The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality

Matthew makes a lot of good points in this video. It's pretty awesome and well worth watching.

Stop calling it a sex scandal

Stop calling it a sex scandal: "Dear media: Learn the difference between abuse and sex -- otherwise, you're sensationalizing violence and rape.

Let me fix this for you, headline writers. When you’re dealing with a story that involves rape or harassment or abuse or molestation or child porn or anything that falls under the rubric of criminal behavior, you should call those things rape and harassment and abuse and molestation and child pornography. You know what you shouldn’t call them? Sexy sexy sex scandals, that’s what...."

If God Could See Us Now

God's Will

Did I Stutter?

One Is A Religious Fanatic...

Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum

Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum: "Democracy cannot function without an informed citizenry, and an ignorant public is just what Santorum and his allies count on.

Right-wing fundamentalists such as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum hate public schools, which he suggests are government schools wedded to doing the work of Satan, dressed up in the garb of the Enlightenment. Santorum, true to his love affair with the very secular ideology of privatization, prefers home schooling, which is code for people taking responsibility for whatever social issues or problems they may face, whether it be finding the best education for their children or securing decent health care...."

Fox News Crops Out Comedy From Catholicism Satire?

It’s Time for the Pope and his Church to Shut Up

It’s Time for the Pope and his Church to Shut Up: "There are a great many people who cannot have children for one reason or another, but who want children. There are also a great many children who, without modern medical science, would die – like my youngest son, who suffers from Gaucher Disease. Without modern medical science, he would be dead already and rather than enjoying watching him play around the house, I would be visiting his grave in a cemetery.

There is no essential difference between these two issues. In both cases, modern medical science takes a hand and improves our lot in life. Couples can have children who might otherwise not have them, and sick children can live instead of die. And the two are connected in another way as well. Couples who are carriers for Gaucher or similar diseases, who might otherwise have to play the lottery and risk having a child who has the disease, can instead use modern medical science to ensure that only a fertilized egg free of the disease is implanted in the womb. Rather than giving birth to a child who may die, or who will at the very least have very expensive medical problems the Republican Party says they shouldn’t be able to pay for, the couple can give birth to a normal, healthy child...."

Gutierrez: Gingrich, Obama, Catholics, Contraception and Tall People

Mormons perform proxy baptisms to help release the dead from 'spirit prison'

Mormons Still Baptizing Dead Non-Mormons

Does Providing Contraception to Women = Hating Religion?

Does Providing Contraception to Women = Hating Religion?: "What? What? WHAT?!

It's like a bad joke opening, "Two Roman Catholics and a Mormon walk into a bar and demand that all the women stop using contraception..."

To make the joke complete let's examine the "moral authority" credentials of these three clowns and that of the "religious authorities" who want to make religion -- say the "issue" that President Obama is not a "real Christian," or he is "anti-religious freedom" -- an election year talking point.

Who is it that claims this moral authority and that also demands to be taken seriously? Why the Roman Catholic bishops and a former Mormon missionary of course!..."

Speak on the Behalf of God

Dear God

This graphic has been going around a lot on Facebook since the Chardon, OH high school shooting. Honestly, I'm getting pretty tired of seeing it. God is allowed in schools for the people that believe in him and I'm pretty sure that there's bible versus that say that He's always with you. I just don't feel like looking them up right now. And if that is the case, it makes me wonder why Christians would say this. Do they have so little faith in their God that they don't believe that he's always with them where ever they go? It's not like there's a line on the floor of all school entrances that say "Leave your God here." Plus, we have free will which is why this stuff is 'allowed' to happen.

I'm just getting really tired of hearing about how God should be in schools and needs to be there. But if people want God in their children's schools so badly, they need to send their kid to a private school. We have freedom of religion and separation of church and state for a reason. The only people you normally hear about in the news throwing a fuckin hissy fit over this shit, is Christians. I never hear of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists or any other religion having problems with it. And I'm sure that's because they don't what a religion that's not their own being pressed on their children. They also might be more tolerant of others beliefs than some Christians tend to be.

Rick Santorum On Religious Freedom: What He Has Forgotten Since Law School

Rick Santorum On Religious Freedom: What He Has Forgotten Since Law School: "A law school peer of Santorum's offers a lesson on what the Constitution says about religious freedom for a wayward classmate and his followers.

Samuel Johnson famously wrote, in 1775, that a false “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” Now, it appears that modern scoundrels – politicians and their puppet masters – have added another disguise to their wardrobe: false constitutional scholarship.

Not content to wrap themselves in the flag alone, financial wolves are now relying on politicians, wrapped in the sheep’s clothing of uninformed constitutional platitudes, hoping to sway the voting masses who lack the inclination to study the Constitution themselves. Nowhere is this more true in 2012 than with pronouncements concerning religious freedom, especially those made by my fellow law school graduate, Rick Santorum...."

The March of Christian Dominionism 1: What Is Christian Dominionism?

The March of Christian Dominionism 1: What Is Christian Dominionism?: "Or “Welcome to the Theocratic States of America”

Thirty years from now, a protestor stands alone on a corner. She is visibly pregnant. Her sign, written in blood red marker, says “I’m carrying my rapist’s baby! Thanks a lot, Jesus!” She has only been there for five minutes but has been called “slut” and “whore” by several passersby. One elderly woman stops long enough to tell her she deserved to be raped for not loving Jesus enough. Others look at her with sad eyes but quickly avert their gaze lest one of their neighbors notice.

Finally the police arrive to take the woman into custody. She has not spoken a word. She has no bullhorn. She has not accosted a single person on the street. Yet she is still arrested by men who barely contain their contempt for her. She has broken no laws that we would recognize but still, she is roughly handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser. Of course, they take great care not to harm the baby she is carrying; the bruises she’ll have later won’t be anywhere near life-threatening. In this, she is lucky to be pregnant; others do not fare as well...."

Republican War on Science: Hope for the Future?

Republicans Have Awoken A Sleeping Giant And She Is Furious

Republicans Have Awoken A Sleeping Giant And She Is Furious: "The true motivation for a war is not always clear in spite of proclamations by a nation or its leaders. The war in Iraq’s purpose is still a mystery to many Americans because of the ever-changing goals proffered by the Bush administration and there are parallels with the current conservative war on women. On the surface, it appears that evangelicals are on a tear to restrict women’s right to choose their reproductive health, and although that is one of their primary goals, there is another pernicious motivation many Americans ignore even though it is obvious to women. Over the past couple of weeks, there have been important clues to what the conservative’s endgame is and although contraception, abortion rights, and women’s health issues are at the forefront, it is male dominance that drives the assaults...."

Violating Ignored Beliefs