Church

D.C. Catholic Church Backs Down

12.18.2009

The Washington, D.C. Archdiocese has its bluff called. When will opponents to same sex marriage finally realize that it affects no one other than those couples who wish to bind their love just like some heterosexuals choose to do?  It doesn’t impede upon religion or cause some slippery slope into depraved pedophilia or other nonsense [...]

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Huckabee: Broken Record on Same Sex Marriage

11.26.2009

Leave it to potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to repeat old rhetoric in his battle against same-sex marriage. Huckabee panders to the Christian Right and alienates everyone else with his flawed slippery-slope argument that if same-sex marriage were legalized, that just about any form of union would end up being permitted.  Namely, that polygamy [...]

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4 Places Not to Go Learn About Sex

03.30.2009

Amy Sullivan wonders if public school is the right place to teach kids about sex.  She’s not sure it is.  I say: if not public teachers, from whom are kids going to learn about sex?  Let’s go through the options: 1) Parents. This is always the go-to answer.  Why, though?  Sexual intercourse is a biological [...]

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Excommunication Breakdown

03.09.2009

How does this happen in the 21st Century?  Didn’t the Catholic Church learn from their past mistakes? (Paging Galileo.) At least Galileo did cross the line from sinner into being a heretic by blaspheming that the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe after all.  That was more than just your average sin (although, I [...]

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The Absurdity of Prayer-Based Healthcare

02.26.2009

To a secularist, prayer is essentially equivalent to wishful-thinking.  It’s the kind of thinking that a student does when he hasn’t studied for an exam and hopes to God that he’ll miraculously recall the information needed to pass.  Odds are that if you truly haven’t studied the material, you’re not going to do well on [...]

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68-Year-Old Woman Upholds the Sanctity of (Heterosexual) Marriage

02.19.2009

Linda Lou Taylor is 68 years old.  She lives in Anderson, Indiana.  And she has been married 23 times. Twenty-three times! And this is the article that we have about it.  A standard, little NBC Chicago slice-of-life piece.  Taylor is a Guinness World Record holder, after all. I really could care less about Taylor and [...]

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Anti-Gay Movement Advertisers Should NEVER Work in Advertising

02.18.2009

This is a full-page, anti-gay advertisement that went out in the Salt Lake Tribune.  Click the picture for the link to a larger version of the image. I could easily attack just about every single item in this ad (and, wow, there are a LOT) and I would get extremely riled up and upset and [...]

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Religion is NOT Science… and Vice Versa

02.12.2009

I’m so sick and tired of hearing people argue against evolution because it’s “just a theory.”  As if the word “theory” is synonymous with far-fetched guess.  It’s not.  It’s undergone the same rigorous scientific testing as any other theory – if not more – and is considered fact in the scientific community. Not so in [...]

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