I have never felt ashamed of my country the way I have this past week. Never, and I do mean never ( Read more... )

Well, we're finishing up the first Monday after SCOTUS declared that marriage equality can be a Thing now.  I'm still madly in love with my husband (and fortunately the feeling is still mutual).  There have been over 300 same-sex marriages in our county this weekend, which hopefully has been a nice shot in the arm to the county coffers and more ( Read more... )

No, I'm not going to talk about the actual birth certificate, because my feelings about it have already been expressed more eloquently elsewhere by other people ( Read more... )

Phyllis Schlafly is at it again, and I'm not sure her rhetoric has changed much since the first time around or at least since I first became aware of her.

Do feminists love divorce? Good grief. I'm a feminist who is happily married, and I can barely imagine how I'll deal with it if my darlin' husband dies first, so for me, for my husband, for ( Read more... )

I'm wearing my "I Voted" sticker, even though I may not leave the house again today ( Read more... )

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Those of you who were at our wedding years and years ago remember that at one point in the ceremony, my dad the officiating pastor asked those assembled, "Will all of you do all in your power to support and uphold this marriage?" (Emphasis his; the rite only required him to ask that of our 2 witnesses, but he told me afterwards that he thought it ( Read more... )

I wept. Phaed cheered.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will ( Read more... )

I just got off the phone with my father. He dealt out the usual conversational cards, and I decided to check on his orientation by asking him about the recent election. It was a little difficult to unravel what he meant from what he said, but finally I figured out that he had been a Hillary supporter and was very confused as to why she wasn't on ( Read more... )