I finally had the chance to watch the HBO Miniseries John Adams which I bought on DVD several months ago.
These are America’s true heroes. Not the sports figures, celebrities or politicians.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
At the outset of the presidential campaign just concluded, before I came to support John McCain’s White House bid, I wrote that I was troubled by the Arizona Senator’s “tendency to posture on certain issues to please the media.
It seems the biggest issue in the gay world this week is not the election of Barack Obama, but the protests against the vote in favor of Proposition 8.
For as long as I have been blogging about gay marriage, I have said we need change the strategy. Instead of demonizing social conservatives, gay marriage advocates should try to understand their opposition to same-sex marriage and, at the same time, do a better of making an affirmative case for gay marriage.
By taking my official presidential portrait of Ronald Reagan to get framed sometime in 1992, I acknowledged that Bill Clinton would defeat George H.
After George W. Bush’s reelection four years ago, I had this nice feeling which lingered for several weeks.
I think I have seen some of these people….
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
If Andrew Sullivan were not so obsessed with Sarah Palin and actually took the time to understand gay people outside the left-wing circles he now frequents, he might have something intelligent to say about why gays were the only demographic where McCain did significantly better than did George W.
I’d been compiling notes for a post on why (I believe) John McCain lost the presidential election.
All in all, I think conservatives reacted appropriately (meaning: quiet) to the “Nancy Reagan” comment during Pres-Elect Obama’s first news conference last week.
While I disagree (strongly) with Dale Carpenter’s suggestion that juvenile gay activists should move their protests from Mormon Churches to marriage license bureaus, he makes an excellent point about the protests:
Here’s my advice to righteously furious gay-marriage supporters: Stop the focus on the Mormon Church.
In the wake of Proposition 8’s passage, the folks at Pajamas Media asked me to offer my thoughts on the initiative.
I updated a previous post to include a comment from Todd Zywicki, a year ahead of me at the University of Virgnia School of Law and my predecessor as Vice President from Programming of our chapter of the Federalist Society.
I just received yet another mass e-mail from Lorri L. Jean of the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, whining about the “reprehensible role that the [Mormon] Church hierarchy played in directing members to fund the campaign of lies and deceit promoted by the Yes on 8 leaders.
While I believe the U.S. Supreme Court got it right in Lawrence v. Texas when they overturned the Lone Star State’s sodomy laws (though I disagree with the court’s rationale, believing the majority should have used the Ninth Amendment), I think those state Supreme Courts (Massachusetts, California and Connecticut) mandating gay marriage got it wrong.
It has kind of taken me by surprise how sad I feel about the results of the presidential election just concluded.
Twenty years ago, George H.W. Bush won the White House with a popular vote majority similar to that Barack Obama achieved this week, but with a much larger total in the electoral college.
The Washington Blade asked me to write an Op-ed on the results of the election just concluded. So, bleary-eyed on Wednesday morning, I offered my thoughts, just in time for their deadline that day.
Here’s some bright news for Republicans…. McCain brought in more gay votes than President Bush.