Tag Archives: civil rights

Sexuality vs. Love

As we continue having debates regarding rights, freedoms, and full citizenship for people in same-gender relationships, we may want to conserve our energy and make our discussions more efficient and accurately reflective of every type of relationship.

The President’s Voice on Prop. 8

We are facing a federal court case in San Francisco that will assess whether the vote on California’s Proposition 8 was legal. We are waiting to hear from the President of the United States on the subject.

The Invisible Gay Dollar

What happens if the money from the LGBT and PFLAG community disappeared?

Equality as a Cigarette

As we evaluate what happened in Maine as marriage equality, via Question 1, went down with a similar margin as is did in California with Proposition 8, a vivid memory from over thirty years ago comes to mind, in the way a locust comes to a field of corn.

Some Perspective on the DOJ and DADT and DOMA

It’s frustrating to realize that we are having issues regarding civil rights in our third century of existence as a country; we, whose ancestors left England, and many other countries for that matter, for freedom.

Church Leaders as Plantation Owners

My question is this – If we were obligated to stand before our God on Judgement Day with all our signs, t-shirts, hats, and intentions, what would God say about us?

My Speech

The National Equality March in Washington, D.C., scheduled for October 10-11, 2009, presented Americans an opportunity to present their three-minute speechs for selection at the event.

Slowly… Slowly

Slowly, the awakening is beginning that each person, no matter how they are identified in the little boxes on most forms, has the right to all the freedoms promised in our United States Constitution.

Death by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

These are our children, America. Look at their faces and remember their names. We killed them with our ignorance.

I Love the United States of America

“I love the United States of America.” It just sounds silly to me to say it out loud… at first.

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