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An Awesome, Awesome Documentary on the Women’s Movement

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Santi Tafarella

I recently watched the first two hours of a three hour documentary on the American women’s movement (I found it at a local library, then bought it at Amazon to have my own copy). It’s titled, Makers: Women Who Make … Continue reading →

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For Gays, Jim Crow May Be Coming To Kansas

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Santi Tafarella

Jim Crow, Kansas style. In Kansas, Tea Party Republicans don’t just oppose gay marriage, they also favor a law that would allow business owners to discriminate against gay couples. The following bill is winding its way through the Kansas House … Continue reading →

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Gay Marriage: For It or Against It?

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Santi Tafarella

Law professor Andrew Koppelman of Northwestern is quoted this morning in The New York Times as saying the following: It is becoming increasingly clear to judges that if they rule against same-sex marriage their grandchildren will regard them as bigots. … Continue reading →

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A Film Worth Seeing?

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

Blue is the Warmest Color, a lesbian coming-of-age film, is three hours long, but Richard Corliss of Time calls it unmissable.

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Hatred of Gays in Missouri and France

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

The following was reported at The Huffington Post this week: Roger Gorley went to Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday to visit Allen, his partner of five years. But when he got there, a member of Allen’s … Continue reading →

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Gay Marriage is Good for Your State

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

Andrew Sullivan goes after the canard that legalizing gay marriage might spike divorce rates in the United States: Washington State’s divorce rate [where gay marriage is already legal] is lower than Idaho’s [where it’s not]; divorce rates across the country … Continue reading →

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Same-Sex Bi-National Couples and Immigration Reform

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

A same-sex bi-national couple is a homosexual American married to a homosexual foreigner, and President Obama means for such a couple to be included in immigration reform. In the below clip, John McCain is clearly broadsided by a question about … Continue reading →

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North Carolina Baptist Pastor Charles Worley’s Final Solution To The Gay Problem In America: Concentration Camps With Electrified Fences

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Santi Tafarella

I’m dumbfounded. This man claims to be a follower of Hitler Jesus. __________ If Charles Worley’s Baptist congregation is not independent, but part of a larger denominational affiliation of Baptist congregations, then it’s incumbent upon the leaders of this affiliation to speak … Continue reading →

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Republicans Oppose the Violence Against Women Act—and Lesbians

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Santi Tafarella

The Republicans are reluctant to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act this year. Why? Because nondiscrimination against lesbians is included in the bill. The poet Adrienne Rich, who died this past month at the age of 82 and who raised … Continue reading →

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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: Mitt Romney Won’t Say Whether He Supports It

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Santi Tafarella

In the first month of his presidency, President Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay bill, assuring that women who believe they have been subject to wage discrimination get their due day in court. The bill made it … Continue reading →

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Michelle Bachmann Defines a Submissive and Subservient Woman

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

Here’s a stunner from CBS News: In 2006, [Michelle] Bachmann said her husband had told her to get a post-doctorate degree in tax law. “Tax law? I hate taxes,” she continued. “Why should I go into something like that? But the … Continue reading →

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Michelle Bachmann Watch: Homosexual Reparative Therapy as a Wedge Issue for 2012?

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

Every American election cycle seems to come with at least one socially conservative wedge issue that sharply divides right from left and draws (disproportionately right-wing) voters to the polls. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, predicts that 2012 will … Continue reading →

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The Gay Marriage Trap?

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

Lawyer and philosopher Linda Hirshman thinks President Obama’s recent decision not to defend in court section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is political gold for the Democrats. Here’s the link to her interesting article at Salon: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/hirshman_obama_doma/index.html

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The Courage of Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

A revelation and change of heart, and an example to other politicians facing tough decisions:

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Zach Wahls Defends His Two Mommies

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

19-year-old Iowan college student Zach Wahls’s self-possession and public speaking ability is remarkable—and he was raised by a lesbian couple. Here he is defending his two mothers against a discriminatory law being proposed in his state:

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When Gay and Anti-Gay Teddy Bears Dialogue

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

To my mind, this imaginative dialogue between two teddy bears perfectly exposes the intellectual incoherences of the anti-gay rights movement.   

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Qatar and Gay Rights

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

Qatar is one of the more liberal countries in the Islamic world, but hosting the World Cup in 2022 is still looking to be a tightrope walk for navigating the tensions inherent between Islam and the secular West. This was at Salon recently: … Continue reading →

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DADT Meltdown Watch: Baptist Ethicist Richard Land Warns of God’s Judgment on America

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

The religious right’s meltdown over the end of DADT continues apace. Here’s what “Baptist ethicist” Richard Land recently wrote to President Obama concerning the consequences of DADT repeal: [H]omosexual behavior cannot be normalized without rejecting God’s moral standards (Lev. 18:22; 20:13; … Continue reading →

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The “It Gets Better Project” at YouTube

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

What would your older self say to your younger self, if you could? That’s the premise behind the It Gets Better Project: older gays and lesbians attempt to persuade gay and lesbian teens contemplating suicide to refrain and look with … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Spontaneous Activism for Repealing the American Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

And the senator responds: Know hope.

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