Tag Archives: marriage equality
Rhetoric, shmetoric
It’s nice to have a president who can actually string two sentences together. It’s nice when he says things like this: While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of … Continue reading
Filed under homophobia, LGBT, Politics
Remembering Stonewall & Moving Forward
Washington State Senator Murray Op Ed – June 11, 2009 On June 28, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community celebrates an earlier generation who, one evening, finally had enough of being marginalized, drew a firm line in the … Continue reading
Imagine
Imagine a 13-year-old girl gets married in New Hampshire. That’s the only state where it’s legal to marry that young. Now imagine she and her husband can’t file their federal taxes together because no other state allows 13 year olds … Continue reading
Why do gays and their allies…
… find it so important to convince everyone that being gay is not a choice? One of my (gay) friends asked me this last week. He had a good point: Religion is a choice, yet it’s a protected status. I … Continue reading
“The Defenders”
I’m not interested in voting on who you can marry. Why worry about who I might want to marry?