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 [...]

I read an article today that noted that a majority of women are now unmarried for the first time in US history. The article also notes that married households are no longer the majority household. Demographics in America are shifting. The line I liked most in the article was:
“the trend could ultimately [...]

If Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration were really serious about bringing out armed forces into the twenty-first century, there are two steps they should take immediately: take away the restrictions against gays and women serving in the army.
I’ll start with women, because that should be the easier sell. Historically, there have been four [...]

When does moral disapproval become hatred?
I have been very critical of conservative religious groups who allow their rhetoric and policy positions on homosexuality and abortion to get out of hand, to the point that they no longer distinguish between the sinner and the sin. I’ve seen “Christian” protesters refer to gays as “fags”, taunt [...]

We’ve had a couple good debates lately on homosexuality (here and here), the most recent of which has caused me to ponder a fundamental question that seems to dog these issues: what does it mean to be “homosexual” or “gay”?