Life Without a Net
Same-sex marriage
Why is Gay Marriage Even an Issue?
With President Obama’s landmark endorsement of gay marriage, the United States has taken a significant rhetorical step forward in the First World. The barrage of hate and vitriol spewing from the Far Right seems farther and farther removed from the opinions of workaday Americans, who appear to be coming around to the belief that things … Continue reading
Gay Marriage Isn’t Rare, and It’s Never Destroyed Society.
One of the lies peddled by the Christian bigots is that if gay marriage is allowed, it will destroy society. People will be marrying lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats… Straight marriage will be so corrupted that the “sanctity of marriage” will disappear. The thing is, like so … Continue reading
More Lies About Homosexuals from the Religious Right
The Family Research Council has fired another salvo in the debate on legalizing same-sex marriage with the release of a new documentary that details the harm same-sex marriage can inflict upon a society. (LINK) Here we go again. The “dangers” of same sex marriage. Anybody want to take an over-under on how much unbiased science is going … Continue reading
NY Bishop Displays Bigotry and Ignorance About Marriage
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, of the New York Archdiocese, has penned a “defense of marriage” blog which deserves a point by point examination. It’s so loaded with falsehoods, bigotry, and hate that I would be doing a disservice not to dissect it in detail. (Read it in its entirety HERE.) The media, mainly sympathetic to this … Continue reading
Myth, Sexuality, and Culture: Part 2: The influence of the church
Please read THE FIRST PART of this continuing series. Please read THE THIRD PART of this continuing series. The Influence of The Church I’m going to begin my survey more or less at the same time that the first Christian cults appeared, or around 55 CE. However, we need to make some observations about the state … Continue reading
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