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CNN reports: A federal judge ordered Tuesday that the U.S. military stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Judge Virginia Phillips ordered the military “immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding, that may have been commenced” under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Thank Republicans. Your Thoughts?
Archive for the ‘Gay Rights’ Category
Federal Judge Orders Halt To “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
October 12th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, News, Politics 
No Comments »Unreal Discrimination?
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Reggie objects to National Coming Out Day: As a black American I’m old enough to remember what real discrimination was like(I once got bit by a police dog on a peaceful march), as we tried to be judged by our actions. How is the brutality that gays suffered at the hands of policemen in the [...]
Andrew Sullivan Making The Case For Gay Marriage Back In 1997
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In places really smart and in places also really moving: Your Thoughts?
Should Gays Have Kids?
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke bewarethelizards42 explains why it’s gay-okay: And her follow up replying to homophobic comments: Your Thoughts?
Lying For Homophobia
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A year and a half ago, during the debate over protecting gays in hate crimes legislation, Rob Tish exposed how an anti-gay organization was willing to distort facts to deny rights to gays: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Religion 
Tags: Hate Crimes, Rob Tish, Traditional Values Coalition 2 Comments »Inequality Is Okay If It Makes You Not Gay
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke That’s the thinking of Exodus International president Alan Chambers: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage Tags: Alan Chambers, Exodus International No Comments »David Boies Discusses The Prop 8 Overruling
August 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here is one of the two lawyers behind the successful constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8 giving a half hour lecture and then answering questions for more than a half hour. Thanks to Alan for the find. Your Thoughts?
ProfMTH Pwns William Lane Craig Over Ignorant Demand For “Strict Constructionism”
July 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Law, Law, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: 1st Amendment, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, Justice Antonin Scalia, ProfMTH, Strict Constructionism, William Lane Craig No Comments »Why Did So Many Pro-Prop 8 Witnesses Back Out Of Testifying?
July 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke After pre-trial depositions, many pro-Prop 8 witnesses backed out of testifying, citing fear of reprisals in response to their testimony. Anti-Prop 8 lawyer David Boies is asked what he did to scare them off during the depositions: Your Thoughts?
U.S. District Judge Rules DOMA Unconstitutional
July 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A just outcome, but I am not sure how I feel about appealing to states’ rights to define marriage for themselves, which could inevitably be used as a justification for individual states to deny gays’ rights to marriage. The case is about equal rights, not states rights, and should have been settled as such: A [...]
Gay Rights Advocate Decapitated In Uganda
July 6th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Unspeakably sad and outraging: A search for a missing pro-gay priest, the Rev Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga, who disappeared almost two and half weeks ago after delivering a scathing speech at St. Paul’s Church, Kanyanya supporting homosexuality in Uganda, led the joint search team of Integrity Uganda and Namirembe Diocese to the severed head of another [...]
No Preferred Legal Status For Religion
July 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke His excellent previous 2 videos on the subject laid out legal arguments that preferred this conclusion. Your Thoughts?
If Atheists Acted Like Politically Conservative Christians
July 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke So well done: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Political Satire, Political Satire, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Bill O'Reilly, DarkMatter2525, Door To Door Evangelism, In God We Trust On Money, Prayer In Schools, Religious Billboards, Richard Dawkins No Comments »Supreme Court Upholds University Non-Discrimination Statement
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Zack Ford explains: Here’s a brief recap of the situation: The University of California has a nondiscrimination policy. If you want to be recognized as a student group (i.e. use the university’s name, access funding for student groups, reserve campus spaces, etc.), you must abide by the nondiscrimination policy. The Christian Legal Society at Hastings [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Politics, Religious Rights, Religious Rights Tags: United States Supreme Court, Zack Ford No Comments »Rational Passional Persuasion
June 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Andrew writes: So atheists don’t have emotions which inform them of the truth of something? And their rhetoric is completely dispassionate to the point where logic and reason are not fully objective? I have addressed the proper ways to consult the emotions in looking for truth in the post, Disambiguating Faith: Heart Over Reason, so for [...]
On The “Compassion” In The Catholic Bishops’ Letter To Congress Against Gay Rights
June 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Recently, United States bishops petitioned Congress to not protect gays from being fired for their sexual orientation. Andrew Sullivan already precisely attacked the bishops’ immoral political calculation by which they explicitly committed themselves to a perverse moral contradiction whereby they simultaneously concede that homosexuality is to a significant extent not a choice and argue that [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Religion, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Roman Catholic Church, Same Sex Marriage Tags: ZJ Jones, ZJemptv No Comments »Follow The Closing Arguments Of The Proposition 8 Trial Today
June 16th, 2010 Daniel Fincke And you can follow them as they are live-blogged on the Proposition 8 Trial Tracker website, which was an invaluable resource during testimony, filled with fascinating in-depth accounts of the arguments everyday. They’ve also started rolling already today on their Twitter feed and on their Facebook page. Here is the schedule for the arguments, all [...]
Iceland Unanimously Approves Gay Marriage
June 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance. The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between “man and [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage Tags: Iceland, Johanna Sigurdardottir No Comments »Rejecting The Ex-Gay Movement
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Michael Bussee co-founded the “ex-gay” ministry Exodus International. In the videos below he explains the problems with the movement and how he came to reject it. Here are a bunch of the videos, and more can be found on his YouTube channel. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage Tags: Exodus International, Michael Bussee No Comments »Family Research Council Lobbied Congress NOT To Denounce Uganda Bill
June 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Enraging: Your Thoughts?
Children Of Lesbians Did Better In Study Than Traditionally Raised Children
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nanette Gartrell and Henny Bos (author of Parenting in Planned Lesbian Families (UvA Proefschriften) have the authored the first longitudinal study to track the outcomes of children created through artificial insemination through their teenage years. The results? The authors found that children raised by lesbian mothers — whether the mother was partnered or single — [...]
Michael Sandel On “The Lost Art Of Democratic Debate”
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A good video from Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, who recently wrote a book on justice for a popular audience, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, and who last year released on YouTube high production value videos encapsulating his lectures for his standard introductory level ethics class at Harvard. You can start watching those videos here. [...]
Posted in Epistemology, Ethics, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Historical Philosophy, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Law, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Same Sex Marriage, Teleology, Virtues Tags: Aristotle, Aristotle's Theory of Justice, Democratic Debate, Golf, Harvard University, Justice, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice John Paul Stevens, Michael Sandel, Phronesis, Sports, United States Supreme Court No Comments »Make Homosexuals Marry
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Starring Mike White, writer and co-star of two of my favorite movies (The Good Girl and School of Rock), a look at the realities of gay marriage: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Same Sex Marriage Tags: Justin Long, Mike White, Nora Dunn, Tom Arnold No Comments »8: The Mormon Proposition
June 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke 8: The Mormon Proposition, a new movie out in theaters next Friday and available on DVD in July, explores the way that a tax exempt organization has waged a “secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights”: Thanks to Richard for the link. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Film, Free Speech, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Theocrats, Videos Tags: 8: The Mormon Proposition, California Proposition 8, Documentary, Mormons, Proposition 8, Tax Exemptions for Churches No Comments »A California Attorney General Candidate Who Supports Gay Marriage
June 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke His name is Steve Cooley and he could use your support in a primary for the Republican party’s nomination. Think about it if you’re qualified to vote for him and live in California: Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley is running for the Republican Party nomination for California State Attorney General. And those readers who [...]
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