The Next Chapter in LGBTQ History

“This battle is over social and cultural approval. The battle is happening because a particular class of persons wants their sexual perversion to be their ticket into the high nobility of the civil rights movement—what they want is for the march to be from Selma to Sodom, not realizing it then proceeds from Sodom to …

The Man with the Quivering Red Laser Dot on His Chest

Introduction: So let us discuss the recent charges leveled against Brett Kavanaugh. There are a number of things to say about all this, and I intend to say as many of them as I can get to, but the first and fundamental thing is this: If we didn’t really want to go to the circus, …

Concrete Help is Not Legalism

My apologies for creating the impression that I somehow got derailed from my ongoing review of Aimee Byrd’s book. I had inadvertently created this impression by getting derailed in fact, but it was not because of sloth, forgetfulness, ennui, or anything else bad like that. It was the press of other topics, all of them …

The Old Tuesday Letters Ploy . . .

Open Road: Doug, you must post this one: Mark Mark, thanks. Okay, everybody, go take a look. It is a beautiful picture. Foundations of Social Justice: I think you more or less addressed this, but the King/Trump comparison reminded me how much it does not matter to Trump-publicans that their boy is an adulterer when …

The Magistrate and Marriage Law

“The issues of property and custody and inheritance are in principle woven into every heterosexual relationship and are woven into no homosexual relationship. They can be nailed onto the side of a homosexual incident, but that is all. They can be arbitrarily assigned to a homosexual partnership, but do not flow out of the creational …

Still Not Impressed With Social Justice?

Introduction: We continue our lessons in social justice arising out of systems or narratives of social justification, and so it behooves us—do you not agree that behooves needs to get back into wider circulation?—it behooves us to look at a number of examples. I am thinking about Trump, and Samson, and King David, and Joel …