A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Gay Rights on Feb 12th, 2009
My local hate organization, otherwise known as Focus on the Family, apparently spent almost three-quarters of a million dollars in support of Proposition 8 in California. And to what end? The thousands of gays and lesbians who have already been married in California are real people with real love for each other, whose marriage harms […]
Posted in Election 2008, Gay Rights, Politics on Nov 7th, 2008
Although there are many reasons to celebrate the results of this week’s election, there are a few less favorable outcomes.
1. Hal Bidlack lost in his race to unseat my congressman, Doug Lamborn, who is proud of the fact that he’s voted most often of any representative against Nancy Pelosi.
2. Jan Hejtmanek received less than 25% […]
Posted in Gay Rights on Jun 17th, 2008
So, some gay folks got married in California and the world didn’t come to an end. The “institution of marriage” still appears to be in effect — millions of straight people didn’t suddenly decide to divorce. In fact, I think it’s safe to say that these marriages didn’t actually have an affect on anyone except […]
Posted in Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Jan 16th, 2008
In the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton did better in New Hampshire, which has a regular primary election, than in the Iowa caucuses. Granted, the sample size of two states is small, there are myriad possible reasons for the differences, and extrapolating from these results is probably not a good idea. […]