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MassEquality Nowhere Near Done

April 16, 2013 By massmarrier

No, we're not all set here in Massachusetts on LGBTQ issues, including marriage equality. A decade after Goodridge, MassEquality's Executive Director, Kara Suffredini, is still working a set of big bills. She came on over at Left Ahead … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doma, lbgt, left-ahead, LGBTQ, marriage-equality, massachusetts, massequality, obama, public accommodations, same-sex-marriage, seniors, suffredini, youth

On Not Doing 9/11, Or, Right Now, I’ve Got A Desk To Clear

September 11, 2011 By fake-consultant

I’m going to be really honest with you: after all the fights at the mall to get just the right present for everybody and the giant hassle of going to the Post Office so I can get the perfect stamps for my cards – and then worrying that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ADAP, aids, CoalCares, energy, environment, Fossil Fuels, lbgt, Not 9/11, Peabody Energy, politics, solar-power, The Yes Men, YesLab

On Reopening For Business, Or, What? No Flying Cars?

June 26, 2011 By fake-consultant

So I took a bit of a break this past month, and I figured by the time I came back y’all would have things sorted out: people would be surely by flying around with jet packs by now, God would have sent fires and floods to smite the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abortion, Anthony Weiner, civil-rights, Comfortable Shoes, fbi, governor, Jay Inslee, K.Flay, lbgt, national-security, new-york, Nike, Osama bin Laden, washington-state, white-house, Whitey Bulger, workers-rights

DADT Update: The Service Chiefs Report, The Republicans Fret

April 11, 2011 By fake-consultant

The Governments of the States Parties to this Constitution on behalf of their peoples declare: That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed; That ignorance of each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: air-force, army, dadt, defense, democrats, law, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, lgbt, marines, military, national-security, navy, obama, repeal, republicans

On Actually Ending DADT, Or, “Could It Really Take Another Year?”

December 19, 2010 By fake-consultant

"You cannot eliminate even one basic assumption, one substantial part of this philosophy-it is as if it were a solid block of steel-without abandoning objective truth, without falling into the arms of bourgeois-reactionary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: air-force, army, dadt, department-of-defense, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, marines, military, navy, red-tape

On Asking And Telling, Or, 115,000 LBGT Troops? How Many Is That, Exactly?

December 1, 2010 By fake-consultant

"Dad, if I were you, I wouldn't tell that story. Now I have no doubt that there might be a lot of truth in it, but you know how funny these people are. You know you always used to tell us when we were children:  "Never smarten up a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: congress, dadt, democrats, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, marine-corps, obama, politics, republicans, us-air-force, us-army, us-navy, usmc

On Asking Experts, Part Two, Or, What’s An LBGT Voter To Do?

October 26, 2010 By fake-consultant

A monk asked Ma-tsu [Baso]: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is Buddha" A monk asked Ma-tsu: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is not Buddha" --From the book "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings", … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bilerico, civil-rights, democrats, election-10, lbgt, national, pa-08, patrick-j-murphy, politics, us-elections, voting

On Asking Experts, Part One, Or, Do Democrats Really Understand Their LBGT Problem?

October 21, 2010 By fake-consultant

"We were liberated not only empty-handed but left in the power of a people who resented our emancipation as an act of unjust punishment to them. They were therefore armed with a motive for doing everything in their power to render our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bilerico, congress, dadt, democrats, doma, election-10, enda, gay-inc., lbgt, national, obama, politics

On Saving Us From The Immoral, Or “Ready, Fire…Aim!”

August 19, 2010 By fake-consultant

There are those who seem surprised that a defective rattrap like the Mulford law could be endorsed by the legislature of a supposedly progressive, enlightened state. But these same people were surprised when [California's] Proposition 14, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: christianity, gblt, history, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, politics, prop-8, religion, same-sex-marriage, tolerance

On Organized Fearmongering Revealed, Or, “Lock Up The Kids…It’s The Gay!”

August 7, 2010 By fake-consultant

So first things first: one of the sites where my postings are to be found is The Bilerico Project, and over there Dr. Jillian T. Weiss has gone to the time and trouble of explaining the nuts and bolts of this ruling in a very accessible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-rights, election-10, family-values, gblt, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, politics, prop-8

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