Marriage and other LGBTQ Rights

[kladner]

In your face, Mr. President!

Many thanks for posting this, Brian. What a wonderful gesture Gottlieb conceived and carried out! It gave me more to smile about!

[chappy]

This should properly go in the funny links category.

[davar55]

Originally Posted by chappy

This should properly go in the funny links category.

Then I'd better not respond here - eventual separation anxiety.

[chappy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5206498.html

I don't mind the challenge of eating a little more in support of Gay Marriage.

[Brian-E]

Just when I thought my country of origin, which I left 21 years ago to live somewhere more gay-friendly, had changed out of all recognition to become one of the most LGBTI-friendly countries on the planet, I read this.

What's going on??

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/...cle1407112.ece

THE Conservatives have scuppered plans for the Liberal Democrats to sign an EU declaration against homophobia.
In a further signal of the worsening relations between the coalition partners, the Tories blocked a plan for Jenny Willott, the Lib Dem equalities minister, to attend a summit in Malta to mark the International Day against Homophobia and Trans-phobia. The declaration would have been signed during the summit.

[cheesehead]

"Federal Judge To Wisconsin: You Know 'Traditional' Marriage Was Polygamy, Right?"

. . .

"As an initial matter, defendants and amici have overstated their argument. Throughout history, the most 'traditional' form of marriage has not been between one man and one woman, but between one man and multiple women, which presumably is not a tradition that defendants and amici would like to continue," Crabb wrote in her opinion.

History alone wasn't enough to justify a ban on same-sex marriage, Crabb said.

"Like moral disapproval, tradition alone proves nothing more than a state's desire to prohibit particular conduct," she wrote, citing Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent in a 2003 sodomy case, which stated that "'preserving the traditional institution of marriage' is just a kinder way of describing the State's moral disapproval of same-sex couples."

Crabb pointed out that tradition was used as an argument to keep women from voting.

. . .

[kladner]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

"Federal Judge To Wisconsin: You Know 'Traditional' Marriage Was Polygamy, Right?"

Bravisimo!

[Brian-E]

The author Orville Lloyd Douglas has just published an article highlighting a possible problem, which I had not considered before, that black gay people may be distancing themselves from other black people when they come out and form loving relationships with others of their own gender.

Does anyone know if this is a real problem?

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/...hite-partners/

Michael Sam, Robin Roberts, Jason Collins, Tracy Chapman, Wanda Sykes, Don Lemon, Derrick Gordon are all high-profile gay African-American public figures and they all have white partners.
[...]
I believe these out black gay public figures are sending mixed messages to the black community. Does a black gay person have to be with a white person in order to obtain social acceptance?
[...]

[chappy]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/p...article/386322

I'm afraid to voice opinion here, even in the Soapbox, for fear of ban hammer.

[chappy]

More on the above.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2..._to_death.html

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by chappy

I'm afraid to voice opinion here, even in the Soapbox, for fear of ban hammer.

So am I.
One thing I'll say, though, is that I trust this man will be refused a visa if he ever tries to travel outside the USA.