A Tenable Belief

Warren Buffett made the most of his commitment to charitable giving this week, touring the talk show circuit after announcing that the bulk of his billions will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other non-profit organizations. Fortune Magazine has several articles, including an interview. National Public Radio charts where Buffett’s money is… Continue reading »

Jul-1 Update: I expanded a bit on this at Joe’s place. An open letter to Janet Boynes, who runs an ex-gay ministry in Maple Grove, Minnesota, and is attending the NEA Annual Meeting in Orlando which started today. As described by Agape Press: The ministry founder’s desire is to see lives transformed at the 2006… Continue reading »

Over at the Blend, Pam points to a guest commentary at Agape Press by J. Matt Barber titled It’s the Behavior, Stupid! — and Other Observations of a So-Called ‘Homophobe’. Barber discusses Robert Smith, who had been appointed to represent the people of Maryland on the DC-area Metro transit authority board but was removed from… Continue reading »

[This is the fourth of a series of posts about attending Love Won Out in suburban Maryland on June 10, 2006. For more info, see the Table of Contents for the series.] Hey Mom… Joseph Nicolosi was on the defensive. (He’s the lead proponent of the absent-dad overbearing-mom combo during boys’ childhoods triggering homosexuality in… Continue reading »

[This is the third of a series of posts about attending Love Won Out in suburban Maryland on June 10, 2006. For more info, see the Table of Contents for the series.] Hey Mom… You remember how walkable Washington DC is from your trip out here last year. At home in St. Peter (an hour’s… Continue reading »

[This is the second of a series of posts about attending Love Won Out in suburban Maryland on June 10, 2006. For more info, see the Table of Contents for the series.] It is important to me that I continue writing up my thoughts and impressions related to the Love Won Out conference last Saturday,… Continue reading »

I’m a day late, but yesterday was Loving Day, the 39th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia decision, in which the Supreme Court said that states could not draw arbitrary lines between two adults who wished to marry. OK, most adults who sought to marry. Mike and I attended a Super Bowl party earlier this… Continue reading »

[This is the first of a series of posts about attending Love Won Out in suburban Maryland on June 10, 2006. For more info, see the Table of Contents for the series.] I attended the Love Won Out (LWO) conference in suburban Maryland yesterday. (For those who don’t recognize it, LWO is billed as “A… Continue reading »

Since I’m going to split the posts in which I share my thoughts and impressions after attending Love Won Out, I’ll keep the table of contents here. Attending Love Won Out – A Thank-You (Introduction) But, You Were My NORMAL One! (Breaking my writer’s block) Love Won Out – A Safe Place (Mostly) Love Won… Continue reading »

Thoughts from Randy Thomas: The thing I heard Senate democrats say that is the most bull-hockey I have heard in the debate so far is that the MPA would take away marriage from the states. They obviously need a 9th grade civics lesson. For an amendment to the constitution to make it, it has to… Continue reading »