Jesus to protesters: “Don’t do it on my account!”
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Hanukkah Stories
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t think there’ve been enough Hannukah-related blog posts going up. There have been some excellent Christmas tree ideas, but those of us in the I’m-half-Jewish-but-not-really-because-it’s-my-dad-and-he’s-actually-atheist-but-I-can-sing-two-Hanukkah-songs-and-spin-a-dreidel camp need some of our own holiday cheer. The New Yorker has a lovely little collection of stories by Yoni Brenner, just […]
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Put Christ Back Into Christmas… by Killing Him
WHY CAN’T YOU PEOPLE STOP WITH THE “SANTA CLAUSE” NONSENSE ALREADY, AND REALIZE THAT CHRISTMAS IS ACTUALLY ABOUT CHRIST?? SO MUCH SO, IN FACT, THAT I CAN’T TURN MY CAPS OFF!!Oh, there we go. That’s better. Anyway, for those who really, really want to bum out your holiday guests, or Santa while he’s dropping off […]
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The Ex-Gay Movement
Let’s not delude ourselves about anti-gay “religious” leaders in the US and their ultimate aims… Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to […]
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Heaven Is Like a Monster Truck Rally
Only straight people go. And hell is like an Atlantis Cruise or a Lady Gaga concert or a men’s underpants store—only gay people go. At least that’s the impression you get scanning the headlines. Mayor Osby Davis Last week the mayor of a city in California that no one outside California had ever heard of […]
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Who’s Behind Uganda’s Proposed “Kill the Gays” Law?
The man pushing a law in Uganda—which is likely to pass—that would result in the execution of Ugandan gays and lesbians is deeply involved with the American evangelical movement, American social conservatives, and just so happens to be one of Saddleback pastor Rick Warren’s BFFs…
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Pressure on to Allow Oregon Teachers the Right to Wear Religious Clothes
Good news on the overturning-bigoted-KKK-sanctioned-laws front. According to the Oregonian, Labor Commisioner Brad Avakian and state schools Superintendent Susan Castillo sent a letter to every legislator urging them to overturn a 1923 law that bans teachers from wearing any religious clothes in the classroom. If legislators overturn the law, it means teachers wearing head scarves, […]
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Rape of Irish Boys “Endemic,” “Systematic” at Homes Run By Catholic Religious Order
It amazes me that the leaders of the Catholic Church are taken seriously when they lecture other people—including non-Catholics—about their sexual morality. BBC: A Catholic religious order is to supply a 161m euros (£145m) package of measures as reparation for child abuse in Ireland. The Christian Brothers said the decision had been taken in response […]
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Huzzah! A New Victory in the “War on Christmas”!
Just in time for the biggest shopping day of the year, numbnuts Christian group the American Family Association is suspending its boycott of Gap in support of the chain store’s decision to air a “pro-Christmas ad” this Saturday. The AFA explains it’s bold decision in a press release today: Via Gap’s Vice-President of Corporate Communications, […]
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Feeling Sorry for Carrie Prejean
This detail in the reports about the seven other sex tapes and 30 additional “salacious” photos—so many youthful mistakes!—kind of makes me feel bad for Carrie Prejean… Some of the new sexy photographs that have been unearthed Prejean allegedly took herself, of her own reflection in a mirror, alternately topless and completely naked. Carrie Prejean […]
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Hobby Pornographer Carrie Prejean Offered Opportunity to Go Pro
TMZ has the scoop: TMZ has obtained a copy of a letter Vivid Entertainment honcho Steven Hirsch sent to Prejean’s lawyer, Charles Limandri. Hirsch is asking to acquire the rights to distribute “erotic footage that Carrie Prejean, former Miss California, produced for her boyfriend following their four (4) day rendezvous in February 2007″…In the letter, […]