Clerk In New York Refuses To Sign Marriage Licences For Gay Married Couples

September 18, 2011 By 22 Comments

Ledyard town clerk Rose Marie Belforti tacitly admits to imposing theocratic law on her constituents in blatant disregard for the actual laws she is tasked with enforcing: That all changed in August when Belforti sent a letter to the Ledyard town board two weeks after the Marriage Equality Act became law in New York, allowing [...]

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Did Theocrats Swing Weiner's District Republican?

September 15, 2011 By 1 Comment

Robbie George, the conservative Princeton Professor who opposes same-sex marriage, writes of an under-reported influence in Weiner’s Queens district (NY-9): In the run up to the election, a group of Orthodox rabbis, most from Brooklyn, but including others, notably Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky and Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, two nationally prominent Orthodox Jewish authorities, published a [...]

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A Living Illustration of the Problem With Trying To Love The Gay Person But Hate Her Gayness

September 14, 2011 By 8 Comments

The AP reports: Barbara Von Aspern loves her daughter, “thinks the world” of the person her daughter intends to marry and believes the pair should have the same legal rights as anyone else. It pains her, but Von Aspern is going to skip their wedding. Her daughter, Von Aspern explains, is marrying another woman. “We [...]

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Santorum's Hypocrisy and Backwardness on Questions of Epistemic Authority

September 1, 2011 By 5 Comments

My thoughts:

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The Executive Branch WILL Continue Enforcing DOMA, Just Will Not DEFEND It In Court

February 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Get ready for the deceptive meme to come flying your way that the Obama administration is abnegating its responsibilities to enforce law by not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act. The administration will continue to enforce the unconscionable law, it will only not defend it from legal challenges in court. Others, starting with the House [...]

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How Would Apostates, Adulterers, And Thieves Fare In A Democratic Egypt?

February 18, 2011 By 3 Comments

Razib Kahn has a most disturbing chart: Kahn explains the above: On the x-axis you see the proportion who accept that adulterers should be stoned. On the y-axis you see the responses to amputation and apostasy. The red points are the proportion who agree with the death penalty for apostates, and the navy points those [...]

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TOP Q: “Do Children Have Higher Moral Status Than Adults?”

February 9, 2011 By 1 Comment

In his book Moral Status and Human Life: The Case for Children’s Superiority, law professor James Dwyer argues that children are not merely equal to adults in moral status but actually have a higher moral status than adults.  Below is a brief video in which he sketches out the broad contours of his thought on moral [...]

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Zach Wahls, Son Of Lesbians, Testifies To Iowa Legislature

February 2, 2011 By 1 Comment

Your Thoughts?

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TOP Q: Where Are The Lines Between Peaceable Death Penalty Advocacy And Criminal Incitement?

January 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Last week a heinous, conscience-shocking injustice occurred when the brave, openly gay, Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato (pictured above) was murdered shortly after a Ugandan newspaper featured him on the cover with the headline: “100 PIctures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak” and the words “Hang Them” next to it.  The AP photo of the newspaper [...]

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Daily Hilarity: Cranky Puppet John McCain

January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Let’s All Stand on John McCain’s Lawn www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook Your Thoughts?

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