as I wait for the steam cleaners to finish our downstairs, I am reading with some interest the Plaintiff/Appellee's response to SCOTUS on Utah's request for a stay on the 20 Dec 2013 ruling striking Utah's ban on same-sex marriages, which the District and Circuit courts have refused to stay ( Read more... )

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hat tip to joe.my.god

first I will briefly mention my life. I haven't updated much in LJ, simply becuase what has been dominating my life have been health issues, work issues, house issues, and - by extension pet-management, money and time-management problems caused by the first three. these sorts of things are boring to write about, and even more boring to read, so I ( Read more... )

I remember... going to a memorial service... in 1985?... for a college friend, John, who died of AIDS... nobody could see him, his parents denied him... his boyfriend could not go to the funeral... his parents flew the body back to Florida and closed the service to well-wishers... they were staunch Catholics and denied their son was ever gay ( Read more... )

Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians. The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples.

Contempt in your eyes ( Read more... )

a documentary will be out in June about all the Mormon money behind prop 8.

http://www.mormonproposition.com/

http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/suit-charges-elderly-gay-couple-was-forced-apart/

Embedded in the legalese of the complaint were stark anecdotal nuggets. At one point, as county officials moved through the couple ( Read more... )

ok. I have spent significant portion of the last 24 hours of my life engrossed in reading ( Read more... )

there isn't much to say. I am working, and coming home. picking up, and playing wow. I am extremely stressed. there isn't much in my life that isn't stressful ( Read more... )

the New York Times has run a couple case studies comparing lifetime costs between a committed gay couple with kids and a married couple with kids.

In our worst case, the couple's lifetime cost of being gay was $467,562. But the number fell to $41,196 in the best case for a couple with significantly better health insurance, plus lower taxes and ( Read more... )