(NEW DELHI) - India's health minister has derided homosexuality as an unnatural "disease" from the West, drawing outrage Tuesday from activists who said the comments set back the country's campaign for gay rights and its fight against HIV.

The comments Monday by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at a conference on HIV/AIDS in the Indian capital ( Read more... )

“...We don’t have that world yet, of course. But the reason has nothing to do with biology: it has to do with our crushingly low expectations of men’s capacity to reconcile lust and humanity. In order for our daughters and little sisters and nieces to be safer, we must demand better of ourselves as men. And one way to start is to challenge the very ( Read more... )

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But will the politicians protect those who believe the Sun orbits the Earth? Tennessee is an infamous hotbed of rhetoric attacking the merits of researching evolution and teaching what scientists have learned.  Returning to a long history of legislative efforts to undermine the teaching of evolution, state representatives are trying to push a bill ( Read more... )

What was Newt Gingrich doing at John Hagee's Cornerstone Church on Sunday? Besides delivering another speech from his book of Demagogue Mad Libs, that is. The most obvious answer is that Gingrich is courting evangelical voters. But ever since the LA Times wrote about Gingrich's outreach to evangelicals earlier this month, I've been skeptical ( Read more... )

What form would the ideal religion take? Some might argue that instead of redesigning religion, we should get rid of it. But it is good for some things: religious people are happier and healthier, and religion offers community. Besides, secularism has passed its zenith, according to Jon Lanman, who studies atheism at the University of Oxford. In a ( Read more... )

As the world mourns the loss of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, the hate-spewing members of Westboro Baptist Church are dusting off their picket signs.

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...chills. just, chills.

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