I hear this approximately once a week. "It's political correctness gone/run amok!" I'm fortunate that I usually hear it on TV, or on the radio, or I see it written somewhere on the internet. The people who are saying it are usually not connected to me in any way, which is good; if they were, we'd have an argument. In fact, I have had that ( Read more... )

Since I last posted, there has been more discussion in the Pagan blogosphere about trans* exclusion at PantheaCon. ( Read More )

Kate Pickett explains why income equality is a good thing for all of us, rich and poor.

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Newt Gingrich: What if some of those children are Jewish? What if they're Pagan? What if they're Buddhist, or Muslim, or Sikh? What if they're Hindu, or Jains, or Native American? What if they're Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgender? What you are proposing is religious totalitarianism and that will HURT children, lots of children. I can prove ( Read more... )

I can't even put into words how many trigger warnings apply to this article. You may cry even if you're not triggered by anti-GLBT content.

One Town's War on Gay Teens

God hates checkered whiptail lizards!

Props to myrrhmade for linking me to this.

Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did.

So, some of you may have heard that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently made a speech about human rights in which she said that gay rights = human rights. Gay people being human, this does not come as a surprise to anyone with a functioning conscience. President Obama followed up this speech by issuing a directive that countries which ( Read more... )

Lemony Snickett chimes in on Occupy Wall Street. I'll put this on facebook too but I'm in training and can't access it.

Ray Comfort's latest movie is out. Trigger warnings apply for pictures and discussion of the holocaust, for talking about violent scenarios, for hate speech, for anti-choice rhetoric, for Christian supremacism, for white supremacism, for antisemitism, and a whole hell of a lot of other extremely triggery subjects. Seriously, this is a rough video ( Read more... )