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Tag Archives: gay rights
Tony Perkins: “There’s a shared desire to come behind a candidate.”
Calling Dr. Freud. This is in The New York Times today: “There’s a shared desire to come behind a candidate,” said Tony Perkins, the President of the Family Research Council, a national lobbying group that opposes abortion and equal rights … Continue reading
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Tagged equal rights, Freud, gay rights, tony perkins, women's rights
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Get a Free “Open for Business to Everyone!” Sign
“Open for business to everyone!” If you’re a business owner and want to show support for gay equality, below is a link to run off a copy of the above sign to put in your storefront window. It comes via … Continue reading
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Fred Phelps (1929-2014): The Logician Made Flesh
He’s dead, but who was Fred Phelps, really? He was a logician; a logician made flesh; the reductio ad absurdum of the anti-gay rights movement. God hates fags. It’s right there in the Bible. Thus he believed, thus he preached, … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, critical thinking, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, God, psychology, religion
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The Paleoconservative “Internationale”: Pat Buchanan Hearts Vladimir Putin
American conservatives have a curious relationship with Vladimir Putin: they recognize him as a macho and authoritarian traditionalist (which they like), yet he’s not an American, but a Russian (which they don’t like). And in a recent article, Pat Buchanan … Continue reading
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For Gays, Jim Crow May Be Coming To Kansas
Jim Crow, Kansas style. In Kansas, Tea Party Republicans don’t just oppose gay marriage, they also favor a law that would allow business owners to discriminate against gay couples. The following bill is winding its way through the Kansas House … Continue reading
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A Film Worth Seeing?
Blue is the Warmest Color, a lesbian coming-of-age film, is three hours long, but Richard Corliss of Time calls it unmissable.
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Tagged art, civil rights, film, gay rights, lesbian, women's rights
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A Pretty Awesome Disruption of Business as Usual
Speaking truth to power and standing up for the stigmatized and persecuted.
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Tagged dignity, freedom, gay equality, gay rights, Russia, women's rights
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Does God Love Uganda?
American evangelicals certainly think so, and a new documentary, God Loves Uganda, tells the story of their interaction with the country, and how that interaction is impacting cultural politics there (most especially in relation to a new death penalty law … Continue reading
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Hatred of Gays in Missouri and France
The following was reported at The Huffington Post this week: Roger Gorley went to Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday to visit Allen, his partner of five years. But when he got there, a member of Allen’s … Continue reading
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A New Republican Language on Gay Marriage?
Here’s hoping:
Good News for Gay Marriage in California
As reported at the Huffington Post today, Andrew Koppelman, a law professor at Northwestern University, thinks the Supreme Court justices are likely to let stand a lower court ruling overturning Proposition 8 (California’s ban on gay marriage). Why? Because on … Continue reading
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Chick-fil-A Hate-In: Dan Cathy and Rick Warren Gloat over the Chick-fil-A Hate-In of Gay People
Here’s the president of Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, publicly claiming to focus on his chicken business, not supporting hatred of gay people: Dan T. Cathy @dancathy I’m keeping the main thing, the main thing. Chick-fil-A is about great food, great service and … Continue reading
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Ted Haggard Links Sexual Behavior to Belief in Evolution
He appears to have fingered the wrong culprit.
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Tagged atheism, atheist, creationism, equality, evolution, gay rights, sex, sexuality, ted haggard, the closet
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Andrew Sullivan Reacts to North Carolina’s Anti-Gay Amendment to Its State Constitution
Andrew Sullivan calls North Carolina’s anti-civil rights vote last night “the politics of spite” and writes the following: Absorbing the blow from last night is hard. If a victory for marriage equality happens, straight couples can go about their lives … Continue reading
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