How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.
Now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book?
I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid.
How did people raise kids before plastic came along? Everything for Baby, said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary...
For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't mak...
Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
The proper response to religious opposition to choice or love or death can be reduced to a series of bumper stickers: Don't approve of abortion? Don't have one. Don't approve of gay marriage? Don't ha...
Terry gets annoyed when I describe his mother as cold. She isn't cold, he insists, just a little standoffish, and not so gabby as certain members of my family. While Terry's mom doesn't believe in ask...
The moment you begin to believe you're worthy of the good things in your life - God gets all Old Testament on your ass and does something vicious, something insane, something totally uncalled for. He...
The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I was gay.
Either way... you've got to tell him--in no uncertain terms--to knock it the fuck off already. Don't be measured, don't wrap it up in I statements, no mewling about your feelings. Give him both barrel...
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
Terry cooked for me, but I resented having to do dishes. As I saw it, Terry liked cooking-he enjoyed it, he told me so. Well, I didn't enjoy washing dishes- I hated it, and I'd told him so-and didn't...
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.
Jesus commanded his followers to clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, and care for the sick. Making health care available to all seems like a no-brainer, Jesus-wise, among the most Christian projec...