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It’s Time for Marriage Equality on Guam
It’s Time for Marriage Equality on Guam
The federal government recognizes them. The U.S. military does. But according to the Guam government, legally married same-sex couples are not recognized by the island’s government.
HRC.org
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The Right Finds A Young Scholar To Peddle All The Same Old Anti-Marriage Arguments
The Right Finds A Young Scholar To Peddle All The Same Old Anti-Marriage Arguments
As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear arguments about marriage equality, the right wing is out in force trying to make its (impossibly feeble) case against it. Chief among its stars is Ryan Anderson, a 33-year-old scholar at the Heritage Foundation, who is putting a pretty new face on the same old ugly arguments.
Anderson is out making the circuit as the “reasonable” voice against marriage equality. His argument, in essence, is that the state’s right to regular marriage is all about protecting the children who are the product of marriage. Those children, of course, are the offspring of a man and a woman only.
Anderson concedes that this may not necessarily be the only argument about marriage and not even necessarily the right one. But he also argues that the Constitution protects states who agree with him. In other words, states can be wrong, but that’s okay because the Constitution allows it.
“We’re having a national conversation about this, and that shouldn’t be short-circuited by the Supreme Court,” Anderson told the Washington Post in a glowing profile.
It’s a breathtaking jump in logic. The role of the Supreme Court is to make sure that wrong arguments about the Constitution aren’t used to protect states from violating people’s rights.
Anderson is using an old, old argument, but because he’s fresh-faced, he’s been getting away with it. It’s the same argument used to pass California’s Proposition 8, and it has the same flaws. Anderson says that state is not in the business of “consenting adult romance.” But the state also doesn’t administer fertility tests to prospective brides and grooms. It doesn’t disallow post-menopausal women to wed.
The protection of children argument applies only to a segment of the population getting married (which inconveniently includes some same-sex couples). The state doesn’t care about all those people not having kids, but it let’s them get married too. The state’s definition of marriage isn’t as narrow as Anderson would like you to think.
Of course, considering where Anderson works, this logic comes as no surprise. The Heritage Foundation was once a legitimate conservative think tank, but since has become a right-wing hack machine. It’s run by Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina Senator who had a long anti-gay record. Instead of trying to come up with new conservative policies, the Foundation is now all about politics. Being a scholar at the Heritage Foundation these days is comparable to being a security guard in the Mafia.
And a little digging into his past would show that Anderson buys into many of the same homophobic arguments that characterize the worst of the right wing. He’s sung the praises of the ex-gay movement, compared homosexuality to alcoholism and claimed that Glee was corrupting American youth.
In the Post profile, he argues that lesbian relationships are short-lived because women leave relationships when their needs aren’t met. (As if it requires two people to leave the relationship, instead of just one.) Gay men are more promiscuous (where have we heard that one?) and marriage equality will pave the way to polygamy.
Anderson says that time may prove him wrong, but that it’s no time to rush the conversation. “I’m inclined not to rush to a conclusion,” he told the Post. Of course, he’s not inclined to get married yet, either. Anderson is still single.
What surprises Anderson is that people think he’s bigoted. “On the marriage issue, they don’t think you’re just wrong, they think you’re evil,” he told the Post. We’ll leave the judgment to history. That day of judgment is probably a lot closer than Anderson thinks.
Photo credit: Heritage Foundation
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John Oliver Sizes Up the Fashion Industry and the Human Cost of Cheap Clothing: VIDEO
John Oliver Sizes Up the Fashion Industry and the Human Cost of Cheap Clothing: VIDEO
Are you loving the current deluge of trendy and inexpensive clothing options at so-called “fast fashion” retailers? Well you might love those perfect spring shorts a little less if you actually thought about how they were made, as Last Week Tonight host John Oliver pointed out on last night’s episode.
“As great as all these stylish cheap clothes are, at a certain point it’s hard not to look at those prices and wonder how does any clothing company make money,” said Oliver. “Although lets be honest, you already know the answer to that.”
Be sure and watch until the end for Oliver’s special surprise for the leaders of clothing companies.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Kyler Geoffroy
14 Camp Classics We Can't Stop Quoting — Bad Girls Edition
14 Camp Classics We Can't Stop Quoting — Bad Girls Edition
These over-the-top tales of bad behavior are the films we love to love — and love to hate.
Adam Sandel
My "Ferguson Novel"
My "Ferguson Novel"
I once introduced a best-selling thriller writer at a reading here in Michigan and mentioned–among other things–that he was a finalist for some award. When he got to the podium he quipped, “You know what a finalist means, don’t? It means you didn’t win.”
Everyone laughed at his self-deprecating humor. He wasn’t as famous then as he is now. He hadn’t made multi-million dollar deals with his publisher, hadn’t seen movies of his books, and hadn’t become a kind of go-to guy when writers wanted blurbs for their upcoming books.
But despite the joke, being a finalist does means a lot. Given how many books are submitted in any genre for any contest, it means that your book really stood out, really grabbed the judges’ attention. And this year my suspense novel Assault With a Deadly Lie is a finalist for a Midwest Book Award in the Mystery/Thriller category. I’m thrilled, pun intended.
The book explores the devastating impact on a happy, successful gay couple living in a quiet college town when their lives are savaged by police and they’re subsequently coping with PTSD as well as stalking and much, much, worse without any idea why this is happening to them.
I started the novel five years ago when there wasn’t any national discussion about out-of-control cops, unnecessary SWAT teams, unarmed men being shot dead by cops, tiny Midwestern towns stocking up on armored personnel carriers, and overly-militarized police forces. Now, after 24 books in genres from memoir to historical fiction and beyond, I suddenly find myself having published a book that seems ripped from the headlines.
I’ve won a number of literary prizes before, including a Lambda Literary Award, and Assault With a Deadly Lie might be passed over for another book. But it was chosen by judges who were obviously not homophobic, for one thing, and willing to pick a book with gay content. More importantly, it was chosen at an important point not just in my career but in our national discussion about police violence. To me, that’s always going to be something to treasure.
Lev Raphael’s Nick Hoffman mystery series and other books can be found at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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How The Religious Right Is Conspiring to Put Discrimination Back Into Law
How The Religious Right Is Conspiring to Put Discrimination Back Into Law
How the religious right is conspiring to put discrimination back into law.
Chadwick Moore
Another Event Moves; Gay Hotel Owners Apologize for Ted Cruz Dinner Party
Another Event Moves; Gay Hotel Owners Apologize for Ted Cruz Dinner Party
One of the owners says he was unaware of how virulently Ted Cruz opposes LGBT equality before hosting the dinner at his home.
Lucas Grindley
Op-ed: Drag Race's Prison-Themed Challenge Raised Uncomfortable Questions
Op-ed: Drag Race's Prison-Themed Challenge Raised Uncomfortable Questions
Orange jumpsuits may have prompted more discussion than the show intended.
Matt Baume
Gay Hotelier Ian Reisner Apologizes For Hosting Dinner For Antigay Ted Cruz, Calls It Terrible Mistake
Gay Hotelier Ian Reisner Apologizes For Hosting Dinner For Antigay Ted Cruz, Calls It Terrible Mistake
I am shaken to my bones by the e-mails, texts, postings and phone calls of the past few days. I made a terrible mistake. I was ignorant, naive and much too quick in accepting a request to co-host a dinner with Cruz at my home without taking the time to completely understand all of his positions on gay rights. I’ve spent the past 24 hours reviewing videos of Cruz’ statements on gay marriage and I am shocked and angry. I sincerely apologize for hurting the gay community and so many of our friends, family, allies, customers and employees. I will try my best to make up for my poor judgement. Again, I am deeply sorry.”
— Gay Hotelier Ian Reisner in a note posted to his Facebook page to address the furor about his association with antigay presidential candidate Ted Cruz, which included hosting a dinner in his home and which led to AIDS/HIC fundraiser Broadway Bares canceling its show at the Reisner-owned 42 West
Jeremy Kinser
