On Single-Issue Voting
Last night I read a post on Michael’s Gay Thought, “Is It OK To Be A Single Issue Voting Gay?” In response to a critic of LGBT single-issue voters, he writes:
The Gay community is at this very moment involved in a civil war in the United States of America. The issue is equal rights for [...]
ENDA and the Religious Exemption
I would argue that religious organizations, for- and non-profit alike, should not be allowed to discriminate on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity in matters of employment. I can see that a person employed as, say, a minister, would have to belong to the religion as a job qualification. But do their accountants and school bus drivers have to drive and subtract with the blessing of the right God?
Read moreApprove R-71 in the Lead–but Not by Much
Word here in Washington State is that R-71 would be approved if the ballot was cast today–but not by a wide margin….
I’m probably not telling you anything if you lived through 2008, but getting your side to vote wins elections.
Read moreMonday is Funday: Contest #1
The winner of this contest will receive four (four!) paperback books by LGBT authors from our personal library. These are books we like, by authors we admire, not an attempt to clean out our bookshelves (though that’s always welcome around here).
1. Rolling the R’s by R. Zamora Linmark
2. Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger
3. Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein
4. Babyji by Abha Dawesar
Legal Matters
Things changed after we had our first wedding ceremony. We shared so much joy with all our friends, chosen family, and family that I knew if we had rough times, 200 people would be there to root for the union. I think we both felt like there was a 3rd person in our relationship now; the marriage was a person to which we each had a relationship. I felt a protective urge that I’d never had before–she was my family now.
At our second, legal marriage, we had a different experience. I had an uncanny sense of history the day we were legally married. I thought of scenarios where our great great grandchildren would be looking for us on ancestry.com one day (ha ha), and would pull from a government archive database, a copy of our marriage license. Both of our names, legally bound.
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