The Heterodox Homosexual

As I noted yesterday, "America's leading gay news source" is now "a National Corporate Partner of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force." (Conflict of interest? What's that?) Previous corporate identities of The Washington Blade include a fluffy suburban advertiser newspaper and the sort of "ga

The legacy media have developed the disconcerting habit of jumping into bed with the very organizations whose activities they are supposed to be scrutinizing on our behalf. In the latest development, The Washington Blade, the LGBT community's "newspaper of record" (and heaven help us if that's actu

In this series of blog posts, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read each quote and guess, before doing a Web search, whether someone in the religious right or the politically correct left said it.38.He’s the Copy/Pasta Queeeen!Only bothering to change the first word, and nothing e

"Cultural conservatives' moral concerns about marriage are based on a view of history that is almost entirely false." — George Monbiot

In this series of blog posts, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read each quote and guess, before doing a Web search, whether someone in the religious right or the politically correct left said it.37.That's exactly what “HOOTERS” restaurant chain does—exploiting women's bodies for

“It is good to see that after intense political pressure that President Obama has finally come around to the Dick Cheney position on marriage equality.” — Christopher Barron, GOProud

Yesterday, in a discussion of Obama's announcement, someone said to me, "Marriage has always been one man and one woman. Read the Bible." In addition to the toxic level of irony, that person just refused to listen when I tried to tell him what his own holy book actually says. Yes, I do so want you t

The latest favor that the nanny-statists are doing for us is the war on obesity. Apparently, since we cannot be trusted to make the appropriate choices over our own bodies, the government needs to step in to prod and in some cases force us to do the right thing.In addition to the basic issue of ove

"[M]edical marijuana is far more popular than Obama is." — Rob Kampia, writing in The Washington Post on the Obama administration's hostility to medical marijuana