Category Archives: Society

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Right Wing Lies About Hate Crimes

The religious right has been running around with its hair on fire about the hate crimes bill currently working its way through Congress. Every organization has been sending out emails about how many deviant “sexual orientations” are going to be protected including pedophilia. Right Wing

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Bzzzt! The Detector Goes Off Again!

So Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher has “homosexual” friends, but lets them nowhere near his children. I won’t ask what sort of paragon of Christian morality has friends he can’t allow around his children. Nor will I ask how many “homosexual” friends Joe the Plumber

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Marie Osmond on Marriage Equality

As a kid, I would grab the hairbrush and sing along with Donny and Marie: “I’m a little bit country – I’m a little bit rock-n-roll …” I loved the Osmonds so much – and now my love is finally returned – by Marie Osmond

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Maine Makes it Five!

The Great State of Maine has become the fifth state to recognize marriage equality for gays and lesbians! Gov. Jim Baldacci signed the legislation into law today: “I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the

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Church of the Poisoned Mind

The minds of many social conservatives have gotten so sick, it’s frightening. So Rep. Virginia Foxx, R. North Carolina, thinks Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder was a “hoax.” And she sees fit to say so in the presence of his mother. What is wrong with these

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Misogyny, Homophobia, Racism and Xenophobia

“The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the

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One Word for the Whole World

An ancient Greek myth tells the story of Pandora, created by the gods to be the first woman in the world. She was made as a source of revenge on a man who had obtained fire from Prometheus. To Pandora was given a box she

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And We Bring Help and Peace

Love is the greatest technique for bringing peace. We bring peace when we begin loving others as Christ loved us. We learn to live peaceably with our neighbors not just next door but all those around the world. We are all inter-related. We are all

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Are You Sure We’re Not a Christian Nation?

When President Obama told a press conference in Turkey in April that, “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation,” the usual suspects reacted in the expected ways. Those of us who value the ideal of our people’s civil rights and privileges not tied to

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The Decline of the Culture Wars

Columnist Frank Rich in the New York Times recently joined the company of those who note, as his headline says, that “The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off.” He wrote of the “upside to the economic meltdown,” one which allows citizens to get serious now about