Notwithstanding its efforts to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss environmental science, the American right is creating an environmental movement of its own.
CBN | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Huckabee says that Proposition 8 passed in California due to prayer. Here's the quote from Mike Huckabee: "There's no way in the world ... that there...
Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Leaders on the Christian right have been giving speeches like this for decades, but the two-day Rock Church conference was not business as usual.
Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Leave it to Michael Eric Dyson to connect the dots between Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandi, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King.
Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
During the lead up to the presidential election, Lou Engle's TheCall played an important motivational and organizational role in the passage of California's anti-gay marriage resolution Proposition 8.
AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
FRESNO, Calif. — Hundreds of people waived signs and rallied at Fresno City Hall on Sunday to show support for the voter-approved ban on same-se...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
Many, perhaps the majority of blacks, can be won to back same sex marriage as a paramount civil rights issue. Because that's what it is. But picketing President Obama is the absolute wrong way to get them to do that.
Tanene Allison | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
Every one of us debating inequality over our coffees in the morning has been granted a rare opportunity to change what it is those future grandchildren will read about.
Greg Archer | Posted 06.28.2009 | Home
The bottom line? California can do better -- and ought to -- especially now that Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Iowa have given same-sex marriages an official green light.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
California showed us the judicial past where courts dominated by conservatives, unrepresentative of the people, restrict constitutional rights. Sotomayor and Obama showed us the future.
Trevor Neilson | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
One of the most important events in the history of civil rights may have happened today.
Noel Alumit | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
We have died of AIDS, we have been attacked and humiliated, we have been thrown onto the streets to fend for ourselves. Now, you're telling us we can't even get married?
Earnest Harris | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Important issues like the right to marry shouldn't be treated in "American Idol" style decision making where whatever is most appealing to the largest number of people wins.
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
AP: SAN FRANCISCO - A coalition of gay rights groups said Wednesday that a federal same-sex marriage lawsuit brought by two high-profile lawyers is p...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
What gives, Mr. President? You can commend yourself for nominating a Latina to the Supreme Court while you totally ignore another minority group that desperately needs leadership?
Bennet Kelley | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
Q. When is a fundamental right not a fundamental right? A. When it is protected by the California Supreme Court.
Tom Dolby | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
I realized that no battle was ever won by cowering in a corner, by dismissing the idea that we deserved a wedding celebration as jubilant as that of any heterosexual couple.
Tom Gregory | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
Something tragic has happened to the American church. They have become a pawn in a game of wicked ridiculousness.
Russell Simmons | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when.
Michael Rowe | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
It's time for people to recognize that the same tools that are being used to hinder the progress of equal rights for LGBT Americans have been employed throughout U.S. history against other minorities.
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
The gay movement needs proper focus and fresh ideas, not more rallies, if we want to keep our forward momentum.
Towleroad | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
President Obama, the alleged "fierce advocate" for LGBT rights, is scheduled to attend a Democratic Party fundraiser at the Beverly Hilton tonight, on...
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
As one glass ceiling was being shattered and as America was overcoming centuries of discrimination against women and Latinos, one other ceiling was being reinforced over the heads of gay and lesbian couples in California.
America Blog | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
We wrote last night about how Ted Olson, George Bush's former Solicitor General (the guy who argues the administration's cases before the Supreme Cour...
Carlos Watson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
I believe the ruling will hasten national acceptance of gay marriage. Let me explain.
Tanya M. Acker | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics