First-team all-American University of Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam officially came out today. According to Sam, who told his teammates that he was gay at the beginning of last season, he had the sense that his sexual orientation was about to made public, and decided that he’d rather do it himself, on his own terms, […]
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Michael Sam poised to become the NFL’s first openly gay player… assuming he’s chosen in May’s draft
On the rollout of mandatory gay marriage and the assigning of same-sex spouses
I posted something similar on Facebook earlier this evening, and received the following response from a friend, explaining how Obama will likely go about assigning gay spouses. I suspect that she’s kidding, and that she doesn’t really have an inside track on how it will go down, but I found the idea to be interesting… […]
New legislation in the Michigan Senate would empower health care workers to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and religion
It has been reported by Think Progress that a Republican member of the Michigan Senate by the name of John Moolenaar has authored a bill that would protect health care professionals who choose to discriminate against those whom they find objectionable for either their “religious beliefs, moral convictions, or ethical principles”. The intended target, it […]
“The gay thug apples did it!”
For those of you who are interested, I’m still accepting artwork inspired by Justin Zatkoff. Here’s a piece given to me a few minutes ago by my wife. She apparently had the good fortune today of finding a baby pear that had a bruise right about where one of its eyes would be… if pears […]