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, Religion
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Tagged bigotry, Bowers v Hardwick, gender, islam, Jews, jihadi, Law, Lawrence v Texas, Religion, scripture, sexuality
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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. [...]
What would Joseph Kony do If he were here right now? He’d burn a blond gay muppet or two, That’s what Joseph Kony’d do. Last week, it emerged that the M25 — for those not in the know, the ‘London Orbital’ and Britain’s biggest carpark — was turning into a tourist attraction, presumably by means of [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Britain, Children, Fark!, Funnies, Internet, Marriage, Popular culture, Public Policy, Racism, Religion, Skeptics
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Tagged #Kony2012., Aaron Stewart-Ahn, charity, Charlie Brooker, gay rights, Glee, homophobia, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, jon stewart, Joseph Kony, Justin Beiber, Matt Stone, Médecins Sans Frontières, Nietzsche, Patrick Barkham, ressentiment, Russell Blackford, Sokal Hoax, South Park, Teju Cole, Tracey Rowland, Trey Parker, Uganda, Zoolander
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien said countries which legalise gay marriage are “shaming themselves” by going against the “natural law,” and should not consider their actions “progress”. He claimed same sex unions were the “thin end of the wedge” and would lead to the “further degeneration of society into immorality.” In a series of controversial comments, he [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Marriage, Politics, Religion, scotland, Society
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Tagged cardinal keith o'brien, catholicism, gay and lesbian, gay priests, gay rights, holy see, homosexuality, pope benedict, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships
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February 2, 2012 – 1:52 am
Let’s just say that the Scottish Parliament building (aka ‘Holyrood’) does not inspire universal affection among Scots. I’ve encountered one local tour guide who invited anyone who was interested to lob an RPG into it while he carefully looked in the opposite direction, for example, while a fellow lawyer suggested that it looked like someone [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Marriage, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, scotland
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Tagged #equalmarriage, Adam Smith Institute, Clause 28, Edinburgh Gay Men's Chorus, equality network, Joe Fitzpatrick, newt gingrich, paganism, Rabbi Mark Solomon, Ruth Davidson, scottish parliament, the Scotsman, Tom French
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January 19, 2012 – 6:44 am
A good post by Lorenzo on the “homosexual panic defence” and what it means for the status of women and gay men. Please go and read it. I would add that homosexual panic defence has become an issue again after a recent case in Queensland where one of the defendants attempted unsuccessfully to claim the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Feminism, Human/Civil rights, Law
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Tagged criminal law, Feminism, homosexual panic defence, homosexuality, Lorenzo, manslaughter, murder, provocation, sexuality, Wayne Ruks
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January 15, 2012 – 7:53 am
There’s nothing quite like getting up first thing in the morning to discover service documents sitting in your hallway (or, if you’re in Australia or the US, poking out of your mailbox). This is what has happened to Australian political and skeptical blogger Jennifer Wilson (her blog is ‘No Place for Sheep’) yesterday. I have [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Feminism, Law, Privacy, Public Policy, Science, Skeptics, Tort
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Tagged Article 8 ECHR, Brian Harradine, Campbell v MGN Ltd, Christopher Hitchens, clive hamilton, Collective Shout, defamation, God's Police, Jennifer Wilson, Jonathan Haidt, Lenah Game Meats v ABC, Leslie Cannold, Melinda Tankard Reist, No Place for Sheep, Rachel Hills, Russell Blackford, Spinifex Press
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So NSFW we had to leave it until the weekend. Tim Minchin seems to be taking the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church quite personally… though with stories like this one I can rather see his point (and I did like the flasher can-can).
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Funnies, Music, Religion
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Tagged catholic sex abuse scandal, ear worm du jour, paedophile priests, pope benedict, Roman Catholic Church, sex abuse, the holy see, the vatican, Tim Minchin
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Now, if this were me, I don’t think I could bear to bring the dispute to court… However, there is presently a case before the Federal Court in which a woman is suing for worker’s compensation after she was injured during vigorous sex with a man she’d met while on a workplace trip. She was [...]
It’s really annoying. You go to all the trouble of arranging a Royal Zombie Wedding Celebration and nobody comes… …because they’re kettled by the police a few blocks away being stopped and searched, questioned, arrested and drug tested. “Sorry son, you’re positive for formaldehyde. We’ll have to take you in…” We asked if we could [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Events, Fark!, Free Speech, General, Human/Civil rights, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, science fiction, Skeptics, Society
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Tagged Banksy, british monarchy, british police, Chris Knight, constitutional convention, FITwatch, flashmob, Forward Intelligence Taskforce, Liberty, London, magna carta, metropolitan police, muslims against crusades, parliament, police, protest, public order, quakers, queer resistance, royal family, royal wedding, section 44, section 60, starbucks, stop and search, street party, the westminster system, UK parliament, zombie arrests, zombie flashmob, zombie royal wedding celebration, zombies
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