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E-Mail Exchange With the National Organization for Marriage »

I forwarded a link to my post on Maggie Gallagher’s interview with NPR to the contact e-mail provided on the National Organization for Marriage.  In the e-mail I asked if they had any comment on the apparent disconnect between their mission of keeping civil rights from a minority group and their claims that they are […]

Calling A Spade A Spade »

I was listening to the podcast of NPR’s Day to Day from last Friday, just after the gay marriage ban passed.  They brought on several people to talk about the decision, but the most interesting for me was Maggie Gallagher, President of National Organization for Marriage.  This is one of the main groups responsible for […]

California Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban »

There is some most excellent news out of California today for those who believe in equal rights under the law for everyone. The California Supreme Court struck down a law banning gay marriage in the state, meaning that same sex couples are now free to marry as they please with full recognition under the […]

Expect Protests in 3… 2… 1… »

Scientists in Britain have started creating genetically modified embryos to use for research purposes. It appears that they’re only using embryos that were discarded from fertility clinics, are destroying the embryos after five days, and won’t be implanting any of these genetically modified embryos into a uterus where it could potentially grow up to […]

Your Obscenity Might Be Someone’s Idea of a Good Time »

Shock!  I almost found myself agreeing with a Christian group today, but then they had to go and take things a little too far.  Pro-Decency and Pro-Family organizations are going to hold a conference at the Press Club in D.C. and then go on a peaceful demonstration for a couple of hours in front of […]

Science Education and the “Quest For Right” »

After my post concerning the Alabama legislature the site was visited by C. David Parsons, author of a seven-volume textbook called The Quest for Right that claims to finally provide a synthesis of science and the Bible.  Now that I’ve read through his site I’ll have more to say about Quest for Right in future […]

Creationism Strikes Out in Alabama Legislature »

The National Center for Science Education is reporting that an effort to get Intelligent Design into the state science curriculum under the guise of academic freedom for teachers has failed. This is definitely a good thing. The Intelligent Design crowd had their asses handed to them in the Dover trial back in 2005, […]

The Bible Literacy Project is Thinly Veiled Proselytizing »

In my particular corner of the Bible Belt there are billboards that have sprung up like weeds claiming “An educated person knows the Bible” and directing drivers to the Bible Literacy Project.  I never understood why projects like this always seem to spring up in the Bible Belt where they’re already preaching to the converted.  […]

Local Pharmacist, Local Babykiller, or Local Quack? »

The Wisconsin Senate is thinking of passing a bill that will force “conscientious objector” pharmacists to provide contraceptives and the morning after pill to individuals no matter their own personal beliefs on the matter, and boy are Christian groups in that state annoyed.
These Christian groups are trying to turn this into a complicated morality debate, […]

Interpreting the Bible on Fundamentalist’s Terms »

I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]