I consider myself a liberal, in its truest sense. I favor reform and progress, and i like to see a society free of prejudice. Last but not least, i fervently advocate tolerance.
In that sense, i respect an individual’s right to choose his/her partner.
But, and this is a HUGE . . . BUT
I don’t believe marriage should [...]
Mr. Joel Edwards was appointed as an Equality and Human Rights Commissioner as part of this non-departmental public body in Great Britain. Unions and activists are currently asking for his removal. Mr. Edwards is director of the Evangelical Alliance, an organization which works tirelessly against LGBT rights."Last year they gave evidence to a House of Commons committee opposing a new crime of in
"'I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination." [Barack Obama at his speech at the Democratic Convention, August 29th. For the full article, see here.]We are to make no mistake: It might be better in the long-run for the advanc
Apparently John McCain would rather have a vice-president who favors killing babies, than one who believes they could be adopted by a married gay couple.Freakin' unbelievable.Did he really say that?Yep. It was aboard the Senile Babble Express , in an interview with one of the neo-con scriveners from the Weekly Standard.They were chatting about whether Tom Ridge would make an acceptable veep, seei
In 2004, initiatives to ban gay marriage appeared on the ballot in eleven different states, and all eleven passed. The increased voter turn-out from these initiatives helped propel Bush to victory, and talk of a Constitutional amendment was rampant in conservative circles. It seemed that the evangelical church might successfully push its anti-gay agenda on the nation as a whole.
In 2006, howeve
A good friend of mine sent me this superb article by Rev. Dennis W. Wiley [Pictured] entitled, "Why the black church should support gay rights" that deserves to be as widely disseminated as possible.
Clearly, what Rev. Wiley has written bespeaks a Christian who clearly understands the Gospel, and the claims of Jesus on anyone who is His true disciple.
Here is an excerpt from his article tha
Hey "pro-family" peeps: You have taken it upon your selves to push an initiative that would amend the California constitution so that it bans same-sex unions. However, your lil' "democratic process" is not something to which you are owed as...
Come here my dear gay and lesbian friends. You know I love you—but this is one of the many ways you get people unnecessarily riled up.If I own a little convenience shop, and I don't wish to stock Cheetos, is this a big problem? I think not. You can get your greasy fried corn meal at an establishment that doesn't give a rip about your health. Oh, you have to go four blocks out of the way to find
California’s Supreme Court struck a blow for the rights of gays and lesbians by ruling the state ban on same sex marriages was unconstitutonal. “Our state now reognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person, and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon [...]
Hillary's possible lesbianism: Only whispered about til now?Hillary Clinton a lesbian?With her "personal" aide who's been described as "mysterious" and "glamorous"?The speculation that the former first lady has a thing for ladies has the pundits panting. The rumblings from the edges of the press brigades are gathering force as the smell of scandal to the press is like blood in the water to pirhanas. The story is that the Los Angeles Times is sitting on a major sex scandal involving one of the candidates. Given the fact that if it involved a Republican, it would have appeared well before any facts were fully gathered, attention turns to the Democrats.Now someone in the government, a Department of Justice official speaks--off the record, of course--at Big Head DC:“I am close enough to Hillary and [her personal aide]Huma [Abedin] to tell you that this ‘rumor’ is true,” the official says. “It is well known inside her campaign that Hillary and Huma are an item.“If you call H
Conservative attitudes in newer EU member states threaten to roll back a generation of gains in gay marriage, adoption, even equal access to work.The European Union’s recent growth spurt to 27 member states has meant an increase in tensions, clearly visible this year from Amsterdam to Nicosia to Warsaw over the issue of gay rights. Across the EU, the disparities in national policy and attitude toward homosexuality have never been more pronounced. Some member states – notably the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Spain – favor far-reaching rights for gay people, including same-sex marriage. Others, including former Eastern bloc nations Poland and Romania, openly and unapologetically discriminate against gays, barring them from jobs and denying them other rights afforded to heterosexuals. “It’s not in the interest of any society to increase the number of homosexuals—that’s obvious,” Poland’s conservative Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told reporters last spring, in
Poland has failed to meet its human rights obligations for gay men...STRASBOURG – Euro MP Michael Cashman has welcomed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to uphold its previous verdict against the Polish Government and the ban by the Warsaw city authorities of the city’s Gay Pride in 2005. The ban came while Lech Kaczynski was mayor of Warsaw. Later that year, he was elected President of Poland. “This ruling can now be added to a growing list of actions being undertaken by the European institutions to defend the fundamental freedoms of not just Polish LGBT individuals, but of all European individuals,” Mr. Cashman, president of the Parliament’s gay and lesbian rights ‘Intergroup’, said this afternoon. “The ruling highlights the importance of continued Britis
This story is from pinknews.co.uk (click on title of post for original link):Another reason why I love the Netherlands!The Netherlands is to step up pressure for gay rights in countrieswhere it has strong aid ties.Dutch embassy officials in the 36 countries where the Netherlandsdonates much of its aid will draw up an inventory of gay, lesbian and bisexual rights legislation, according to development cooperation minister Bert Koenders.In at least 18 of the countries, homosexuality is criminalised and gay people face fines, public beatings and even execution.Dutch embassies in those countries will urge governments to scrapanti-gay legislation.Holland was the first country to allow same-sex marriage in 2001.The Dutch public widely supports equal rights for lesbian, gay andbisexual people.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush, the poster child for gay marriage? How about Sen. Mel Martinez, the Florida Republican who once accused an opponent of playing to the "radical homosexual lobby?" Neither of the politicians responded to requests for comment, but the groups say they hope to use the couples and the court case to bolster their contention that marriage is a civil right that should know no bounds - even for those of the same sex. "We're honoring and celebrating something that just over 40 years ago some Americans said was immoral and wrong and could not happen," said Jimmy Creech, the executive director of Faith in America, a gay rights advocacy group which is bankrolling the ad campaign. "We're celebrating the wisdom that prejudice and bigotry was removed from the law books and Americans were given the right to marry the person they loved, regardless of race."Couples ...Read full stories>>
In honor of today being Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d devote a post to the topic of marriage.
An initiative has been launched by gay rights advocates calling for married couples to be required to have children within three years or have their marriages annulled. Gregory Gadow, the man who filed the initiative has said, “Our intention is not to actually put this into law…All we want is to get this on the ballot and cause people to talk about it.”
While I obviously don’t “support” this initiative in the traditional sense, as I would never actually want it passed, I definitely support what they are trying to do. There has been this rhetoric against gay marriage that stems from the idea that since man and woman can procreate (as opposed to a man and a man) it is only natural for them to marry and live together. In other words, marriage between a man and a woman is natural because it is the only way to biologically start a family.
The peop
No exemption from gay rights law - Downing Street announces there will be no exemption from gay rights laws for Catholic adoption agencies. [BBC News]
I've been following this story with a fair amount of interest recently and I have to say I'm baffled by it.
Apart from my personal belief that gay couples should not be adopting at all, a more objective viewpoint shows me that this simply isn't what the people want.
For a start, the three major religions in the country have all asked that Catholic adoption services be exempted from anti-discrimination laws.
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There were protests yesterday over the attempt to introduce a piece of legislation - Equality Act (Sexual Orientation). The intention of this legislation is to prohibit certain forms of discrimination, such as refusing a hotel room to a sharing gay couple. The attempt in the House of Lords to block the legislation was defeated.I imagine that this, like most pieces of legislation introduced by the New Labour administration, has been poorly drafted and rushed through - good news for the lawyers. An implication of that is probability that the law will be full of unintended consequences, so that the assurances of the politicians about what it will prohibit and won't prohibit will be utterly worthless.Most of the protesters are protesting on religious grounds (chiefly Christian). This obscures the most obvious reason for protesting about this piece of legislation: personal freedoms. This is another area of choice in which government legislation is replacing the right of two parties to
HAVANA — Years before George W. Bush proclaimed his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages in the United States, the ideologically rigid government of Fidel Castro made a big move in the opposite direction. (Photo -- Alarcon: "We have to abolish...discrimination" / By DeWayne Wickham, USA TODAY) It sanctioned the production and viewing of Strawberry and Chocolate, an Academy Award-nominated film about the awkward friendship between a straight man and a gay man — and the homophobia they both had to battle. Since this movie debuted in theaters here in the mid-1990s, the Cuban government's intolerance of homosexuals has given way to a more egalitarian treatment of gays and lesbians. The public persecution of homosexuals has declined sharply. Two years ago, Cuba had its first gay film festival. Last year, the highest-rated show on Cuba's state-run television was a soap opera in which a married man fell in love with another man. And now this c
