Publisher's Editorial

Gay men and women smoke pot, and we are not alone. Straight men and women do too. In fact, let’s be real. Most of the country does. That is why in state after state, and ballot after ballot, voters are decriminalizing marijuana use and possession.

Marijuana is now legal under state law for medical purposes in 16 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing nearly one-third of the American population. More than 1,000 dispensaries provide medical marijuana; many are well regulated by state and local law authorities and pay substantial taxes. But though more than 70 percent of Americans support legalizing medical marijuana, any use of marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

Okay, I am violating a few editorial rules here by speaking in the first person, but I am just thinking how one of my mentors, Hunter S. Thompson, would have handled this Christian themed event I attended Friday and Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Five hours after spending the night whoring around the dens of homosexual promiscuity in the all too gay Du Pont Circle, I surrendered my soul to the gathering of shirts and ties formulating a new, more religious America at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.

This past weekend, in Washington, D.C., our nation celebrated the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial. Only seven days before that, also in the nation’s Capital, a ‘Values’ Summit held by leaders of the regressive right, paraded speaker after speaker to a podium announcing how homosexuality presents a threat to the nation’s security, families, and probably the solar system. It was a message of intolerance and fear. Dr. King would not have stood for that, nor should you.

In this week's paper, on page 5, SFGN reported the news that Rep. Jared Polis, became the first openly gay member of Congress to become a father. He received warm wishes from around the country and in the LGBT media  after he and his partner announced the arrival of their newborn son. But not everywhere.