It looks like the Episcopal Church is going to lift its ban on gay bishops.This is great news for those of us who support equal rights of gays and lesbians to serve at the highest office in any political or religious sphere.  The only requirement should be that they demonstrate that God has given them…

Gay people and their allies should take the occasion of the NAACP’s centennial to celebrate the NAACP’s century of accomplishments and recommit to supporting the organization and its objectives of ending racism in America.   Why? I’ll give you three reasons. 1) The NAACP provides an example of endurance against horrible odds to create equal rights for African American…

If you haven’t seen this it will hopefully give you confidence that no matter what people say, our President is on the side of the LGBT communities.  The President’s great line was about Stonewall in 1969 saying “That night, nobody could have imagined that 40 years later you, or me, would have been here (in…

Alec Baldwin wants me to move on and not pay attention to the Mark Sanford fandango.  I basically agree.  But over the last couple of days I have been wondering why the Mark Sanford affair rankles me more than, say, the Elliot Spitzer affair.  And it is, of course, because of Sanford’s hypocracy.  Mark Sanford has…

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