The reason to stay off of slippery slopes is that once you start sliding down them, it is very hard to return to the top of the slope. The new guidelines from the FBI are a perfect example of how civil liberties erode.

I love Bill Clinton, but we all make mistakes. Sometimes we even are forced to do things we don’t want to. That’s why I was prepared to ask Bill Clinton a tough question last night as he delivered the opening keynote address at Netroots Nation 2009.

My visual pun on “dragging things out” (get it? nyuk nyuk nyuk) has drawn some fire in the belief that I was trying to imply that a) Norm was a cross-dresser and/or gay, and b) that being a cross-dresser and/or gay was somehow the absolute worst thing in the world to be. Before I had a chance to respond, longtime commenter Sara responded herself with her take on Norm’s past — and the possible reason why he couldn’t advance beyond being the mayor of Saint Paul as a Democrat.

While we wait for the last ballot count tomorrow, I thought I’d tie in Operation Stonewall to the Republicans’ bizarre and seemingly inexplicable “objections” to Dawn Johnsen and Harold Koh. As it turns out, the Republicans are stonewalling Johnsen and Koh because they don’t want to suffer any form of accountability for their actions, especially their wholehearted backing of torture.

While we wait to see if the Election Contest Court has issued any rulings yet — or if Harry Reid is going to go ahead and seat Al Franken tomorrow without a certificate and dare John Cornyn to filibuster — we have this little bit of trivia left over from the tear-gassed remnants of the [...]

A new study, out today from Freedom to Marry, shows that across America state legislators who vote for marriage equality get re-elected. More importantly, legislators who then seek higher office win after a pro-marriage-equality vote.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has reversed his earlier opinion and urged the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8. Brown filed a brief today saying Proposiiton 8 is unconstitutional because it deprives gay couples of a fundamental right. Intiially after Prop 8 passed, Brown said in his role as attorney general he would fight [...]

Yesterday a coalition of countries called on the United Nations to urge the UN members to globally decriminalize homosexuality. Of the 192 members countries, sixty-six were signatories. Noticeably absent among Western nations: the United States. WTF?! Where is America’s fierce moral leadership? Isn’t that the reason we went to war in Afganistan and Iraq–to right [...]

Carrboro, NC: Main Street for marriage rights On Tuesday the town of Carrboro, NC, population approximately 19,000, made a significant step in civil rights: The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted 5-0 to support civil marriage for same-sex couples. Earlier in the month, in response to California’s Proposition 8 which eliminated same-sex marriage, and Arizona’s prop [...]

Vampires, especially teenage ones, know the anguish of forbidden love, so it made perfect sense to ask Michael Welch, star of  the anguished tale of teen vampiric love  Twilight what he thought about Prop 8 which forbids same sex  marriage when we saw him at Santa’s Christmas Parade in Hollywood. Here’s his response in this [...]