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Daily Dose of Crazy

Perhaps you’ve heard of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). They’re the ones who run GodHatesFags.com, but are most known for holding anti-homosexuality protests at soldiers’ funerals....

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Phelps-a-thon

A couple days ago I talked about the Westboro Baptist Church and their wacky and fun-filled protest announced at a local high-school. As it turns out, they were in DC that very day, marching in front...

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Rick Warren’s Excuses

(Crossposted at Friendly Atheist) You almost feel sorry for Rick Warren. As Hemant at the Friendly Atheist and others have pointed out, he was recently caught making statements that could charitably be...

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Marriage Equality Momentum

On the heels of recent victories for marriage equality in Iowa and Vermont, more good news comes today from the state of New York. From the New York Times: Gov. David A. Paterson plans to introduce...

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Iowa County Recorders: do your job!

A Religious Right legal organization has a message for county employees in Iowa: if you don’t like same-sex marriage, then don’t do your job! From the Iowa Independent. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF),...

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Hate Crimes

The House of Representatives voted yesterday 249-175 to expand federal hate crimes laws to include crimes that were motivated by the victim’s gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, or disability....

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Are young Americans turning away from religion?

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam recently spoke at the Pew Forum on Faith in Public Life about his latest research on religion in America. He discussed the increasing lack of affiliation with...

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Keeping Harvey Milk out of the classroom

Inspired by the film Milk, a California sixth grader prepared a presentation for a class assignment on the life of slain gay rights pioneer and San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. But apparently...

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The Mormon Church and Marriage Equality

The Washington Post reports today on how pro-marriage equality organizations have recently been targeting the Mormon Church with advertisements and campaigns: As more states take up the debate on...

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Marriage Equality Moving Forward in Two Capital Cities

This is a big week for marriage equality in North America. First, same-sex couples can now start applying for marriage licenses in Washington DC: D.C. Superior Court began accepting marriage license...

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A Congressman Argues for the Closet

Via Think Progress, I see that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) thinks he has a novel solution for the problem of discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people. The website Good As You...

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Democracy Hypocrisy

The reaction of the Catholic Church to last week’s court decision striking down California’s anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 was swift and to the point. Speaking for the US Conference of Catholic...

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Are You There, Obama? It’s Me, Gay Marriage

The night Obama was elected, my roommates and I huddled around our beaten and battered television amidst term papers and study guides to watch a rare, if not once-in-a-lifetime event occur: history...

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Judicial reckoning in Iowa

Anyone who counted out the influence and power of the National Organization for Marriage should think again. On Tuesday, three state Supreme Court justices in Iowa found themselves out of jobs after...

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Frank Ocean and the Changing Tides of LGBT Acceptance

It’s uncommon, to put it mildly, for an R&B singer to admit he’s gay. While rumors abound for certain beloved crooners, no popular contemporary artists have come out of the closet. Well, one brave...

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