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It\u2019s as if we, the entire world, have looked around and having seen the state of things, we thus resign ourselves to being unable to change\u2026unable to aspire to something higher and greater\u2026rather we accept our unquenchable sexual appetite as being \u201cnatural\u201d and then spend billions of dollars in developing ways to \u201cfix\u201d the damage we do to ourselves.<\/p>\n

M O R E from James<\/a>, the Sex Worker.<\/em><\/p>\n

I heard this<\/a> on the way to work the other day. Didn\u2019t quite know what to think.
Someone else did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmy, did you hear about the American Girl company giving money to Girls, Inc? Supposedly they support abortion.\u201d H E R E<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe KU faculty has the humility to at least acknowledge that the vast majority of people on the planet are creationists of one stripe or the other, and that the vast majority of scientists throughout the ages were creationists of one stripe or the other, and that the Darwinian evolutionary theory is a relatively new theory that has been consistently criticized from the time it was promulgated (and continues to be promulgated more through political force rather than through scientific proof). Therefore, we will at least hold our tongues for a few extra moments before pronouncing Creationism as a \u2018myth\u2019 and thereby slandering most of the world\u2019s peoples \u2014 living and dead \u2014 as unenlightened children who believe in fairy tales.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preceding paragraphs H E R E<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"