I got this in today from reader Mike Moore: Hi John, As I’m sure you and your readers know, Amendment One is on the ballot this week in North Carolina. Today I don’t even want to get out of bed. Today is only dread. (more…) Read more
I got this in today from reader Mike Moore: Hi John, As I’m sure you and your readers know, Amendment One is on the ballot this week in North Carolina. Today I don’t even want to get out of bed. Today is only dread. (more…) Read more
Got this in: Hey John, I grew up in a Christian environment since I was little. I went to a Pentecostal fundie school from age four, and I graduated from it at age seventeen. I then went to a liberal all-girls college, and didn’t enjoy it because of my fundie upbringing. (more…) Read more
If it’s psychotic for Joe Blow to murder people who reject him, then it’s psychotic for God to send to hell people who reject him. God’s justice is not founded upon dynamics or principles that have nothing to with our own understanding of justice. Fair is fair—and right is right, and evil is evil—in heaven and on earth. Read more
One day he and I were out on Sid’s backyard and Sid was doing some pruning. Having pruned several branches Sid said to me, “let me show you a trick.” He bent down to the dirt and gathered a handful, which he then rubbed over the fresh cuts on the branches.I assumed this was a way to seal the new cuts and protect the tree. “No,” said Sid, with a glimmer. “That’s to protect me. This way, my wife can’t... Read more
So, you know what’s weird for me, is this whole deal with me being “pro” LGBTQ people. I’m not pro LGBTQ people. I’m pro people. I’m barely even that, actually. (more…) Read more
I put up too much stuff on my Facebook page (which, if you haven’t yet, you should go “like” right now: don’t you want my life to have definition and purpose?). It’s almost like I keep a whole other blog over there. So I’m going to start putting up here on my actual blog the sorts of things I usually toss up onto that page. Being such item-ettes as: (more…) Read more
One December day, when I was seven years old, and alone in our house, I sneaked into my parents’ bedroom, hauled open their closet door, and found, fresh from the department store, just about every toy I had asked Santa to bring me that upcoming Christmas. Aghast and transfixed, I then knew the brutal truth: far from being way up in the North Pole, Santa Claus was in the closet. (more…) Read more
Reader Kevin Matthews has put my pictures of Pastor Harris to the words Harris used in his atrocious tirade about how parents should beat the gay behavior out of their children. See Kevin’s handiwork here. Read more
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. For these pictures, at least one of those words needs to be "Freud." Read more
As you may already know, there is just now much controversy swirling around this video of Dan Savage (Savage Love; the It Gets Better Project). (more…) Read more
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