Andrew Sullivan Making The Case For Gay Marriage Back In 1997

October 11, 2010 By 2 Comments

In places really smart and in places also really moving: Your Thoughts?

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Should Gays Have Kids?

October 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

bewarethelizards42 explains why it’s gay-okay: And her follow up replying to homophobic comments: Your Thoughts?

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Inequality Is Okay If It Makes You Not Gay

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That’s the thinking of Exodus International president Alan Chambers: Your Thoughts?

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David Boies Discusses The Prop 8 Overruling

August 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Here is one of the two lawyers behind the successful constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8 giving a half hour lecture and then answering questions for more than a half hour. Thanks to Alan for the find. Your Thoughts?

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Why Did So Many Pro-Prop 8 Witnesses Back Out Of Testifying?

July 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

After pre-trial depositions, many pro-Prop 8 witnesses backed out of testifying, citing fear of reprisals in response to their testimony. Anti-Prop 8 lawyer David Boies is asked what he did to scare them off during the depositions: Your Thoughts?

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U.S. District Judge Rules DOMA Unconstitutional

July 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A just outcome, but I am not sure how I feel about appealing to states’ rights to define marriage for themselves, which could inevitably be used as a justification for individual states to deny gays’  rights to marriage.  The case is about equal rights, not states rights, and should have been settled as such: A [...]

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If Atheists Acted Like Politically Conservative Christians

July 1, 2010 By 2 Comments

So well done: Your Thoughts?

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Rational Passional Persuasion

June 25, 2010 By 3 Comments

Andrew writes: So atheists don’t have emotions which inform them of the truth of something? And their rhetoric is completely dispassionate to the point where logic and reason are not fully objective? I have addressed the proper ways to consult the emotions in looking for truth in the post, Disambiguating Faith: Heart Over Reason, so for [...]

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On The “Compassion” In The Catholic Bishops’ Letter To Congress Against Gay Rights

June 21, 2010 By 1 Comment

Recently, United States bishops petitioned Congress to not protect gays from being fired for their sexual orientation.  Andrew Sullivan already precisely attacked the bishops’ immoral political calculation by which they explicitly committed themselves to a perverse moral contradiction whereby they simultaneously concede that homosexuality is to a significant extent not a choice and argue that [...]

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Follow The Closing Arguments Of The Proposition 8 Trial Today

June 16, 2010 By 2 Comments

And you can follow them as they are live-blogged on the Proposition 8 Trial Tracker website, which was an invaluable resource during testimony, filled with fascinating in-depth accounts of the arguments everyday.  They’ve also started rolling already today on their Twitter feed and on their Facebook page. Here is the schedule for the arguments, all [...]

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