News 8/19/10

("Your smile lights up the room." Pope Urbanus VI 1378 - 1389)

• Final combat troops removed from Iraq, leaving "only" 50,000 "advisers." I suppose that's progress.

• Ha ha. UK Commission rules Catholic adoption agency can't discriminate against the queers.

• Mexico City's mayor sues Catholic Bishop for claiming the Mayor bribed the Supreme Court in favor of Marriage Equality.

• France annexes the Sudatenland. I'm only kidding. However, the French seem to be staging a huge World War II reenactment by expelling Gypsies from their nation.

• I don't understand Australian politics, but I am happy that Julia Gillard is panicking ahead of her country's vote. Anyone who opposes marriage equality should spend more time sweating about their future. N'est pas?

News 7/26/10

(95 Theses updated to include some basic human rights. Thanks Lutherans!)

• Lutherans decide that gay people aren't so icky after all, ordain seven pastors. "...all people are loved unconditionally by God."

• Samuel Steward's life as a tattooist, writer, researcher and sexual outlaw brought to the page in Justin Spring's new book. Gay before there was even a word for it.

• Wikileaks gushing sensitive information annoys several big governments.

• Catholic Church still annoyed at revelations of gay priests in the heart of Rome.

• (Today's news update is brought to you with an enormous hat tip to Dr. Snickerdoodle.)

News 7/24/10

(My favorite Man of Steel: 1985 photo of Christopher Reeve by Jbfrankel.)

• Judge stops Arizona's skanky governor from taking away domestic partnership rights.

• Catholic church in Rome upset about revelations that some priests are gay. Duh.

• Everyone's all aflutter over Casey Donovan's posthumous claim to have bagged Superman. Reeve will always be my favorite man of steel and I think it is a charming idea. But I think the story is a little flimsy.

• Sonoma County California pays $600,000 to gay man kept from his dying partner's bedside.

News 6/29/10

(Today in horn rimmed glasses: Barry Goldwater, deceased.)

• Belgians raid Catholic Church in search of evidence regarding sex abuse.  Pope cranky.  (Hat tip to Dr. Snickerdoodle.)

• Well, duh. Elena Kagan refrains from answering questions about cases that could come before the Supreme Court.

• Ha ha. Supremes rule against anti - gay, Christian bigots.

• The DMV sucks.

• We find out late this week who won the Freedom to Marry Blog 4 Equality Netroots Nation Scholarship contest.  You can still head over to Freedom to Marry and help them out with even a tiny donation to help them in their very important work.  Thanks again to everyone who slaved away for my potential glory. If we don't win, we'll do something fun and stylish anyway.

Department of Huh?

The recent kerfuffle over the child of lesbian parents' who will not be able to re-enroll at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic school in Denver has been a real noodle scratcher for me.
It is a bit like our fight over Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I don't think there should be a military at all, but as long as we've got one, anyone should be able to join.
N'est pas?
It is incomprehensible to me why anyone would want to raise their kids in the Catholic faith, let alone a Catholic school. Even more unfathomable is the idea that a lesbian couple would want to do so. But as long as that is what they want, I think they should be allowed.