Years ago, when I was a younger gay man in the deep South and had to deal with Jesse Helms’s racist and gay-hating power and influence, I thought how I would smile and be glad when the menace died. Guess what: I did. Allow me the moment of candor, if not the sentiment.
Yet when I […]
I’m excited about the same-sex couples in California that can marry, as I was excited for those in Massachusetts. While we don’t have legal same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia, our domestic partnership laws really pretty good, so that gives me hope that D.C. might recognize a foreign marriage, if not pass an equitable […]
I love my Day Job at the Sunlight Foundation: a bunch of terribly clever people working hard to make federal government information transparent and accessible.
So its nice when I can use and recommend some of our projects to my politically-active readers. (My political opinions are mine, not my employer’s, but you knew that.) Last […]
There’s been a bit of news about how Nepalese parliament disestablished the monarchy and erected a federal, democratic republic in its place. I expect the new republic will have birthing pains and I wish them well, but I don’t want the day to pass without noting that there was one other change. In its path […]
I’m a member of the online Progressive Exchange community, and thought some of my more tech-oriented nonprofit-type readers might like it.
It is a
way to share information among people doing online organizing, advocacy, marketing and fundraising on behalf of the public interest. The goal of the Progressive Exchange is to aid the online efforts of progressive […]
As others have written, Mildred Jeter Loving died last Friday. She and her late husband Richard were co-plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 struck down the remaining miscegenation (anti-mixed-ethnicity marriage) laws.
That case has long given me hope that Hubby and I might enjoy legal marriage without having to move to the one […]
Dan Harper challenged me — I forget if it was on his blog or mine — to name some options to protesting, since I think that most public protest today is ineffective, self-aggrandizing or both.
I mentioned this to John Wonderlich — one of my terribly clever office mates and Program Director of the Open […]
Let me quite plain: the first thing I thought when I saw this is “What the h* is he running for? Manchurian Candidate in Chief?” No, that’s neither nice nor fair, so I offer the thought with caveats.
But in 2008, I’d rather not re-fight the Vietnam War by proxy. And I’d rather not fight […]
The buzz today was less about oil touching $108 a barrel than New York governor (and Clinton superdelegate) Eliot Spitzer touching — er — something else. And doing the deed in my fair city!
Not only here, but at the nearby Mayflower Hotel. Here’s the Universalist tie-in: the Universalist General Convention in 1935 met at the […]
United Church of Christ minister and blogger Chuck Currie considers who instigated the IRS probe of the United Church of Christ, following Barack Obama’s speech (on faith) at the last General Synod.
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