that their ministers are somehow going to be forced to perform same-gender marriages.

Just ask, show me a single example where a single Catholic priest has been forced to perform a marriage involving a divorced person.

And yet, as a society we've agreed to allow divorced people to marry again. None of them expect to be done in a Catholic church (without paying a small fortune for an 'annulment').

So why would it be rational to fear that any would be forced to perform ceremonies they find abhorent? Oh wait-they have no fear. . .

They just find fags icky, and damned if they want anyone else to barge into their self-proclaimed monopoly on giving out blessings.

And yet Salon keeps writing and asking why I didn't renew my paid membership last February.

It's cause, surprise here, I see no reason to contribute to a site which wastes money on an elderly, dimwitted, foolish Republican spewing forth the dumbest barking points with which the right can come up.

I actually have signed onto a lot of right wing sites, and read them, so the argument that lefties are never exposed to this sort of shit is stupid. Which makes it so easy to recognize it as it is.

Meanwhile, anyone of us figure that Glenallen might be, to our surprise, a womanÉ

Joan tends to favour this sort of thing-witness her insistence on paying C. Paglia a big sum for her monthly musings-seemingly based solely upon the fact that Ms. Paglia had made herself into an icon of what passed for feminism in the early 90ès. And I guess her hero.

I played tennis a lot as a kid. My hero was Pistol Pete ßampras. And yet today my daughterès hero is Roger Federer.

Actual accomplishments under real pressure count.

and I know this is bullshit.

Kindly to provide the name of the priest who agreed somehow that in this person's case suicide might be a viable alternative, and not a sin.

I do not believe in any way that any priest would ever agree with such a proposition. Not only not Catholic am I, but an athiest. And yet I have more respect for the Catholic (and Anglican) priethood than to ever believe any member would counsel suicide.