Category Archives: glbt

Legalizing Discrimination

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Backlash builds over Indiana’s religious freedom law (cbsnews.com) Religious Freedom Firestorm: Arkansas House Approves Bill Similar to Indiana’s (nbcnews.com) Ever since the first major fight over a “religious liberty” bill in Arizona just over a year ago, I’ve been keeping a very close eye on this topic. (Ohio was considering a similar measure to Arizona’s at around the same time, but pulled it when Arizona’s bill triggered a national firestorm.) I had hoped that last year’s controversy would stop all similar ideas dead in their tracks,…

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I’m Afraid of Americans

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Obama takes fire for Crusades comparison (CNN.com) Reaction to ISIS mirrors the run up to Iraq war (All In with Chris Hayes) Scott Walker loses his mind: What’s behind his delusional ISIS-unions comparison (Salon.com) A few weeks ago I came down with a horrible, horrible stomach flu, making me as sick as I can recall being in at least seven years. I passed one night in utter and complete pain, lying on my bed and trying not to move for fear of making things worse, even…

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Doing Bullies’ Work For Them

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AZ gov vetoes ‘religious freedom’ bill, Ohio lawmakers abandon kindred bill (examiner.com) School will allow boy to bring My Little Pony backpack (USA Today) We liberals, or at least the majority of us, often get unfairly maligned as being some kind of “thought police” trying to tell people what they should or shouldn’t think. I think I can speak for the vast majority of liberals, and hopefully people as a whole, when I say that what goes on in your head is no one’s business…

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Dumbfuck Dynasty

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Sarah Palin, Gov. Bobby Jindal defend Phil Robertson after he’s suspended from ‘Duck Dynasty’ (Washington Post) Megyn Kelly: I Was Just Kidding About Santa Being White You Race-Baiter (Gawker) Lost amidst the more high-profile departure of Alec Baldwin from their prime-time lineup, MSNBC recently had a much more difficult personnel struggle that resulted in another of their hosts leaving. Martin Bashir, who once interviewed Michael Jackson on television years ago and then somehow popped up hosting an afternoon show on the network, was highlighting stupid…

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Coming Out

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FAQs for Kink Coming Out Day (kinkcomingoutday.com) My name is Sean Shannon, and I am kinky. This is not news to most of you, I am sure. Although I was quiet about my kink for a few years between finishing graduate school and starting to promote The Prostitutes of Lake Wobegon, I’ve been relatively open about identifying as kinky since I first got on the Internet back in 1994. (Good grief, twenty years next year. I’m old.) That was in the wake of Madonna’s Sex book (and associated…

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