The last two days have been embroiled in the gay marriage debate both in the Supreme Court, on every news media outlet, and also across Facebook.  But I want to take a moment to talk about something that's been bubbling up across my friends list that I want to address ( Read more... )

Yesterday I bought a salad on my way to my monthly meeting downtown.  As I rounded the corner at G Street NW the entire street was blocked off by police tape and about 40 police cars.  People were huddling around somewhere around 8th street in their business suits.  I figured it was some kind of Presidential pit stop (the kind of thing we see ( Read more... )

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Thank you with all my heart for Rin Daemoko at the Occult Forum Archive for completely copying this article from Witchvox that I wrote.  Without this copy job, I would have lost this piece of my writing forever, because Witchvox straight up deleted my articles because I had been inactive.  Originally posted on Witchvox December 13, 2004.
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Peter Laarman over at Religion Dispatches has a new piece entitled "Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail."  In it he looks at the discourse methods employed by the liberal religious left in an attempt to influence the conservative  religious right, and how those arguments fall flat against the immovable object of conservative theology.  But he ( Read more... )

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Several of my Facebook friends have gone beyond dislike to outright disgust with the President because of his stance on Don't Ask Don't Tell, and many of them pointed to Lt. Choi's statement that he wouldn't vote for Obama in the 2012 elections.

I understand that the actions of the President to have the DOJ pursue the DADT policy decision and get an ( Read more... )

One of the things that has been missing from the discussion of the gay teen suicides is the motivations of the people who are doing this anti-gay harrassment (and I'm going to stop calling it bullying, because bullying is just a general meanness, this really is an issue of harrassment).  These boys, especially the youngest of them were harrassed ( Read more... )