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Gay Marriage is Good for Your State
Andrew Sullivan goes after the canard that legalizing gay marriage might spike divorce rates in the United States: Washington State’s divorce rate [where gay marriage is already legal] is lower than Idaho’s [where it’s not]; divorce rates across the country … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, gay, gay equality, gay marriage, lesbian, women's equality
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Rick Warren: Gay Orientation Is Natural, Like Arsenic
Rick Warren recently said on CNN that, if you’re gay and act on your orientation, you’re doing something akin to punching a person in the nose or cheating on your spouse! Oh, and being gay is like arsenic. Here’s his … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, freedom, gay equality, homophobia, Jesus, liberty, rick warren, women's rights
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Christian Martin Gaskell’s Shabby Treatment by Gnu Atheists
Martin Gaskell is a University of Texas astronomer who applied for a job at the University of Kentucky, but because of his open evangelical faith, he was denied it. The following is what the search committee chairman wrote in an email to the department chair: … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheists, bigotry, Christianity, gnu atheists, God, jerry coyne, Jesus, martin gaskell, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins
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An Anti-Gay Marriage Argument from Ross Douthat
At the New York Times this week, Ross Douthat tells us what Western marriage is, and why gays can’t play: This ideal holds up the commitment to lifelong fidelity and support by two sexually different human beings — a commitment … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, Catholicism, Christianity, freedom, gay, gay equality, gay marriage, God, Jesus, lesbian, ross douthat, the Bible
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A Little Reminder of Mitt Romney’s Willingness to Scapegoat Atheists and Agnostics for the Purposes of Uniting the Republican Party
Mitt Romney—in a speech to Republicans on December 6, 2007—tried to drive secular people like me to America’s margins as the invisible and dehumanized others. I bring this up now, in 2010, because Romney is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, agnostics, atheism, atheists, bigotry, conservatism, Jesus, mitt romney, mormons, Republicans, the doubting community
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Arizona’s new anti-immigration law made simple
. Hat tip: Jerry Coyne
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Tagged America, arizona, bigotry, California, civil rights, immigration, jerry coyne, Mexican American, Phoenix, racism, Republicans
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Gays are an “abomination” and should “surely be put to death”: Leviticus says it, Miss Beverly Hills 2010 believes it, and that settles it?
Lauren Ashley, Miss Beverly Hills 2010, shares her thoughts on the Bible and gay people with Fox News: “The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, gay, gay equality, gay marriage, God, Jesus, lesbian, leviticus, miss beverly hills, the Bible
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IM GAY is Not Okay in OK?
This today at NewsOK: A college student wants IM GAY on his Oklahoma car tag, and he is suing to force state tax officials to approve his request. . His name is Keith Kimmel: . I want … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, freedom, gay equality, gay marriage, gay rights, James Dobson, Jesus, keith kimmel, lesbian, out of the closet
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Say the secret password
Hint: It rhymes with Venus.
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Tagged bigotry, discrimination, equality, freedom, gay equality, gay marriage, gays in the military, lesbian, marriage, weddings
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Rick Schlosser and Lawrence Swaim on Sherry Marquez’s Inane Demonization of All Muslims
The true nature of Islam is on display in the murder trial of a Muslim man in New York who beheaded his wife? That’s the essentialist conclusion of an elected Republican official in Southern California: Lancaster councilwoman Sherry Marquez. Here’s how … Continue reading
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What It’s Like to Be Gay in Uganda
The man with a bag over his head in the video below is from Uganda. He is seeking asylum in the United States, but because his asylum petition could fail he dares not show his face in public. Why? Because … Continue reading
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Tagged asylum, bigotry, Christian fundamentalism, gay equality, gay marriage, human rights, James Dobson, Jesus, lesbian, Moses, uganda
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Finger to the Wind: Dennis Anderson, Editor of the Antelope Valley Press, Weighs in on the Sherry Marquez v. Islam Controversy (Sort of)
Dennis Anderson, the editor of the Antelope Valley Press—a paper that serves the northern Los Angeles County cities of Palmdale and Lancaster—is in the unenvious position of walking a fine line between the paper’s large Republican readership and the obvious fact that one of its local … Continue reading
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Yes, We’re Living in the 21st Century
I think. This today at Alternet: The Ugandan parliament is currently considering an “Anti-Homosexuality Bill,” under which any person “convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment.”
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The Torture Debate, UFO Cults, and People Impervious to Changing Their Minds
Ryan Sager sees a connection: I have yet to see a single pundit or politician change his of her position on torture or “enhanced interrogation” based on anything that’s come out since the torture memos. Isn’t that odd? Well, not … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, faith, philosophy, prejudice, reason, science, skepticism, torture, torture debate, ufo cults, UFOs
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A Trip Down Sodomy Lane with Mike Huckabee and Ann Coulter
In January, Mike told Ann he’s against them Sodomites. Scout’s honor: Ain’t the contemporary Republican Party grand?
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Tagged bigotry, evangelicals, feminism, gay marriage, gay rights, Genesis, homophobia, Jesus, lesbianism, mormonism, Sodom, utah
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Republican Richard Nixon on Homosexuality (1971)
The whole Nixon performance here is bigoted, but at around the 6:28 mark in the above clip he speaks in an especially noxious way, talking admirably of what “strong societies”, such as the Soviet Union, do with homosexuals (presumably killing or imprisoning them). All in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1971, authoritarianism, bigotry, gay marriage, gay rights, homosexuality, lesbian, Nixon, Republican, Richard Nixon, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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Prometheus Unbound 