With the Winter Olympics about to begin in Russia, where homophobia has reached level generally reserved for the most ignorant corners of the earth, the mayor of the hosting city (which is home to two gay clubs) is doing plenty of interviews. The other day he told one reporter…well…here you go: The mayor of Sochi told a reporter that there are no gay people in the city hosting the Winter Olympics — but the patrons of one bar didn’t get... Read more
I have no idea what this is or what it does…but I need one. Read more
Here’s a great lecture I saw posted by Seth Andrews. Christians almost always want to assert that morality comes from god, rather than from our genetic impulse toward compassion and self-preservation. It turns out lots of animals which lack the capacity to believe in god exhibit perfectly moral behavior. These are animals with which we share much of our DNA. Read more
The GOP is all about marriage: it’s necessary for society! It’s what separates us from tyrannical nations of years past. Without marriage the nation will crumble. Unless, of course, it looks like people the GOP doesn’t think should be allowed to marry might get a slice of the pie. Then, in order to keep the homos out of the special club, they’re willing to axe it for everybody. State lawmakers are considering throwing out marriage in Oklahoma. The idea stems... Read more
The CFI must be doing some work up in Amherst. There were also some surprises: The two least “Bible-minded” cities in the United States are the adjacent metros of Providence, R.I., and New Bedford, Mass., according to a study out Wednesday from the American Bible Society. Providence is a ten minute drive from Cranston where the town turned into a religious mob when a teen-ager (and a judge) told them that Christianity wasn’t a free pass to discrimination or law-breaking. ... Read more
Lots of news coming out of Nigeria today. Ah well…it takes the focus off of Arkansas. The gay panic is so severe in Nigeria that a woman is kicking her cat out of the house for being gay. A Nigerian woman is making some eyebrow-raising headlines after reportedly disowning her cat for “an unnatural sexual behavior” — allegedly, same-sex attraction. As the Nigerian newspaper Leadership notes, the woman (identified simply as being middle-aged) rid herself of Bull, whom she owned... Read more
At least they didn’t burn her. The grubby dungeon, located in front of her family apartment, was built with carton board and roofing sheets ostensibly to ward off the elements and gave it the semblance of a dwelling place. The less than four feet high structure could be mistaken for cage for dog. Sadly, this had been the abode of 16-year-old Blessing Olokumo in the last two and a half years. Why? Because Blessing had the blasphemous audacity to get... Read more
I feel like if Michaelyn and I ever get a dog that I’ll do something like this… Read more
In reading more about the woman who recently killed her children to exorcise demons from them, I came across this little bit and it made me wonder: Avery was part of a dance troupe at a nearby Christian church where “her job was, as a lover of Christ, was that she was going to keep demons away,” Jones said. “That was their goal,” he said. The question of whether either woman intends to submit an insanity defense has not yet... Read more
A veteran of Desert Storm was texting the babysitter of his sick daughter to make sure everything was ok, briefly ignoring the notice that said no texting during the previews of a movie. Rude? Sure. But understandable. Certainly not a crime that should carry with it a death sentence. But thanks to the presence of a handgun, that is exactly what it became. There’s a sticker on the door of the Grove 16 Theater just outside Tampa: no weapons. Curtis... Read more
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