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Falling fertility rates + anti-immigrant rhetoric = Heterosexism + Homophobia...
In conversation the other day, a colleague asked whether I thought that the frightening rise in anti-contraception, heterosexist, homophobic politics was connected to larger demographic shifts or some...
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Haggard, ashamed, self-loathing … but not a hypocrite
I had not planned to comment on Ted Haggard, but yesterday Slate posted a letter from Haggard to his congregation. (Haggard is the pastor who was recently “outed” by a male escort.) Before reading the...
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If you live in the state of Washington…
…and I know that some of you do, please surf over to Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance for information about their very interesting new campaign. It’s not exactly what it sounds like on the...
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Segregating Sex
“As long as we equate sex with dirt, weakness, and guilt, a powerful weapon exists for demagogues who not only flatter supporters that they are disciplining their own erotic instincts correctly, but...
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Speak out on General Pace’s disgraceful words!
This post, by Sex in the Public Square contributor Tom Joaquin, was originally published on his blog, The Free Lance. General Peter Pace, the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced on Monday...
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“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a hateful policy and must be undone
First of all, a big thanks to Tom Joaquin, guest contributor, for his excellent post on General Pace’s disgraceful comments. Such moments of bigotry and immorality on the part of public figures need to...
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Loving and Marriage
Today is the 40th anniversary of the landmark Loving v. Virginia case, the case that finally declared laws against interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. Many thanks to Rachel Kramer Bussel for...
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Questions for Dr. James Holsinger, or those in charge of his confirmation...
Quick: name the Surgeon General of the United States. Can you do it? I couldn’t. I know all about the guy who is being nominated and nothing about the one who is currently serving. I had to look him up...
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A quick update on the Holsinger confirmation hearings
The AP filed a story this afternoon that was then run on the New York Times web page. It’s a disconcerting story in its utterly bland representation of the 1991 paper that Holsinger wrote on...
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Over the Boardwalk
It’s Labor Day in the United States, and in the US for most people that doesn’t mean “let’s celebrate workers,” it means “let’s get to the beach” so I was pleased to find a story in this morning’s New...
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The danger of dismissing Fred Phelps
Are he and his small band of followers on the lunatic fringe of the Christian Right, or aren’t they? First they blame the wildfires in California on homosexuality. Now the loss of American troops is...
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ENDA Tabled?
So you might have been following the ENDA stories and known that it was scheduled to come up for a vote in the House last week or the week before. And you might have noticed that that didn’t happen....
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