This is utterly incomprehensible to me.I cannot fathom that the same court who ruled that the word "marriage" is an important part of state recognition of relationships, who said marriage is a fundamental right that cannot be denied to a class of people, has so completely and utterly reversed itself only one year later. Last year they ruled in our ( Read more... )

I've always been a big skeptic of Freud's ideas. His ideas of childhood development always struck me as the fevered ravings of a deeply repressed (or perhaps impotent) male sex fiend.

But now this guy has made me a believer.

( Cut because no one should be exposed to this level of batshit crazy unless they want to be. )

"Faith is what takes us from what we know--the facts that we have available to us--to what we don't know. But, in my mind, faith should never be used to eliminate facts."

-- Dennis Farley, "Line Upon Line: Mormonism Transcended"

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Would you abort your baby if genetic testing determined it to be Christian?

In real-life news, Fred Phelps's house burned down. Sadly, the family survived.

ETA: Apparently Phelps' home or church didn't actually burn down, and weren't even damaged. The fire was outside the garage of one of the buildings in the Phelps' compound where they store ( Read more... )

The fundies filed their court papers protesting the petition to remove the anti-marriage amendment from the ballot this morning ( Read more... )

My dad called me in the middle of a fascinating lecture on wave interference this morning. Why did he do this? What emergency could possibly be so important ( Read more... )

garebear made a post about the string of gay scandals in Religio-fascist Conservative Land that got me thinking. There's a lot of back-and-forth in the post and the comments about the problem with these folks. A lot of people seem to think the problem is that they won't come out as gay ( Read more... )

From exmormon:

If you thought the sacred Mormon undergarments were weird, get a load of THIS holy underwear!

A letter to Neil Gaiman from some poor sap whose "devout christian" girlfriend dumped him because he was reading Good Omens.Ow. This is definitely NOT helping my headache ( Read more... )

California Senate passes bill requiring history textbooks to include contributions of GLBT people in the state's history.No word from Ahnold on the subject yet, but then he doesn't seem to have a position on much of anything these days. I wonder if he thinks the state courts ought to handle this one too. Ah well. It still has to pass the Assembly, ( Read more... )