Time Magazine-The Swamp

I bet John Hughes could have made a great movie out of this. From the ACLU summary of the case: The ACLU wants Itawamba County School District officials in Fulton, Mississippi to reverse their decision to forbid a lesbian student from attending prom with her girlfriend and from wearing a tuxedo to the prom. Constance McMillen, [...]

The latest chapter is an ongoing series that might be called: The Art of Polling. This break out comes from a recent New York Times/CBS Poll, as noted by Kevin Hechtkopf: Just 44 percent of Americans support "homosexuals" serving openly in the military, if you use the word "homosexuals." But change that word to "gay men [...]

Stumped for what to send on the Most Romantic Day of the Year? The Republican National Committee is offering this selection of e-cards, none of which seem to feature any pictures of ... Republicans. UPDATE: From Commenter bobcn1: The gop has been trying to prevent gay marriage. Now they're trying to ruin the other kind, [...]

There was only one Senator missing for this morning's historic vote in the Senate Chamber. And where was Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning? His spokesman Mike Reynard tells me by e-mail: The Senator has family commitments. Oh.

Forget WWJD. The new question is apparently What Would MLK Do? A coalition of politically and theologically conservative Christian leaders, including nine Roman Catholic bishops, who have just signed a declaration saying they will not comply with laws that could require them to recognize same-sex unions or allow their institutions to support abortions are arguing [...]

I'm joining Joe as a conscientious objector to Palinmania. (Did anyone else start twitching less than a minute into the Barbara Walters interview?) Let's focus instead on something a little less controversial like, oh, say, the Catholic church and gay rights. You might have read last week that the Archdiocese of Washington is threatening to pull [...]

Not really. Or, even less than it usually means to win an unscientific poll of an incredibly small and relatively unrepresentative group of people. Yes, Mike Huckabee won the Values Voters Summit straw poll this weekend with 28% of the vote. But then again, he's been the frontrunner for Preferred Candidate of Religious Conservatives in [...]

From TIME's Sophia Yan, on-site at the Values Voters Summit: FOX News' Bill O'Reilly spoke here on Friday evening, but at the last minute he barred press from the ballroom where he delivered his remarks. Family Research Council media relations staff were left to apologize to the media, including the FOX crew covering the Summit--they were [...]

A smaller, more subdued crowd than usual showed up to the first day of the Values Voters Summit here in Washington (maybe the regulars are busy getting ready for Rosh Hashanah services?) And the roster of GOP politicians showing up to court religious conservatives seemed smaller than usual as well. Sarah Palin cancelled, surprising no [...]

Politicians can also be slimy horndogs in a statehouse near you. This report comes from California, where Assemblyman Michael Duvall, a Republican who has been praised for his "family values" positions, is in hot water after a report by KCAL, which I post after the jump. Look for the reporter who asks this priceless question: [...]