gay rights – April Fox

April 6, 2016

Quit Complicating Your Kids’ Questions About Gender and Sexuality

Every time legislation is passed that has anything to do with civil rights, things like being allowed to marry or use the bathroom in peace or whatever, people start using children as proxies for their fear and lack of understanding. It spreads like a rash across social media, this epidemic of made-up conversations kids are…

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August 1, 2015

A Love Letter to Pat Robertson

The lights are on in your great glass house but there’s nothing there to see. Your eyes are glued to the man next door, face pressed against his window in a gruesome caricature, bulging against the panes, lashes wet with lust and your palms nailed tight to the cross you wear like a brace to…

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July 17, 2015

On Being Open-Minded, and the Freedom of Belief

Your right to believe in something does not negate others’ right to exist with the same rights and standard of living that you have.

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June 30, 2015

The Sesame Street Theory of Gay Marriage Resistance, or, How the Ernie Shirt Fucks You Up

When I was very small, I loved Sesame Street. I especially loved Ernie, and I had a special Ernie shirt that I had to wear every time it came on. I would run to my room, grab the shirt, put it on and run back and park myself in front of the TV, anxiously awaiting…

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June 28, 2015

Pat Robertson on Anal Sex: Christians Will Like It

Robertson claimed that “You’re gonna say that you like anal sex…”

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May 9, 2012

Amendment One

i feel as if amendment one is being read by the light of a bulb shining through the skins of my family, friends- my children. how can you cry your careful, scripted tears over the loss of a life not yet started and tell the child before you that his life means less than yours?…

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May 8, 2012

Why I Voted Against Amendment One

This is what my life looks like: I am an adult heterosexual female. I live with an adult heterosexual male. We have expressed, both verbally and through the way we live, our commitment to each other. We each wear a ring that symbolizes that commitment. We share responsibilities: grocery shopping, bills, housework-though I will say…

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April 23, 2012

How NC’s Amendment One Will Turn America into China (And Other Foolish Points)

What happens if amendment one passes: 1: Homos run amok, using their incredible mind control powers to hypnotize all the heteros and force them to marry in the same bigoted backwoods churches that sentenced them to hell for putting their wieners on other boys’ wieners. (Lesbians are ok, per most clergy. They got that shit…

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March 13, 2012

Why the Religious Right is Scared of Old Ladies

This photo has been passed around on Facebook all day today. I don’t know who took it-if anyone does, let me know, so I can give the photographer proper credit-but I do know this: it’s absolutely terrifying. These women are the biggest threat facing our society today. Our entire nation is at risk because of…

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