Quick Hits
Some interesting blog posts I’ve read recently:
- Black History: Loving v Virginia – a post about the 1967 Supreme Court case which ruled that laws against interracial marriage were un-Constitutional. Particularly interesting is a quote from Mildred Loving, the African-American woman married to a white man, who in 2007 said:
I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights.
- Orson Scott Card Calls for Violent Overthrow of Govt if Gay Marriage is Legalized – I’m still not sure how I feel about Card’s (fiction) writing. I loved Ender’s Game, enjoyed most of the other books set in that universe, and really enjoy his short stories (a delightful find from back when I was at the sci-fi/fantasy bookstore, as I’m not sure they’re in print any more). Unfortunately, he’s also a raging homophobe and, at the end of a long rant (in which he denies his homophobic status through a BS semantic argument) says:
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.
- Some posts on Judaism:
- Thoughts on Gender and Judaism and Thoughts on Homosexuality and Judaism are similarly structured posts about looking at modern and historical Jewish views on both subjects
- I Can’t Believe It’s Not the Taliban is a post about ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel harassing women and homosexuals
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