Most of the things I've found on Tumblr, I have found thanks to
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First-term Republican state rep. Loy Mauch is on record as saying the following ( Read more... )

I spotted this the other day. The Society for Creative Anachronism had a child molester in its midst from 1999-2001. For not having policies in place to protect his victims, the SCA was sued for $7 million in 2007. Its insurance carriers balked at covering any of it. Finally, the victims agreed late last year to settle for $1.3 million, of which ( Read more... )

From matrexius: An American friar claims that teenagers "seduce" priests in certain cases.In a recent interview with the National Catholic Register, Father Benedict Groeschel, of the conservative Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, said that teens act as seducers in some sexual abuse cases involving priests ( Read more... )

Statue of "JoePa" torn down.

I can't embed the video on this page, but being interviewed are student Jeremie Thompson and alumna Leslie Bleggie.


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I've been too busy to follow the Pedo State case over the last few weeks. You've probably already heard about the damning emails that came out at the end of June; then, last week, the upshot of the report by Louis Freeh: PSU's officials had colluded to cover up Jerry Sandusky's rapes of young boys to protect the university in general and the ( Read more... )

Last week, a Baptist preacher in Fayetteville, NC trying to get the vote out for Amendment 1 roared at his congregation that they had "special dispensation" to punch their sons and break their wrists if they act "like a female" - and, less violently but still odiously, police their daughters' gender expression as well.

Jeremy Hooper (linked by Joe ( Read more... )

The Roman Catholic Church continued to make castrati into the 20th century, except that the point was to get them not to sing.The Dutch parliament on Tuesday called for an investigation into reports that Catholic clerics ordered castrations of young males in the 1950s in an attempt to cure their homosexuality.
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Looks like I should have done more research before posting that video uncritically the other day. I've deleted it from the relevant post.

Laci Green points out that the "facts" in Invisible Children's video, as well as its financial situation, are both highly questionable. Also, they're working with the Ugandan Army and Sudan People’s Liberation ( Read more... )

Via PZ Myers, some good news out of the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, notorious for suicides caused by bullying of gender-nonconforming children: The district has pledged better treatment of gay and lesbian students as part of a settlement, and the lone school board member who objected to the settlement has resigned.

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