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Marriage Equality Arc
Okay, for any of us who have had a breather, the game is back afoot. Marriage equality remains a key civil rights issue. Same-sex marriage will be fully realized, even in this very socially conservative nation.There is no better moment than now to reflect again on the ideas of that old...
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Published 9 hours ago

Loitering in Chaos Alley
Finally! Red Mass Group has a post I can link to. Click on over for a brief, LITE but still telling Q&A with Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute.Boner Note: This post has a dead link (extraneous quote at the end of the URL) to the first in this What Happens Next series by...
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Published 6 days ago

Effusive Chuck (Sort of) Talks
Last evening, Chuck Tuner was one of his two selves on BNN-TV's Talk of the Neighborhoods. He left the outraged, illogical Chuck somewhere and showed with the let-me-teach-you-how-to-think one.The City Councilor has claimed since his arrest on extortion and lying to the FBI charges last Friday...
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Published 7 days ago

Chuck Turner as Abe Simpson
Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is only 68, but today on the plaza, he seemed much, much older. He had an embarrassing Abe Simpson moment, lots of contradictions, and a single, massive failing.You wouldn't know any of that from the crowd. He had them an hour before he shuffled onto City Hall...
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Published a week ago

Two Crooks Are More Than Enough
Let this not be the eclipse of black pols in Boston. City Councilor Chuck Turner follows ex-Senator Dianne Wilkerson with extortion and lying to the FBI indictments. We simply don't have enough elected officials of color to lose them in bunches.Since Wilkerson's arrest, many have speculated...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Prop. 8...Zipping Right Along
Both sides apparently are looking for a win in the court challenges to Prop. 8 in California. The ballot initiative that redefined marriage, this time back to one-man/one-woman, there won on Nov. 4th with 52%.This afternoon, the state Supreme Court agreed to decide three constitutional issues...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Deval Preview for Barrack
Chums Deval Patrick and Barack Obama have so many parallels the similarities are not even worth cataloging. Perhaps the President Elect has had the spare moments to reflect on â€" and plan on avoiding â€" Patrick's obstructions.Locally, the Deval version of a progressive river has trickled...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Dianne, Last Guest to Leave
Today's Globe and Herald sites report that now ex-Senator Dianne Wilkerson resigned. Click on the image to see for yourself.Tags: massmarrier, Massachusetts, Wilkerson
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Published 2 weeks ago

As Maine Goes...
Mainers lack Southern graciousness and Midwestern timidity, but they remain a hard sell on fundamentals. Whether it's high fashion or the latest in politics, Portland and even Orono aren't where trend spotters congregate. As famous as the state used to be as Presidential bellwether, it still...
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Published 2 weeks ago

SSM Morality Play at Suffolk Law
Skeletor, Walter Mitty, Fred Flintstone, the hungover grad student and Aged Smurfette took the podium in turn today at The Future of Marriage: Five Years After Goodridge session. They are also known as:Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family InstitutePhil Moran, president of the...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Now, What's a Social Activist To Do?
On the verge of moving onto Obama Standard Time (OST), we have a great chance to take the best of the left to replace the worst of the right we've experienced. For the past eight years â€" and really since the ascendancy of the Christian Coalition in 1988 â€" religion was been a cudgel applied to...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Wearying Prop. 8 Lessons
Candor may be what you get from the guy on the next bar stool or a talk radio host or a blogger. We've long ago learned not to expect it from many others, including politicians and ministers.My chum Ryan came hard on the no-on-8 folk, writing that they failed to match the other side's doorbell...
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Published 3 weeks ago