Let me start by saying that I'm going to give the Log Cabin Republicans the benefit of the doubt that they choose their party and their candidate based on their political philosophy and not just their positions on LGBT issues. I said as much in a comment on a post at Independent Gay Forum that, to me, didn't seem to extend the same courtesy to those of us at the other side of the political spectrum.
But obviously, if your vote is determined by gay issues, it's going to go to Obama/Biden. If you think Obama is better for gays but worse (or even dangerously worse) for the country, than voting for McCain/Palin does not make you a self-loather (though Obama's LGBT devotees will certainly tar you, endlessly, with that brush). Full story...
Since the blame-the-black vote re: Prop 8 has been so controversial, you would have thought that the Public Policy Institute of California could see the relevance in putting numbers out there to chew on.
......that this news will get the Fundies' collective knickers into a major twist.
From National Geographic:
Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?
Modern humans may have evolved more than 80,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study of sophisticated stone tools found in Ethiopia.
One of the professional Christian set, Jan LaRue of the Culture and Media Institute has published a whiny, hand-wringing diatribe about the eHarmony settlement -- the Christian-owned matchmaking company recently agreed to provide a dating service for same-sex couples.
Watching this organization flounder during the 2008 presidential campaign has been like observing a train wreck in slow motion.
Blah, blah, blah -- the defenses for Prop 8 support keep on coming and are offensive, bigoted, ignorant -- and wholly expected.
I haven't seen the old man's panties this bunched up in a long while. Focus on Your Family founder James Dobson is seething over Kathleen Parker's recent series of columns that blasts the GOP for aligning the party with the fundamentalist fringe.
This story will be in my "War on Christmas" segment on the radio show this weekend, and I know it's already been blogged, but I just had to drop by and add:
Here's a shorter way to think of it: We want to say "Happy Holidays" because Christmas is a holiday.
I've been sitting here in NC blogging about national regime change since July 2004. The Blend rode the wave as part of the whole citizen journalism movement/new media and I've had the chance to report from debates, forums, town halls and the Dem convention.
We take you now to the North Pole, where the misled and ill-informed Santa's Elves passed Proposition D by the narrowest of margins.
Okay, I admit that I'm perhaps a little sensitive when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Whenever I hear lesbian and gay without bisexual and transgender from a lesbian or gay person, I hear "exclusion.
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