P&R Miscellany tries the now-familiar tactic of beating us liberals over their head with our own relativism and tolerance. P&R forgets that I'm not a relativist and I don't tolerate baloney. P&R counters the successful backlash against South Dakota's failed…
Posts tagged as “homosexuality”
The spate of anti-gay, pro-discrimination bills that has worn out the South Dakota legislature did not come from ALEC. Instead, these legal travesties appear to be coming from a network of desperate right-wing Christian groups who are trying to get…
House State Affairs voted wrong a lot yesterday. In two meetings, including a p.m. session that dragged into European supper time, House State Affairs decided to force all students to honor God and country at school, declined to end South…
During today's Senate Judiciary hearing on Senate Bill 128, the now-dead "Jesus told me to fire fags" bill, South Dakota Family Policy Council chief Mark Chase told a story that I might politely describe as queer. Senator Mark Kirkeby asked…
Senate Bill 128 just died in the Senate Judiciary Committee, for most of the right reasons. SB 128 is the anti-gay legislation proposed by Senator Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) to protect businesses from lawsuits over discrimination against gay, lesbian, and…
The human rights rally in Rapid City appears to drawn a good crowd to protest Senate Bill 128, the Legislature's latest assault on civil rights. My on-the-scene observers play the conservatives, estimating that about 150 people came to Main Street…
Rapid City Stevens student Josie Weiland has raised a public ruckus about her legislators' shockingly specious and retrograde attitudes toward civil rights for all committed married people. Now she and fellow Raider Elle Fettig are taking their support for spouses…
South Dakotans interested in justice and equality, you have at least two candidates for U.S. Senate who are willing to stand against the South Dakota Legislature's urge to roll back civil rights. Democrat Rick Weiland has condemned Senate Bill 128,…