If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.
Dan SavageI wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
Dan SavageI do know this, though: Iโm done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out thereโand theyโre out there, and I think theyโre scumโare a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their colorโฆIโll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.
Dan SavageA lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.
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