Showing posts with label religion as a smokescreen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion as a smokescreen. Show all posts
05 August 2015

What The Planned Parenthood Controversy Means For LGBT People

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Dr. Marci Bowers is an extremely skilled surgeon with a good “bedside manner.”   Like any other first-rate professional, she has fine ...
16 June 2015

Does A Good Papacy Get Better With Age?

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Just when we all thought Pope Francis I was going to pull the church, if a millimeter at a time, away from its homophobia, he tells a crowd...
06 June 2015

It Isn't Really Rape If Your Son Does It

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Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address warned us ab...
20 May 2015

Transgender Girl Scouts!

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They're letting boys become Girl Scouts!  No.... No, it's not happening.  But that's what all those hate "socially cons...
27 April 2015

Marching For What?

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Isn't it funny that when people want to "defend" "marriage", they almost always are talking about one kind of marr...
23 April 2015

Making LaHaye When He Hates

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Was this a Freudian slip?: "The Christian community needs a penetrating book on homosexuality ." "Penetrating"?  Hm...
20 April 2015

This Barber's Thinking Is Clipped

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A month ago, I mentioned something a police commander once told me:  "Lucky for us that most criminals are stupid". There is a ...
19 April 2015

Anti-Gay Day: Keeping It All In The Family

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As I've said in a previous post , there's a corollary to Newton's Third Law in the struggle for LGBT equality. That law says ...
23 January 2015

All Are Welcome--As Long As....

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One of the reasons why we become jaded, blase or even cynical is that we didn't start out wanting to be those things.    I'm prob...
04 January 2015

The Truth She Owes Leelah

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On doit des egards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la verite. Voltaire wrote that to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we...
03 January 2015

Give Leelah What She Deserves

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The funeral for Leelah Alcorn was moved because of threats to disrupt it. When I heard about that, I thought that perhaps the Westboro B...
31 December 2014

An Interesting End To An Interesting Year

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Whoever said, "May you live in interesting times" would have loved 2014. Of course, all sorts of wonderful and awful (sometimes...
30 December 2014

The Murder Of Leelah Alcorn

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I find it interesting that my most-read post has become " A Lifespan of 30 to 32 Years, And A Lost Generation "--and that, in fac...
25 July 2014

Gay Rights = Loss Of Religious Freedom. Haven't We Heard That One Before?

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New Orleans is often called "The Big Easy."  While that nickname might depict life--at least some aspects of it--in the Crescent ...
15 July 2014

Barbera-ic

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Sometimes I wonder whether I'm performing some sort of service by calling out someone by Peter LaBarbera .  Or, by mentioning him, am I...
09 July 2014

The Hobby Lobby Case You Didn't Hear About

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We've been hearing a lot about the Supreme Court decision that allows Hobby Lobby, and other "closely held" businesses, to us...
02 July 2014

What The Hobby Lobby Decision Means For Us

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This week, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow family-owned or other closely-held businesses to opt out of a Federal requirement to pay f...
12 June 2014

A Religious Edict To Exterminate Us

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Once I almost got killed by a guy who turned purple with rage for daring to even suggest that Islam had anything in common with his religio...