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Equality Is Coming (UPDATED)
I am finally able to say it: I’ve been in the loop on the first initiative of its kind here in Arizona. Currently, 12 states have legalized gay marriage. Now, Equal Marriage Arizona – helmed by...
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Never Again
According to Christian scriptures and doctrine, Jesus was the Son of God. He was a deity in human form. Even scripture teaches that He could have taken Himself down off of the cross – but He chose not...
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Bad Guys Need Jobs, Too
I had no idea, but apparently the Obama Administration’s EEOC has almost completely re-written the rules. Just a year ago, the EEOC released a suggestion that employers stop refusing to hire minorities...
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Well, Blow Me Over…
Madonna just made me fall out of my chair. Following the news that has-been Jim Carrey made the very public decision to stop backing his latest film, Kick-Ass 2, superstar Madonna managed something I...
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This Isn’t What You Think It Is
My home state, Texas, is currently considering a major abortion bill. It passed the State House overwhelmingly yesterday and is being voted on by the State Senate as I type. The bill would ban...
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DOMA Has Fallen
As expected, the Supreme Court has handed the decision over California’s Prop 8 back to the lower courts (all of which held that it was Unconstitutional). Now gay marriage will resume in CA. What...
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Strategy
It never ceases to amaze me how many conservatives don’t understand political strategy. I recently wrote a post about the outrageous assertions by Democrats in the Texas legislature that a GOP-led bill...
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Who Makes The Rules?
I did the workout from hell last night, and today I feel like I’ve been beaten with a baseball bat (actually, not too far off…it was a tractor tire and a couple of lines of retired fire hose). So I was...
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None Of Us Are Perfect
I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard those words. When I worked in prisons, both with youth and adult offenders, medium and maximum security, every single time I had to discipline an inmate who got...
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Don’t Tread On Me
On July 2, 1776, 56 unruly subjects of King George III signed a treasonous document. For more than five years they, along with many of their neighbors, had tried (to no avail) to convince the King that...
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The Real Slippery Slope
Social conservatives call gay marriage the “slippery slope” that endangers our freedoms. I never understood that argument, even when I was trying to make it. Yes, it may endanger your version of...
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Just Following Orders
I am a Jew by choice. I was not born Jewish, I chose them as my people. I am an American, ready to give up everything I have to protect our freedom. I come from a long military history, and even though...
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George Zimmerman: Not Guilty
One year ago, shortly after the news broke about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, I posted an article about it. You can read it here. Today, a jury – after only two days of deliberation – found...
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Spaces Between Love and Hate
Love and hate are not opposites. There are differences, for sure. One is much more positive (as long as it doesn’t involve stalking), the other much more negative. Both are very powerful emotions and a...
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We Are Young
The atrocity that graces the cover of this month’s Rolling Stone magazine may be generating more controversy than the editors intended. This much was obvious when senior editor Christian Hoard Tweeted,...
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Musings on Disney Princesses
My friend Meredith absolutely cracks me up with her witticisms sometimes. Today’s piece was quite amusing, about the 1959 movie “Sleeping Beauty”: “True love conquers all, it would have even conquered...
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The Peace That Passes All Understanding
Imagine that America has gone to war with China or Russia (considering the dolt we have for a President, it can happen). Imagine that thousands of innocent Americans are slaughtered, some of them...
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The Sunflower
With Rosh Hashanah coming up, I decided to do something a little different. One of my rabbis suggested a book to me recently that has really caught my attention. I read the entire first portion in a...
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“You Don’t Have To Take This S**t Anymore”
Such were the words of a liberal who called me an “oxyMORON” because I’m a lesbian who is politically conservative. Charming. I get tired of hearing gay liberals say things like this – as if I’m...
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World Police
Syria is the hot topic today – Bashar Assad has used Sarin on rebel areas, killing more than 1400 people. Over 400 were children. The images coming out of Syria are heartbreaking. Previously, President...
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