2012 Queer Blogathon [Index Post]

June 12, 2012 By 11 Comments
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In June of 2012, I took one leg of the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon, promising to put up twelve posts in twelve hours, all of which were prompted by comments on the mammoth thread "Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality."  I started with empirics, and somehow meandered off into discussion of companionate marriage and bank robberies-as-first-dates by the end.  The Blogathon raises money for the SSA, and, of course, they'll welcome your donations even if you're reading this … [Read more...]

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Data! Data! Data! [Blogathon 12/12]

June 11, 2012 By 5 Comments

This post is number twelve of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon.  I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with Homosexuality" thread all day.  You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you're religious) here. At 9am this morning, we kicked of this blogathon on homosexuality with methodological questions about statistics and social science, and that's how we're going to fracking end it! William Saletan is … [Read more...]

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What dating process would give rise to companionate marriages? [Blogathon 11/12]

June 11, 2012 By 9 Comments

This post is number eleven of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon.  I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with Homosexuality" thread all day.  You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you're religious) here. Ok, I'm one post from the end of the Blogathon, so I'm allowed to go off the deep end a little, right? In the last post, the Alan Jacobs quote suggested that Pride and Prejudice might be a good model … [Read more...]

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Companionate Marriage for Everyone? [Blogathon 10/12]

June 11, 2012 By 8 Comments

This post is number ten of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon.  I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with Homosexuality" thread all day.  You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you're religious) here. Alan Jacobs had an interesting response to the Noah Millman piece about the gay Mormon's companionate marriage I was discussing in the last post.  Jacobs wrote: What this story is pointing to is the … [Read more...]

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I’m ok with companionate marriage [Blogathon 9/12]

June 11, 2012 By 7 Comments

This post is number nine of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon.  I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with Homosexuality" thread all day.  You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you're religious) here. There's been an essay making the rounds by Josh Weed, a gay Mormon man who's been happily married to his wife for ten years and has had several children with her.  I was reminded of it when thinking … [Read more...]

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How Critical is Sexual Desire to Human Identity? [Blogathon 8/12]

June 11, 2012 By 7 Comments

This post is number eight of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon.  I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with Homosexuality" thread all day.  You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you're religious) here. At one point in the discussion, Ubiquitous was expanding on Thomist philosophy and laid out a 'prebuttal' (of which I'm excerpting only one idea): In a hale and mature adult human, eyes are for seeing. … [Read more...]

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Are Civil Rights Asymmetrical? [Blogathon 7/12]

June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This post is number seven of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon.  I'm responding to comments in the "Go Ahead, Tell Me What's Wrong with Homosexuality" thread all day.  You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you're religious) here.   In the last two posts, I was focusing on what kind of data would make us think that gay marriage was a bad idea, but I think there's a different question lurking in the background.  Why are we … [Read more...]

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