Is It Really the Far-Right?
Yet another mass shooting happened overnight near my sister’s home in Virginia. After the body counts, the gnashing of teeth, and the solemn looks of talking heads interviewing the survivors … Read More
Category: Gays
It Seems We Have Been Here Before
The last piece I contributed to this forum was last Wednesday, November 16, 2022. It was entitled Mass Shootings: An American Institution. Admittedly it was a retelling—in part—of the mass … Read More
Pope says the Catholic Church can't bless same-sex unions. Should we care?
I grew up Catholic. Went to Catholic grade school and high school, got confirmed, went to confession (at least twice!), received communion, ate ham and potato salad in basements—the whole … Read More
Boebert alarmed that gays, lesbians and sweet transvestites will reign supreme with the equality act
“There is nothing about equality in that act! If anything, it’s, the, uh, it’s supremacy of gays, lesbians, and transvestites. This is what this is about, it’s about putting them higher … Read More
[Updated] Is the American Experiment Over?
Back in 1787, as the Constitutional Convention ended, a woman came up to Ben Franklin and asked him what we got. He replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep … Read More
Anti-Abortion Columnist Urges Vote for Biden
Michael Gerson is a lifelong Republican who was George W. Bush’s speechwriter for several years. He also holds strong anti-abortion (he would say, pro-life) views and he is a longtime … Read More
Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura
Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm surges are expected to push … Read More
Trump's Evangelicals and How to Woo Them
There’s a major story in the Sunday New York Times about Trump’s hold on evangelical Christians: ‘Christianity Will Have Power’ The headline is a quote from the same speech Trump … Read More
Krugman: Race is Why We Have a Weak Safety Net
Paul Krugman has a column out this morning: Tulsa and the Many Sins of Racism, about Bunker Boy’s choice of Tulsa and Juneteenth for his restart rally — choices Krugman … Read More
Russia's 2020 reelection interference: Trump could absolve the IRA but get a secondary infection
More monkey business. One hopes the USIC is working hard on protecting the 2020 election, especially from unnamed other malign actors. Forgeries, interference, and attacks on Kremlin critics across six … Read More
Trump is a dumpster fire. But have any of your Republican friends admitted that to you?
Trump’s unfitness for office, and his destruction of government institutions and norms, is positively cartoonish in its obviousness and threat. But — three years in — have any of your Republican friends … Read More
ME-Sen: The New Republic, “How the Media Created the 'Moderate' Susan Collins (R)”
The New Republic has a new piece out about how the media is responsible for creating the myth that U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) is a “moderate”: To portray politics … Read More
The Trump Shuffle
On June 12, 2016, three short years ago, 49 Americans [mostly members of the LGBTQ+ community] were slaughtered by a coward at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando, Florida. President … Read More
“No Religion” overtakes Evangelicals. GOP tries to ruin Christianity, but a gay mayor may save it.
This just dropped, and it’s shocking: x The 2018 GSS was just released and there's some big news. Those of “no religion” (23.1%) are statistically the same size as evangelicals … Read More
GOP tries to ruin Christianity, but an openly gay mayor might save it
This data just dropped, and it’s shocking: x The 2018 GSS was just released and there's some big news. Those of “no religion” (23.1%) are statistically the same size as … Read More
At the midpoint of the school year, a reflection on more than school
Friday was the end of 1st Semester, and my grades were all in before the end of the school day. I will begin the week with my students having several … Read More
This again? American bishop blames gays for the church's sex abuse scandal
Jesus Christ. It’s not enough that Catholic bishops downplayed, enabled, and concealed horrific sex abuse for decades — now they want to deflect responsibility, too. And the bogeyman they’ve settled on? Gay people, … Read More
New Authoritarian GOP Removed “Democracy” from Textbooks As Too “Partisan”
The de-evolution of the GOP into the Cult of Trump is more frightening by the day. In my younger years, the Reagan conservatives touted democracy—usually when they were contrasting us … Read More
Reid Insulted Gays a Decade Ago & Apologized. Trump Just Insulted the Disabled TODAY–AGAIN!
Let’s all remember that Trump has never apologized for doing this, and he never will: x x YouTube Video In fact, he doubled down on it and criticized the reporter … Read More
Citing “civility and respect”, ACE Hardware RE-ADVERTISES on Laura Ingraham's Show
As a reminder, Laura Ingraham is an unapologetic bigot, who has attacked blacks, Hispanics, refugees, gays, and Jews. She is also no stranger to mocking children, even before she attacked … Read More
