Zoethe posted Saturday about the ACLU’s offer to fax a message on your behalf to your congressfolk, faxes generally considered to have more impact than a letter or email. After submitting my fax, I also finally contributed my dollars to join the ACLU as an official card-carrying member, something I’d been thinking about for years […]

Last night I was updating my favorite channels list on my DirecTV with TiVo, primarily in order to remove all the latest sports channels from my guide listings and channel search, when I came across a network I’d not seen before, FitTV, apparently another of the Discovery stable of channels. The program on at the […]

While the content of this news, also courtesy of Queer Day, won’t surprise anyone who has even the merest honest familiarity with history and/or anthropology–which leaves out, apparently, the current administration and its speechwriters, and part of its right-wing base–“the Executive Board of the American Anthopological Association, the world’s largest organization of anthropoligists, the people […]

Also courtesy of Queer Day, the Rocky Mountain News reports that the chief of staff for Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, the originator of the current version of the Federal Marriage Amendment before Congress, claims that President Bush pledged to support the amendment back in November, three months before he made his public announcement in February. The […]

An item in Queer Day today points to an article in the San Mateo Daily Journal about a lesbian couple who were married on February 13 in San Francisco. When they returned to their church, the Santa Cruz Bible Church, the next day for a “power of love” sermon, they stood when a moderator asked […]

Thanks so much to my friend Anna for pointing the way to this site. Specifically, these two columns–here and here–should be required reading from the pulpit of every mainstream Christian church in the U.S. So you want to talk about homosexuality? YOU want to talk about homosexuality? You want to talk about homosexuALITY? Sit down […]

Tomorrow morning Jeff and I are planning to get up early for a road trip. We’re taking the new Prius from Arlington to the mountains for a short visit with my Mom and the rest of my family. This will be the first time he’s been there or met any of them. I’m looking forward […]

From an HRC mailing I just received: RALLY AGAINST DISCRIMINATION Oppose the Federal Anti-Marriage Amendment Corner of 17th and Rhode Island Ave. NW Washington, DC In front of the HRC Building March 3, 2004 (Wednesday) 6:00pm Let’s rally together on the heels of President Bush’s endorsement to permanently deny marriage rights to same-sex couples! Rally […]

Erstwhile celeb, uber geek, blogger extraordinaire, and budding talented author Wil Wheaton has taken a principled stand today in his blog against amending the U.S. Constitution and in support of gay marriage. Noting first that he debated whether to post at all, given the divisiveness of the issue, his wide readership and that he has […]

I‘ve just created a “Defend Equality” page on the HRC web site; on this page you can quickly and easily shoot off an email to your Congresscritters opposing the Federal Marriage Amendment and document that you’ve called the White House to express your opposition to amending the Constitution. There’s also a page where you can […]