I'm having a discussion on Facebook with one of my old friends from high school. He's Mormon. I told him that denying gay people the right to be married is the same as denying black people the right to be married. So far, he's told me all the reasons why gay people shouldn't be married, as well as that the No on 8 people have been calling the Yes ( Read more... )

With 44.2% of precincts reporting, Proposition 8, which eliminates the right of gay couples to marry, is going to pass. The "yes" people are up by 400,000 votes ( Read more... )

 Sorry, channeling king_duncan  with the subject line. Anyway... for a long time now, I've been thinking this "If I Were President" series, and I'm sitting here tonight, tired but feeling like writing, so, here I am. You cannot comment and tell me why whatever I want won't work. This is a universe in which I am the President of the United States of America. ( Read more... )

In California, Prop. 8 would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry ( Read more... )

My aunt sent me another email message today, saying that I got it wrong, because God is right, so she is right. She went on to use scripture to condemn homosexuality, and completely ignored the facts that I sent to refute her claims. So, I went blunt with:
Jesus was all-inclusive. Jesus wouldn't condone discrimination, and you are.
You took common ( Read more... )

Nine European countries now granting marital rights to homosexual individuals have collected statistics which provide a clear warning to America.

Except that they don't. When I went looking for the statistics, it's clear that they've been misinterpreted or refuted.

I also found this article, which is a more academic response to this type of ( Read more... )

Conventions: Her text is in Courier. My text is in Palatino (or generic serif). Quotes are blue.

On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:12 PM, (my aunt) wrote:

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."  Proverbs 14:34

"I begin to see how true it is that God shows no partiality. Rather, the man of any nation who fears God and acts ( Read more... )

Part of my family is very conservative. I sent out an email message recently, updating everyone on Jack, and giving out our new and improved web site. At the bottom, I wrote: Vote Barack Obama and If you live in California, vote NO on Prop. 8. One of my aunts wrote back a response filled with inaccuracies about homosexual relationships, "partial ( Read more... )

I belong to a Yahoo! Group, Transracial Adoption and Placement. Normally, it's a group of several women and a few men who ask their questions and share their knowledge about various issues facing multi-racial families. When one member finally got her daughter home from Haiti, we congratulated her. When another member had an adoption fall through, ( Read more... )

I've decided to start with an easy topic: Gay Marriage. I'm pretty sure that I know where my LiveJournal friends stand on this issue, but because I started this fricking web journal to rant, I'm going to rant.

The California Supreme Court recently ruled that same-sex partners with ( Read more... )