There may be a silver lining in the recent decision of the Michigan Supreme Court to erase domestic partnership benefits for same-sex couples under its new "Marriage Protection" constitutional amendment. Before it passed the folks of the Rightous Right told everyone in state wide ads and elsewhere that such benefits wouldn't be touched. Then after passage they flipped 180 degrees and argued the opposite in court. That silver lining is that it's waking up people to the fact that such "bait and switch" tactics work. Gary Welsh writes about this in Advance Indiana, and I cover the same territory for Indiana Equality here. If and when a successor to SJR7 in Indiana comes back next year, don't say we didn't warn you.

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There's a lively debate between me and the American Family Association's Micah Clark going on at Veritas Rex, the blogsite of the Indiana Family Institute.

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I see where government officials in a remote section of India have come up with an idea to incentivize men to have vasectomies: make it easier for them to obtain gun permits.

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My other half and I are consummate current events junkies. If CNN and MSNBC were on the federal List of Dangerous, Fattening, and Controlled Substances, or whatever it’s called, we’d both be serving more consecutive life sentences than there are delegates to both major national political parties combined. So with yesterday’s announcements about John Edwards pulling out of the Democratic nomination race, accompanied by a similar withdrawal by Rudy Giuliani, Ted Kennedy’s earlier endorsement of Barak Obama, Mike Huckabee’s pronouncements on amending the Constitution because the Bible can’t be, we’re so close to Nirvana that we get it confused with the Rapture.

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If James Madison, “Father of the Constitution” and author of the Federalist Papers explaining it, had later announced that it had been “poorly drafted” and needed revision, you can imagine the immediate and noisy uproar. Yet when the man who helped write language that’s in the currently proposed “Marriage Protection” Amendment (SJR-7) to the Bill of Rights of the Indiana Constitution used those same words, few have batted an eyebrow.

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