Dan Savage to Debate with National Org for Marriage President?
Guess who (might be) coming to dinner.
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NC Pastor Says Gays Should Be “Penned Up With a Fence”
Last night on MSNBC I discussed this with Martin Bashir.
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Bishops Search for Condoms in Cookie Boxes
Having now cracked down on U.S. nuns and the Girl Scouts the Catholic hierarchy is aiming to define womanhood. Problem is, both of those groups are held in far higher regard than the men at the helm of the crackdowns.
Read MoreMormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight
A conversation with founding members of Mormons for Marriage Equality.
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Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”
Kate Bornstein’s new book recounts the years before Scientology was considered a religion, when it gave her all the answers on gender, loss, and addiction she needed not to hear. Sounds just like… bad religion.
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Traditional Marriage: One Man, Many Women, Some Girls, Some Slaves
So, let’s see if I can total all this up. Traditional marriage is one man with multiple wives, multiple concubines, wives conquered in war and wives acquired in levirate marriage, possibly including girls under the age of ten, but definitely not including anyone of a different ethnic group, in an arranged marriage with disposition of property as its purpose. That seems very different from “one man, one woman,” does it not?
Read MoreObama’s Marriage Switch Will Have No Impact on Election
African-American voters largely unchanged in their view of the president.
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The Obama Same-Sex Marriage Statement:
A Religious Analysis
No need to choose between God and gay.
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Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish
Maurice Sendak lived in the shadow of the Holocaust, yet he refused to claim that identity and chosenness solely for the Jewish people.
Read MoreKilling Love in North Carolina
A bump in the rocky road to marriage equality for gay and lesbian people.
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