BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

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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How cute are they????? After 55 years (fifty-five years!!!!) together, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin still radiate love and sheer joy at being with each other. These two beautiful women will marry today at 5:01 Pacific time in San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of gay couples planned to rush down to their county [...]

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The Harry Potter books have always been full of surprises and, to be honest, a little teachy-preachy. It’s okay, though, because the lessons are good ones and they inhabit some rollicking good stories. And now we come to find JK Rowling saved the best for last. Now, when all those squidzillions of [...]

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So another study seems to indicate we are born with our sexual orientation already determined. We are straight or gay long before we even know there might be a choice to be made, so we may as well own it and celebrate it, whichever it is.
While the results of this particular study might seem [...]

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The good:
New US church leader says homosexuality no sin
Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.
The bad:
Pentagon lists homosexuality as disorder
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, [...]

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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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AARGH! I hate oversleeping. I like to ease gently into the day. Jumping out of bed and rushing around leaves me foggy-brained and irritable for a good part of the morning.
Waiting for the coffee to kick in and jumpstart said brain, I am essentially on automatic pilot this morning. Normally, I [...]

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on a farm outside Sven’s Finger, Minnesota.
Podfisk
Gotta be something like lutefisk, no? Apparently not.
Living out in the wilds of Shit-To-Do, Illinois, ourselves, we are limited to dialup service and can’t verify for ourselves that it is

a podcast version of a fisking. A fisking - a term derived from the many times bloggers have dissected [...]

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We heart Russ.
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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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One of the slimier slimeballs of our time is undoubtedly Fred Phelps. He and his travelling band of hate-filled nutjobs are obsessed with gay people to a point that makes even some of the fundiest of fundies back off and disown them. These sick bastards are so consumed with other people’s sex lives [...]

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From Pandagon
This event is a day-long vow of silence taken by students who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools and to recognize and protest discrimination and harassment.
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In my own experience with car dealers, “integrity” is not a word that’s come up much.
But if you’re in the market for a new or used vehicle and live in or near Niles, Michigan, this is your guy. When a rightwingnut homophobe sent him an email telling him he had been considering a Ford, [...]

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One of our favorite blogs, Republic of T., will have a report on the White House Easter Egg Roll. Watch for it!
Apt. at the White House « The Republic of T.
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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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