The First Woman I Ever Loved...

The First Woman I Ever Loved...

..well besides my mom.

Here's How Minds are Changed

It's all about telling our stories. And sometimes it can be in one sentence.

Thomas Roberts, MSNBC daytime occasional anchor, interviewed the Lt. Gov. of Maryland on proposed marriage equality legislation. The governor say he will sign it.

It was a positive interview, but the end really had the personal hook. Roberts closes by saying how wonderful it will be for him to be able to get married in Maryland.

Congratulations Egypt! Bravo President Obama

What a glorious day for democracy.



This should be President Obama's "tear down this wall" moment. I have heard a reporter on MSNBC say that many of the protesters wanted President Obama to say more, to be more forceful.

This moment belongs to the protesters in Egypt. There can be no doubt of that.

President Obama's mature, measured statements that constantly called for immediate change. What happened behind the scenes we will not know for years to come. But the the public face of this President and his administration throughout this potentially volatile situation have been impeccable. This situation has had no open tone of anti-Americanism, but only of Egyptian patriotism.

Congratulations Egypt! Bravo Mr. President.

3 minutes that will change you.

Please spend 3 minutes to watch this. It will change you.

Ugandan LGBTActivist Beaten to Death

Blood on Too Many Hands

The following is from an article in the NYTimes. Note that on the "Rolling Stone" (not the American Newspaper) cover he is pictured next to Bishop Christopher. Bishop Christopher recently toured the United States with the support of IntegrityUSA. Please keep David Kato, his family, Bishop Christopher and his family in your prayers.


Watch Rachel Maddow tonight. She will undoubtedly have more information on this. She has been the chief national news source for information on the treatment of gays in Uganda and the disturbing ties with "Christian" evangelical missionaries form the US.

For another point of view read my husband's blog on this and follow the links.

NAIROBI, Kenya — David Kato knew he was a marked man.

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• The Lede Blog: Before His Death, Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Explained Hostile Climate (January 27, 2011)

As the most outspoken gay rights advocate in Uganda, a country where homophobia is so severe that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people, he had received a stream of death threats, his friends said. A few months ago, a Ugandan newspaper ran an antigay diatribe with Mr. Kato’s picture on the front page under a banner urging, “Hang Them.”

On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Kato was beaten to death with a hammer in his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. Police officials were quick to chalk up the motive to robbery, but the small and increasingly besieged gay community in Uganda suspects otherwise.

“David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S evangelicals in 2009,” said Val Kalende, the chairwoman of one of Uganda’s gay rights groups, in a statement. “The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood.”

the rest at NYTimes

British B and B meets the Law

A gay couple was turned away by British B and B owners because they said that accepting them challenged them. Watch this fascinating 15 minute clip where the issue is debated.

My favorite audience comment is a gentleman who points out that in Bethlehem about 2000 years ago an couple about to give birth to a child out of wedlock would certainly have been turned away by an innkeeper with deeply held religious convictions. Makes one wonder, was there really no room at the inn?

Wearing Black

The Crawford/Houghton household will be wear black. Keith Olbermann was fired by MSNBC. If it weren't for Rachel Maddow we would be boycotting.