This is good news for gays & lesbians, but also for just about anybody who lives in Ohio and isn’t a right wing zealot. A federal appeals court ruled that the state can jack-up beat-down discipline state employees who discriminate and say their religion requires them to. In other words, they can’t hide their bigotry […]
And Hollywood, and just about anywhere else that culture, art, and homosexuality intersect. Because they just can’t handle it. I’ve been reading various reports about the controversy that gay actor and activist Chad Allen’s star turn in the missionary flick End of the Spear is causing in fundamentalist circles.
It would be funny if these […]
Remember how I blogged a while back about the Salvation Amy getting federal dollars — 95% of it’s budget, in fact — and the right to practice discrimination while doing it? Well, it’ looks like their discrimination dispensation is getting put to the test. They’re being sued. And by a jewish gay man, no less.
State […]
Wow. I have to admit I smiled when I heard the story of the high school student who refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance, because he didn’t believe gays and lesbians had equal rights. It’s the same stand I took back when I was in high school. The consequences of my actions didn’t […]
I can’t believe I stayed away all day, or most of it. I think it may even have done me some good. At any rate, I couldn’t stay away entirely. So I’m posting a few quick hits on stuff I caught while scanning through what all I missed today.
This ended up in my email […]
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here much, but I was in the Boy Scouts growing up. I pretty much had to be. In fact, I stayed in all to becoming an Eagle Scout. Needless to say, in the years since then, I’ve been less than thrilled with the Boy Scouts’ practice of discrimination. It’s […]