When the federal court struck down Proposition 8, we moved one step closer to winning the freedom to marry nationwide. It’s a time to celebrate a major victory -- but also to focus on the challenges ahead.
The courts don't operate in a vacuum. Add your voice and tell the nation "I'm helping to defeat Prop 8, and I’m going to work to win the freedom to marry in the 45 states that still exclude loving and committed same-sex couples from marriage.
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Are you listening, Sarah Palin? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered a stirring defense on Tuesday of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque that has conservatives up in arms.
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For example, sexually abusing a child is listed not as a crime against the child, but as a crime against the Biblical commandment forbidding adultery. And attempting to ordain a woman attracts a more serious punishment than sexually abusing a child. This is the type of morality that results when people put theology ahead of reality.
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If you stop thinking of Microsoft as an innovator and start thinking of them as a fast, low cost, mass market follower, you'll stop being disappointed in their inability to divine new markets and realize they are staring at some of their largest growth opportunities ever.
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The tools of Senate politics are no longer about voting deals and creative legislation, he writes, but rather arcane rules, elaborate techniques of obstructionism, and minute points of senatorial procedure as senators fall back behind party lines.
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