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The leader of the Muslim Council of Britain has said religious leaders should join together to voice their opposition to “harmful” civil partnerships and sexual diversity. Sir Iqbal Sacranie told BBC Radio 4’s “PM” program that homosexuality is “not acceptable” and that the United Kingdom’s new civil partnership laws will be detrimental to society, according to media reports.
Read moreAhhhh, those good family values Southern Baptist Preachers. According to a report on the website of Oklahoma TV station KOCO, an executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a plainclothes policeman outside a hotel.
Read moreYou read it right folks. Joining the ranks of the other children’s characters promoting the ultra-secret homosexual agenda to take over the world is Barbie. So move over Tinky Winky, Lenny the shark, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
Read moreWe human beings have created this concept of time. We like to have beginnings and endings, and we American’s seem especially prone to the shorter increments of time. We celebrate almost all of our important holidays annually. We acknowledge birthdays and anniversaries every year. We note seconds (nano-seconds sometimes), hours, days, the months, the annual cycle of the seasons, and especially the years. It?s pretty traditional, as the we close one calendar and open another, to evaluate the year just past, and contemplate the year to come. So as 2005 fades, I?ll follow tradition and offer up my review of 2005.
Read moreYou think I’m kidding, but According to Family News in Focus, Tom Crouse, pastor of Massachusetts’ Holland Congregational Church, is tired of homos “flooding the marketplace with products and opportunities exclusively for gays and lesbians,” so he has decided to create a contest to “name the most heterosexual guy in Massachusetts.”
Read moreToday, I used the Target, “Contact us” link to send the following message: I am very sorry to learn that Target is electing to allow radical and extreme religious wingnuts ruin your reputation. I am, of course, referring to your recent decision to allow Pharmacists to refuse to dispense legally prescribed medications.
Read moreIt turns out that when suburban mothers buy American Girl dolls that look and dress exactly like their own little girls, they may unwittingly be purchasing tiny, lesbian partners for their children.
Read moreWhat do Democrats stand for? It seems a common refrain, or assumption, that Democrats do not have an overall theme or narrative, and I will certainly agree that the party as a whole does a rather bad job of articulating the message. But it lodged in my brain, and after a half hour of thought I realized that I, at least, know what I stand for. And it’s not complicated.
Read moreIt seem George Takei, Sulu, the Helmsman on Star Trek, has decided its now safe to come out.
Read moreI have learned from an article on Daily Kos that on tonight’s episode of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, will be an extended advertisement for James Dobson’s group, Focus On The Family.
Read moreBy any objective standard, this administration is a dismal failure and has made a mockery of all the things I love about America. Things like fair elections, habeus corpus, privacy, separation of church and state, care for the less fortunate, protecting our homeland, respecting the environment, curbing the power of corporations, standing for human rights, transparency in government, respect for our military, and so many many more. Bush is steering our country back to the pre-New Deal rich-man’s playground of the Robber Baron era, while simultaneously squandering any post-9/11 worldwide goodwill and alienating what few allies we have left.
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