Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Nick Vaughn: "A Historian’s Perspective on Confederate Statues."

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I first met Nick Vaughn in 2015 when he was younger than he is now (oddly, I haven't aged) and was running for city council in the Re...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Routine traffic stops? "Let's stop using the terrible design of our cities as a random pretext and, instead, be proactive about fixing the design."

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I'm having trouble finding the extract from this essay that best conveys the central point, so I've chosen two. Routine Traffi...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Evan Stoner previews the advent of Southern Indiana Pride.

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Evan's essay begins with an appropriate history lesson before seguing to the launch of Southern Indiana Pride. It appears that Southe...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

R.I.P. Dick Leitsch. His "sip in" was a pioneering act of civil disobedience, clearing "the way for gay bars to operate openly in New York State."

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Photo credit: The Villager . “If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and a...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

(Psst -- it's not about the flag or the military, and it never has been.)

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I'm often reminded of Thomas Jefferson's words: "Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to ri...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

1960s activists on modern politics: "I hate cynicism; you have to fight."

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You say you want a revolution? If so, it's time to begin defining your terms. 'I hate cynicism; you have to fight': 1960s act...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

On being a woman in Iceland.

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Not an Aunt Tammy here ... photo credit: The Nation . Rewinding to a time when it had been only 30 years since the Cubs played in the W...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

The council's DemoDisneyDixiecrats: Co-option comes right after self-interest, and just before irrelevance.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana lists the rights below under the all-purpose umbrella of "equality." They're mer...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Southern Republicans imitate Indiana Republicans, or maybe vice-versa.

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In an essay charting this year's “God, guns and gays” legislative sessions, as occurring down yonder in the defeated Confederacy, dur...
Saturday, April 09, 2016

"Pence’s attack on women’s rights, and on Indiana."

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And Ron Grooms sticks to Pence like glue. Tully: Pence’s attack on women’s rights, and on Indiana , by Matthew Tully ( Indy Star ) T...
Friday, April 08, 2016

John Gregg undergoes a pre-election LGBT conversion.

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In a recent article about John Gregg's evolution since 2012, online .com/news/opinion/commentary-john-gregg-mike-pence-and-a-locked-stee...
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Let's keep the spotlight on the civil rights FAIL perpetuated by Mike Pence and Indiana's Republicans.

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But that's life in a one-party state. EDITORIAL: Legislature, governor fail test of courage , at the Evansville Courier & Pres...
Sunday, February 07, 2016

"Gov. Mike Pence and the General Assembly have failed Indiana and its residents, not just those from the LGBT community, but all of us."

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When I was a wee lad, being Republican was all about obeying the every desire of high-powered economic interests. Now it's groveli...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

"It’s time for Pence to lead ... full civil rights protections based on sexual orientation."

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Inelegantly written, but hey -- it's a business publication. And no, I have NOT forgotten the role of Ron Grooms in this debacle. ...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

A simple fact: "Gays, not Christians, are still America’s truly embattled minority."

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Whomever chose Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" to serenade Kim Davis upon her release from prison merely offered the most recent...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Nash on the rights of everyone.

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Matt doesn't mention our very own Ayatollah Coffey by name, but he needn't bother. By now, the silence has grown deafening: Fello...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Human rights in New Albany?

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Thus far in 2015, it has been a year in which the United States Supreme Court took up same-sex marriage, and the streets of Baltimore ech...
Friday, January 16, 2015

SCOTUS Friday: "Historic day for gay rights?"

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It was one of my favorite stories from last year. Pence takes to his bunker as Indiana's gay marriage ban is ruled to be unconstituti...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Bob Russell says "God" gave you your race, not your sex.

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I am of the conviction that religion is not a tax-exempt issue at all. It is a taxable issue. By the way: GET OFF MY PORCH, Bob. Are Gay ...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Same-sex marriage, Indiana and the legal deluge.

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In which the Hoosier state's conservative cadres are on their heels, wagons circling. Indiana Finds It’s Not So Easy to Buck Gay Marri...