“Dean [Jonathan] Swift, in one of his pedestrian journeys from London towards Chester, took shelter from a summer tempest under a large oak tree on the roadside, at no great distance from Lichfield.  Presently a man, with a pregnant woman, were driven by the like impulse to avail themselve… Read full post »

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday morning temporarily blocked a federal judge in San Francisco from showing on YouTube proceedings from a trial that will determine whether a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Their reasons fool no one.

Today in a marriage made in heaven two ideological foes unite to overturn California’s infamous and invidious Proposition 8. I am delighted that some of our chicken-shit failed activists who attacked this action have finally gotten behind our best advocates. The essence of the argument goes t… Read full post »

The holy hatreds of American ‘Christians’ have been outsourced and now there may be deadly consequence. If you live under a rock outside East Gas Pump, Oklahoma or have paid absolutely no attention to the outlandish, American made, homophobic human rights disgrace that has been unf… Read full post »

Amongst David Brooks’ favorite picks for the 2009 Sidney Awards he includes Jim Manzi’s recent essay, “Keeping America’s Edge,” in National Affairs, which explores two giant problems: widening inequality and economic stagnation. What he fears is that without rapi… Read full post »

Okay, I know you are probably sick of it but with all the stuff about Tiger Woods no journalist has made the most salient point more effectively than has Dave Ziren writing for The Nation . “[I]f you front for the worst of the worst, don’t expect anyone to have your… Read full post »

Few writers in America pack a punch like Chris Hedges and in a recently published essay he inadvertently puts his finger squarely on the reason why LGBT activism is such a shambles. Hedges always hits smack in the solar plexus.

For all practical purposes Roe v. Wade might be overruled by congressional fiat - except for the usual loophole for the wealthy.

Sadly, we know too well, this is probably the surest way to get a quick police response in America - especially if the home is in a rich, plush and leafy, sedate enclave populated by the privileged elite.

When I heard of the now infamous incident of revered Harvard scholar Henry… Read full post »

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."(George Orwell)

As the LBGT community decries the Obama Administration’s recent defense of the indefensible Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA) the community ought to be holding their own activists feet to the fire. P… Read full post »

Gay rights advocates wake up! You are being lied to, hoodwinked, mislead and bamboozled. I agree with most critics that Obama’s extension of partial federal benefits to same-sex couples was an act of good faith; but when taken with his Department of Justice brief that so ignorantly defends DOMA… Read full post »

As I’ve written in a prior post (A Marriage Made in Heaven?) the religious faction that managed to pull off Prop 8 and induce California Supreme Court pettifoggery may well be the driving force behind an ultimate Supreme Court smack-down. Now, in addition to California providing a ‘federa… Read full post »

 I was delighted to learn that the Bush v. Gore lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies will take on the gay marriage ban. Finally we are getting down to litigation that goes to the heart of the matter - the  Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U. S. Constitution. In… Read full post »

In nominating Judge Sonia Sotomayor (the judge who saved American baseball?) for the U. S. Supreme Court President Obama has displayed stunning and stealthy political genius. It’s checkmate. The minute she opens her mouth her brilliance and humanity are as unmistakable as her humility. If co… Read full post »

May 26, 2009 is a day that will live in legal infamy. With the state tottering at the edge of a financial abyss a gutless California Supreme Court, cowering under fear of recall, committed suicide by upholding Prop. H8 and surrendering an independent judiciary to the invidious evil of majority tyrann… Read full post »

In classic exercise of Booker T. Washington accommodationism New Hampshire governor John Lynch has proposed a so-called religious exemption to passage of civil marriage law. The travesty is that any second year law student who hopes to pass the bar in any state knows such exemption is constitutiona… Read full post »

In a recent Outlook article in the Washington Post James Kirchick, assistant editor of The New Republic and a contributing writer to the Advocate, discusses a gay organization in Connecticut closing its doors because its mission is accomplished. It’s tempting for activists to rest on their lau… Read full post »

Not able to rise so early and spend the day in front of the TV I was delighted with Nightline's coverage. Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you for not allowing Rick Warren to tarnish America’s most sterling moment.  Thank you for keeping his face off your program.  With  a… Read full post »

 With all this uproar about saving “traditional marriage” along with accusations of racism and homophobia, writer Leonce Gaiter (I’m not sure if he realizes it) puts his finger squarely on the reason why Prop 8 comes down like a house of cards. It is interesting how, amidst t… Read full post »

BarackObama, Rick Warren and the Ghost of Jim Crow: Marching Backwards in Lock-Step on Two Left Feet.

As Barack Obama prepares to anoint and consecrate a national bigot by elevating him a to a public pulpit, as he proceeds to "form a consensus" for the purpose dening… Read full post »