February 2011
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Atheist Challenge Day 3 - Are you a more outspoken...
Anyone who reads this blog knows I can’t keep my mouth shut, especially in the face of injustice and religious debates. I am very outspoken against religion for three reasons: Religion, for as good as it makes some people feel, is ultimately poisonous in the grand scheme of things, it diminishes the importance of ones finite time and the extent to which they enjoy it, and there’s simply...
January 2011
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Wyoming Senate Advances Constitutional Ban on Gay... →
After the messages we voters expressed in the November elections (to recap, jobs, tax cuts, spending cuts, economy, jobs, etc.), it is astonishing that the Republican gains in several states, and at the federal level, have translated to a renewed push for religious-based laws.
Actually, it’s not, if you have a memory greater than that of a goldfish.
Already in several states, abortion...
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Atheist Challenge Day 2 - What religion did you...
I was raised Protestant (Baptist and Methodist) and went to church with a lot of old, stuffy white people who paid a boat load of cash to make the church services as they wanted them. This became a major problem for me at my first church, the Methodist one, largely because I didn’t feel I had a true creative outlet to express my love for Christ.
The second church I attended was a...
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Prominent Ugandan Gay Rights Leader Murdered -...
Another day, another gay man murdered in cold blood, by people too cowardly to openly live the bigotry they express clandestinely through their weapons. David Kato knew, as we in the US know, that antigay hatred and terrorism will one day end, but only if those who oppose it do so with diligence and courage.
Per CNN.com
A Ugandan gay rights activist whose name was published on a list of the ...
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Conservative Christians Divorce More, New Study... →
This isn’t surprise to those of us who aren’t consumers of religious teachings. It only makes sense that those who take the car for a test drive are going to know more definitively that their life partner is, indeed, the right choice. (*wink* *wink*, *nudge* *nudge*)
Divorce is more common among conservative Christians and young people, according to a recent study.
University of...
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Atheist Challenge - Day 1: At what point did you...
My atheism came from an accumulation of experience that motivated me to question the fundamental doctrines of my religion. (I was alternately Baptist and Methodist) Gradually, as I went through my later high school years and college years, I learned more about other religious traditions, and met people who were not Christian, and it’s very difficult to buy into the stereotypes of ‘evil’ pagans and...
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Gay Georgia Man's Home Firebombed (With Him In...
I hope the police catch these bastards.
Per Gay Manifesto:
A christian group tried to execute a rural Georgia man by burning him alive in his home over the weekend. A rock was thrown through Chris Staples windows with a note attached threatening to kill him for being Gay. Hours later Staples’ home was engulfed in flames, he barely escaped with his life.
This sickens me, and I hope the...
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WatchRicky Gervais Discusses His Atheism. (Gotta love how eloquent and thoughtful he is.)
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Drug-Friendly Netherlands to Close 8 Prisons: Not... →
To those of you who believe that drug prohibition would lead to greater crime rates in America, we now have empirical data to suggest that liberal drug laws in fact, reduce crime. (Contrary to the unfounded declarations of the DEA.) Who knows, perhaps if we ended the disastrous policy of treating nonviolent users like criminals (And barring them from receiving financial aid for college) we might...
Maryland set to expand gay rights, same-sex... →
Woohoo! It’s looking like we’ll have the votes for another legislative victory this session, and I hope that I’ll soon get to write about Maryland becoming the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Happy Roe vs Wade Day!
I’d like to take this post to wish my friends with vaginas a happy Roe vs. Wade Day! Aren’t you glad that (at least for now) you have legal control over your own uterus? I’m glad too. From the looks of things, our country has elected a group of shills for the anti-choice industry, on the empty promises of economic recovery. (Yet again, proving that our country has the...
Religious Right Doesn't Want LGBT Children to Have... →
I wish more people would ‘indoctrinate’ self esteem, respect for others, manners, and genuine kindness into their kids. Unfortunately, the church and their minions would rather be thoughtless assholes. (Even though so many of them are LGBT themselves.)
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On the whole, this entire needless controversy is a perfect example of how religious right groups operate....
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Report: Teen Commits Suicide After Facebook Taunts... →
Stories like this break my heart.
Even when I was young and homophobic myself, I still had it in my heart to defend the only outwardly gay person in my school. (Even physically, in some cases) Jesus life story demonstrates that he was very cool with sticking up for people that the world was ready to cast aside. Thankfully, I later made friendships with LGBT folks and learned that all of the...
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Anti-Abortion Extremist to Oppose President Obama...
You all may have forgotten Randall Terry, but his name was all abuzz in the news a year and a half ago. This is the scumbag who failed to recognize and expose the man who would later shoot abortion doctor George Tiller in the foyer of his church. (A man who, coincidently, was in contact with one of Randall Terry’s policy advisers and had contributed more than a thousand dollars to...
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Gold's Gym Franchises Split With Parent Company...
Good for you, and for San Francisco, Mr. Dickerson!!!
Gold’s Gym is facing a backlash from LGBT activists over its CEO’s $2 million donation to American Crossroads, the conservative political group affiliated with former Bush adviser Karl Rove, and its four franchises in the San Francisco Bay Area are now leaving the brand over the controversy.
What’s even cooler about...
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Chiefs' Matt Cassel to the Pro Bowl!!! - SBNation
And it’s official!!!
It had been widely speculated following the revelations about Tom Brady’s injured foot that he’d miss the Pro Bowl, with Matt Cassel as his probable replacement. Today, we’ve received confirmation of this by local news sources in Boston.
As a Chiefs fan, I couldn’t be happier!!!
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AL Governor Apologizes For Religious Comments -...
A more appropriate title would be “AL Governor Apologizes For Religious Comments Being A Thoughtless, Bible Thumping Asshole.” The actual quote from his speech is as follows:
“Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters,” he told parishioners at a Baptist church in Montgomery Monday shortly after being sworn...
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Hard part begins for GOP: Replacing health care... →
The GOP has no plan. Their plan is to revert to the previously unregulated health care system that would, if they are successful, eliminate coverage for 30 million people.
Among other things, it would also do this: Provide insurance providers with the right to restrict care due to pre-existing conditions, to drop people from insurance plans when they get sick, and eliminate HCR-provided tax...
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Vatican to Irish Bishops: "Do Not Report Abuse." -...
Despite the protests of innocence and denials by the Pope, the more we learn about the operations of the church relative to their handling of child molesters, the more we learn that that the protection of pedophiles is institutionalized and their highest priority.
A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police — a...
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Is health care law really a 'job killer'? Experts... →
Health Care will be discussed for the next two years for one reason only, it is the Republicans’ unactionable wedge issue. (Previous wedge issues that did not succeed, universal gay marriage ban, stacking the court to overturn abortion rights, and separating all LGBT people from the military permanently.) Seeing their action and results on the previous wedge issues they pressed to get...
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Congress Quietly Prepares Patriot Act Extension -... →
Just as we argued when the Patriot Act was first rushed through Congress, the un-constitutional infringements upon our civil rights continue yet today. (Here’s one instance of blatant abuse… in case you’re one of those folks who doesn’t think the government would betray our trust.) That would explain why there has been so little buzz leading up to the extension of the...
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Why I'm Cool With Gun Restrictions
To everyone who wants to draw slippery slopes about gun control, here is my opinion. Making people jump through hoops is a good thing, especially if we’re going to allow assault weapons to be freely available to consumers. (And we do.) Waiting periods, background checks, and safety courses are all good ways to ensure that gun consumers are not going to use said gun to go on a rampage,...
The Lesson of Christina Taylor Green - McClatchy
Our leaders need to grow up and act like adults, certainly. We live in a country where gunning someone down is perfectly acceptable as long as it agrees with your politics, as evidenced by the outpouring of support from the right when Scott Roeder shot George Tiller in the foyer of his own church. People also forget that across the south, there was an outpouring for support for JFK’s...
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Chiefs Get Rolled, Losing 30-7 to the Baltimore...
There are scant positives to take away from a loss like this, and for us, I suppose the biggest positive is that the Chiefs defied all odds and expectations in obtaining a playoff berth in the first place. In fact, this season was the biggest one-season turnaround in our club history. (A fact that should be acknowledged, even if we are heartbroken over this loss)
So… what do we get to...
Palin aide: 'Never intended gun sights' - Ben... →
Quote from Politico:
” We have nothing whatsoever to do with this,” Palin aide. Rebecca Mansour told the talk radio host Tammy Bruce in an interview. ”We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights. It was simply cross-hairs like you’d see on maps,” she said, suggesting that it is a “surveyor’s symbol.”
First of all, that is complete...
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Federal judge dead, congresswoman wounded in... →
Profound sadness.
I have no better way to describe how I feel about today’s shootings. I’m saddened that there are people in this world who will gun down a group of innocent people to satisfy their own despicable politics. I’m saddened that a small child was shot to death because someone felt themselves too self-important to write a fucking letter to their congressman.
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Rep. Mary Bono Mack Caught In Sexually Suggestive... →
The lesson for today, kids, is that if you’re going to present yourself as a right-wing Christian Coalition-touted Bible thumper, don’t let people take pictures of you with a criminally indicted billionaire of the same sex licking your breast. It doesn’t turn out well when those commie liberals get hold of the evidence.
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Republicans Reject Cost Estimate of Health Law... →
As I’ve said repeatedly in recent years, facts don’t matter in the New America. For proof, read the comments made by John Boehner and Eric Cantor about the Congressional Budget Office’s report on the cost of Health Care Reform (HCR). They concluded that over the next ten years, HCR will reduce the deficit by 143 billion dollars. (As opposed to what the repeal proposed by...
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New push for gay marriage in Rhode Island - The... →
So, even with this awful bronchitis, the news isn’t all bad today. Here’s hoping that soon enough we will be able to recognize Rhode Island as yet another state that honors civil rights for all people, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Two days after Governor Lincoln Chafee called on legislators to swiftly legalize same-sex marriage, a pair of lawmakers say they will...
Republicans to Spend $1.1 Million Reciting... →
In this day in age, it’s every bit as important to understand the importance of human and civil rights as it is to understand the letter of the founders’ writings, but seriously, this is an extremely costly farce on the part of the Republican Party. I’m sure it’ll play well with the Jesus freaks, rednecks, chickenhawks, and gun worshippers… but wouldn’t it be...
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“Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. - Bill Maher”
– I posted this the first week I started blogging. For me, it’s a good quote to keep in the back of my mind, and of those who read my blog. Therefore, here it is once again, in all of its glory.
No 'N' Word in New Edition of Huckleberry Finn -...
Seriously.
What’s more important to you, the ability to understand a historical work in context, or avoiding dialogue about race and discrimination? I know a lot of folks are offended by the ‘n’ word and the hypocrisy surrounding it on both sides of the debate, but selectively editing classic literature is a slippery slope that I don’t think anyone with a rational mind...
NFL Playoffs Week One - Ravens at Chiefs - My Take
This may be an unpopular view, but I’m glad we got that piece of garbage game out of the way en route to our playoff matchup against the Baltimore Ravens. As we’ve seen all year, the Chiefs are a team that has the ability to bounce back from a disappointing game and demonstrate their ability to win. Let us not forget that all of the sessions of watching film this week will be extremely...
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2010 Is Over
2010 is over, what did you do? Finally eliminated the greatest source of stress and dread in my life, and consequently found a constructive way to fill the new-found time. (Blogging!) Further exorcised the memory of the woman who broke my heart, while making time to enjoy the other fish in the sea. (Literally and figuratively speaking) Wrote a zombie novel, and in doing so discovered a wealth...