May 18
Kevin_BGFH commented on SL Letter of the Day: Gonna Boil My Laptop After Answering This One.
Kevin_BGFH commented on SL Letter of the Day: Gonna Boil My Laptop After Answering This One.
Probably fake. And probably some right wing troll hoping to trick Dan into saying something that they could then try to use against him.
May 13
Kevin_BGFH commented on Watch Minnesota Senate Vote on Marriage Equality Bill.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Watch Minnesota Senate Vote on Marriage Equality Bill.
@27 - And 20% of Electoral Votes are now Marriage Equality states!
More importantly, with the assumption that California would vote for Marriage Equality today, there are now enough states to block an inconceivable Constitutional Amendment to ban same sex marriage.
More importantly, with the assumption that California would vote for Marriage Equality today, there are now enough states to block an inconceivable Constitutional Amendment to ban same sex marriage.
May 13
Kevin_BGFH commented on Watch Minnesota Senate Vote on Marriage Equality Bill.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Watch Minnesota Senate Vote on Marriage Equality Bill.
@12 - Unfortunately, the rumor that Bachmann is threatening to leave the state came from The Daily Current, which is a parody website like The Onion.
May 7
Kevin_BGFH commented on Headline of the Day.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Headline of the Day.
Sadly, after watching "The Invisible War," I'm not surprised. The military's response to sexual assault in the military has been to punish victims for "lying" and "making up stories," and then assign accused perpetrators to be in charge of sexual assault response teams.
Apr 10
Kevin_BGFH commented on Savage Love.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Savage Love.
I am an atheist who is also a huge fan of Bishop Robinson, and I am so delighted to see him make a guest appearance in Savage Love.
Apr 5
Kevin_BGFH commented on Today In the East Carolinian.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Today In the East Carolinian.
The whole "why flaunt it with parades" argument really fucking annoys me.
Guess who else flaunts it with parades? Well, Irish Americans like my family, for one. Ireland never had parades on St. Patrick's Day. It was a religious observance. The first parade for St. Patrick's Day was actually in Colonial America as a way for oppressed Irish immigrants to show their solidarity, demonstrate their growing political clout, and have a little fucking PRIDE in their heritage. The first St. Patrick's Parade in the world was in Boston in 1737. The first St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ireland was in 1931, nearly two hundred years later.
Who else? What about Columbus Day? That celebration began as a way for oppressed Catholics in general, and later oppressed Italian Catholics in particular, to show their political strength by celebrating someone that (most of) the rest of America would also honor.
And Cinco de Mayo? It's not Mexican Independence Day. It celebrates the Mexican Army's victory over a vastly more powerful French Army in 1862. It was annually a tiny celebration in the Mexican province of Puebla (not even celebrated throughout Mexico, just one province). Mexican-Americans in California blew it up into a big deal in the U.S. as a way of showing their strength and celebrating their cultural PRIDE.
Gay Pride Parades also celebrate our strength, unity, and yes, our fucking PRIDE. Are we flaunting it? Hell, yeah! Of course we are. Just like Irish Americans and Italian Americans and Mexican Americans flaunt their pride as a way of demonstrating their clout.
My essay on the subject a few years ago....
http://biggayfrathouse.typepad.com/blog/…
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Guess who else flaunts it with parades? Well, Irish Americans like my family, for one. Ireland never had parades on St. Patrick's Day. It was a religious observance. The first parade for St. Patrick's Day was actually in Colonial America as a way for oppressed Irish immigrants to show their solidarity, demonstrate their growing political clout, and have a little fucking PRIDE in their heritage. The first St. Patrick's Parade in the world was in Boston in 1737. The first St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ireland was in 1931, nearly two hundred years later.
Who else? What about Columbus Day? That celebration began as a way for oppressed Catholics in general, and later oppressed Italian Catholics in particular, to show their political strength by celebrating someone that (most of) the rest of America would also honor.
And Cinco de Mayo? It's not Mexican Independence Day. It celebrates the Mexican Army's victory over a vastly more powerful French Army in 1862. It was annually a tiny celebration in the Mexican province of Puebla (not even celebrated throughout Mexico, just one province). Mexican-Americans in California blew it up into a big deal in the U.S. as a way of showing their strength and celebrating their cultural PRIDE.
Gay Pride Parades also celebrate our strength, unity, and yes, our fucking PRIDE. Are we flaunting it? Hell, yeah! Of course we are. Just like Irish Americans and Italian Americans and Mexican Americans flaunt their pride as a way of demonstrating their clout.
My essay on the subject a few years ago....
http://biggayfrathouse.typepad.com/blog/…
Apr 3
Kevin_BGFH commented on Chicago Bears: The National Organization for Marriage Is Lying, NOM Does Not Represent Team's Views "On Any Social Issues".
Kevin_BGFH commented on Chicago Bears: The National Organization for Marriage Is Lying, NOM Does Not Represent Team's Views "On Any Social Issues".
@9 - Yes, that's exactly what I thought. Regardless, she absolutely lied at first when she said that they had taken a position when she knew they had not.
Apr 3
Kevin_BGFH commented on Savage Love.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Savage Love.
@40 - My advice as well. If he doesn't have pictures, chances are he hasn't done much with it yet. Delete the original FetLife account (or let it go dormant), create a new account, and steer clear of the ex on FetLife. Yes, they may run into each other in fetish circles and they've have to learn how to be civil, but there's no reason to "accidentally" run into each other or interact at all on FetLife.
Apr 2
Kevin_BGFH commented on Another Republican US Senator Backs Marriage Equality.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Another Republican US Senator Backs Marriage Equality.
@1 - Yup, precisely. In the primaries, evangelicals were screeching that Romney needed to be blocked because Mormons were satanic. After he got the nomination, they went back to claiming that Christian, church-going Obama was the Antichrist.
Mar 26
Kevin_BGFH commented on Outside the Supreme Court Right Now.
Kevin_BGFH commented on Outside the Supreme Court Right Now.
@15 - I don't give a flying fuck about your religion. If you keep it to yourself, I won't bother you. Go to church seven times a week for all I care. I won't step foot over the doorstep or bother you about it in any way.
But when you use your religion as a justification for interfering with other people's private lives, that's hateful and bigoted. If I choose to marry a man in a civil ceremony, that has no more impact on your life than your religious marriage has on mine.
But when you use your religion as a justification for interfering with other people's private lives, that's hateful and bigoted. If I choose to marry a man in a civil ceremony, that has no more impact on your life than your religious marriage has on mine.
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