While I was not surprised to learn that the online dating site eHarmony would eventually be compelled to cease its policy of not accepting gays as clients, I was surprised to learn that the compulsion would come from New Jersey:
Under terms of the settlement between Eric McKinley, a gay match-seeker from New Jersey, and eHarmony, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Society, Religion, Culture Wars'
From the Archives: Is the eHarmony eLawsuit eFrivolous?
November 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · Freedom of Contract · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Society, Religion, Culture Wars · Updates
"Constitution Day" Apparently Not on the List
November 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Interesting:
A state appeals court ruled Wednesday that a western Pennsylvania township violated constitutional protections in forcing a sexually oriented business to close on minor holidays such as Flag Day.
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The video and book store, Adultland XXX, faced the prospect of being shut down for a year because it conducted sales on Flag Day 2006. It previously [...]
Tags: Constitutional Issues · Freedom of Contract · Law Enforcement Abuses · Property Rights · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
On the Castro Confrontation Incident
November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
First, the video:
Two observations:
1. If these soulless cretins went into an insular Hasidic community in Brooklyn and tried to tell the residents — who had been minding their own business — that they were sinners, that Jesus is the only way to Heaven and that God abhors their "lifestyle choices," [...]
Tags: First Amendment - Speech · Gay Rights and Issues · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Who Says Gay Marriage is "The New Civil Rights Movement"?
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments
These folks do:
Meanwhile, five civil rights groups asked California's highest court Friday to annul the ban on the grounds that Proposition 8 threatens the legal standing of all minority groups, not just gays.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and two other groups petitioned [...]
Tags: Constitutional Issues · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
A Gay Old Day
November 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
So my plan was merely to attend the morning sessions of "LGBTQ Law 2008: Where Do We Go from Here?" at Columbia Law School and then head home. I've been going to these sort of symposia for years and they tend, quite frankly, to be rather redundant. The talk from one of the lawyers who [...]
Tags: Gay Rights and Issues · Law · New York City & State · Politics · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
On Blacks and Proposition 8
November 10th, 2008 · 7 Comments
To review: According to exit polls, black voters in California supported Proposition 8 by an estimated 70%-30% margin. For female black voters, the estimate was 74% in favor of Prop 8.
Many liberal elements in the gay-friendly activist community are resisting efforts to call out blacks who voted for anti-gay bigotry. One example from the far-left [...]
Tags: Gay Rights and Issues · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
On Calls to Revoke LDS' Tax-Exempt Status
November 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post:
Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of the [...]
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · First Amendment - Speech · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Society, Religion, Culture Wars · Taxation & Fiscal Policy
An Open Letter to L. Whitney Clayton
November 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Dear Shaman Clayton,
If someone were to walk up to me, hit me in the face for no legitimate reason and walk away, then I would probably not chase him down just to hit him back.
But when someone walks up to me, hits me in the face for no legitimate reason and then tells me it's [...]
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Politics · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
And the Culture Wars Go On…
November 5th, 2008 · 12 Comments
On Tuesday, the American electorate exchanged the "soft bigotry of low expectations" for the hard bigotry of low intelligence and lower morals.
Florida is a mosaic of communities that, each on its own, is an insular political minority: snowbird Jewish retirees, Cuban-Americans (and other Hispanics), undereducated and underachieiving beach bums, panhandle hillbillies, etc. Yet their shared [...]
Tags: Gay Rights and Issues · Politics · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
From the Archives: Halloween is a Christian Holiday
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments
(First posted Halloween 2005)
I find it hilarious that some radical Christians, in the U.S. and throughout the world, are growing increasingly disturbed about the impact that Halloween is having on young, impressionable, pre-Christian minds.
Just like how Harry Potter is going to turn children into Satanists (or, worse, Wiccans).
The truth is that Halloween is a patently [...]
Tags: Humor · Society, Religion, Culture Wars

















