30 November 2011  The disastrous results of gay marriage  This
has been lighting up my Facebook feed today, and it's pretty
impressive:  Of course, this is just a single example, but it's
consistent with research.  Let me take a moment to really shove
that abstract down the throats of religious conservatives, whose
arbitrary interpretation of Bronze Age scriptures is the driving
force behind most of the opposition to gay marriage in this
country: "More than two decades of research has failed to reveal
important differences in the adjustment or development of
children or adolescents reared by same-sex couples compared to
those reared by other-sex couples." All those horrible effects
of gay marriage? They don't exist. Science has proved religion
wrong, as usual.  27 November 2011  Traditional Biblical
marriage  The other day on Facebook, a lesbian friend of mine
pondered why Christians are not as anti-divorce as they are
anti-gay-marriage. "You know", she said, "to preserve the
'sanctity'". This elicited the pr