Friday, August 9, 2013

Stephen Fry to British Government and IOC: "An Absolute Ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 on Sochi Is Simply Essential"

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Not to be missed as this work week ends: Stephen Fry's impassioned, articulate open letter to David Cameron and the International ...

John Fugelsang's Takedown of "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls"

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Struggle for Gay Welcome and Inclusion in United Methodist Churches: A Report from the Ground, Tampa, Florida

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The struggle about justice and inclusion , about love and compassion for those who are made gay by God, is hardly confined to the Ca...

Rhode Island Priest Attacks Gay-Friendly Legislators, Wisconsin Priest Boots Boy Scouts: Unfinished Story of Catholics and Gays

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I said yesterday that some days, the news seems to come to us pre-packaged in novelistic form: headline links to headline, as if we...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

A Reader Responds: "Church's Homophobia Is So Obsessive That They've Lowered the Bar . . to Basically, 'Don't Be Gay'"

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Brian Gallagher responds  (brilliantly) to my report last evening about the discussion thread now underway at Commonweal  which exh...

Frank Cocozzelli's Critique of the Neo-Confederate Views of Thomas E. Woods: A New Installment in the Series

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As a footnote to what I just posted  about the seeming rise, in many places of the world, of overtly racist and homophobic movements that...

Reading Signs of Times: Race-Baiting and Gay-Bashing in America, Ruthless Repression of LGBT Citizens in Russia

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