It is better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corp...
....Teddy Kennedy
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“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact”
....Richard Dawkins
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You campaigned for them, voted for them, got them into office. Now hold their feet to the fire
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Barney Frank, whom I admire greatly, says it is.
Frank feels it would be a better expenditure of time and effort to lobby elected officials and get friends and family to do so, too.
Now, I’ve got to say this is a bit of an awkward slog for me. Where do I get the nerve to think [...]
Last night, the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill giving the OK to same sex marriage. Passed it by a healthy margin, too. 95-52. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
The frustrating thing is that’s just a handful of votes short of what it would take to override the veto Republican Gov. [...]
PhyllisDel
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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, [...]
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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__________________________ "Christianity has nothing to do with Christ and probably never has, unless Christ was a close-minded, misogynistic, war-loving, imperialistic, homophobic, aggressive hater of anything he didn't understand or agree with. " ....Unknown
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