Author Archives: David

Right on schedule, Virginia advances

Posted on May 10, 2011 by David

Today’s Washington Post: Virginians are closely divided over whether gay marriage should be legal, according to a new Washington Post poll, a striking result in a state that overwhelmingly agreed to amend its constitution to ban gay marriage just five … Continue reading →

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The good news

Posted on April 29, 2011 by David

From the New York Times, on the growing LGBT student movement at evangelical Christian colleges: Decades after the gay rights movement swept the country’s secular schools, more gays and lesbians at Christian colleges are starting to come out of the … Continue reading →

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The inevitable result of “it”

Posted on April 23, 2011 by David

What you will see below is the result of people being told they should see other people as “it.” A woman is violently assaulted in a Baltimore McDonalds, dragged across the floor, repeatedly kicked in the head until she has … Continue reading →

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Bob Marshall chooses personal prejudice over children. Is anyone surprised?

Posted on April 5, 2011 by David

It’s not enough for Bob Marshall that same sex couples have to move outside the state temporarily in order for both to be adoptive parents – in Virginia, second parent adoption or adoption by unmarried couples is illegal, so we … Continue reading →

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Frank Wolf, wrong side of history

Posted on March 5, 2011 by David

Correction below: The New Republic is most definitely not The National Review. I was thinking of an entirely different article. My mistake. Frank Wolf thinks that the Justice Department should still be defending Section 3 of DOMA in court: “Congress … Continue reading →

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Two bills in Maryland

Posted on February 23, 2011 by David

I’m sure that everyone is aware that our neighbors across the river are about to enact marriage equality; as I write this on Wednesday, the Maryland Senate is engaged in debate on SB116, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection … Continue reading →

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Good and evil, PFM style

Posted on February 18, 2011 by David

Here we go again, with the Chuck expressing shock, shock, that his “worldview” is perceived by the recipients of his tender loving counsel as hateful. How could anyone object to The Manhattan Declaration, he wonderingly asks, when it clearly includes … Continue reading →

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