Liberals often fight for the academic freedom to study topics deemed taboo. Now, CNN reports, some conservative students are battling for the academic freedom not to study books and topics, such as the Qur’an or peace studies, which they prejudge…
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John Aravosis, ImpossibleMike, and Big Muddy IMC comment on the latest Alan Keyes/Larry Klayman political fundraising scam: A national shareholder campaign to force major employers to bar gay-straight employee groups and to deny benefits to gay workers and their families….
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Reasons Why Exgays Should Support Civil Unions
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This is an "open draft" — meaning that I welcome input in creating the list of reasons why exgays should support civil unions. I’ll be out of town on vacation for a week, which means I might have time to…
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Dispatches from the Culture War continues to perceive dishonesty and outright brutality in the political religious right’s battle to split up some families where the gay parent appears to be the better, safer choice to raise the kids. Who wudda…
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From Reuters: Both gay and heterosexual men are equally likely to aspire to an unattainable body type, or to harbor a distorted image of their actual body, new research indicates. This finding contradicts the conventional wisdom that gay men have…
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65gay.com reported Dec. 28: San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer … has told the city it cannot include arguments countering the assertions made by conservative groups opposing same-sex marriage that gays can be cured and that children are…
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The journal Issues in Legal Scholarship published a full issue not too long ago on single-sex marriage. Among the articles is "Nordic Bliss? Scandinavian Registered Partnerships and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate." From the abstract: The proponents of same-sex marriage have…
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Episcopal seminarian Bob Griffith comments on the divide between Christians who, like the fabled Pharisees, demand "right belief" and wage war against independent thinkers and feelers — and those who live out Christ’s mission to love thy neighbor.
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LA Times Profiles Concerned Women for America
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Richard T. Cooper and Johanna Neuman of the LA Times profile the obsessively antigay religious-right outfit Concerned Women for America. While it cites conservative critics of the CWFA’s ideological extremism and incivility, the article at no time balances its coverage…
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Bishop Yvette Flunder of the United Church of Christ finds hateful rhetoric, redefined “moral values,” fear, intolerance, exclusion, racism, sexual bigotry, zeal for war, and anti-Islamic prejudice growing among the leadership of America’s “official” Christian churches. Flunder contrasts this fraud with the…