Category Archives: Marriage equality

A Gay Dad’s Bittersweet Belated Valentine to Meg Whitman

Last week was extraordinary.  The issue of same sex marriage was discussed more intelligently than ever before. In depth thought and information, including an outstanding synopsis by the American Sociological Association , appeared as amici briefs filed with the US … Continue reading

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Marriage Equality is Too Big for Just One Political Party

Thank you: Ken Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007 Tim Adams, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, 2005-2007 David D. Aufhauser, General Counsel, Department of Treasury, 2001-2003 Cliff S. Asness, Businessman, Philanthropist, and Author John B. Bellinger III, Legal … Continue reading

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5 Reasons Why the Supreme Court Ruling for Marriage Equality Could Be the Best Thing for the GOP

One thing that I have learned as a parent to two 10 year old boys—sometimes while a child sometimes says he wants one thing, he secretly may be hoping that he doesn’t get it.  Their voices quiver as they ask … Continue reading

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In Our Gay Family, Two Little Best Friends Became Brothers

Some of those fighting marriage equality these days, want you to believe that there is only a single possible right way to create a “real” family.  The  way they suggest is by means of unprotected, unplanned, procreative sex.  Or, as … Continue reading

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A Gay Dad Sounds Off: Since When Did the Culture Wars Become a Food Fight

At the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat Buchanan declared, “There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be … Continue reading

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A Gay Dad Invitation to a Supreme Court Justice: Come to Dinner With My Family

Some of us are nervous to exhale.  Same Sex Marriage is before the Supreme Court. Just like the election had the “swing state factor,” so does this.  Justice Anthony Kennedy. Justice Kennedy was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald … Continue reading

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The Ten Reasons It is Unfair to Compare LGBTQ vs.Straight Parenting

George Bernard Shaw once described straight parenting as having ”no test of fitness”.  LGBTQ parents are beyond  the “test”  In recent scrutiny by representatives of the Catholic Church and a group of authors speaking at the Heritage Foundation, the raking … Continue reading

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A Straight Man’s Perspective on Why the Homosexual Agenda is Everyone’s Agenda… and is Vital

“The Homosexual Agenda.” For so many years that term has been bandied about. A favorite buzz word of the religious right, a boogeyman to engender fear and hatred and to keep the public from thinking rationally. For a long time … Continue reading

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The Ten Things I Wish the Pope Could Have Observed on My Family’s Trip to Disneyland

During the last few weeks of winter holidays, Pope Benedict VXI and several of his delegates including Illinois Cardinal Francis George and the United Kingdom’s Archbishop Vincent Nichols delivered lump of coal to the world’s LGBTQ communities.  It was gift-giving … Continue reading

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Take Back the Word “Christian”…It’s Time….

That’s it.   I am fed up.  I am taking back the word “Christian”. Whether you realize it or not, we are in the season, or maybe era, of who-gets-to-use-what-word.  The Conservatives of this country have been on a rampage to … Continue reading

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