Alabama legislator seeks to stop state universities from offering benefits to same-sex couples
By The Associated Press
November 14, 2009, 1:19PM
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Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones Passes Away. There've been various stories coming around, but it's looking pretty definite now that she's gone.

She did well by me, and I'll miss her.

Lesbian priest from Cleveland a nominee for Episcopal bishop of ChicagoI left christianity despite my deep affection for the Episcopal Church, because it felt dishonest to stay when it became continually clearer and clearer to me that I was an atheist, through and through. Oddly, finding my perfect church (Trinity Cathedral, where Tracey is ( Read more... )

An obituary for Octavia ButlerI realize this happened a few days ago, and this is the first I'm writing about it. Mostly, I was really puzzled by various conflicting reports of stroke vs fall, and was seeing it mentioned in enough places that I figured I'd wait 'til I had time to write something a bit more. And, although I'm very sad that we've ( Read more... )