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Posted on December 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

All traditional methods should be pursued relentlessly. We should certainly call upon Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court for action and clarification, but when these methods fail, as they have, to bring results, we should not be forced into a position where no course of action is open to use except that which has […]

Posted on June 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

In these wonderful democracies that your country and my country happen to be, we are in danger of having our politics taken over by intense minorities that have truly retrograde opinions. And what we see in the US is the turning back of the clock on women’s reproductive health and rights – even to the […]

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper

President Bush was quick to portray the Abu Ghraib horror show as the work of a few bad apples. But it has long been evident that the abuse problem there, as elsewhere, was systemic. It flowed from a culture of permissiveness in the treatment of detainees, encouraged by top Bush administration officials and based on […]

Sport should never be used as a battleground. Lelisa Desisa, winner of the 2013 Boston Marathon

“I am sad and ashamed to be part of a student body that is quick to support a man who is accused of sexual assault, simply because he is a good football player, and even quicker to condemn the alleged victim of the crime as a liar.” Student to Mary Coburn, Vice President of Student […]

Arizona’s S.B. 1062, part of the conservative “Jim Queer” crusade to use religious liberty as means of codifying discrimination against people for their sexual identities, once again places conservatives on the wrong side of history and further marginalizes an intolerance-obsessed party during an inclusion-oriented era. Charles M. Blow

Money is not speech. Corporations are not people. If only it were true in reality.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. Pete Seeger, […]

The amendment, he said, is based on “moral disapproval” and does not advance the state’s asserted interests in promoting heterosexual marriage or the welfare of children. Oklahoma’s Ban on Gay Marriage Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules