Why does the State care about marriage anyway?
Stand To Reason Blog asserts what they consider the essential Rational Basis for the State to oppose gay marriage:...marriage isn't an issue of fairness. It's not a civil right. It's necessarily...
View ArticleSpoken Sango: a musical language
For those of you wondering what Sango is, wonder no more. Sango is the national language of the Central African Republic (the official language being French). There are also numerous tribal languages,...
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LDS proxy baptism is none of my business
Poor tormented soul.Obama's mother was abducted recently. Last seen on Cloud 9, her soul was brazenly stolen by proxy baptists, posthumously baptized into the LDS Church, and is feared lost in a...
View ArticleThe Black Dyke got it just right
The black dyke got it wrong. No one told her the rules.Thus allegedly (and laconically) did Christopher Hitchens call out Wanda Sykes over her undiplomatic and sarcastic “humorous” jabs at all things...
View ArticleObama, remember us?
The road to the White House is paved with broken promises.Obama promised as a candidate to end Don't Ask Don't Tell. He is the Commander-in-Chief. He has a Congress begging to do his bidding. He...
View ArticlePrimus inter pares: a strategic blunder
While reading Stuart Whatley's blog post Moral Majority or Immoral Minority?, I was struck by one sentence:If conservatives wish to elevate their fight against same-sex marriage to primus inter pares...
View ArticleCheney is playing Obama...good!
Full disclosure: I loathe Dick Cheney.Now, after torturing prisoners of war, illegally wiretapping Americans, and conspiring to out Valerie Plame, Cheney dares to shame President Obama into agreeing...
View ArticlePope trolling for Anglicans
The NYTimes reports that the Vatican is bidding to Get Anglicans to join the Catholic fold, while maintaining their separate traditions of non-celibate clergy. It seems that politics trumps long-held...
View ArticleHydrogen's Love Affair with Helium
One lonely Hydrogen atom sees how noble Helium is and wants to join with another Hydrogen atom to form a Hydrogen marriage. At first, they just moved in together, but inevitably a third Hydrogen would...
View ArticleCatholic ultimatum: Obey, or the poor will starve!
What would Jesus do?Jesus had no trouble interacting with prostitutes, beggars, and Samaritans. He was not an -ism sort of guy. When his questioners phrased their queries in the third person ("What...
View ArticleSins of the Father
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School in Boulder, CO recently expelled a preschooler because the child's parents are lesbians. The Archdiocese of Denver has released a statement justifying the...
View ArticleSometimes bad cases make good law
Most of you are well acquainted with the antics of professional scumbag Fred Phelps, whose mantra "God Hates Fags" now extends to anyone who dies in defense of our Constitution that defends the right...
View ArticleGood Friday from an ex-Catholic Perspective
What does Good Friday mean to me who do not believe that Jesus was God?I think it is useful to place Jesus' atonement within the context of his time. The Jewish requirements of atonement include...
View ArticleTime for the Pope to Walk on Water
The Rev. James Martin, S.J., a faithful Catholic and Jesuit priest, has recently written an excellent essay titled “The Church's Easter: What Needs to Die in the Catholic Church so That it May Live”,...
View ArticleNo hierarchy of fiction
Recently, a friend of mine (raised fundamentalist Evangelical) railed against the “cultist superstition of Mormons”. It was a throwaway conversation filler, and I knew I was expected to conflate my...
View ArticleIt gets better, really!
Joel Burns, currently on the Fort Worth TX City Council, was moved by the recent epidemic of gay teen suicide, to make his own video (and personal testimonial) for Dan Savage's It Gets Better project,...
View ArticleHaiku-tainment for the Prose-Weary
For those who value form over substance, I offer up for public ridicule some haiku musings of mine, reprinted (and slightly edited) from here.On gay marriage:Kekkon waObama ni yorebaOkama dameAs for...
View ArticleAre Mormons like planets?
Mormon virtues are usually listed as thrift, industry, duty, self-reliance, risk aversion, pursuit of prosperity, and respect for authority. Detractors will often list these very same traits using less...
View ArticleHow not to come out to your parents
I'm a sucker for coming-out stories, and the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) was underscored with moving videos of coming-out stories. Most viral among them is a video by Airman Randy Phillips...
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