Oprah, if you come out as a lesbian, all is forgiven

This afternoon when Dad and I were buying groceries, I noticed the National Enquirer’s headline that Oprah has ordered Stedman out and moved Gayle King in because she’s “tired of living a lie.” Waddaya know — Kathy Griffin was right. So, Oprah, if you come out as a lesbian, all is forgiven. We’ll see to …

UPDATED How to grab the gay equality issue from the Left

I have a proposal for attracting to conservatism a demographic that’s up-for-grabs. There are three blog publishers who are in a position to do this. Each one could do it alone, but it will make a bigger impact if they hold hands and make the leap of faith together. My proposal is that at least …

BREAKING Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps announces he is gay

April 1, 2010 — Topeka, Kansas — Westboro Baptist Church leader, Fred Phelps, announced today at a hastily-called press conference that he is a proud gay man. Phelps’ church is infamous for its daily protests against homosexuality in its hometown of Topeka, Kansas, and across the U.S. “I tried to hate the gay out of …

Selective outrage over Westboro Baptist Church

There’s something missing in all the coverage this week about the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit ordering the father of a Marine who died in Iraq to pay $16,000 in court costs to the Westboro Baptist Church as he battles the church for conducting protests and picketing during the funerals of fallen soldiers. People …

Singer Ricky Martin comes out as gay

I just noticed on Twitter that Perez Hilton tweeted that Ricky Martin has come out as a gay man. Good for him! Here is Ricky Martin’s announcement that he is a gay man from his official Web site: A few months ago I decided to write my memoirs, a project I knew was going to …

Lady Gaga is first in the billion online video views club

Mashable reported a couple of days ago that Lady Gaga made history by becoming the first artist to have over one billion views of their online videos according to video analytics company, Visible Measures. I don’t go out or listen to the radio very much, so I had no idea who she was when she …

Why Obamacare is a threat to marriage

One of the consequences of Obamacare becoming law is that its means-tested benefits will destroy marriage for the middle class the same way that the Great Society welfare state destroyed the black family with financial incentives for staying single. This information was tucked away in a piece in the New York Times on March 24, …

Let's have this discussion about homosexual equality in terms of the Constitution and let people love or hate us as they see fit

I have been working for equality for homosexuals on and off for about 36 years now, a perspective that reaches back to the very beginning of the modern movement for homosexual equality, which began in June of 1969 with the riots started at the Stonewall Inn bar in Greenwich Village by drag queens who refused …