Category Archives: The Gays

Same-sex marriage, Context, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Some comments tonight about gay marriage, prompted, as most of my posts are, by online articles and debates. For the past couple of weeks there have been back and forth articles on Slate, The Atlantic, and the New York Times, … Continue reading →

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Hidebound, Unreflecting, Blind

Posted on 11 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Andrew Sullivan (that gay conservative Catholic author and blogger) has an ongoing thread about Christians who feel persecuted for not approving of same-sex marriage. His blog doesn’t take comments, as this one doesn’t, but he posts substantive responses from email. … Continue reading →

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Regnerus, Same-Sex Marriage, and False Witness

Posted on 4 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate’s Nathaniel Frank has a long, impassioned article today about The Shamelessness of Professor Mark Regnerus. Regnerus is the guy whose study about gay parents, financed by anti-gay organizations and roundly rejected by sociological organizations as deeply flawed, is still … Continue reading →

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Frozen and its supposed Gay Agenda

Posted on 2 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

We went to see Frozen today, the Disney animated movie, because Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises wasn’t playing anywhere quite near or convenient enough for today’s schedule, and because Frozen is apparently the favorite for the Oscar this evening… and, thirdly, … Continue reading →

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Panic and Alarm, part two

Posted on 28 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

In a thematic echo of yesterday’s post, CJ Werleman of Alternet (using language more blunt that I try to use) sees the right-to-discriminate-against-gays bills in Arizona and numerous other states as the desperate moves of a dwindling Christian right. Dwindling … Continue reading →

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Uganda, Scott Lively, Arizona, Mark Regnerus, Gay Denialism, and the connection between them

Posted on 25 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

You wouldn’t necessarily think there’s a connection between antipathy toward homosexuality and with being Christian (*footnote below), and I have no particular animosity against Christianity any more than other religions (all of which I find unpersuasive and obsolete, if not … Continue reading →

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Josh Barro

Posted on 25 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Just became aware of reporter and (Republican, gay) commentator Josh Barro, triggered by news that he’s leaving Business Insider for the New York Times, though it turns out I’d read a piece by him before a few weeks back: There … Continue reading →

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Sam Family Values

Posted on 13 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

The father of Michael Sam, the potential NFL player who came out as gay this week, is apparently more upset by his son’s coming out as gay than by his earlier sons having died or ending up in jail. William … Continue reading →

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Natural Selection; Family Values

Posted on 12 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

The trouble with ‘Darwin Day’ is that, it’s not about one guy, as evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explains. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-brooks/darwin-day_b_4770363.html It irks me the way Nye, and others who engage with creationists, allow the likes of Ham to call evolution “Darwinism”, … Continue reading →

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The Narcissism of Today’s Homophobia

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

[Reposted from Facebook a couple evenings ago] The Narcissism of Today’s Homophobia Insightful deconstruction of the motives behind homophobes like Bizzle (who put out an anti-gay version of Macklemore’s “Same Love”, the controversial Best Song nominee that was performed at … Continue reading →

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