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March 2008 - just shut up

gay folks should just shut up
According to Oregon State Senator Gary George. He’s opposed to Oregon’s new non-discrimination law, which makes it illegal to discriminate against folks because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. He’s co-sponsoring an initiative to repeal the law.
Apparently, living without discrimination based on who you are attracted to (or based [...]

March 2008 - Texas eases up on sex-phobia

Good news for Texans with a healthy sex drive!
Last month the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals declared unconstitutional that state’s long-time ban on selling and owning sex toys. Welcome to the 21st century boys.
I first heard of the Texas law about a year and half ago when I watched an excellent documentary on the [...]

February 2008 - uninspired assimilation

hooray for domestic partnerships in oregon.
after much legal wrangling (mostly defending our petition system to out of state christian evangelists) Oregon’s domestic partnership law went into effect and queer couples can enjoy almost the same rights as straight ones. almost.
i tried to find something inspiring on queer assimilation that i could expound upon to no [...]

November 2007 - an affront to Christians

this is what i am: an affront against christians…or at least their god.
so the good news is the house of reps voted to protect workers from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. the bad news is they did not include sexual identification, thereby excluding transgendered folks from the same protections.
now the senate gets a [...]

August 2007 - a HA moment!

I had a major revelation about a week ago…my girlfriend and I were discussing the haters who showed up at PRIDE (see previous post) and I realized that no dialog is possible with these people because of their pernicious belief in only ONE TRUE GOD.
Long ago I came to the conclusion that the catholic religion [...]