Yes, it’s true: Being gay in the United States means one is much more likely to host an awards show, such as the Oscars, the Emmys or the Tonys. But being gay in the United States also has its disadvantages. Gay men and women cannot marry in 90 percent of U.S. states. Adoption by gay men and...

Coming out of the closet as a gay man or women is not an easy process. There’s a lot of paperwork to fill out; a new state identification card has to be issued; there are separate gay tax forms to be filed; and the federally mandated homosexual agenda has to be memorized. So it makes sense...

The odds of dying by being eaten by a shark are 1 in 251,800,000. The odds of being killed by a vending machine are 1 in 112,000,000. The odds of dying by being struck by lightning are 1 in 83,930. The odds of getting divorced are 1 in 2. The point is clear: It’s time to ban all sharks,...

One night in 1958, Mildred Jeter, a woman of African and American Indian descent, and her husband Richard Loving, a white man, were awoken in their bed by police officers acting on a tip. The couple was arrested and later charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia code, which prohibited...

I love a good joke. I love jokes about relationships, I love jokes about politics, I love jokes about sexual identity, I love jokes about social behavior, and I love jokes about shipping homosexuals out of a state in a manner reminiscent of the Holocaust. Speaking of really funny jokes, stop...

It was Mark Twain who once famously said: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.” With that in mind, can you determine which of the following headlines is from the satirical news Web site The Onion and which is a...

I recently read the book Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank. I took the book with me when I went to visit my family during Christmas this past December, and my parents, upon seeing the title, asked, “Why are you reading that?...

We generally have somewhere between 60 and 90 opportunities in life to create New Year’s resolutions. Now, I do realize that you are reading this column in February of 2010, which is rather late in the year to be writing about New Year’s resolutions. So I’ve obviously already broken my...