The image with the word 'cult' alone makes this 5-part series exposing the absurdity of right-wing anti-gay ideas a real barnburner.

If the KKK had had a slick PR firm on their side, their anti-miscegenation ads would've looked a lot like this anti-gay marriage ad. Just substitute 'interracial marriage' for 'gay marriage'. They're just bigots all dressed up lookin' for an audience.

Amen brother.

I think the more attractive you are, the better in shape, the greater pool of men you'll be able to woo. It's just a fact.

Now, with that said, I think the most important thing is to be very clear about who you are and what you're looking for from the beginning of any budding relationship. If you're looking for someone who's also seriously interested in a long-term committed relationship (possibly for life) then once you begin dating someone you must have the talk and find out if he's on the same page as you. Move on if he's not. Date a lot until you find someone who shares your vision of relationship. The worst thing you can do is settle for the first or second or third person you date and waste time with them if you know in your heart that they're not really interested in the same things you are. It's usually quite apparent if you have different visions of relationship and a future together. Date, date, date, date. Meet new people in new circles. Try dating people you might not have given a second thought.

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Me too. I think of them as part of New England. My friend is doing a paper on the Puritan founders of the area and made the comment when I shared the article on my Facebook page.

A friend of mine made the comment that New York and New Jersey aren't officially part of New England. Is this true? Doesn't matter. I'm just sayin'

I too have both GFC and Intense Debate on my site. I put GFC in my sidebar and Intense Debate below my individual posts but I kind of like the way you have it set up here. I do wish that the Ratings Widget would more fully collapse when that option is turned on and I too would like to have the option to turn off the comment box in it.

Kimberley, Homosexuality isn't a sin. Stubborn, prideful, ignorant bigotry, like the kind you seem to have, is however blatantly immoral and shameful.

Kimberley, there are many Christians who disagree with you and would like you to know that you can change your supremacist arrogant ways. Stop hiding your ugly cowardly prejudices behind your religious views. You aren't following Jesus' example Kimberley.

Kimberley, as for Heaven and Hell, there are no such places any more than there is a Santa Claus Land in the North Pole. Sorry. But it's quite funny to hear yet another wacky religious nut speak as if they know exactly what their magical invisible imaginary god being thinks. Truly hilarious... yet kinda sad too.

Kimberley, if there are god beings - and you know, deep down, that you really don't believe that there are - they'd more likely bar you from entrance into their magical luxury afterlife than bar me. I'm not the one bearing false witness by spreading lies about the fundamental wholeness, equality and decency of millions upon millions of my fellow human beings. That would be you doing that.

Kimberley, hopefully your descendants won't remember you with as much shame as other descendants remember their supremacist bigoted ancestors.

I hope you appreciate my efforts to rescue you from the cult of bizarre barbaric nonsensical magical thinking nonsense that you know, down deep, is fundamentally imaginary made up group delusion nonsense. Poor lost thing. At least you have a lot of company. :)

I welcome Obama's plan to invest in infrastructure, schools, hospitals, technology and energy saving conversions. My grandfather worked in Roosevelt's WPA building railroads. Perhaps I could get a job via Obama's investments installing new computers or laying fiber optic cables. Just a thought.

Tracy, I'm not sure what you mean by "shoving their lifestyles down our throats"? But I would say that being gay isn't a 'lifestyle' any more than being straight is.

As for protesting a church with civil disobedience, I'm all for it. I'm not for violence but I do admire the tactics of Gandhi and MLKjr and their efforts to shake up the status quo and to get people thinking about their own complicity in state sanctioned supremacist ideology. If the church had been indoctrinating children with vile immoral perverted lies about gay people then that church is no more out of bounds than a KKK rally. Considering how incredibly evil and false (false witnessing?) many of the things that are said about gay people in fundamentalist conservative churches and considering the suicide rate among gay youth (I've read that Mormon gay youth suicide rates are going up for instance in response to the Mormon church's out spoken sponsorship of Prop 8), I think anger, passion and protest are natural human reactions from gay people. Expect more until gay people are included in all civil rights that currently exclude us.

Equality is our birthright but the Law must be made to reflect that.