On Friday night’s airing of Dateline NBC Ann Curry interviewed Rev. Rick Warren and I’m more troubled today about all this than I was when I wrote my previous post. It seems the more Warren says these days, the more troubled I become and even if I have nothing new to add to the conversation [...]

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For those of you who follow my blog in RSS Feed and through email subscriptions and are receiving repeat notifications of  this post,  the reason is because I’m continuing to add additional links to other writings on this issue as the conversation continues. There’s been no shortage of opinions expressed over the past several days [...]

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The plan as of the moment is to do some blogging this week but before heading into new topics I wanted to follow up to a couple recent conversations from the serious to the silly. For the serious end of the spectrum, Newsweek has put together a good video piece on the “Gay is the [...]

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It’s not. Stop saying it. Stop writing it on poster signs. Stop chanting it. Please. Yes, there are similarities in the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. There are similarities in our struggle for equal rights and each group has historically dealt with discrimination, hate crimes, and intolerance. Blacks have been murdered for [...]

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Okay, that was intense! Intensely wonderful, hopeful and exciting that is. While I haven’t yet seen an official count as to the number of folks who showed up at San Francisco City Hall this morning for Join the Impact, I’m going to make a guesstimate that it was in the vicinity of three kagillion. Aside [...]

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Tomorrow is a National Day of Protest and you are invited to Join the Impact! Why Should We Protest? If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything that smacks of discrimination or slander. – Mary McLeod Bethune (educator and advisor to FDR [...]

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I know this is just about everywhere on the internet but for the one of you who may not have heard this coming Saturday, November 15, at 10:30 a.m. (PST) will be the mega-awesome Join the Impact event. Gays and lesbians along with just about every justice-loving soul who walks or rolls will be gathering [...]

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Remember when I said I was done blogging about Prop 8? I take it back. Sorry. In the two weeks prior to the election I participated in four visibility actions on various street corners near our home. On election day I stood 120 feet from a polling place located inside a church next door to [...]

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I know it was only yesterday I announced I was done blogging about Prop 8. I meant it when I said it but that was before I saw this video which requires that I now make a public service announcement. Keith Olbermann is my new boyfriend. Tomorrow “The Ragamuffin Gospel” but for tonight, Keith Olbermann.

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Breathe in. Exhale. Breathe in. Exhale. There’s so much more I could say about California’s Prop 8. Oh baby! I could blog on and on about what’s happened and all that continues to unfold; the GLBTQ protest actions, the legal attempts to repeal Prop 8, and the continuing manueuvers by conservative groups on the other [...]

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