For a few days, there seemed to be a "Rudy boomlet" - reports on the Internet and in some gossip columns predicting George W. would run in November with Rudy Giuliani as his veep. Alas, these rumors have now been quashed by the White House. Too bad for Republicans. A vp nominee who is a dynamic leader, tough on terrorism, and supportive of gay equality could have attracted many independent swing voters. But then there's that little problem he'd have with the religious right"
Unfair Privilege?
There's a contretemps at Yale, where some unmarried hetero grad students are demanding the same domestic partner benefits now being granted to gay couples. As Jessamyn Blau explains in the Yale Daily News, however, they can get married:
Instead of begging Yale to extend benefits to people who are already at an advantage in society, these students should work to extend marriage rights to all couples, so that Yale can in turn get rid of its uneven policies (whose only purpose is to in some small way remedy current injustice). Giving unmarried heterosexual couples more rights is simply skirting the true issue at hand, which is that the current proposal shouldn't even be at hand.
The Cardinal Speaks.
A Belgian
cardinal says that 95 percent of gays are "sexual perverts."
What about the other 5 percent? I guess they're just not trying
hard enough!