As many of you know, CNN will be launching its series "Black in America" on 23 July with its Black Women and Familes program. The second day will focus on Black men.

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Steve Sanders has a well-reasoned article up at Findlaw, pointing out the absurdity of America's patchwork recognition of same-sex marriages.....

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American Values Alliance recently received the following email:

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It's always nice to good people do good things. So be sure to catch Bil's inaugural post on Huffington Post. Nicely done.

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I had just written my latest column for the Indianapolis Star, and emailed it, when I logged on to read my son Stephen's blog--only to find a post making most of the same points. Even the language is similar--although I'm embarrassed to note that HIS was free of snark, while mine wasn't exactly as civil...

Here's his:

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Here's the conclusion of the majority decision affirming the right of California gay couples to marry:

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At 10:00 a.m. (Pacific time) Thursday, the California Supreme Court will render its decision in the Golden State's same-sex marriage litigation.

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The other day, I posted a story from the New York Times (UPDATE: link to previous story added) about a friend of mine, Dan Pinello, and his long-time partner, who had challenged New York State's refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples by appearing at

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sent me a link to this NYTimes story about him and his partner.

And you thought college professors were dull!

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I heard this story this morning and felt a little "off" all day. It's part one of a story about sexual identity and how it manifests in transgendered children and what two sets of parents did in support of their very young sons--as young as 2 or 3.

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There may be a silver lining in the recent decision of the Michigan Supreme Court to erase domestic partnership benefits for same-sex couples under its new "Marriage Protection" constitutional amendment. Before it passed the folks of the Rightous Right told everyone in state wide ads and elsewhere that such benefits wouldn't be touched. Then after passage they flipped 180 degrees and argued the opposite in court. That silver lining is that it's waking up people to the fact that such "bait and switch" tactics work. Gary Welsh writes about this in Advance Indiana, and I cover the same territory for Indiana Equality here. If and when a successor to SJR7 in Indiana comes back next year, don't say we didn't warn you.

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There's a lively debate between me and the American Family Association's Micah Clark going on at Veritas Rex, the blogsite of the Indiana Family Institute.

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I was reading Wired magazine--a tech geek mag I've been reading online for over a decade and in print, strangely, for just two years--when I saw it:

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There's this story I remember from college. I wrote about it in another context on another blog, but it bears repeating, at least in part, here:

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