Most Sundays, Mrs Acilius and I can be found in a Quaker meeting down the street from our home. She is a member of that meeting and a convinced adherent of the brand of Christianity associated with Quakerism; I’m not a member of any religious group, nor am I convinced of the truth of any [...]
All posts tagged same sex marriage
In the flesh?
Posted by acilius on September 2, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/09/02/in-the-flesh/
Libertarians and marriage
I’ve fallen far behind my usual pace in sharing my “Periodicals Notes“; that pesky offline part of the world keeps distracting me with things like work, family, etc etc. There’s a great deal of work I ought to be doing right now, as a matter of fact, but I can’t resist taking time to note [...]
Posted by acilius on March 22, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/03/22/libertarians-and-marriage/
The return of The American Conservative
It’s been quite a few weeks since the appearance of the October 2010 issue of my favorite “Old Right” read, The American Conservative; I’d begun to fear that it would have no successor. That particularly bothered me, as people who really should know better had in the interval set out to deny that an anti-militarist [...]
Posted by acilius on October 28, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/10/28/the-return-of-the-american-conservative-2/
Acilius being long-winded
I (Acilius) am a frequent commenter on Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For blog. As regular readers of Los Thunderlads are all too well aware, I can get pretty long-winded, so I try to restrain myself. I was doing pretty well on the current thread, until I broke down completely and left a multi-screen essay about The [...]
Posted by acilius on November 9, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/11/09/acilius-being-long-winded/
The Nation, 13 July 2009
Alex Cockburn rages at the Americans who cheerlead for the protests in Iran while they ignore politics in their own country, giving the Obama administration carte blanche to break every promise Mr O made to help working people and curb the national security state. As for Cockburn’s view of Iran, readers of his newsletter Counterpunch are [...]
Posted by acilius on June 26, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/26/the-nation-13-july-2009/
More adventures in commenting
Over the last couple of weeks, I (Acilius) have posted some comments on two sites I read daily. At “Dykes to Watch Out For,” I quoted the opening of the “Periodicals Note” about Chronicles magazine that triggered so much discussion here a few weeks ago. At Language Log, I posted a comment which confused the author of the original post. That [...]
Posted by acilius on March 20, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/20/more-adventures-in-commenting/
Chronicles, March 2009
I first became aware of the political question of same-sex marriage in 1980. I was in fifth grade and we were supposed to conduct debates in class about issues of the day. I was assigned to the group opposing this proposition: “The Equal Rights Amendment should be passed.” Researching for my part in the debate, I [...]
Posted by acilius on February 28, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/02/28/chronicles-march-2009/
The Atlantic Monthly, March 2009
A profile of Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, focuses on this gifted theologian’s attempts to lead the Anglican communion in its effort to make up its mind about homosexuality. Williams himself has many friends who are gay and took a consistently liberal line on gay issues before 2002, when he became the nominal leader of [...]
Posted by acilius on February 15, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/02/15/the-atlantic-monthly-march-2009/
The Nation, 8 December 2008
“The Fall Books Issue“- it seems a bit late this year… but worth the wait. Torie Osborn wonders how California could have passed anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8. Her view is that No on 8 forces neglected Los Angeles County, despite decades of experience showing that antigay measures win or lose based on the margins in [...]
Posted by acilius on December 1, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/12/01/the-nation-8-december-2008/
The American Conservative, 17 November 2008
In a used book store years ago, I bought some old issues, circa 1965, of National Review. They weren’t all that interesting on their own merits. What stuck in my mind about them was the sadness that ran through them. Each article seemed to be a form of mourning for a kind of politics that was no [...]
Posted by acilius on November 24, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/11/24/the-american-conservative-17-november-2008/
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