The ruling against Ad Ladlad provides an interesting test for the future of the Catholic Church's attempts at moral blackmailing over much of life in the Philippines.
The equality drumbeat has rumbled on with news that Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Texas will be attempting to re-examine their amendments banning same-sex marriage and civil unions.
What makes civil unions at present unequal is not their separateness but the host of federal benefits conferred by marriage that even the best state domestic partnerships can't accord.
Maggie, what happened to "the future of our movement, and the future of America," as you referred to Carrie just two months ago? Was it because she lied again?
We don't know if the Archdiocese really wants to stop running programs that help sick, homeless and orphaned children if the DC passes marriage equality legislation, but we have to take them at their word.
Saying that you have gay friends and that you're not afraid of them doesn't mean you're not homophobic. Saying you don't agree that gay people have the right to be married does.
Many Americans who support the rights afforded to married couples being afforded to gay couples refuse to budge on the word marriage, at least for now. So don't make the word itself the centerpiece of the messaging.
We were perversely short-sighted with the way we handled Eliot Spitzer. We prioritized our blood lust for personal justice over our desire for effective public policy.
The Archdiocese of Washington D.C. reiterated their threat to close the CCDC's doors and cease its efforts on all fronts if the District of Columbia does not amend its plan to extend marriage to gay couples in the District.
While black Americans have come far in a lot of respects we remain a political scapegoat for certain constituencies. I'm not referring to white, working class voters. I'm referring to some members of the gay rights movement.
On a trip to Atlanta this week, amid the same-sex marriage debate in my home state of New York , I had an opportunity to visit the Martin Luther King,...
I guess I need one of these evangelists to explain the "it's nothing personal" thing to me. Because frankly I can't imagine a single thing more personal than denying my family rights.
By moving this basic premise of marriage equality from the sink hole of catastrophic defeat state after state, year after year, to within striking distance of a win, we will eventually reach the finish line.
Donald Carcieri issued that cruel veto of legislation borne of a tragedy which befell a constituent of mine. For a month, Mark Goldberg was unable to to claim the body of his partner.
The child molestations, and filing sticky-fingered priests from diocese to diocese, is all part of God's grand plan, but showing the slightest bit of consideration for gay couples is just too much.
HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Joy Behar Show Wednesday night to talk about religion in politics and the controversy surrounding Sarah Pal...
With a record of 0-31 in marriage initiatives, now may be a good opportunity to review our complicity in a process that doles out or strips away basic rights by majority vote.
Attention all liberals who imagined that the country was going through some new progressive revolution after the last election: wake up and smell the ...
As disappointing as the Maine defeat was, the real disappointment actually resulted from the shrill reactionary tactics employed by many within the Marriage Equality movement.
Whatever church those people do go to, they are taught hate and fear, not the Christian love I grew up with. They both hate gays and fear them.
