Commentary

In case anyone ever wondered why I’m so emphatic about equal rights… here you go. This man — Mike Huckabee — who ran for president, does not want gays to marry, raise kids or serve their country.

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and possible GOP Presidential candidate, on Friday criticized President Barack Obama for his decision to order the Department of Justice to stop defending the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.

Today would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. The American ultra right and Christian conservatives, along with nearly all of the GOP are singing his praises, and in the case of the politico’s, either trying to emulate the “Gipper” or […]

Prominent defender of gay rights in Uganda, David Kato, was murdered in his home by two blows with a hammer last Wednesday. What responsibility does the Christian Church bear for the outrageous murder of Kato?

Joel Osteen, best-selling author and religious entertainer: “Homosexuality is a sin.” In an interview earlier this week on CNN, Osteen toes a fundamentalist, homophobic line on the interpretation of the Bible.

Obama’s relationship with the LGBT community has been much like a stormy marriage that is saved by the husband delivering bouquets of red roses only moments before the divorce papers arrive. With flowers in hand, the disillusioned spouse remembers why she fell in love in the first place…

45 years ago this week, Time Magazine published a 2-page essay titled “The Homosexual in America.” As you would imagine, the ideas presented in the article would now be considered arcane, but in order to understand the strides we have made as individuals and as a community, we must consider our history.

My intent is not to say that most Republicans are bigots, nor are I implying that the names I’ve mentioned are directly responsible for causing deaths. However, they have soured the political climate in America by consistently catering to bigots, pandering to religious extremists, serving as apologists for militia kooks, and entertaining the wild fantasies of sick conspiracy theorists.

It is not often that I find it necessary to set aside my press credentials and lend an opinion to public discourse on any given subject that I report on. However, that said, I need to comment not as an American which I am not, nor as a Canadian which I am, but rather as a human being and responsible adult living in a divisive and polarized society here in the United States.

As I write this editorial, it’s less than a couple of hours after the 112th session of the Congress of the United States gaveled in. Most significant is the fact that the overwhelming majority of this Congress are ultra conservative, identify as “committed” Christians, and have little or no regard for true equality rights for […]

I’ll start this blog by asking one simple question. How do you think many of the Jewish people would feel if a Jewish rights organization (whom most of them don’t belong too) purchased Anne Frank’s home and turned it into a souvenir shop?

In the name of God, these thugs and theocrats are playing God with the lives of LGBT people across the globe. It is time civilized people stand up to such Bible-based barbarism before it is too late. A good place to start is at The National Prayer Breakfast.

I’ll have to admit, I was stunned and left speechless at the very callous and uncaring way that quote was so causally tossed into the public discourse by the spokesman for the so called American Family Association’s radio network, Bryan Fischer.

Last week, the Family Research Council was included in a list of 13 hate groups because, as the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report explains, the group has “continued to pump out demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexual and other sexual minorities.” This, also, is according to the Advocate and countless other LGBTQ & mainstream media […]

Whatever the reason, I found, in my personal opinion, that the following video released by the LGBT activist group GETEqual would cause offense as it did in my case. As it was rude in its presentation it became ultimately ineffective.

Joel Burns, an openly gay city council member in Fort Worth, TX gave a heart-wrenching, impassioned plea on Tuesday evening to LGBT youth struggling with their sexual identity or facing intense adversity among their families, community or bullying by their peers.

Matthew Shepard was brutally assaulted on a lonely ridge overlooking Laramie, Wyoming twelve years ago this month. And on this day in 1998, he died while in a coma in a Fort Collins, CO, hospital with his family by his side. Much has changed. Much has not.

Divorce is a hot topic for conservatives worried about preserving the institution of marriage, so there is a silver lining in Proposition 8 for them: allowing gay marriage appears to reduce the divorce rate.

If a sex scandal is going on in Washington, there is a 2 in 3 chance it will involve a Republican. And If it’s a gay scandal, it’s almost a sure bet that it involves a Republican.

While the battle continues in the fight for gay marriage, Mother Jones reports there are still 13 states that haven’t criminalized bestiality.