tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post1064381549196651148..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: Letter from AmericaThis old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-68248962189781188382008-11-11T15:05:00.000+11:002008-11-11T15:05:00.000+11:00Hey, all, thanks for comments.Jeffrey. No, not a f...Hey, all, thanks for comments.<BR/><BR/>Jeffrey. No, not a fez in sight. What were we thinking?<BR/><BR/>Lawrence, point taken. I'm just reporting what I was told. I have, I think, only the sketchiest understanding of the complexities here, or how the legislature works.This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-79020610064962636672008-11-11T11:31:00.000+11:002008-11-11T11:31:00.000+11:00I expect a lot of white L/G activists feel totally...I expect a lot of white L/G activists feel totally blindsided. Hence their anger and disappointment, which will find vent in unfortunate ways, for awhile. It's tough to find out the hard way that the natural solidarity one assumed was there all along never really existed. Now it has to be made. Yet another hurdle.<BR/> <BR/>I don't quite know how these things work in CA, but if they can get a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-53977830613035544712008-11-10T12:50:00.000+11:002008-11-10T12:50:00.000+11:00Now now, Stephanie, plenty of Christians support g...Now now, Stephanie, plenty of Christians support gay marriage. Like me! and Sebastian's godfathers!<BR/>Glad the conference is good ... say hi to Tom ... any news re the 2010 event? We're sposed to meet Wednesday and I'm sposed to report back ...<BR/>xxoo LWLanglandinSydneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02076779340305316211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-29435694804558311512008-11-10T02:24:00.000+11:002008-11-10T02:24:00.000+11:00The Australians couldn’t understand how the US cou...<I>The Australians couldn’t understand how the US could elect a black president but overturn the right to gay marriage, until we were reminded that the Civil Rights movement, which helped Obama to power, is a Christian movement, and so perhaps not sympathetic to gay marriage. I’m sure these are shocking generalisations, though.</I>.<BR/><BR/>From what I understand, there's been a lot of racist medievalkarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440542200843836794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-41078726337406541682008-11-10T00:36:00.000+11:002008-11-10T00:36:00.000+11:00I am SO sorry to have missed the conference ... th...I am SO sorry to have missed the conference ... though I must say that its east coast rival event (Touching the Past) featured nocturnal fez wearing. I bet that didn't happen at Riverside.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.com