As you’ve probably heard, a federal judge ruled yesterday that California’s Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in California, is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution. The case was peculiar on many levels. The California State Attorney General’s office refused to defend the law, which left the defense up [...]

The Republican Party is holding their national meeting this winter. This is standard fare for both parties, and these meetings are generally taken up by electing and appointing various people, tweaking the platform in small ways, and generally being an excuse for party leaders to get together and schmooze each other once in awhile.
A [...]

Pundits will spend the next week or so trying to figure out the larger meaning of yesterday’s elections. Does this mean that the Democrats are in trouble for 2010? Or 2012? Will this scare moderate Democrats away from Obama’s policies? How much solace can the Democrats take from their victory in [...]

Here are some other (non-presidential) races you may be interested in: (Note: these results are very preliminary and might yet change.)

My wife just sent me a fascinating article on Slate that I thought I would share with you. Some geneticists recently completed a study on how genes for homosexuality could continue to exist given that homosexual men tend not to procreate. They tested a number of theories against the data, and discovered that [...]

The House just passed a bill that would outlaw employment discrimination based on sexual identity. It’s a compromise bill in that it exempts groups with religious affiliations and does not protect against transsexual or transgender discrimination. Good for the House, and I hope it passes the Senate and becomes law.
In any case, the [...]

Gay marriage is here to stay, in Massachusetts anyway, at least until 2012.  To really appreciate what’s happened, you need to start at the beginning.  Three and a half years ago, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled, in a 4-3 decision, that the Massachusetts State Constitution forbade the government from discriminating against couples who [...]

Periodically, I check on a variety of conservative Christian websites, mostly because I always find it fascinating which issues they focus on. Anyway, two things jumped out at me at the Family Research Council, both dealing with political correctness and homosexuality, so I thought I would address them together.

As They Might Be Giants once said, you can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.
And yet that’s exactly what many conservatives are trying to do.
If you haven’t heard, last week the Conservative Political Action Conference met for their annual meeting in Washington. CPAC is a national convention of mostly young Republicans, [...]

Last December, a former male prostitute publicly claimed to have had a three-year sexual relationship with, and sold methamphetamines to, Rev. Ted Haggard, then president of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of one of the largest congregations in Colorado, New Life Church. Rev. Haggard at first denied, then admitted to a sexual [...]