What King fails to realize is that when he is called a ‘faggot’ (I’m guessing thats the term used), he isn’t then likely to get beaten up in an alleyway for being gay.Barney Frank has to take that possibility into account.The difference between King’s supposed situation and Frank’s is one has a violent threat as [...]
Its true, Christianity’s views on sex are as divorced from reality as, well, all its other views.Rob Asghar: Bristol Palin And The Trouble With Christian Sex
Forget the tired notion that Christians are “against” sex. They’re as wildly for it as anyone; that’s what got Bristol into trouble. Christians simply have an idealized notion of sex [...]
This is a nice little, what, survey of the out-of-touch-with-personal-reality the Republican Party appear to be suffering from.
An open letter to conservatives | AmericanDad’s Blog.
Yes, its true. She can carry a baby and think at the same time, so long as by ‘think’ you mean ‘not able to answer simple questions about politics’ or maybe ‘able to say anything that isn’t out-and-out self-serving ignorance’.But yeah, I suppose that makes her a threat then.What Do Sarah Palin and Jesus Christ [...]
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I’m not going to quote from the article because I think its worth everyone giving it a good read all the way through.
pandagon.net: Battering Is Not Losing Your Head
Two important points.
First, all domestic violence is wrong.
Second, systematic abuse is different from ‘one off’ abuse.
As a rule, the screaming heard from people about the horrors of [...]
So, for those of you who missed this, a City Councilman in Asheville, NC may lose his seat because he is an athiest and, apparently, that makes him a second class citizen. Not just socially, but legally.Foes say atheism disqualifies pol – BostonHerald.com
That has riled conservative activists, who cite a little-noticed quirk in North Carolina’s [...]
I really don’t understand this position at all. While I do understand the idea that the atheist movement might need to deal more politely with those of faith (’understand’, not necessarily ‘agree with’), the idea that somehow saying that one can be good without god is too strong an attack on religion is ludicrous. It [...]
Which is sadder…the fact that the distinction between the Washington Times and Fox News is virtually non-existent, or that the Times has simply stopped trying to do anything resembling responsible reporting and is simply reposting from blogs without doing any fact-checking? At what point do should you be required to no longer refer to yourself [...]
I often disagree with Melissa (though, more often than not, I actually agree with her), but this is just spot on. its a response to a woman who is drowning in a mortgage she direly wants to get out of, and, of course, this woman wanted to go to the whole 9/12 thing in DC [...]