BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

To truly be successful, this initiative must utilize the unique resources and identity of the faith community, while at the same time recognizing the indispensible role that government and public policy must play in tackling the root causes of poverty. truthout
But at bottom, the faith-based initiative, no matter the clunky name Obama affixes to [...]

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I had no illusions.  I didn’t kid myself that he was perfect.  From the start, there were things that bugged me.
He supports the death penalty even as he acknowledges it does little or nothing to deter crime.  (He’s credited with working to reform its application here in Illinois, but from my POV, this is a [...]

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I’ve never been able to muster much good feeling for the slimy, hateful puppy-beating, possibly pedophilic reprobate, but if he’s going to encourage his addlepated followers not to vote for John McCain and, in fact, not to vote at all for either candidate for President in November, that’s a James Dobson that works for me.
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Gary G. is a Christian. He is very involved in his church, reads his bible religiously (so to speak), and believes to the core of his soul that he is “saved” and will one day go to heaven and be filled with joy for all eternity.
Gary’s religious beliefs bring him a sort of peace [...]

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I’m usually not very interested in the religious debates for/against gay rights.  Pinning your argument on a myth does little to clarify anything.
But I was waiting for Al Gore to appear on Countdown and surfing around the blogs and came across this.   Bearcastle Blog has a religious take that’s actually quite interesting:
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If you’re wandering about DC this week, watch out for Very Serious People, dressed in government drag, walking into traffic while all their attention is fixed on a scrap of paper.
These are Republicans who ride the tiger of the Religious Wrong Right and who are studying the 10 Commandments, skeered silly they’ll fall into the [...]

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Who would ever have thought major storms will hit the US coastline in 2006 (I mean, other than these guys, these guys, these guys, these guys, and these guys)?
It’s a miracle, I tell you! Who, other than every reliable climatologist on the face of the earth Pat, via The Man Upstairs, has this kind [...]

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A message of inclusion. Well, gosh, who wouldn’t be offended by that???? CNN, Lifetime, BET, Hallmark, History, TBS, TNT, E!, Lifetime, SI-TV, and Azteca America wouldn’t. That’s who. Shame on the rest of you! Double shame on LOGO.
Each of the Big Three networks, plus Fox’s broadcast network, have rejected a paid [...]

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All Spin Zone has an interesting take on the execrable Fred Phelps and his Church of Everlasting Hatred Westboro Baptist Church.
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Choosing dogma over effective health practices Bush Admin. blows $15B on an AIDS Plan that is so blindly adherent to the demands of the Culties and Propagandists on the Religious Right, it undermines prevention efforts in poor countries. They believe in choice - when the choice is “Cross your legs or die”
The Bush administration’s [...]

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