The Senate is scheduled to vote today on the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the Dream Act. They are debating now. I hope you have been calling. Sen. Joe Lieberman has been working to bridge the partisan aisle on this one. “We have refused to accept defeat. No matter what happened, we just kept…Read more »
Category: glbt
Dan Choi my hero. Say a prayer.
Please pray for my friend Lt. Dan Choi. American hero. Activist for truth and justice. Dan has dedicated his life to our country and its ideals. He was dismissed from the Army under the heinous Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy and has campaigned and called attention to this unjust and cruel and homophobic policy that…Read more »
2 Feisty Women!
In the last week our community has lost two feisty women. This is not an insult to use that term but a term of endearment and adulation!. Our congregational community mourns the death of Shirley Roberts and Adele Starr. Each turned the world upside down in their own ways. Each were powerful women not willing…Read more »
Incompetence
Incompetence. There I said it. The Democratic Senate leadership under Harry Reid is simply incompetent. And I am afraid President Obama’s staff and his inexperience continue to show. The fiasco surrounding the squashing of the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy is embarrassing. For the first time in more than 50 years the Pentagon’s…Read more »
Get it done-Repeal DADT
So time is running out. The Senate is delaying the passage of the military authorization bill that contains the provision for repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. There are enough votes to repeal it. Including Republicans like Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. But the Senate has really arcane rules that empower a single Senator to hold…Read more »
Thank you AFER
Posted by in glbt, politics, Uncategorized The Ninth Circuit has heard the arguments. Monday in San Francisco the three panel of Federal Judges grilled the pro-prop 8 attorney Cooper about whether they had any standing at all to even argue the case. The judges were especially tough on the attorney representing the clerk from Imperial county who tried to be the…Read more »
Civil Unions in the Land of Lincoln
Posted by in glbt Hooray for Illinois- land of Lincoln! Yesterday the Illinois legislature passed a civil union bill and sent it to their governor, Pat Quinn. Quinn has promised to sign it. While it is not full civil marriage it is in a very conservative state a way forward! Hooray for the Midwest! Making progress. I know you…Read more »
The Federal Prop 8 trial coming soon
Next Monday, Dec 6 all eyes will be on the 9th Circuit Federal Court in San Francisco as the next step in the Prop 8 case moves forward! Three randomly chosen Federal judges will hear the arguments in the case. There are 2 Democratically appointed judges and one Republican appointed judge. Michael Hawkins, Stephen Reinhardt…Read more »
World AIDS Day 2010
Posted by in glbt, politics, Uncategorized Don’t forget World AIDS Day is Wednesday Dec. 1. It seems the world often does forget. It does forget those with HIV/AIDS. Whether in Africa, or here in the U.S. HIV is still ever-present. Lurking. Waiting to attack. On Wednesday Dec. 1 we will have a chance to focus the world’s thinking on AIDS. Remind…Read more »
FourSquare for Real
Have you figured out Foursquare? I haven’t really. The site is there to help you locate yourself. Well at least let others know where you are. I am not so sure I always want everyone to know exactly where I am although the truth of the matter is I am almost always at the Temple!…Read more »
Walking Humbly. Seeking Justice. Living with Hope. 