Sen. Jim Inhofe besmirches Pope Francis

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The attack on Christians is coming from the right, not the left. In an interview yesterday on the Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” program, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., railed against Pope Francis and other Christian leaders who have addressed the human influence on climate change. Inhofe told FRC President Tony Perkins that the pope’s recent encyclical… Continue reading “Sen. Jim Inhofe besmirches Pope Francis” →

Nope, not us

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Racist-loving conservatives have been posting these all over this week, and of course they’re not official. As the above picture of an unofficial Mitt Romney button shows, anybody can make a campaign button! Not that it counts, of course: A campaign button bearing the Confederate flag and emblazoned with the words “Clinton-Gore” sold for $8 on… Continue reading “Nope, not us” →

Equality, 5-4

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gay marriage ruling

When I think of all the friends and relatives who are now finally equal under the law, I am overcome with emotion. What a great day. The Washington Post:

The Supreme Court on Friday delivered an historic victory for gay rights, ruling 5-4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry no matter where they live and that states may no longer reserve the right only for heterosexual couples.

The court’s action marks the culmination of an unprecedented upheaval in public opinion and the nation’s jurisprudence. Advocates called it the most pressing civil rights issue of modern times, while critics said the courts had sent the country into uncharted territory by changing the traditional definition of marriage.

“The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. No longer may this liberty be denied to them,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.

The country’s first legally recognized same-sex marriages took place just 11 years ago, the result of a Massachusetts state supreme court decision. Now, more than 70 percent of Americans live in states where same-sex couples are allowed to marry, according to estimates.

In the family way

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Bristol Palin, Abstinence Speaker, Pregnant For The 2nd Time

Dan Savage has a few things to get off his chest regarding Bristol Palin, abstinence lecturer, and her second pregnancy out of wedlock:

This will be Bristol Palin’s second child. This one is either by her second ex-fiance or some poor man to be named later. There’s more from Bristol here, if you’re so inclined and you have a high tolerance for platitudes (I’m not and I don’t), and here are three things I gotta get off my chest…

1. If Bristol Palin’s last name was “Obama” the whole Hee Haw gang at Fox News would spend half of every day for the next nine months telling us that Bristol Obama has terrible parents—”Maybe Michelle should be less concerned with what your kids are eating and more concerned with what her kids are doing!”—and the other half of the day pretending to fret over the terrible example that Bristol Obama was setting for other African American women and girls. But unplanned pregnancies and kids in fatherless homes and two different children by two different fathers? IOIYAR.

2. Does anyone remember what Bristol Palin had to say back when Barack Obama endorsed marriage equality for the first time as president? (He had previously endorsed gay marriage back when he was a candidate for state office in Illinois in 1996.) President Obama told ABC News that Sasha and Malia’s perspective had informed his own. Both of his daughters had friends with gay and lesbian parents. It didn’t “make sense to them,” the president said, “that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently.”

Here’s what Bristol Palin had to say about that:

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that—as great as her friends may be—we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

The irony here? Besides that Bristol Palin opposes same-sex marriage because she believes that kids—other than her own—need to grow up mother/father homes? We now know that Obama’s story about Malia and Sasha is bullshit. Both probably have friends with gay and lesbian parents—they live in White House, after all, and they go to Sidwell Friends—but seeing as Obama was for marriage equality all along it was Obama who shaped his daughters’ views on marriage equality and not the other way around.