I am living in a state that is flirting with the idea of writing discrimination into their constitution. Knowing in the back of my mind that thirty other states have voted to discriminate against same sex couples by defining marriage between one man and one woman, it is sometimes easy to look over the historic […]
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“Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the ’wrong kind of person’ for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their
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Among conservatives, one often hears homosexuality referred to as a choice, while most of us insist—quite vehemently sometimes—that our sexual orientation was set from the moment we were born. I believe we and conservatives are talking about two different things, each of which is interesting and important to study. Conservatives may well cede that some
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The tragedy in the story about Eric James Borges life is not how he died. It is that he died for love at the hands so called Christians with their inflated egos and mangled moral virtues. The same people who would have stoned Jesus Christ if he lived today. These same Christians are shaken to
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There are two gay bars that have come to my attention since moving from the lost green forests of pines in Northern Minnesota to the intriguing colors and sites of the Twin Cities. There is first the Gay 90’s and secondly, Lush. I am sure there are more gay and lesbian bars within the metro,
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My gosh, so much has been going on and I have had a hard time not only carving out some time to blog but also in narrowing down the topic. I have so many things to write on but today I decided I wanted to let you know about a new and major change. The
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My mom sent me this video in one of the many, many, many emails she sends me each week. Mom is one of those sweet retired ladies who sees every “forward” (as I call them) as a potential source of new and great wisdom and actually reads them all. She does. Then she lovingly
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The weather around here has been pretty nice this week. I’ve made multiple comments on the Facebook pages of my friends in Reno saying how much I do NOT miss the snow. Except for looking out the window at while I curl up with my wife someplace warm with a Hot Apple Pie cocktail in
Below is the full text of Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech… I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we
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I don’t really like Suze Orman. I don’t think she ever offers any practical advice for those without the means to just “hang onto your savings”. She really has no idea what people without loads of money go through in trying to make ends meet. That being said, this is the first logical thing she’s
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