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There’s a lot of people who staked their political capital and professional credibility on the idea that Terri Schiavo was not a vegetable, that she could be healed, that Jesus loved her that much. Well, tough shit. They went all in on that bet, and now it’s time to make these pay. Turns out that science was right, and their kind of sick twisted faith was wrong.
Read moreReviving a major plank of his re-election campaign, President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Tuesday. It’s like a broken record, ain’t it? You’d think by now that Chimpy’s pious, brain-dead following would wake up and smell the giant pile of cowdung that their Dear Leader is shoveling at them. But alas, no.
Read moreI’ve sent a series of letters to U.S. Methodist Bishops trying to get them to pay attention to U.S. Government sponsored torture. I finally convinced two out of fifty to do something.
Read moreIs the Constitution still on Display at the National Archives? Are we bothering with the pretext any longer?
Read moreI felt compelled to write another to the U.S. Methodist Bishops. My friend Glenda chastised me, saying I was going to cause them to just start deleting my messages. Indeed, at least two already do that (I request a read receipt). But as I told her, I can’t stop them from doing that, but I feel an obligation to try to move them. I can only do what I can do, and they will only do what they feel compelled to do.
Read moreAccording to a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fred Phelps and members of the congregation of his Westboro Baptist Church will picket the funeral of an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. The church has been picketing the funerals of other soldiers as well.
Read moreThe president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States? ?illegal and unjust war? yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington.
Read moreI believe we as a nation are acting egregiously in this “War On Terror,” and I believe that good people in this country are standing by and letting it happen. It has happened previously in the history of the world, and the consequences have been dire. So, I will make a deal with you. I will stop pestering you about the issue of U.S. Government Sponsored torture, if you will write a letter to the President, and ask that the U.S. cease torturing captured prisoners, charge or release detainees (especially women and children), and observe all tenants of the Geneva Conventions regardless of the ?status? he elects to assign these people. I do not believe that is asking too much.
Read moreMaking the rounds of the blogoshpere is the blog of 16 year old boy who came out to his fundamentalist parents. They had him committed to a Tennessee-based “re-education” facility. Some Ex-gay ministry called Love In Action.
Read moreMaking the rounds of the blogoshpere is the blog of 16 year old boy who came out to his fundamentalist parents. They had him committed to a Tennessee-based “re-education” facility. Some Ex-gay ministry called Love In Action.
Read moreFormer Sen. Jesse Helms acknowledges he was wrong about the AIDS epidemic, but believes integration was forced before its time by “outside agitators who had their own agendas,” according to advance proofs of his memoir.
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