We are going to have to get better at managing difference, people. I learn via Catallaxy that one of the anti-gay signatories to the ‘Doctors for the Family’ senate submission has resigned from his position on Victoria’s Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. I carry no brief for ‘Doctors for the Family’; fellow Skeptic Chrys Stevenson [...]
Today, went to St John’s co-cathedral in Valletta. Downloading and then uploading images from my iPad defeats me. But images are available here. It is an unrestrained example of a Baroque Catholic cathedral. When I say “unrestrained”, I mean they did not know when to stop. I would say it was positively Hindu or Chinese [...]
One of the standard complaints against giving queers (by ‘queer’ I mean any person who does not conform to being definitively male-or-female and heterosexual: i.e. same-sex oriented, same-sex attracted, intersex, transgender people) equal protection of the law is that it is an offense against the Christian, or Judaeo-Christian (if Christians want to include Jews rather [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Law, Sexuality
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Tagged bigotry, Bowers v Hardwick, gender, islam, Jews, jihadi, Law, Lawrence v Texas, Religion, scripture, sexuality
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Barack Obama is marking the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death with a campaign suggesting that his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, lacks the guts to have ordered the raid that killed the al-Qaida leader. Infuriated Republicans have hit back by accusing the president of dividing America, calling the campaign “shameless” and accusing Obama of seeking [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Funnies, Media, Politics, Terrorism
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Tagged america, barack obama, jimmy carter, mitt romney, Osama bin Laden, POTUS, US democratic party, US politics, US republican party, USA
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April 22, 2012 – 10:11 pm
The Kony 2012 Cover the Night campaign woke up to awkward questions on Saturday after activists failed to blanket cities with posters of the wanted Ugandan warlord, Joseph Kony. The movement’s phenomenal success in mobilising young people online, following last month’s launch of a 29-minute documentary which went viral, flopped in trying to turn [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Funnies, Internet, Media, Politics
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Tagged africa, america, ayinet, cover the night, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, Joseph Kony, Kony 2012, lord's resistance army, LRA, Uganda, USA, victor ochen
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Not in Britain you don’t, no: It was the moment that conservative Christian groups’ growing stridency in the British political arena went too far, at least for Boris Johnson. On Thursday evening the London mayor gave the clearest sign yet that radical religion and politics still do not mix in the UK when he slapped an almost instant ban on [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights
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Tagged #equalmarriage, 40 Days of Treats, Anglican Mainstream, Ben Summerskill, boris johnson, Core Issues Trust, Mayor of London, Stonewall, Transport for London, Women's Institute
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Just when I thought I had a full grasp of the moral depravity that is suicide bombing, another level of horror is revealed. Al Qaeda’s preferred target group for recruiting suicide bomber is—orphans. As one Pakistani political activist writes: We have observed that most of the suicides bombers are orphans who are less than 17 [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Law, Middle east, Terrorism
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Tagged adoption, islam, islamic terrorism, jihad, jihadi, Law, monotheism, morality, Religion
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I’m blogging about Easter again, sorry. This time spurred by an online conversation between friends about the appropriateness or not of being wished “Happy Easter” on Good Friday. Classicists of the world, wrack off – yes I DO know the entire event was probably lifted from pre-existing pagan rites of spring, but for the purposes [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Art, Australia, Blogging, Britain, Events, Fark!, General, History, Media, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, Skeptics, Society, Terrorism
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Tagged 9/11, christianity, Easter, ground zero, islam, Jesus, Jonathan Jones, Judaism, magnum, New York, photography, september 11th, the guardian, the meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo, The Passion, Thomas Hoepker, twin towers
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[SL: Last night, I went to a debate hosted by the Edinburgh University Debates Union (sic), on the proposition 'this house supports same-sex marriage'. I was going to say that the Oxford Union it ain't, but that would be giving them too much credit. Let's just say that 'outstandingly crap' goes some way towards describing it. [...]
Rick Santorum is facing some awkward questions after footage emerged of a radical evangelical preacher opening a campaign rally with calls for all non-Christians to “get out” of America. In the footage, filmed at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Louisiana yesterday, Pastor Dennis Terry told a crowd that anyone who doesn’t worship God should [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Funnies, History, Politics, Society, The Right
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Tagged barack obama, christian evangelism, god damn america speech, greenwell springs baptist church, louisiana, one nation under god, pastor dennis terry, pledge of allegiance, republican primaries, reverend jeremiah wright, rick santorum, united states of america, US politics, US presidential election 2012, US republican party, US republicans, USA
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