Didn't intend for anyone to get hurt

Bill Schuette, Attorney General of Michigan, is aware of the gay marriage case looming in Detroit next month. So he issued his opinion on the matter. That opinion pulls out the old line that marriage is to regulate sex. Emily Dievendorf of Equality Michigan notes his opinion contradicts what the Supremes said this summer. Suggesting marriage is only about sex "is more insulting and damaging to the institution of marriage than anything Schuette fears."

Commenter Michael notes: "Odd how the definition of marriage was love and commitment until gay people wanted in on it."



The lower house of the Italian Parliament voted for an anti-homophobia bill 354-79 on Thursday. During floor debate dozens of members of the Five Star Movement Party staged a kiss-in. The bill probably won't make it through the upper house.



The nasty "study" by Mark Regnerus is haunting us again. This time it is being used in Russia as "proof" that gays are pedophiles, so they can pile on the discriminatory laws. There are rumors up next are laws to remove children from gay and lesbian couples. After American anti-gay groups have been using the study for all kinds of mischief with his blessing Regnerus is feeling queasy that the Russians are doing so. Perhaps its because the Russians are taking it a lot further than American groups could dare to do. Perhaps it is because the Russians are misrepresenting his conclusions. But that shouldn't be a problem because his conclusions are a misrepresentation of the data.

Timothy Kincaid summarizes Regnerus' predicament this way:

When I lit the torches, gathered the pitchforks, unleashed the baying dogs, and rallied the villagers, I didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt.

Other commenters note one step Regnerus could do and hasn't: repudiate the study.