In the US there is no true difference between a Conservative and a Liberal. In the US, a la Webster’s, a conservative is simply one who resists change. Do NOT apply this equally to political and moral conservatism. The are NOT the same, however much the Religious Right likes to conflate the two.
A political conservative is someone, like myself, ( Read more... )

On the LA Times re: Gay judge wasn’t required to remove himself from same-sex marriage case, U.S. judge rules

A commenter named Ann Common said: “What we hate is sexual perversion.”

This is my response:

And now the truth is revealed! You are a hater. It may interest you to know that Victorian modes and culture [should have] died with Queen Victoria ( Read more... )

However, this ink caught my attention. It is basically a speech saying that multiculturalism is failing. It was a speech given by Prime Minister David Cameron and for the first time, the UK is saying what Germany’s Merkel has been touting for months.

Let’s properly judge these organizations: Do they believe in universal human rights - including ( Read more... )

The Westboro Baptist Church is proving again that they are insensitive jerks and non-Christian assholes!

Before you read that article, the context is last weekend’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords where, 19 people were shot, Six died, and 13 were wounded, including Giffords, who was shot in the head.

Susan Hileman had taken a young neighbor, ( Read more... )

Religious whacktards! In this case Jihadist religious whacktards!

Five suspected Islamist militants have been arrested for planning a gun attack at the Copenhagen offices of a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, police say.

The men intended to burst into the Jyllands-Posten office and kill as many people as ( Read more... )

The Beeb gets it half right.

A US federal judge has stopped Oklahoma putting into effect a constitutional amendment to bar courts from considering Islamic law in judgments.

Now this is a good-thing™ and the reason why is that it makes the 1st Amendment redundant. This is an issue between State Constitutional Law and Federal Constitutional Law. The ( Read more... )

Deity, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the fucking difference! Homo Sapiens - Wise man. The Victorians got it astoundingly wrong, we should be called Homo Bardus, aka Stupid Man or Homo Superbus -Arrogant Man, better yet; Homo Bardus Superbus - Stupidly ( Read more... )

The recent reversion to the ban against gay marriage is not about God’s law, it’s about secular law 1 and they are not the same! The Muslims seem to be the worst at understanding this difference. However they are closely followed by Jews, Catholics, and Puritan Protestants (Calvinists).

The ruling "is a violation of God’s law," Siddiqi, an ( Read more... )