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What Do You Think I Fought For at Omaha Beach?

June 2, 2010August 10, 2015 B. John 1338 Views 1 Comment Maine, Iowa All State Orchestra and Chorus, marriage equality, Phillip Spooner, Melissa Dunphy

This entry is in the series Gay Marriage

Last Fall, during the unfortunately successful campaign to repeal Marriage Equality in Maine, 86 year old WWII Veteran Phillip Spooner stood before a packed hall and delivered a stirring call for equality to a Senate Committee. When asked by a woman at his polling place if he supported equal rights for gay and lesbian people. He tells how surprised he was to even be asked, and said his response was, “What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?” His statement was subsequently set to music by Melissa Dunphy, and was selected as the winning work for the 2010 Simon Carrington Chamber Singers Composition Competition.

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DADT Letter to Rep. Todd Akin (R-MI)

May 27, 2010September 29, 2018 446 Views 0 Comments George Washington, DADT, Todd Akin, House, DADT Repeal, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

This is a letter written to Republican House Member Todd Akin in response to remarks he made today in a floor speech concern the possible repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Funny thing, we owe our victory over the British to a Gay General, and Akin wants to invoke Washington and what he would think.

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The Gay Agenda-Finally Revealed

April 13, 2010 B. John 344 Views 0 Comments Conservapedia, Gay Agenda, Betty Bowers, Wikipedia

I’ve been trying to get a copy for some years now. Sean Chapin has finally put it in a video, and now the secret is out. While Betty Bowers disclosed a version of the Gay Agenda a while back, I think this video version is a more accurate portrayal of what those nasty boys are up to.

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Scaring People to Christianity

April 7, 2010August 10, 2015 649 Views 0 Comments Revelation, Theology, christian, right wing, Christianity, Easter, Bible, Micah

Easter Sunday afternoon me and Lay went to his parent’s farm down in Ruskin to hide Easter eggs and eat. At one point, I was running to a nearby Walgreens to pickup a couple of items. I was stopped at the traffic waiting to turn in and noticed a young man on the corner holding a large sign and his Bible. I felt sorry for him, because the picture was one of an angry God, and I have trouble with that image, but it’s an image held by too many on the religious right.

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Keep America Beautiful

February 21, 2010August 10, 2015 565 Views 0 Comments Environment, One News Now, environmental protection, pat robertson, AFA, Global Warming, Dr. John Christy

Over at One News Now (an ultra-conservative non-news outlet), they published another story this week trying to refute the idea of Global Warming, with what may be the most absurd argument yet. Christians are called to believe that the earth is the creation of God and is a gift given to humans for our care and nurturing. I believe that responsible Christians are especially called on to protect the environment and all in it. So why have so many so-called Christian Leaders and Organizations seen fit to argue over the nuances of data collection instead of concerning themselves with the deterioration of the environment and the ever increasing cost of energy? To whom are they beholding?

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Recipe for Junk Science

February 18, 2010September 29, 2018 B. John 348 Views 0 Comments Scientific Research, junk science, Pam's House Blend, Comments, recipe

Take one preconceived notion and grasp it strongly. Bake this idea into your mind until well seared. If necessary, run around shouting it at the top of your lungs with your ears plugged and eyes shut so as to drown out any competing notions.

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Florida Highway Patrolman Doesn't Have A Quota Just 200 Extra Tickets

February 15, 2010 B. John 323 Views 0 Comments Miami, FHP, Florida Highway Patrol, traffic tickets, quota, Paul C. Lawrence

We’ve got a Florida Highway Patrol trooper who has been arrested for writing over 200 bogus tickets (so far), and the only statement from the Highway Patrol is that troopers don’t have quotas. I’m wondering how many of you believe that?

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Charter for Compassion

February 12, 2010August 10, 2015 B. John 467 Views 0 Comments compassion, charter, equity, justice, Respect

The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.

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Another Cause of the Gay – Masons

February 2, 2010May 7, 2016 B. John 1170 Views 0 Comments Joseph Nicolosi, NARTH, National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, Patrick Strudwick, The Independent, Gay Conversion, Ex-gay therapy, Ex-gay, Patrick Stettner

This entry is in the series Causes of The Gay

Patrick Strudwick is a journalist for the British paper, The Independent. Strudwick spent some time undercover going to therapist sessions with a therapist who would attempt to convert him from gay to straight, apparently by discerning the cause of his homosexuality.

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Book of Eli, The – A Movie Review

January 22, 2010 B. John 440 Views 0 Comments Denzel Washington, Apocalypse, Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Bible

In the not-too-distant future, a solitary man walks across the wasteland that was once America. There is no civilization here, no law. The roads belong to gangs that would murder a man for his shoes, an ounce of water… or for nothing at all. But they’re no match for this traveler. It’s not his life he guards so fiercely but his hope for the future; a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years and is determined to realize. Overall, this movie is probably worth watching, but wait until it is out on video.

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Being Friends with God

January 17, 2010August 10, 2015 424 Views 0 Comments prayer, Sunday School, Haiti, MLK, Martin Luther King

Today in Sunday School, We still going through the Rick Warren book. This discussion was about being friends with God. The discussion went off in a number of directions, and I’m not sure how much I got out of this week. Today is also the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., so I wanted to work in a reference to that in today’s prayer. I heard a great story this morning on NPR about how King had once been asked, in his teenage years, what he was looking at as he stared out the Window. He was watching the gas lamp lighter going along lighting the gas lights. King said he was watching the man, “knock holes in the darkness.”