What Ike Skelton ought to be worried about is what mommy and daddy are going to tell the 17 year-old child who comes to them and asks why the U.S. Congress is allowing the government to discriminate against people on the basis of private sexuality.

A list of the Republicans and Democrats who crossed party lines on this week’s vote on an amendment that would repeal the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military policy of discrimination against homosexual soldiers.

Charles Djou may say that he supports “strong families and a diverse community”, but in practice, Djou only supports those families that follow his narrow beliefs. Djou seeks to ban legal recognition of other families.

Apparently, traditional marriage the way that Representative Souder was practicing it was in the form of the union of one man with two women.

If he believes the federal government should be promoting a marriage culture, then Jay Riermersma would favor removing roadblocks that stop people who want to get married from actually being able to tie the knot, right?

Independent congressional candidate Bruce Teich says only that he’s “pro-marriage”, but what does that mean? Does it mean that he’s in favor of marriage, and therefore supports the equal right to marry for homosexual as well as heterosexual couples?

Tracey Mann has received $5,500 from employees of the International Foundation – the only congressional candidate to have received International Foundation money in this campaign cycle.

Congressman Jason Chaffetz is aligned with the Religious Right, and the Religious Right demands that there will be no marriage equality for same-sex couples, so if opposing marriage equality means adopting a pose of allowing democratic choice for the definition of marriage, Chaffetz will do it.

The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments. Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government’s power, when local governments want to deny people rights. When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.

It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

Jonathan Tasini is the only candidate for New York’s junior Senate seat to have signed the Dallas Principles for speedy recognition of LGBT rights.