I am deeply disappointed by "Gay marriage bill signed into law in New Hampshire" from the Associated Press. A few notes:

Cheers from the gallery greeted the key vote in the House, which passed it 198-176. Surrounded by gay marriage supporters, Lynch signed the bill about an hour later.
In mentioning the reaction of supporters and omitting the ( Read more... )

"Anthropologists have gained evidence, although still controversial, that of all the women who lived in Africa 200,000 years ago, only one has any descendents still living today. This "mitochondrial Eve" is ancestor to us all." -- Anatomy and Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function by Saladin, 4th Ed ( Read more... )

http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE51E15B20090215Read more... )

Some background: I wrote this letter initially to a friend who, last I heard, supported abortion. After writing a bit more, I felt the ideas here were important enough to warrant further discussion -- that is, more significant than just "a thought in passing", since these issues affect the lives of millions every day. So I blind carbon copied it to ( Read more... )

From http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=8784: this is a definition from disciplesnow.com ( Read more... )

I'm assuming that everyone who gets "married" (has a religious / traditional sensibility about man-woman commitment etc etc) wants it to be recognized by the state (gov't) as a legal arrangement and get the benefits therefrom
That legal arrangement is called "civil union".
right, you would go to the state to get your civil union recognized
That ( Read more... )

While hair length is not the main point of this passage of scripture, we glean the following applications from it: 1) We should adhere to the culturally accepted indicators of gender. Men should look like men, and women should look like women. God is not interested in nor does He accept “unisex.” ... 3) Women are to voluntarily place themselves ( Read more... )

Why do we bother including the phrase "Under God" in our pledge of allegiance, and "In God We Trust" to our money? We added these phrases during the Cold War only to further distance ourselves from the godless communists, during a time when more than half of those calling themselves Christians were unable to name one of the four Gospels.

It seems to ( Read more... )

I've always considered myself against the death penalty. As a child, it was from a fear of killing innocent people. Empathetically, I would imagine myself wrongly convicted and sitting on death row. As an older child (I'd say I'm too immature to be a teenager, and certainly a young adult, even at 20), it was from the belief that if a man is worthy ( Read more... )

Romney started his day on a sour note, when a restaurant patron declared he would not vote for him because of his faith"I'm one person who will not vote for a Mormon," Al Michaud of Dover shouted at Romney when he approached him inside Harvey's Bakery in downtown Dover ( Read more... )