in a lot of orthodox Christian traditions. I’m pretty laid back about [...]

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Ugh. Not this again.
Some people seem to think the way to egalitarianism is by prohibiting any criticism of protected groups whatsoever.
And it isn’t like there aren’t dicey areas: every time I use the word “cunt” in my fiction, I get slammed at writer’s group—even if the word occurs in dialogue, and even if the speaker [...]

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He was pretty far ahead of his time on the issue of gays; certainly if he’d been elected we wouldn’t have this “don’t ask, don’t tell” bullshit.
I mean, can’t Obama take some time out from screwing up the economy/foreign policy and at least address that?
One more, though, Meghan McCain doesn’t understand it when people [...]

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Well, duh. We’re the party of liberty and equality—remember?
The Bush Administration was the most gay-friendly administration in history. Evah.
Via Althouse over at Insty’s place. She suggests that Cheney’s just “doing his usual thing of currying favor with the lefties.”
I hadn’t thought of it in quite that way . . .

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Cooler heads may yet prevail.

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I don’t have a legal background, but this seems like the right balance at this time between judicial activism and total passivity.
Gay Patriot:
I believe the justices made the right decision this time. The decision was 6-1. Now, the issue is developing a strategy to repeal the state constitutional provision defining marriage as the [...]

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Here’s an interesting article from The New York Times. I know a lot of you are going think that there is an “agenda” here, at least at the newspaper (the writer seems more amused than anything by our hodgepodge of laws, state-to-state), but there are still larger points to be made here—about What Constitutes Gender? [...]

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. . . what Stacy thinks Cassandra means. Not by a long shot. And if he think she’s a radical Feminist, or an embittered spinster . . . this could become very interesting, very quickly.
Ace’s site is, of course, the Heffalump in the room, as he runs the original “Boyz Playhouse, Some Girlz Allowed” of [...]

Posted in Around the 'Sphere, Cotillion Ball, Faith and Faiths, Feminism, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Girlz, Lanterns and Scimitars, Matters Military, Media, Sex Is Necessary, Stacy's Crew, new media, politics 9 Comments »

I have been so wrong.
You have it here: original sin lies not with the pro-gay-marriage people, nor with those who oppose it. It lies with passive-aggressive queens who are not really contributing to the argument.

You go, boy.

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I’ve held off on watching the Hilton-Prager debate, but I finally screwed my courage to the sticking point and gave it a peek.

Of course, they are both right.
And I agree with Cynthia that the goal should be full legal recognition of same-sex marriage, but I disagree with her that Miss California’s remarks were impolite. [...]

Posted in All About Meeeee!, Around the 'Sphere, Civil Liberties, Freedom of Speech, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Scientifical Stuff, Sex Is Necessary, politics 22 Comments »

The fact that I like women, doesn’t determine who I am as a man . . . My principles do.
Homophobe!
Oh, wait. I meant he was one of those words that sounds a lot like another word, but means something different than what you really typed. So maybe I got that wrong.
A plague on both [...]

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When I was working for the Lutheran non-profit in the early 1990s, I made a run to the Different Light bookstore in West Hollywood wearing a long pink cotton skirt, a cotton sweater, and makeup. As I passed a gay male couple on the street, one of ‘em called out to me playfully, “hey! Where [...]

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Here.
Sometimes Pam’s House Blend is so depressing: how a black lesbian could buy into the Democrats’ agenda is beyond me. I mean, I understand that it’s not unheard-of, demographically. It’s just that it makes no sense whatsoever. The leftist wing of the Democratic Party is not good for black people, and it is not good [...]

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It looks like men with ties to the gay community are dropping like flies, and the police are practically looking the other way.
Dan Collins has the best accounts here and here, but it looks like three men were murdered, with a tepid response from the law. Worse, the D.C. cops’ Gay and Lesbian Liaison reportedly [...]

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