Posts Tagged ‘ human rights ’

Interrupting the NaNo-blogging to say: I just don’t get it. WTF, Maine? How did gays ever hurt you? WTH, California? Just try getting by without your gays! WTFBBQ!!!! to my own state, where we have a frakkin’ BAN, just to make damn sure. Traditional marriage is threatened by things like “How to Marry a...
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I wrote this when I stumbled on it, and didn’t even think about it being Coming Out Day today. I’m certainly not in opposition to Coming Out Day–this is just another side of a complicated issue. We now rejoin our rant, already in progress– Besides being one of the bigger personalities in figure skating,...
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I believe in equality for all ethnicities and identities. I think we all need to get there. But we’re not there, so we need leaders. I believe that science fiction and fantasy, with the ability to take us places we’ve never been, should be the genre leading the way to equality. So I’m proud...
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I really should learn that I don’t debate well live. I need to stay away from it. But it’s so hard when someone is wrong on the internet! Yesterday on Twitter, Colleen Lindsay asked “Should a racist/ bigoted author be boycotted even if his/her written work is considered a literary masterpiece?” Well, of course...
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A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning. via Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand – CNN.com. I really don’t see the problem. The solution is so simple....
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