My family deserves protection too

Gay men are better bosses? There is a book about that: The G Quotient: Why Gay Executives Are Excelling as Leaders . . . and What Every Manager Needs to Know. We're better managers because we respect subordinates as actual people with actual lives and treat them with compassion. Our coming out taught us to adapt and be resilient and to avoid or confront discrimination. We know who we are and that security means we don't need to assert dominance over others.

A commenter says that may be true -- except for the drama queens



I mentioned the Let it Stand rally at Utah's Capitol a couple days ago. One of the speakers was 12-year-old Riley Hackford-Peer, son of a lesbian couple. His basic message:

Governor Herbert wants to treat my moms unfairly. He says he wants to protect families. But I want to tell him that my family deserves protection too! I have two moms. And I love them. And they deserve to have their marriage recognized everywhere.

He's quite poised for a 12-year-old. So if same-sex parents are supposedly so detrimental to a child how do they become so self-assured? The video is under 4 minutes.



David Mixner reports the Nigerian president has now signed a draconian anti-gay laws. A person can get sent to prison for 14 years for being gay, for owning a gay club or social organization, for taking part in a gay advocacy group, or even meeting to discuss a gay issue. And Nigerian prisons are so shockingly bad that entering one is essentially a death sentence.

Why was the bill signed, and why now? It was signed because public opinion is about 90% in favor of the bill. The why now is because it appears to be a distraction from how poorly the president is handling the Boko Haram insurgency that will probably send the country into civil war.

Yes, Sec'y of State John Kerry has expressed America's shock and concern. Will anything else happen. Probably not. Nigeria produces a lot of oil.