This is not a marriage. No matter whatit might look like. No siree-bob. If they havekids, they will not be a family. Nope.This message brought to you by a lot oforganizations with the word “family”in their names, so they know whatthey’re talking about. So far, Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann […]
Read More“All great leaps forward in liberty and equality”
Ed Brayton has a very moving (to me) post today about the progressive acceptance of equality in the face of absolutist proclamations that the faith of the majority rejects it. Using an argument from Southern Baptist Al Mohler which appeals entirely to tradition and biblical exegesis as an example, he […]
Read MorePareidolia of the day: Holy sh!t!
Today’s incidence of pareidolia is a doozy. Or a doo-….no, I’m just not going there. The title for this post was enough. For the record, pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images […]
Read MoreFirst Amendment quiz
Reading all of the commentaries yesterday about how little Americans appreciate the significance of Independence Day (or the 4th of July, if you’re feeling generic) made me wonder how much of that is actually true and how much is cynicism. Do people really not know what yesterday was originally intended […]
Read More“….Seriously?” Part: the end
…and cue the inevitable “Can’t we all just get along?” post. Hemant Mehta does a good job of summarizing the whole very high-school situation, though I’m not sure what the point is with the whole “Female 1” and “Female 2” thing. If you’re interested, read. Interest in attending any future […]
Read More“…Seriously?” part 2
Somebody purporting to be Richard Dawkins apparently made some rather idiotic comments on Pharyngula of the “people have it worse than you, so how dare you complain about your own situation” variety, and Jen McCreight rightly excoriates him (or his impersonator) for it. For reference on these remarks, see this. Whether that […]
Read MoreLinks!
Pat Robertson declares that just as every other country to accept homosexuality and gay marriage has failed, so shall the U.S. One wonders exactly how Robertson defines failure, given that Denmark legalized civil unions in 1985 and many other countries have embraced gays as equal to a similar or greater […]
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