Christina here… Hi! I contribute to JT’s blog! Isn’t that swell? Most people say I’m nicer than JT. I’m really not. I just pretend to be nicer. Grrrr! I write about whatever I feel like: JT says I have complete freedom to put whatever I want in this space. So I’m going to hang up [...]
My new place.
August 31, 2012 By 56 Comments
I’m standing on the porch holding a small cardboard box. The wood beneath my shoes shows many signs of age and is neither painted or stained. However, it’s a pleasant change from the overgrown grass creeping up over the walkway and giving the chiggers a springboard up to my calves. The house itself is a [...]
Where to go next?
August 30, 2012 By 16 Comments
Tomorrow I make the move to Patheos. I’ll really miss FtB, but I’m looking forward to my new life as a writer. Speaking of which, I picked up another writing job (more on that later), and so between that and Patheos I’m going to be living pretty comfortably working from my home and transferring my [...]
Timothy Dalrymple on homosexuality
August 30, 2012 By 25 Comments
Christina here… The other day, JT posted this commentary on a blog post over at Patheos. And since it’s on my mind, I came across this post by Timothy Dalrymple at Philosophical Fragments and thought I’d comment on part of it. JT addressed only a small part of the post. I read it, and decided to comment [...]
ISSA's Brother Jed bingo was a great success!
August 30, 2012 By 3 Comments
Yesterday I posted about the Illini Secular Student Alliance’s plan to treat Brother Jed as the joke that he is. You’ll be happy to know it went extremely well. Thar be pictures at this link. Yarrrrr! I especially like this one. They made a big dry erase board to keep track of all the quips [...]
Why the New Zealand church supporting gay marriage bugs me.
August 30, 2012 By 20 Comments
Hemant had a post the other day about a New Zealand church that is pushing a marriage equality bill through congress and that is currently running this billboard.
When FOX describes it as "cow dung", it must be truly malodorous!
August 30, 2012 By 15 Comments
In describing Paul Ryan’s speech from last night, FOX News’ Sally Kohn said… …to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was [...]
Gay "cure" therapists one-step closer to getting banned in California.
August 30, 2012 By 9 Comments
The state Assembly in California has passed a bill that would deny a license to therapists using therapy to “cure” gay people. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, says treatments that attempt to change a gay kid into a straight kid are harmful and amount to “psychological abuse of children.” “These non-scientific efforts have [...]
Dan takes the bottle of crazy and downs the whole thing.
August 30, 2012 By 27 Comments
And along we go. Another commenter, Kevin, agreeing with my dad, entered the thread suggesting that in order to avoid more abortions, as Dan claims to want, that we should pass out birth control like Skittles. Dan didn’t like that idea. I disagree with passing out birth control pills like skittles to children (under 18) [...]
Dan rides again.
August 30, 2012 By 19 Comments
First dad fired a warning shot. Dan decided to ignore it. Then Dan reaped what he had sown. And now he wants some more. It represents what a baby looks like at 12 weeks and that is what I said all along. You are the one always trying to twist things for some type of [...]
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