In the past six months, the “brave new world” of the 21st century has erupted  into massive and immediate political, social, economic, and environmental change, foisting...
Imagine if we built coalitions from advocates of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights, women’s reproductive choice, health care and immigration reform, and workers’ rights groups…...
The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. “I want to...
I guess if you’re the president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), you think you’re doing God’s work, and yet, you think you can flip-flop...
Before I begin I would like to note that this will be the last of the Evangelical Series. I know, sad. However, I would like to...
Citizens United. It’s not just a badly-decided right-wing activist U.S. Supreme Court decision. It’s actually a conservative political activist group, and they’ve come out (haha!) with...
On Wednesday, December 1, coincidentally both World AIDS Day and the fifty-fifth anniversary of freedom fighter Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat on an...
Joe Sudbay at AmericaBlog reports the “Department of Justice has asked Judge Phillips to issue a stay of her DADT injunction and indicated that it will...
Yes, Ford failed the bar – he has his J.D. but never passed the bar. His choice, of course, to take it only once. Nothing wrong...
This morning I went down to the U.S. Supreme Court in Brooklyn to watch a remote feed of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger challenge to California’s Prop...
Representative Steve King, Candidate For Governor, Stalls Matthew Shepard Act   The US House Judiciary Committee began work on the “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...
As I said, “the Internet is abuzz today“. There were many, many commentaries, including mine, below, on the Tmes’ Op-Ed, “A Reconciliation On Gay Marriage“. What I...
In the earliest years of the twenty-first century, it felt like things were going well for the gay community. The prior decade had brought us the...
Recent advances in gay marriage have created an interesting – and I use that term generously – cornucopia of marriage situations. In California, gay marriage was...
As Expected, Narrow Vote Of 7 To 6 After a late start, over seven hours of impassioned speeches from citizens, clergy, scientists, psychologists, and members of...