gay marriage
Wanna Get Gay-Married in Oklahoma? Be Part Indian
On October 10, 2013, Jason Pickel and Darren Black Bear were issued a marriage license by the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes' courthouse. Both Jason and Darren have Native American heritage, one of their tribal court’s requirements.
Facebook Beheadings, Obamacare Controversy, and More Bad News
A 12-year-old shot up his school, the Obamacare site continued to malfunction, and a jerk posted a video of a beheading on Facebook. Once again, it is a bad week in America. Here's all this week's bad news.
Nope, the GOP Still Isn't Libertarian
Article upon article has been written about all the "libertarian Republicans" who are supported by the Tea Party, but those guys look and sound an awful lot like the same far-right evangelical Christians who have dominated the GOP for decades.
States' Rights Cut Both Ways at the Supreme Court
Some of you may grimace at the phrase “states’ rights”; a few of you, possibly wearing pointy white hoods, may be more inclined to pump your fists in the air; the rest of you are probably wondering what it means for states (as opposed to, you know...
If Republicans Want Young Voters, Maybe They Should Just Stop Being Bigots
The difficulty the Republicans have, see, in attracting young people is that the GOP tends to hate gays and young people see that for the vile bigotry it is. It's not the GOP's phrasing, it's what it's saying that makes young voters so turned off.
We Took an Anti Gay Marriage Priest to see a Gay Married Priest
He didn't change his mind on the issue.
If Julia Gillard Is Such an Atheist, Where’s All the Gay Marriage?
Australians are proud about their secularism, as exemplified by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Religion has a minor influence on the countries’ social policies and politics, yet same-sex marriage is not a reality.
My Big Fat Gay Wedding
I have a column due today for VICE. No idea for it whatsoever. Tracey said I should just print the email I sent her this morning. J. said, "Oh just write about gay marriage, everybody else is." All right, I’ll combine the two.
After Gay Marriage, Why Not Polygamy?
The idea that after gay marriage is legalized, polygamy will be next—and then bestiality and legal unions between lawn mowers and volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica and so on—is one of the main arguments that social conservatives trot out to...
Is DOMA About to Be DOA?
It seems clear that five justices expressed enough dismay at the federal government’s intrusion into an essential state function that come decision time, DOMA will be DOA. In the long-term jurisprudence of gay marriage, however, the Prop 8 decision...
Young People Still Suck
It isn't hard to see which way the winds are blowing regarding gay marriage. All you need is a second-grade reading comprehension and a very simple understanding of statistics.