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Dec 7, 2009, 5:52 am
As the Roman Catholic Church continues to meddle in secular politics and strip LGBT Americans of civil legal rights, the rot at the heart of the institutional Church continues to show itself in ongoin... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 5:16 pm
In today's Richmond Times Dispatch former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder - the first black elected to a governorship since Reconstruction - has a message that ought to kindle fear in the hearts ... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 4:23 pm
Anyone who seriously believes that the Roman Catholic Church is the bit truly contrite over the sex abuse scandal - for any reason that is other than the loss money and embarrassment - need only look ... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 9:07 am
I have posted a number of times on the involvement of American based Christianists' involvement in the "kill gays" legislation pending in Uganda. Now, Maura Hennessey has a sobering and frightenin... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 8:14 am
Jim at Conflicting Clarity has a post with which I can very much identify. It looks at his quandary of knowing that he must come out, yet not wanting to totally destroy his relationship with his wife.... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 7:54 am
This development (the new bishop is to the right in the photo) will no doubt cause the knuckle draggers and Neanderthals within the Anglican Communion to go into convulsions and wet themselves. In con... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 9:20 pm
I've commented many times on the far right extremists that have taken over much of the Republican Party and the failure of nation GOP politicians to denounce the more insane and potential violence... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 9:00 pm
I previously reported on a Daily Kos story that claimed that Sarah Palin was traveling for her book tour on a private aircraft owned by a charity run by Billy Graham's son Franklin. It seems the K... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 8:12 pm
I suspect some readers of this blog tire of my focus on the Roman Catholic Church and it's sex abuse scandal that keeps on exploding across the globe. But in my view, given the Catholic Church'... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 7:43 pm
I will concede that I've been a Brad Pitt fan for years - at least since he played Louis in An Interview With the Vampire or starred in Legends of the Fall (see the photo at right). But he has pro... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 6:11 am
In my view, Rick Warren, a bloated Narcissus and liar, represents much of what is foul in professional Christians. The fact that Barack Obama is chums with Warren speaks volumes about Obama and none o... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2009, 9:00 pm
... insurance program that covers all citizens. But that is only the biginning. Not only is Ms. Palin an idiot, but apparrently so are her staff members - remeber ... news personality Mary Walsh,wh... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 6:48 am
I know that I am not alone in this phenomenon, but the Thanksgiving through New Year's holiday season is all too typically depressing for me. Feelings of the need to exhibit forced cheerfulness an... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 6:03 am
The leadership of Roman Catholic Church seems in some ways Hell bent to turn the Church into a mirror image of the whacky far right evangelical Christians who obsess over three issues to the exclusion... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 10:16 pm
The boyfriend's nickname for new readers is "Martha Stewart" since he cooks, bakes, designs and makes window treatments, builds furniture, and does wonderful landscape designs. And he gets Martha ... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 9:44 pm
One really has to wonder what else the Republican Party will do to further demonstrate to voters that control of the Party has been ceased by birthers, teabaggers and the minions of Bible Spice Palin.... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 8:55 pm
The long and bizarre saga of the Janet Jenkins-Lisa Miller custody battle took a new, ground breaking turn as a Vermont court awarded custody of 7 year old Isabella Miller to her non-biological but co... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 7:28 pm
Like many, I was very sad to see the demise of the Washington Blade and Southern Voice as Windows Media went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy the weekend before last. I've interacted with Blade and South... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 6:13 am
Meanwhile, even as the Catholic Church works to deny civil legal rights to LGBT citizens, a new report out on the Diocese of Dublin, Ireland, reveals that FOUR (4) different archbishops knew of and co... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 12:22 pm
The anti-LGBT far right elements in the greater Houston area are liking calling the Houston Chronicle and threatening to cancel their subscriptions. Why? Because the Chronicle has endorsed openly gay ... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 8:54 am
I wrote yesterday about the noxious "Manhattan Declaration" issued by a group of (i) professional Christians who have turned religion into a lucrative business, (ii) homophobes (and likely closet case... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 7:29 am
In what ought to be a deafening alarm bell to Christianists and the bitter old men in dresses at the Vatican, the rise of atheist groups on college campuses is a measure of the increasingly unmarketab... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 6:26 am
In the wake of victories in Virginia and New Jersey earlier in the month in the races for governor, some in the GOP see a possible formula for a come back in 2010. Their biggest obstacle, however, is ... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 3:11 am
Andrew Sullivan has a masterful analysis of Sarah Palin on his blog that goes to the heart of why this woman is dangerous and should NEVER hold high elected office again ANYWHERE. She is delusional an... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 3:01 am
It seems that the gay community continues to mean nothing to the DNC, Barack Obama or Congressional Democrats as demonstrated by their own actions or inaction. And yet they blame bloggers and others f... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 1:48 pm
I will be the first to admit that I have nothing but contempt for Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin and I am of the view that most of her supporters are in need of serious mental health intervention - not to ... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 12:45 pm
In a demonstration of their contempt for the courts and the civil laws, the proponents of Proposition 8 have ignored the third federal court order compelling them to turn over internal campaign materi... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 12:03 pm
It's a phenomenon that I wish more Catholics in the USA would join into since, in my view, it is the ONLY way that any change might be forced on the fossilized bitter old queens that run the Vatic... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 11:25 am
Yahoo News is reporting that Barack Obama's approval rating has dropped below 50 percent in a second major poll. The main causes: the continuing bad economy and the health care reform fiasco where... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 6:45 am
It is sad that closed minded homophobes within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ("ELCA") are so insecure with their own sexuality and biased against those who are not just like themselves th... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 6:07 am
Since she was nominated as John McCain's running mate, I've made no secret of the fact that I view Sarah Palin as a dangerous lunatic who is so self-absorbed she doesn't care what damage s... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 8:58 pm
While I do not handle regular divorce or family law matters in my law practice, I have come to represent on a number of occasions one of the partners in LGBT relationship who are splitting up and in n... Comment - Like
Michael H. posted an article on
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Nov 18, 2009, 8:06 pm
Much of the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and certainly many of the far right "traditional Catholics" were quick to blame the Church's sex abuse scandal on gays within the priesthood. Wh... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 5:45 am
Having been raised Catholic, I am well aware of the Church's obsession with all things sexual and the constant message that sex is bad and sinful (as are women, who are temptresses out to drag men... Comment - Like
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