The marriage pledge from evangelical conservative Iowa group the Family Leader, which Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have already signed, is about to be updated: The original “marriage vow” from the Family Leader, unveiled last week, included a line at the opening of its preamble, which suggested that black children born into slavery were better […]
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Jake Gyllenhaal… I Regret Every Mean Thing I’ve Ever Said About You…
… because you are currently the most awesome person in any hemisphere. via Cognitive Dissonance.
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“Savage Love” Reader Throws Down a Choicer Challenge
Here in Minnesota there is a “religious” organization called You Can Run International that is some hard-rock, punk, grassroots bullshit organization that probably only exists so that its grifter founder Bradlee Dean can score easy cash from the gay-hating crowd in my fine state. Their main source of income is setting up card tables at […]
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Redefining Marriage: Straight People Beat Us To It, Ross
Regular readers won’t be shocked by anything in Mark Oppenheimer’s piece about me and non-monogamous relationships in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. To recap: I think monogamy is fine, if that’s what you want, but monogamy makes some people miserable, men are bad at it and women aren’t much better, and in certain cases […]
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President Asked About New York and Marriage Equality at Press Conference
Obama listed his administration’s accomplishments—ending DADT, dropping the DOMA appeal, hospital visitation rights, domestic partner benefits for the same-sex partners of federal employees—and he expanded on his “states’ rights” argument about marriage equality, e.g. the federal government should leave marriage to the states and not put its “thumb on the scales” against gay couples in […]
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Why Pat Robertson Knows a Thing or Two about Gay Abomination
Apparently televangelist Pat Robertson is eating an entire case of sour grapes this week because NYC gave the “gay okay” to same sex marriages. HOWEVER! I must admit I learned A LOT about gay abomination from this old man’s illogical rant. For example, I did not know that… 1) Gays are angel rapers! (I’m with […]
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New York’s Unsung Hero
“You’ve probably seen the really interesting piece on ‘The Road to Gay Marriage in New York’ in the NYT,” writes Savage Love reader Shannon. “But I was really struck by this bit that underlines what you’re always saying about the political importance of being out to your family.” Shannon included the relevent chunk in her […]
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Support for Gay Marriage Ticks Upward in Oregon
I AM AWESOME AT PHOTOSHOP Solidly good (but not fantastic) news from a new poll of Oregon voters: 48 percent of Oregonians think gay marriage should be legal. That’s a three percent jump from a 2009 nationwide study that found only 45 percent of Oregonians supported same sex marriage. And it’s a huge change from […]
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Congrats to Neil Patrick Harris!
Guess who’s (finally) getting married? Blogtown fave Neil Patrick Harris who, thanks to Friday’s passage of NYC’s same-sex marriage law, can finally dash down the aisle with longtime b-friend David Burtka (the two are also raising twins together)! From the NPH Twitter: CONGRATS TO THE HAPPY COUPLE! Whaddaya say, Blogtownies? Should we chip in and […]
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Mugshot of Alleged Attempted Gay Basher
As noted in the news this weekend, police arrested a 28-year-old man and a 21-year-old man this weekend after what appears to be an attempted gay bashing. Shawn Siefke and Christian Sanchez-Villavencio, 21, were booked on felony assault this weekend an altercation downtown. Siefke is also charged with intimidation. According to reports from police and […]
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It Gets Better: New York Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Marriage equality: justice. Marriage equality coming during pride: poetic justice. Congrats, New York!