Will there be marriage equality in Maryland and New Jersey?

 The battle for marriage equality is making great progress in America. In the state of Washington a law has been recently passed that guarantees to gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Of course, if a few percent of the population sign a petition for a...

Mayors for marriage equality and urge Obama to support equality

 "History is going to judge us" are the words of the Mayor of San Diego, Jerry Sanders. No, he is not a Democrat. He is a Republican, and like more and more Republicans, he is embracing gay rights and marriage equality. He is exactly right, those who...

Youth will lead the way to same sex marriage equality

Same sex marriage bans were overturned in California. Good! It's only a matter of time before the last bands of discrimination are lifted in the U.S. That includes yes, states such as Mississippi and Alabama. This column by Leonard Pitts Jr, from last month, takes...

The war on prostitution (and sex) needs to end

 I don't agree with John Stossel about everything but I definately agree with him that the government must end the twin wars on drugs and prostitution. Of course prostitution that involves women forced into it is should and continue to be illegal but many sex workers...

Police demand ID without any suspicion whatsoever of a crime

This first video is a clear and present violation of constitutional rights. A journalist named Chris Geo is arrested after he comes to a Federal Emergency Management Agency base to ask a question why they were taking the license plate number of everyone going to a...

Harvey Milk, an American hero

If  you haven't seen the movie "Milk" about the life of the inspiring  Harvey Milk, as played by maybe America's greatest actor (Sean Penn), I urge you to do exactly that.  It is truly an inspiration and it is not just about  the rights of gay men or...

Yes to the minimum wage but no to China

"Myth and Management" is a book that delves into the issue is the Minimum wage a good idea for American society in general and low wage workers in particular. It takes the position that yes, it is indeed a good idea. One of the criticisms of the minimum wage is that it...

Where do our rights come from? Not a god

Many Christians believe in absolute truth, and usually they believe their religion is the truth. I doubt Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Shintos or a host of other religions believe that Christanity nor any other religion that is not theirs is “the truth” but believe that...

Catholics support same sex marriage, the church though suppresses

The Catholic church is by no means the most anti-gay Christian church. There are many on the Christian rightwing that are even more rabid in their anti-gay rhetoric, than it. But, it is of course the most powerful. Not only in the U.S., but throughout the world. So, whatever...

Yes to same sex marriage

Some people state that same sex marriages would threaten their right to see these marriages as illegitimate. This is not true. If one wants to disagree with sex marriages, fine. They lose this right to do so no more then those believe that there should be no right of...

V for Vendetta-we need more V's.

  I really love the movie, V for Vendetta. Not because it is necessary the greatest movie ever made but because of its' central message. Its' theme of opposition to tyranny. Braveheart expressed this same sentiment with the Scots opposing the English invading and...

Human rights are for everyone

    Politics don't mean anything if people do not have the right to discuss them. The US is one of those lucky nations in the world where one is not imprisoned if you are in opposition to the government. That is part of the western Enlightment tradition that we can...

Republican candidate rather kids have a dad in prison, than one w

Rick Santorum, Republican presidential candidate who is just obsessed with homosexuality. Really, really, strangely obsessed with it-to a degree that it is only a matter of time before the inevitable picture of him coming out of a gay bar in leather pants surfaces-believes it...