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Sam Harris on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism

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Mitt Romney Says He Would Deny Spousal Benefits To Gay Veterans

Mitt Romney and the Vietnam veteran in the below video are the same age. And in the years that this veteran was in Vietnam, Mitt Romney was in prep school, gay-bashing a classmate and cutting off his girlish-long hair. After … Continue reading

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The Book of Mormon Musical is Coming to Los Angeles: West Coast Premiere at the Pantages Theatre, September 5 – November 25, 2012

Here’s a site to watch for tickets to go on sale. Should Mitt Romney appear headed for the presidency in the fall, the timing couldn’t be better. Here’s one of the songs. _____ And here’s the 60 Minutes piece on the musical: … Continue reading

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A Question for Mitt Romney

As a Mormon, you have struggled against born-again Christian voter prejudice. Presumably, you wish that evangelicals would not judge your candidacy on this single criterion—the fact that you’re a Mormon. Given your experience of religiously-based sectarian snubbing at the polls, … Continue reading

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Ken Starr on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism

_____ Well put: If an unbeliever such as Jefferson or non-churchman like Lincoln can serve brilliantly as president, then America should stand — in an intolerant world characterized all too frequently by religious persecution — as a stirring example of … Continue reading

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Robert Jeffress: Mitt Romney and Other Mormons Are Not “Part of the Christian Family”

At RD Magazine, Sarah Posner reports that Rick Perry supporter, the Rev. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church Dallas, excludes Mormonism from Christianity, quoting him as saying the following: [Mormons] have never been considered by evangelical Christians to be part of … Continue reading

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Forbidden Intellectual Porn: The Under 30 Crowd Appears to Be Dropping the Religious Beliefs of Their Parents in Record Numbers? Why?

Ted Cox, a former Mormon who lost his own faith in a library, has a theory: knowledge is power—it’s long been the forbidden fruit—and the Internet makes that fruit more widely and readily accessible than ever before (to religion’s detriment): Preachers and pastors lament the … Continue reading

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“8: The Mormon Proposition” premiers this weekend

If you’re in Los Angeles (or one of the other large urban areas in the United States) you might want to check out this new documentary on gay rights and equality—and the religious right’s attempts to reverse them:

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Glenn Beck, Secret Atheist?

Is Glenn Beck sending out coded messages to his atheist compadres, or shall we simply ask the Heavenly Father to forgive him, for he knoweth not what he quoteth from? I ask because Glenn Beck, at the start of his show, … Continue reading

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Would Christian Brit Hume Have Said to Glenn Beck (a Mormon) What He Said to Tiger Woods (a Buddhist)?

To gage Brit Hume’s sincerity in extending a nationally televised public invitation to Buddhist Tiger Woods to become a Christian (for the proper sort of “forgiveness” supposedly not available to Woods otherwise), I think that we can ask one simple question: … Continue reading

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“White Culture”: Is Glenn Beck Serious about Discussing What He Means By Using the Phrase?

Of course not. Glenn Beck is not seriously trying to have a dialogue about the subject. He’s not having an exchange. He’s communicating to a base audience in racial code. He won’t even attempt a dialogue on “white culture” with, … Continue reading

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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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HATERoSEXual MARRIAGE: Defining Gay People OUT

Andrew Sullivan today asks a good question about anti-homosexual HETEROSEXUALS who would exclude gays from civil marriage recognition: Why are their marriages defined not by the virtues they sustain but the people they exclude?

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No on Proposition 8: An Articulate Endorsement of Gay Marriage in California by the Conservative Orange County Register

Money quote: Our preference would be for the government not to be involved in marriage, the most fundamental of institutions in a civil society. Why two people who want to be married should be required to get a license from … Continue reading

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