Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

For the military’s institutional leadership to continue to refuse to urgently petition Congress to immediately end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and allow openly homosexual and bisexual troops to serve with all the rights and benefits—including for their spouses—of heterosexual troops is to forsake the troops under their command. It is also to engage in conduct unbecoming of officers and gentlemen. Like their refusal to petition Congress to end all restrictions upon servicewomen, the leadership’s refusal to petition to end DADT is to engage in behavior of enormous personal and institutional dishonor and cowardice that violates one of the core reasons the US military exists.

Iowa State Supreme Court & Gay Marriage

Back in December, I wrote, Gay Marriage is a Human Right, Not a Religious Issue and rooted my argument in the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution and then to a lesser extend, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with its provision that marriage and procreation are fundamental human rights.  In sum, [...]

Gay Marriage is a Human Right, not a Religious Issue

Religious arguments for and against legal recognition of same sex marriages (because this is what we are talking about, the marriage already existing in the hearts of those involved) are irrelevant for two simple reasons. The existence of God or the Gods cannot be proven, and even if these Gods existed, they would not be human beings, still less would they be citizens of this Republic.