[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- LGBT Community Asks Obama to Pick a Side
- [Firedoglake - David Dayen]
In the wake of the historic ruling in the Prop 8 case, the President has decided on a very strange locution to describe his views on the matter. He says, through aides, that he personally opposes gay marriage but supports “equality”. [...]
It’s true that the President opposed Prop 8 – but his tortured logic on the subject allowed supporters of Prop 8 to use his likeness and his words in their advertising. The idea of personal opposition but support of vagaries like “equality” is typical of how Democrats think they can thread the needle on these kinds of issues. It makes them look terribly weak.
And the LGBT community has had it. John Aravosis has posted an open letter calling on the President to support full marriage equality…
- Kennedy, Olson and the Right Side of History
- [FiveThirtyEight - Nate Silver - speculates on the likely outcome if/when Perry vs. Schwarzenegger gets to SCOTUS.]
- A controversy looking for a target
- I’m a relatively recent transplant to New York City, as you probably know, but I have to say that this entire fuss over the Cordoba House has left me pretty annoyed. …I’m impressed with what a great example New York is of how to (mostly) live in a super-diverse community and get along just fine, thank you very much. I’m not a pollyanna—I’m aware that people can harbor all sorts of crazy racism about each other even if they do see members of the hated group go about their boring ass every day business just like everyone else—but that’s why it seems doubly important to me not to sow animosity where none existed before.
Which is all this ridiculousness about the “Ground Zero Mosque” is, right up to the misleading nickname that conjures up an image of a mosque being built right on the site, instead of a community center two blocks away…
Like I’ve said when people try to tar me with “bigot” when I criticize Catholic dogma, the vast majority of the victims of the Catholic rules against contraception and abortion are Catholics themselves. Muslim terrorists kill Muslims; in fact, in some places they mainly kill Muslims. The fight is against terrorists, not Muslims.
…What’s going on here would be like refusing to build churches near the OKC federal building site because McVeigh was a Christian.
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