My letter to Ted Olson.
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A Letter to Amtrak Media Relations
A Letter to Amtrak Media Relations.
The Lion Roars No Longer..
Ted Kennedy, the Liberal Lion of the Senate, one of the world’s greatest voices for Human Rights, a man who demonstrated for all the capacity for any person to reach beyond their baser nature and better themselves, is gone.
Support the ACLU
I think I let my membership lapse. I’ll have to correct that oversight. I’ll be proud to be a card-carrying member of the ACLU.
Hell, Frozen Over: Ted Olson Suing to Overturn Prop 8.
George Bush’s Solicitor General, Theodore Olson, is suing the State of California in Federal Court to overturn Proposition 8. …I have no words…
Savage (and I) on Obama – He gets an F.
Dan Savage said what I’m feeling better than I could have: Obama gets an F. Give it a listen.
Internal Activism
A few weeks ago, I got a draft copy of my employer’s new Employee Handbook. In the equal employment opportunity section, there was a standard list of protected groups: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age and disability. I decided I’d like to see LGBT employees listed, as well. To that end, I wrote up a proposed change to the policy, and submitted it to HR for review.
Olbermann v. Foxx
I was going to go off on Virginia Foxx today, but Keith Olbermann did it better than I could possibly have hope to.
Justice for Angie Zapata
For the first time in U.S. history, a murderer has been convicted of a bias-motivated crime against a transgender person. Allen Andrade was convicted yesterday of First Degree Murder and a “Bias-Motivated Crime” in the murder of Angie Zapata, a transgender teen from Greeley, Colorado. For once, a jury saw past the defense’s portrayal of a transgender person as a lesser being, a liar and a freak, and saw her simply for what she was: a human being.
The Matthew Shepard Act
This video from Judy Shepard and the HRC speaks for itself. http://tinyurl.com/cqyyd8
