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Diatribe: Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz Is A Sore Loser.
I hope the people of Bronx County, New York are sufficiently embarrassed. They elected Reverend Ruben Diaz to represent them in the New York State Senate. He’s been a blip on the radar belonging to...
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Ovation: NYC Offices To Be Open On Sunday To Accomodate Record Number Of...
This Sunday is the first day that New York State’s new marriage equality law takes effect. Usually, state and city offices are closed on Sundays but the demand for marriage services is so high that...
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Ovation: Kudos To The Candidates That Refuse To Sign The Family Leader’s...
The Family Leader, an organization formed last year and positioning itself to be an influential player in the 2012 Presidential Caucuses, recently published a document that they’re calling “The...
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Diatribe: People That Protest Other Peoples’ Marriages Should Be Ashamed of...
People that protest other peoples’ marriages should be ashamed of themselves. Last Sunday, the first day the law legalizing same-sex marriage officially went into effect in New York, anti-marriage...
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Ovation: States That Welcome Marriage Equality Have Lower Divorce Rates.
Fringe social conservatives would have us believe that allowing same-sex couples the right to marry will somehow “destroy” “traditional marriage” and bring about an “end to society” as we know it....
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Diatribe: Christine O’Donnell Doesn’t Understand The Difference Between A...
Recently, Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell walked off the set of “Piers Morgan Tonight” when she was asked questions that she didn’t want to answer. It seems that, more and more frequently,...
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Diatribe: Pat Robertson’s Viewers Should Divorce Him After Alzheimer’s Comments.
Religious broadcaster Rev. Pat Robertson recently told his 700 Club viewers that it’s justifiable to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer’s because the disease is “a kind of death”. What a hypocrite. He’s...
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Ovation: Federal Judge Rules To Release “Prop 8″ Trial Tapes To The Public!
UPDATE: 02/02/12 – Ninth Circuit overturns Judge Ware’s decision to release the video recordings of the Prop 8 trial. UPDATE: 09/28/11 – Ninth Circuit Court halts order to unseal the Prop 8 trail...
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Ovation: Same-Sex Newlyweds In New York Receive Congratulatory Letter From...
Matt Katz and Aaron Lafrenz of Brooklyn, N.Y. were married on July 23rd, the day before same-sex marriage became legal in New York state. The next day they went to a city hall and were one of the very...
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Diatribe: Am I The Only One Who Is Offended When The Pope States Gay Marriage...
I mean no disrespect … Pope Benedict XVI is the Pope after all … but I take offense with his recent proclamation that “Gay marriage threatens the future of humanity”. (For starters, I find the term...
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Ovation: Vice President Biden Is “Absolutely Comfortable” With Marriage...
It appears that the Obama administration’s views on marriage equality might be “evolving” a little more quickly than in the past. In the last few days, two high-ranking officials have publicly...
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Ovation: Bloomberg Supports Marriage Equality In NC University Commencement...
Last weekend I had the privilege of attending a commencement ceremony at a small Christian College in the midwest. Like most commencement exercises, it was a very nice ceremony that honored many...
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Ovation: Teenage Sweethearts, Now Septuagenarians, Reunite And Marry.
Many of those in opposition to marriage equality for all couples base their argument on the notion that marriage is somehow required for procreation. Anyone who has completed a high school biology...
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Ovation: Natasha Frost – A Beautiful Bride And A Wonderful Sister.
Last week in Minnesota, Natasha Frost and Tony Friesen took the opportunity at their wedding reception to make a statement in support of marriage equality. When the time came for the traditional...
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Diatribe: Sometimes It’s Best To Say Nothing At All.
I’m not one for keeping my thoughts to myself. In fact, those who know me (or follow this blog) will probably agree that I don’t have a filter between my brain and my mouth. Occasionally, my...
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Ovation: Bert And Ernie Come Out As A Couple.
The characters found on Sesame Street are American icons. The program is known for its educational content, and creativity communicated through the use of Jim Henson’s Muppets, animation, short films,...
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Diatribe: If She’ll Do This To Her Sister, What Will Liz Cheney Do To The...
Once upon a time I may or may not have “exaggerated” a tiny bit on my resume because I really really really wanted a particular job. I justified my creativity by convincing myself that I wasn’t the...
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Ovation: Colorado Judge Rules Against Discriminating Bakery.
Many years ago, I worked as a cashier in a movie theater. I really like the job and most of the people with whom I worked. There was one older woman that always annoyed me … particularly on really...
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Diatribe: Which Is Crazier? Lemonade Master Cleanse Or Anti-Marriage Equality...
Two of the worst weeks of my life are the fourteen days that I spent on the lemonade master cleanse. The trendy detox cleanse made popular by celebrities such as Beyoncé consisted of three parts … a...
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Diatribe: Nincompoops In The News.
Some days it’s hard to believe some of the ridiculous things in the news. Every once in a while I’ll hear a story or read a headline and I have to ask myself “Wait a minute … was this published on one...
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Diatribe: Judge Sutton, Time Is Of The Essence When It Comes To Equality.
Yesterday, oral arguments took place in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit where marriage equality cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee were heard by two judges...
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Diatribe: Melissa Klein Was Not “Forced” To Close Her Bakery.
In my hometown, there was a family-run clothing store on one of the old downtown streets that had been there for many years. It had survived many changes to the local economy and I never understood...
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Diatribe: When It Comes To Marriage Equality, Leaders In Kansas, Montana and...
When I was in grade school there were about one hundred children in my class and we were separated into four “home rooms” of about twenty-five students. We spent the day with the same group of kids...
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Ovation: The End Of NOM Appears To Be Imminent.
Formed in 2007 specifically to pass California’s Proposition 8 prohibiting same-sex marriage in the state, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has spent the last seven years and millions of...
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OVATION: GUEST POST – Regarding Kim Davis And Other County Clerks Whose...
When civil servants, or public and government officials begin refusing to do the job for which they were hired (to serve the citizens) because of their religious beliefs, then they have...
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