Judith Butler, "Uncritical Exuberance?" (a critical perspective on Obama's election), Indybay, Nov. 5, 2008
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Steve Lopez, "Wielding religion as a weapon against gay marriage," Los Angeles Times (Oct. 21, 2008)
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The Lavender Panthers - TIME
An article from the 1973 about a gay vigilante group called the "Lavender Panthers."
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Transgendered Oregon man is pregnant (he says)
Thomas Beatie, who has undergone sex-change surgery and is legally male and legally married, has conceived a child via a home insemination from a sperm donor. He plans to carry the child to term. Others, however, are skeptical of his claims.
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Gay 14-year-old shot to death by classmate
Interesting that this happens while there's also a debate going on over whether it should be OK to include positive portrayals of same-sex couples in educational materials aimed at this age group. I suppose there are those who'd say that a 14-year-old boy
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Feast of Fools interviews Chocolate Rain's Tay Zonday
This is why I gotta love the Internet. You don't just get Tay Zonday's wacky YouTube video. You get the video, plus the online conversation around it. Turns out he's an Am Civ grad student with interesting things to say about race and GLBT issues.
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Marriage, procreation, and the law: WA measure to link marriage to childbearing
Proponents of same-sex marriage in Washington state have introduced a ballot measure designed to challenge opponents to put their money where their mouth is. It legislates that marriages that do not produce offspring within three years be legally nullifie
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Gilligan and Pruett respond to Dobson's use of their research
Carol Gilligan and Kyle Pruett have both written publicly to denounce James Dobson's Time Magazine column for falsely representing the results of their research in order to make a case against allowing same-sex couples to raise children.
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James Dobson weighs in on Mary Cheney's pregnancy
James Dobson of Focus on the Family, writing in Time Magazine, offers the standard critique of allowing same-sex couples to rear children: kids need a mommy and a daddy. He even cites the work of several experts, both of whom say he misrepresented their r
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Arguments against same-sex marriage, part 2 [4]
An editorial by the president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, recounting opinions by a number of legal scholars on the potential implications of legalized same-sex marriage for religious liberty. Again, I don't agree, but this is generall
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Arguments against same-sex marriage, part 2
An editorial by the president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, recounting opinions by a number of legal scholars on the potential implications of legalized same-sex marriage for religious liberty. Again, I don't agree, but this is generall
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Arguments against same-sex marriage
Website of the Institute for Marriage and Family Policy, a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage (among other things). Includes summaries and links of many strong, rational, non-hysterical arguments against legalizing same-sex marriage -- argumen
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Yes, there really are gay animals
From Salon magazine, 1999. Research into "alternative sexual behavior" among animals. Apparently, it's much more prevalent than you might think. So much for homosexuality being "unnatural."
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Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught." Only tangentially related to the course, but oddly compelling somehow.
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Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda [6]
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught."
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More on same-sex marriage
This has been floating around the web for some time. Amusing.
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Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/21/2006 | School sued for religion policy
Three members of a Christian group in a Downingtown, PA public school, after being prohibited from wearing T-shirts condemning gays, sues the school district for violating First Amendment rights. (Also covered by Reuters.)
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Pennsylvania students sue over religion policy | Reuters.com
A Christian group in a Downingtown, PA public school, after being prohibited from wearing T-shirts condemning gays, sues the school district for violating First Amendment rights.
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Religious Diversity: Rabbi’s sermons offer both spiritual hope and a strong call to action
The article on which Greg's news analysis was based. On a recent publication of a sermon collection by a "welcoming" (i.e., gay-friendly) NYC synagogue.
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HRC Action Alert - Be a part of the movement. Be a part of the conversation.
This is the campaign letter sent out by HRC soliciting involvement by religious people in a broad campaign in favor of GLBT rights. Might possibly have some odd implications. Suggests that ordinary people (i.e., regular Christains, mainly, who presumably
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