The Quotable Queer

At just a meer glimpse at Judge Samuel Alito’s judicial career, it seems apparent that the judicial restraint that President George W Bush always refers to does not apply to conservative judges. The conservative base is surely quite impressed with this pick to the nation’s highest court. This will ultimately become a national showdown and discourse on judicial philosophy.

A thorough examination of Judge Alito will offer much food for thought for the country. Time for us all to get to work!

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It seems unfathomable to me that Indiana Republicans are actually ahead of Democrats on issues of discrimination on basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity. Since Governor Mitch Daniels took office, he has made his anti-discrimination policies public. Now, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has also made these policies official.

What is happening with the Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council? Both Governor Daniels and Brizzi have made these bold steps in face of tremendous pressure from what I call social conservative thugs in Indiana. They didn’t do it because it was easy; they did it because it was right.

Considering the City-County Council is under Democrat control, one would think this issue would have resolved itself when the Human Rights Ordinance was updated. Unfortunately, some local Democrats seem to lack the initiative to make these changes permanent. Can the Indianapolis community be that socially conservative? These councillors are simply doing the bidding of social conservative thugs, most of which are not even within their jurisdiction. We must all deliver a much deserved reality check to these select councillors when going to the polls.

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Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.

~ Verlyn Klinkenborg, NY Times