Just like the prediction in this web site that judges in Northern Florida would *never* rule for a GLESN club in a high school?

Don’t be so quick to shut the door on the possibility of progress, even in Red states…hang in there….

Anti-bullying programs are actually gaining steam across the country. This isn’t so out of the mainstream as it might appear at a first glance.

@ Morgan–Well…let’s recall that Shaker was originally covered by a restrictive covenant. No Catholics, no Jews, no blacks. There was a black mortician who had a house on Lee Road, the geographic (not commercial) center of Shaker, and he was forced out because of his inconvenient skin color. Yes, Shaker did redeem itself, but a large number of the white liberals who lived there have moved much further east and southeast.

PS–Morgan, it wasn’t downtown you were thankful to be far from 42 years ago. It was Central, where four housing projects face each other. You see, unlike Southern cities, Cleveland had restrictive covenants and informal agreements which kept blacks in Central and a few other East Side neighborhoods. Those informal agreements are the reason that Cleveland was the case study for the Fair Housing Act.

But Eric Mohat is what–who–matters here. The more I think about it, I’d like to see the bullies named and shamed. It shouldn’t take much to find out who these “men” are and post it online. Let their lives be ruined. Let them have a dose of their own medicine ’til they can’t take it. Co-workers who shun them for being such losers. Friends who are too embarrassed to be seen with them. As much as the Mohats have had to hurt, let the families of the bullies explain how their little angels hounded another kid to shoot himself. But then, somehow I don’t think any of this is really what the Mohats would want, and maybe it’s better to think before acting and show some humanity, than it is to be all vengeful.

1) West Virginia does not have a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but Ohio does.

2) West Virginia is about to adopt a non-discrimination act on sexual orienation. Ohio hasn’t done that, and even with Governor Strickland in office, it’s unlikely that Ohio will adopt such an act any time soon.

The MD county I live in is next to the vibrantly progay city DC. So I am glad years later that I made the move. Maryland may see civil unions sometime while New Jersey may very well move from civil unions to marriage later this very year. New Jersey is almost our neighbor.
And West Virginia is all that separates Maryland from Ohio. But WV is quite a barrier, mountains, culture etc. as we know. I believe Iowa will much more of an impact on the Midwest than Maryland could.

Iowa is near Illinois and Illinois is a corrupt state as we’ve heard again and again but maybe Iowa will rub off in Illinois more than it could Ohio. Indiana thanks to a few brave progay politicians in the right place in its statehouse has shot down repeated attempts to bring a constitutional amendment to its state. I hear from Equality Indiana about what’s going on there, so Indiana is blessed with an active gay rights org.

But meanwhile I am going back to read the headline here that the “Iowa Supreme Court strikes down gay marriage ban”. On the surface this is good news but I will now read the full article.