I am not a Pennsylvanian, but I am *deeply* disturbed by the precedent this would set for bringing church back into state. Furthermore, it excludes a multitude of non-Christian religions and those who hold moral codes without religion ( Read more... )

DUDE! We're not all the way back yet, but at least it's another step forward again!!! :)

Prop 8, California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Declared Unconstitutional

Crossposted from http://montuos.dreamwidth.org/912980.html ;
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Why I felt the need to write the open letters below: Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA

Dear Publishers: I am a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant heterosexual, and I want to read stories about and from the viewpoints of people who are not like me. Please stop censoring my choices before I have the opportunity to make them ( Read more... )

I have deliberately removed the age restriction that I set up to be default on my account here, because I fail to see any kind of "graphic or sexually suggestive content" here. Tender love, check. Fully clothed, check. Reason for censorship, FAILI've firmly resisted starting a Facebook account despite repeated requests from some of my nearest ( Read more... )

I am deliberately marking this post public with no age restriction despite strong language and "adult" concepts, because this is an important message to spread as far and as wide as possible, and because I believe that the people it applies to are mostly already old beyond their years. They need to hear this, and I want to make sure (as far as it ( Read more... )

I had vaguely noticed the #diaspora hashtag on some RTs I had been seeing periodically in Twitter for a while, but hadn't really paid any attention to it until today. What made the difference? Seeing this tweet:Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora: http://bit.ly/hTcgGf #diaspora

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Originally posted by neo_prodigy at Spirit Day
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I've seen the YouTube version of this all over my Friends page today, which pretty much tells me I'm preaching to the choir here, but I'm reposting it anyway.  And yes, just as stitchwhich said, it made me cry too.  I'm ganking it from principia_coh, who posted a link to the msnbc.com version, which includes a transcription.  (Besides, she posted it first! ;)

Olbermann: ( Read more... )

Seen everywhere:

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Really. If they're feeling that threatened, they should tend to their own marriages, and stop worrying about other people's.