The One Law for All campaign was launched on 10th December 2008. What exactly the campaign is against is a little hard to gather.

The petition on their website has this pithy statement:
Sharia law is discriminatory, cruel and barbaric ( Read more... )

A priest in Italy is running an online beauty pageant for nuns aka Miss Sister 2008. (link is safe for work) Starting next month, nuns who choose to participate can pose in either the traditional veil or their heads uncovered for their profile on his blog. Visitors to the site will have a month to 'vote for the nun they consider a model.' He says ( Read more... )

I've been trying to work out what it is about Richard Dawkins that makes me think he's such a tool, despite me generally agreeing with everything he has to say on a basic level. Since a nice conversation with my flatmate yesterday, I think I have some thoughts worked out. But I am not doing well at expressing it.

I know I'm opening myself up to a ( Read more... )

First post, and english is my second language, first this influence my ability of making nice sentence, so be kind, but even given that, if there's something that i write that you don't get or are unsure, feel free to ask ( Read more... )

yesterday i looked at the front page of my local newspaper (the record) and saw an article titled "putting guys in pews: churches take on masculine edge to lure members". i started reading the article which begins with "is church too much of a girl thing?" and includes phrases like "american congregations need a dose of testosterone" and "he (jesus ( Read more... )

I'm sorry for the lack of detail on this, and a lack of opinion from me. I'm posting this because I ... this bothers me. A lot. But I don't understand why, and I can't work out what I think of it exactly ( Read more... )

There's a family that attends our church. Your typical nuclear family--husband, wife, surrogate begotten daughter. Both she and her husband are rabidly anti-choice (they both are also pro-death penalty and pro-Bush, so I refuse to call them pro-life). In fact, her husband decided I wasn't allowed to baby-sit their daughter because I'm pro-choice ( Read more... )

I don't think I've seen this here before. It's an uber-disturbing article about the vaccination which has been proven to prevent HPV infection and the religious right that's trying to keep us from staying healthy while enjoying sex ( Read more... )

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I thought some of you might be interested in this article.

I know that policing the liberal-ish paper of record may seem nit-picky, but I've been extremely annoyed with their reporting on gender studies and LGBTQI issues and they ARE supposed to be accurate. I believe I'm not the only one in this community that has been tracking and emailing the nytimes over poor science (due diligence) and failure to ( Read more... )