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Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
Think of the Children!
Joe Jervis over at J.M.G. linked an excellent video into his blog today. Created by Rob Tisinai, it is a response to both the claims of Hak-Shing William Tam at the Prop 8 trial and the hateful ignorance spewed by Heteroseparatist.com.
Atheist
While I consider myself and Agnostic rather than an Atheist, I think this video defends my beliefs as well. Give it a look.
Social Networking and the Attenuation of Friendship
Has the intimate personal friendship given way to a digital simulacra of friendship with all the permanence and depth of a 140-character tweet? William Deresiewicz thinks so..
Dan Savage on the Institution of Marriage
Dan Savage waxes eloquent and wise on the institution of marriage.
True Love in Action: The Campaign to Save Bryce Faulkner
Take a minute to watch this video about yet another young gay guy being put through an ex-gay conversion concentration camp. He disappeared into this nightmare a while back, and his friends (and boyfriend) are trying to find him.
The Least of These: The Correlation Between American Christianity & Torture
A new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows a strong direct correlation between American’s support for the torture of detainees and the number of church services they regularly attend.
Olbermann v. Foxx
I was going to go off on Virginia Foxx today, but Keith Olbermann did it better than I could possibly have hope to.
Wait, isn’t this Treason?
I was under the impression that threatening secession was treason. Apparently that doesn’t phase the governor of Texas, or the legislators of Georgia.
Amazon.fail
So over the last week or so, Amazon.com started removing the sales ranking of, and re-classifying into the “Adult” category, all books portraying homosexuality in a positive light, containing gay romances, etc. Authors of these books saw their placement levels drop and their sales begin to tail off. After a massive wave of protests on [...]
