Category: Gay Rights
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 18, 2009 in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs, Education, Freedom of Speech, Gay Rights, Human Rights | 39 Comments
I admit, when I first saw the headline about the child refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance, I just assumed it was about the whole “under God” thing in there. Well you know what they say when one “assumes,” and nowhere was that more the case than here, as this article makes clear, [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 12, 2009 in Bloggers, Current Affairs, DNC, Gay Rights, Linda Anselmi, Obama Comrades, Obama's Broken Promises, Religion | 17 Comments
When NQ faithful reader, Doc99, sent me this article, I had to check that it wasn’t from The Onion, or any other satire site. But no, this is for real, “Mormons Throw Support Behind Gay-Rights Cause.”
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Sure never saw THAT one coming. I’ll give you a moment [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 10, 2009 in Bamboozling, Campaign promises, Commander in Chief, Current Affairs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Flip Flopping, Hoodwinking, Obama's Broken Promises, Soldiers/Veterans | 63 Comments
On the eve of Veteran’s Day, 500 service people have been discharged from the military under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” A policy Campaigner in Chief, Barack Obama, claimed he would end once he became Waffler In Chief. In the first actual interview with the GLBT media The Advocate during the campaign, he said:
I reasonably [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 5, 2009 in Civil Liberties, Current Affairs, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department | 45 Comments
Election 2009 has come and gone with some major changes: VA and NJ have gone Red. Turns out, the races weren’t even all that close. Much is being discussed and debated about the meaning behind these wins by the GOP. I will leave that, and the NY 23 Owens win to the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 18, 2009 in Andrew Sullivan, Bamboozling, Bill Clinton, Bloggers, Campaign promises, Civil Liberties & Rights, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Democrats, Don't Ask Don't Tell, GLBT, Gay Rights, Hoodwinking, Human Rights, John McCain, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Rev. James Meeks | 30 Comments
Well, Obama is pandering to the GLBT community again. He gave a speech to the Human RIghts Campaign Friday, October 9th. Personally, I think he was trying to ward off the big-ass march planned against him in DC byt the GLBT community. It didn’t work, I might add. Seems some folks [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 5, 2009 in Afghanistan, Bamboozling, CNN, Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Obama Comrades, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Rev. James Meeks, Soldiers/Veterans | 35 Comments
That’s the headline I saw Monday morning at AOL . Of course my response was, “Whaaa” For real?? How fortuitous since General McChrystal is saying we need more troops in Afghanistan! Is this true??” And then I read the article. The short answer is, “No.”
Here is the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 19, 2009 in Ayers, Campaign promises, Congress (House & Senate), Congressional Black Caucus, Current Affairs, DNC, Don't Ask Don't Tell, FISA, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Misogyny, Political Correctness, President Barack Obama, Public Finance, Qualifications, Race Card, Racism, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rules and Bylaws Committee, Tony Rezko, White Guilt | 78 Comments
By now, most everyone has heard that President Carter claimed people who don’t support Obama do so because they are racists. Wow. Obviously, this is shocking on the face of it. If you have not heard this, the video is below. I also recommend two very good posts on this topic, one [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 17, 2009 in Barack Obama, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Gay Rights, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, No Quarter Blog, Washington Post | 49 Comments
My well meaning, but decidedly Obot, sister sent me an article from alternet.org recently written by a lesbian mother detailing the additional financial difficulties we face when we are on our partner’s health care coverage (”Unbelievable: As A Lesbian Mother, I Have To Pay More For Health Care“). Well, I can appreciate her alarm, [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 12, 2009 in ABC News, ACORN, Associated Press, Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, CNN, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Democrats, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Fox News, Media Handling of Story, NBC/MSNBC, New York Times, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Republicans, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Soldiers/Veterans, Washington Post | 29 Comments
Yes, it is a Numbers Game today. My blogging buddy, Diamond Tiger at Logistics Monster had this video at her blog today, which I am shamelessly stealing (hey - she’s on HI time - she is up when we East Coasters are dead asleep, even though she is at the March on Washington. [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 16, 2009 in Bill Clinton, Campaign promises, Civil Rights, Current Affairs, Democrats, Dept. of Justice (Obama), Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Rights, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 78 Comments
At the Netroot Nations ‘09 meeting recently, there was an interaction between President Bill Clinton and a member of the audience. During Clinton’s speech, this man stood up to ask him some questions. I mean in the middle of Clinton’s speech. Major H/T to my NQ fellow writer, pm317 for the following video. [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 10, 2009 in Barney Frank, Campaign promises, Current Affairs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, FISA, George Bush, New York Times, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama | 44 Comments
You know that during the Campaign, I said a number of times that Obama was the REAL Bush II, not Clinton, and not McCain (for instance, here, here, and here). Many of us saw that writing on the wall as one similarity after another came out.
Well, here is another one: Signing Statements. Yes, the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 4, 2009 in Chelsea Clinton, Crime, Current Affairs, DNC, David Shuster, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Flip Flopping, Gay Rights, Gender Bias, Hate Speech, Hoodwinking, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Misogyny, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama's Priorities, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sexism, Washington Post | 16 Comments
You may have seen this report of Gay youth who were murdered in Tel Aviv:
The spontaneous march in response, the solidarity evident, brought tears to my eyes.
While we are on the subject of the GLBT community, as of this writing, according to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, 332 service members have been dismissed under DADT [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 30, 2009 in Current Affairs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, New York State, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Soldiers/Veterans, US Senate, Women and Children | 22 Comments
I got an email recently from an organization that has impressed me, VoteVets.org. As their name implies, they work hard on behalf of our veterans. They work not just on behalf of our veterans, but all those currently serving in the military. The email was on the issue of “Don’t Ask, Don’t [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jul 30, 2009 in Armed Services Committee, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Current Affairs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Father Michael Pfleger, Gay Rights, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rev. Otis Moss | 16 Comments
The only reason I’m writing this story about gays in the military instead of the true expert, Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy, who’s hammered President Obama for not carrying through with his campaign promises to revoke “don’t ask don’t tell” — is that I happened to catch a segment on upcoming Armed Services hearing to [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 19, 2009 in Current Affairs, Gay Rights | 35 Comments
Some of you may already know that the Episcopal Church voted the other day to open up all ordination orders to GLBT people (h/t to Linda Anselmi. This is no small thing - I know, I used to be an Episcopalian, high church to boot (all the “smells and bells” - incense, and all, [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 13, 2009 in Civil Liberties & Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Rights | 63 Comments
After the 2008 election, when Proposition 8 passed in California, it was noted that that 7 out of 10 African Americans voted FOR Proposition 8 in California, a voting bloc that clearly helped the passage of Prop 8. I have been attacked for mentioning this stat before, but it is a FACT that cannot be [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jun 29, 2009 in Civil Liberties & Rights, Dept. of Justice (Obama), GLBT, Gay Rights, Human Rights | 34 Comments
I had planned on doing something completely different today - something snarky about John Edwards and Mark Sanford (maybe a video of “Your Cheatin’ Heart” or something), but then I saw this article:
“Gays, Lesbians Rally Over Bar Raid in Fort Worth”
About 18 hours after officers with the Fort Worth Police Department and agents with the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jun 21, 2009 in Civil Liberties & Rights, Civil Rights, Current Affairs, Gay Rights, Georgia | 9 Comments
Happy Father’s Day to all of you fathers (and chosen fathers) out there. I hope your day is filled with love, laughter, and joy.
No doubt, it will be for Eric Mongerson. Today, for the first time, his children will be able to meet his partner, as this article explains:
Kids To Meet Gay Dad’s [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jun 20, 2009 in Current Affairs, Economy, Gay Rights, National Debt | 36 Comments
US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com
Gotta love those folks at The Onion! Hey - this is just as plausible as anything else that has come down the pike!
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jun 19, 2009 in Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Current Affairs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Flip Flopping, GLBT, Gay Rights, Health Care, Hoodwinking, Obama's Broken Promises, Pandering, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, Universal Health Care | 24 Comments
Oh, the irony is just too rich. Some of you may have heard that President Obama decided the other day, after getting hammered by the LGBT community over DADT and DOMA, to grant LGB federal employees partner benefits by Executive Decision. Kind of. First, it begs the question, if he could have [...]
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