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  • Equal protection, the rule of law, freedom and Gays

    Your analysis misses the point. Our founding national values are freedom and equality. Our Constitution requires equal protection. The rule of law requires that laws be rational and not arbitrary nor merely an expression of majoritarian prejudice. Any law that discriminates against a discrete class of Americans should and must rationally serve an ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Issywise on November 18, 2008

  • Sorry, but I don't agree

    Donna: We don't talk about the morality of universal health care, quality education for all, or a living wage. More importantly, we don't even talk about how they benefit all Americans, not just the working poor. As a friend says, ''You have to meet people where they are and bring them along.'' We refuse to do that. Obama hasn't done it and he ...
    Posted to Politics by radioleft on July 8, 2008

  • Evangelicals - not so much progress

    (not surprising for people moving backwards) Church cancels memorial for gay Navy vetBy ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press Writer ARLINGTON, Texas—A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay. Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by tiponeill on August 11, 2007

  • Lutherans making progress

    Lutherans to allow pastors in gay relationships Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:00PM EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Homosexual Lutheran clergy who are in sexual relationships will be able to serve as pastors, the largest U.S. Lutheran body said on Saturday. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a resolution at its annual assembly urging bishops ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by tiponeill on August 11, 2007