I’m curious to know what the right-wing anti-mosqueteers’ response will be to this proposal (CHT Starchild) to open a gay bar – catering specifically to gay Muslims – next to the non-Ground-Zero non-mosque. It puts them in a bit of a bind, I should think. Lately, people who’ve never given a damn about the rights [...]
In related news, Butler Shaffer is puzzled as to why gay-marriage advocates “want to have the state certify [their] relationships with others” as opposed to just “perform[ing their] own ceremony of marriage without getting the state’s approval.” The answer, obviously, is that the state imposes special burdens on couples who don’t marry in the approved [...]
Lew Rockwell argues that since marriage and immigration are “mentioned nowhere in the constitution,” it follows that each is “no business of the federal congress.” Hence “no federal judge has authority” to strike down either California’s ban on same-sex marriage or Arizona’s harassment of immigrants. I disagree. The 14th Amendment states: “nor shall any State [...]
Good news – as far as it goes – for civil liberties in Malawi, as their president has (reluctantly) pardoned a same-sex couple, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who’d been sentenced to 14 years of prison for their role in the country’s “first recorded public activity for homosexuals.” The pressure of world opinion has obviously [...]
What the Alliance of the Libertarian Left looks like to right-libertarians: What the Alliance of the Libertarian Left looks like to social anarchists: What the Alliance of the Libertarian Left looks like to pan-secessionists:
Homosexuality is now legal in India. (CHT b psycho.) Looks like another victory for us screaming sexualists.
The Obama administration offers a legal defense of “don’t ask, don’t tell” – on the grounds that it’s “rationally related to the government’s legitimate interest in military discipline and cohesion.” (In other words, the administration isn’t just delaying repeal, but is actively affirming the reasoning behind the policy – a policy our President Incarnate claims [...]
Keith Preston (about whose work I’ve blogged here and here) has long been controversial in left-libertarian circles; he’s attracted praise for his economic analysis (see, e.g. his excellent essay “Free Enterprise: The Antidote to Corporate Plutocracy”), but criticism for a) his big-tent strategy of making common cause with all opponents of the central state, including [...]
Carrie Prejean, pageant contestant and anti-equality activist, explains: On April 19, on that stage, I exercised my freedom of speech, and I was punished for doing so. This should not happen in America. It undermines the constitutional rights for which my grandfather fought for [sic]. Wow! What happened? Was she arrested? Was she fined? Um [...]
Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher famously said the following two stupid things: People don’t understand the dictionary – it’s called queer. ‘Queer’ means strange and unusual. It’s not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, [...]
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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