Same-Sex Marriage
Rush Limbaugh Speaks About Gay Marriage
At Starbucks' annual shareholders meeting in Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, CEO Howard Schultz told off an investor who tried to argue that the company's support for gay marriage is bad for business.
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When Sweet Cakes Bakery owner Aaron Klein denied service to a lesbian bride-to-be, Ace of Cake star Duff Goldman stepped in to bake the cake of their dreams.
The fact that 20 percent of global marriages take place between first cousins and most societies, including Europe and Canada, consider cousin marriages to be legal should give us a pause.
What bugs me about this story is not right-wing hypocrisy about sex (which is old news) or that sex leads smart people to do dumb things (even older news). It's that, by focusing on D'Souza's timing, commentators are ignoring the main double standard at work here.
Like his willingness to include former prostitutes in his close circle, Jesus' engagement with those whose conduct might offend sexual mores even today is a statement of radical inclusion, and of his own priorities for the spiritual life.
A long time before I started acting, I worked at a McDonalds in the Bronx and my manager at the time was Curtis Sliwa, pre-Guardian Angels and radio talk show host.