Gay Marriage
September 29, 2009
- Why Glenn Beck and I (and even Deepak Chopra) agree – We’re doomed. The following comprises an imaginary conversation between two of today’s most influential thinkers (with an interjection here and there by a renowned spiritual philosopher): RB: “We’re doomed.” GB: “You can say that again.” RB: “Okay. We’re...” GB: “Doomed because activist judges ...
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June 1, 2009
- The final Jack Straw Writers reading was a lot of fun for me. The chance to share my work is probably one of the greatest motivations for creating. I do it to connect with people and talk about what we share and hope to share. As usual, the audience laughed in unexpected places and seemed compelled by poems I find very close to me. Though one person did thank me for writing/sharing poems from my ...
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May 28, 2009
- Yesterday’s report on gay marriage and the end of the world provoked some interesting responses, both here and on my Facebook page. (I invite my Facebook friends to become a part of the Red Room community so they can comment here—come on in, we aren’t commies, in spite of the name. We are authors! There’s a difference!)I appreciate that there are strong feelings about an issue as ...
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May 27, 2009
- The world is coming to an end and the cause is gay marriage. Here at the epicenter of gay life, San Francisco, we have been watching civilization collapse for years, and there is no doubt in my mind about the cause: gay rights. When I was young, we were clear on where we stood when it came to homosexuality—no one talked about it. Why? Because we knew it was wrong. But that was back when there ...
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May 25, 2009
- A piece in the Weekly Standard --"The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage: it isn't Going to Work" by Sam Schulman--argues against gay marriage by claiming those in opposition aren't necessarily opposed to it because of what the Bible says, but because the true purpose of marriage cannot be realized by gays. Also, gay marriage will hurt the women and children.Is the right to marry merely ...
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May 13, 2009
- How do you know when Roger Clemens is lying?Now, I know you expected me to say His lips are moving, or something like that, but, no, that would be too easy and, frankly, I've never been known to take the easy way - even when it was really, really obvious and served the same purpose as the hard way. I'm not saying this isn't a character flaw...Anyway, the answer is: When he cites genetic history ...
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March 22, 2009
- Beyond the Presidential race, no other election in 2008 garnered more national attention than the vote on Proposition 8 in California, which effectively reversed the state Supreme Court's ruling that allowed same-sex marriage. Behind this citizen-led initiative rests pure, ignorant discrimination and nothing else; not an attempt to protect the sanctity of an institution that fails just as much as ...
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March 22, 2009
- Keith Olbermann said it best in his 'Special Comment' on November 10. "What is it to you?" Olbermann, of course, was referring to the passing of Proposition 8 in California, which repealed same-sex marriage laws in the state. His six minute, emotion-filled discussion of the issue was genuine, practical and to the point. He cites past redefinitions of the term 'marriage' as reasons why ...
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December 22, 2008
- Well, I learned something today that I had no idea existed. I read the blog entry of a 'real writer', (female, born in Texas and who has one hell of a good plastic surgeon) who wandered the tony stores of Rodeo Drive stumping her little Manolo's off for Barack Obama. The tenor of the post is that BO is good for the country and she's proud of herself for helping get him elected. Well. I ...
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November 15, 2008
- Today was a national day of action protesting the passage Prop. 8 which takes away the right to marry that the court had found gay men and lesbians to possess under the pre-discriminatory, pre-8 constitution of the State of California. (And protesting other discriminatory laws voted in this historic election.) Everyone I knew was going over to San Francisco (if they didn’t already live there) ...
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