Robert Stacy McCain vows to kill his gay children on a hill

Robert Stacy McCain has six children, ages five to 19. He has written repeatedly that opposing equal marriage rights for lesbians and gays is a “hill to die on” for social conservatives. I don’t know if any of them are gay. But, then again, neither does he. Why do social conservatives always forget that at …

Carrie Prejean believes in marriage, just not THAT much

Update: Linked from Hot Air’s Green Room — thank you! — see below. I took a pleasant jaunt down to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., yesterday to see Carrie Prejean headline a press conference for the new TV spot against gay marriage by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Ms. Prejean is Miss …

You've got to be carefully taught

moar funny pictures From Fox News, 4/20/2009: When asked by judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay gossip blogger, whether she believed in gay marriage, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, said, “We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I …

Pro-life lesbians and gays

I just received an e-mail from PLAGAL, the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, saying the blog I didn’t know they had has been updated. I have added it to my Blogroll. I have to admit that the PLAGAL booth isn’t thronged on Pride Day — to be celebrated on various Saturdays in June in …

'Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so'

When I was a reporter for the Harford Democrat (1980-1982), social conservatives were on a rampage about the quality of education in local schools. The vice president of their group was an English teacher. I received a press release from them about how important it was to censor the books in the local schools that …

Ignore Meghan McCain on gay marriage at your peril, G.O.P.

On my daily rounds I came across one or two blogs denouncing Meghan McCain, which is not unusual, but somehow my curiosity was piqued. Anyway, I clicked through on the links and found — you are shocked, I’m sure — that I am delighted with Ms. McCain’s explanation of why she supports gay marriage and …

And to think, just 40-some years ago, EMU expelled my lover for being a lesbian

In theĀ  late 1960’s, before I met her, one of my lesbian lovers — who looked almost exactly like the character of Shane in “The ‘L’ Word,” played by Katherine Moennig — was expelled from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for being a lesbian. (This relationship was while I was at the University of …