Today's Fresh Blogs...

• GOP Hall of Closeted Pols Nominees

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:32 pm

  Tags: Republicans, Glbt Issues, Scandals

  Time to ask yet again why it is that Republican politicians seem to get caught doing naughty things much more than Democrats? That’s tough to answer, but two new cases appears to be examples of closeted gays in a party that officially loathes them. The latest nominees to the GOP Hall of Closeted Pols are Glenn Murphy Jr. and Bob Allen, with

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• Better Racist Than Gay

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:16 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Politics, Glbt Issues, Racism, Crime

  no optimist on race issues, but I still think that by and large, “racist” is more harmful to one’s reputation in American politics than gay is?

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• Live-Blogging the LOGO Gay Issues Debate

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:27 pm

  Tags: 2008 Elections, Glbt Issues

  My friend and fellow Carletonian Matt Cole has everything you need to know at The Social Report.

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• Jim McGreevey's Open Letter to Larry Craig

  Published: September 4, 2007, 9:16 pm

  Tags: Politics, 2008 Elections, Glbt Issues, Homophobia, Senate, Scandals, Larry Craig

  Jim McGreevey has published an Open Letter to Larry Craig in the Washington Post that begins as follows: My gut wrenched when I read of Sen. Larry Craig’s bathroom arrest. I remembered my own late-night encounter with the law at a Garden State Parkway rest stop following a political dinner in north Jersey. I pulled into the [...]

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• Larry Craig and The Old Superman Trick: Trying to Turn the World Backward on Its Axis

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Glbt Issues, Evolution, Senate, Ideologies, Law Enforcement, Homosexuality, Larry Craig

  Larry Craig has apparently gotten his court date in Minnesota. His case is scheduled four days before his first proffered resignation date, September 30th. He’s going to apply to wind the world-clock backward, to take back time. It’ll be interesting to see how the judge will rule… Senator Craig’s new plea before the court

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• Analysis of the Maryland Anti-Gay Marriage Decision

  Published: September 18, 2007, 7:19 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Glbt Issues, State Politics, Civil Liberties

  Shorter MD Sup. Ct.: “We admit that reading the text ‘literally’ would require a plaintiff’s victory, but with a little judicial creativity, we can do anything we want to do! Fortunately, the TMV comment threads are full of people who hate when judges rule based on what they want the law to be, rather than what it says, so

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• Damn

  Published: September 18, 2007, 4:24 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Glbt Issues, Homophobia, State Politics, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Homosexuality, Moral Values

  Maryland’s Highest Court, in a 4-3 ruling, has held that my state’s prohibition of same-sex marriage does not violate the state constitution. The opinion is here, it’s 244 pages, so more comment later. I will say that if there is any state where gay marriage might make it through the legislature, Maryland strikes me as a good

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• Hate-Crimes Bill & ENDA

  Published: September 28, 2007, 10:16 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Politics, Congress, Gender, Religion, Sexuality, Society, Minorities, Democrats, Glbt Issues, Sexism, Homophobia, Civil Liberties, Political Correctness, Women S Issues, Human Rights, Homosexuality

  San Francisco Chronicle: Senate OKs hate-crimes bill protecting gays, lesbians (09-28) 04:00 PDT Washington — Even as the Senate passed a hate crimes bill sought for a decade by gays and lesbians, House Democratic leaders decided Thursday to strip transgender people from another long-languishing civil rights bill, generating dismay in the

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• Is Larry Craig Waiting for NCOD?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 7:08 pm

  Tags: Politics, 2008 Elections, Sexuality, Republicans, Glbt Issues, Homophobia, Senate, Scandals, Social Conservatives, Homosexuality, Larry Craig

  National Coming Out Day, an annual event sponsored by HRC and GLSEN, is next Thursday, October 11, 2007. Maybe that’s why Senator Larry Craig has announced that he will not resign from the US Senate even though his Minnesota guilty plea to attempted bathroom sex has not been dismissed. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has changed his mind about

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• and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

  Published: October 4, 2007, 10:11 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Politics, Congress, Gender, Legislation, Sexuality, Glbt Issues, Sexism, Homophobia, Civil Liberties, Nancy Pelosi, Human Rights, Homosexuality, House Of Representatives

  Last Friday I briefly addressed the ENDA bill in this post, stating: My opinion? Passing the hate crimes bill and ENDA will be long-overdue steps in the right direction. If the transgender issue will sink ENDA, take it out. We can address that another time. Well, I made a snap judgment based on what turned out to be incomplete information on a

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• Obama's Albatross*: Donnie McClurkin (UPDATED)

  Published: October 23, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Music, Religion, Sexuality, Society, Minorities, Freedom Of Speech, Glbt Issues, Barack Obama, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Evangelicals, Poetry, Social Commentary, Embarrassment, Political Correctness, Religious Right, Christian Conservatives, Human Rights, Homosexuality

  UPDATE: Tomorrow’s The Hill: Obama pressured on gay ‘cure’ preacher and The Swamp: ‘No crusade’ to cure gays, says Obama’s gospel star. UPDATE: Hear Pam Spaulding of PHB and Mike Signorile on Sirius Out Q discussing the issue. _________ Does Barack Obama want to portray himself as either P.C. or consistent?

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• Catholic Church, Alleged Arson in San Francisco: Media Sometimes Sets Its Own Fires Too

  Published: November 1, 2007, 9:47 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Media Criticism, Glbt Issues, Christianity, Crime, Roman Catholics, News, Debates, Journalism, Spin, Fires

  On the Catholic Sabbath just past, Sunday, a man in San Francisco undressed, painted himself in colored paint, showed up on the steps of Grace Cathedral armed with small explosives, allegedly with the intent to set the church on fire and any people in it. But, the news story has devolved into the following loudness in some radio and TV talk

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• My Open Letter to Rep. Mark Souder on ENDA

  Published: November 7, 2007, 1:58 pm

  Tags: Politics, 2008 Elections, Gender, Religion, Sexuality, Society, Minorities, Republicans, Glbt Issues, Anti Semitism, Sexism, Homophobia, Judaism, Jews, Religious Right, Christian Conservatives, Social Conservatives, Human Rights, Homosexuality, House Of Representatives, Mora

  more civilized views on our GLBT members than much of the Christian community has of its GLBT members, suggest that YOU educate yourself by attending church services this Sunday at an MCC or one of the many other gay-friendly churches. You might learn something about true Christianity there.

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• Gay Rights:The Religious Who Teach Non-violence, Non-condemnation of GLBT

  Published: November 8, 2007, 3:02 am

  Tags: Minorities, Glbt Issues, Jews, Protestants, Christians

  Rev. Bob Graetz, friend of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., has criss crossed the country, preaching and teaching, including in the heartland of America, the Midwest, which is mis-touted by some as a bastion of conservatism that is purported to condemn and freeze out anyone who doesn't conform a narrow principal. But, no one informed The

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• Kristallnacht: The Night of Shattering Glass, 9 November 1938

  Published: November 9, 2007, 7:43 am

  Tags: Endangered Species, Glbt Issues, Anti Semitism, Christianity, Roman Catholics, Germany, Ideology, Jews, Civil Liberties, Tyranny, World War Ii, Nazis, Protestants, Mass Murder, Storytelling, Death, Poland, Totalitarianism, Corruption

  The Night of The Shattering Glass otherwise known as Kristallnacht, took place November 9, 1938, marking to that date, the most widespread attack against Jews in peacetime Germany and Austria. In France, two days prior, a 17 year old Jew had shot a German embassy staffer in retaliation for the egregious treatment of his father and family at

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