The Duggars Campaigning For Todd Akin

Remember Todd Akin? The guy that said women have magical mystery vaginas that will not allow the sperm of a rapist to fertilize an egg? Him of the flawed biology beliefs? The Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Family of TLC’s “19 Kids & Counting” will be going to a number of fundraisers for Akin in [...]

Jack Schaap: Isolated Incident or the One That Got Caught?

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by Calulu I haven’t updated NLQ much with the latest on Jack Schaap and his ongoing legal confloption. Yesterday I was perusing the news on Jack Schaap, the former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana to see what had gone down on his plea arraignment on September 27, 2012. Schaap not only [...]

Charlie Fuqua says Death Penalty an Option for Rebellious Children

by Bruce Gerencser Charlie Fuqua, Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives, supports the death penalty for rebellious children. Fuqua wrote: The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an [...]

Millipede Part 30 – How Did I Get Here Part 1

by Millipede How Did I get here? In the Talking Heads song “Once in a lifetime”, lead singer David Byrne echoes this very line. This lyric came to me many a time as I withdrew from Patriarchal fundamentalism. Like a Nautilus Shell rising to the ocean surface, my ascent was marked with the emptying of [...]

Can you TELL? or, Lies I Believed About Women’s Reproduction

by Sierra Contrary to the popular Shakira song, hips totally do lie. Ever since Todd Akin’s remarks about women’s bodies’ magical powers to repel the sperm of rapists sent echoes of shock reverberating through the mainstream media, pieces of similar doctrines have bubbled back up into my memory. Akin’s views did not surprise me, as [...]