Obama — the first sitting president to address the group in its nearly 100-year history – took aim at North Dakota’s law, which bans abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at around six weeks. “A woman may not even know that she’s pregnant at six weeks,” he said. As long as [...]
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Dzhokar Tsarnaev Awake, Responding to Questions in Writing
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awake and responding sporadically in writing to questions, authorities said. Investigators are asking about other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News. [ABC News] IT DIDN’T take traveling to a foreign country for Dzhokar Tsarnaev to be radicalized, though there is evidence that [...]
Queer Talk: National Day of Silence Isn’t Just a “Gay” Thing
Today is the National Day of Silence, a “day of action” which began in 1996. In short, there’s a difference between being silenced, and using silence as a form of communication and education. About the Day of Silence: The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow [...]
Suspect 1, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Profile Emerges [Video] *Updated*
Authorities identified one suspect as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnayev, who was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown, Mass., according to a U.S. law-enforcement official. [Wall Street Journal] THE PROFILE that’s emerging of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Suspect 1 (who is dead), is chilling, but not nearly complete. But caution is needed, because now we’re into the [...]
Pope Francis Parrots Benedict on Crackdown of U.S. Nuns
The Vatican said in a statement Monday that Francis had reaffirmed the doctrinal evaluation and criticism of U.S. nuns made last year by the Holy See under his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. The assessment accused the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an organization that represents most U.S. female Catholic orders, of promoting “radical feminist themes” [...]
Boston Terrorist Attack Now Turns to Wallpaper
Cities worldwide stepped up security following the explosions. In Britain, police said they were reviewing security plans for Sunday’s London Marathon, the next major international marathon. Thousands of people compete in the London Marathon every year, thronging the city’s streets. London is also considered a top target for international terrorists. A London Metropolitan Police spokesman [...]
Israeli Police Detain Women for Worshiping at Western Wall
IF THERE is anything more authoritarian than refusing women the right to worship equal to men, I haven’t read it. Organized religions of all faiths have been the structure for ancient society. However, it’s now the 21st century modern era, so with this things must change. The latest story is more evidence of the ultra-Orthodox [...]
Mormon Women Demand Right to Priesthood
OUR SPIRITUALITY is miles and miles apart. In fact, Mormon women and I agree on very little in practice. But I stand beside these women of faith who are taking on the male hierarchy of their church as they demand the right to priesthood in the Mormon church. From the Daily Beast: On Saturday, as [...]
McConnell’s Nixonian Politics Trained on Ashley Judd Exposed
She’s clearly, this sounds extreme, but she is emotionally unbalanced. I mean it’s been documented. Jesse can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she’s suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the ’90s. – Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides Weighed [...]
Tyler Perry’s “Temptation” One of the Worst Movies Ever (and it’s not Kim Kardashian’s fault)
THIS MOVIE seems obviously made for the segment of culturally frozen individuals who actually believe organized religion is the only thing standing between sexually adventurous women, including those who cheat on their husbands, and hell or the local HIV/AIDS hospice, which Tyler Perry equates as the same thing. However, Tyler Perry’s attempt to manipulate his [...]
North Carolina Republican State Legislators Seek to Establish a State Religion
Eleven North Carolina state House members are unhappy with federal court rulings related to when and where “overtly Christian prayers” can be made, and so they’ve introduced a bill that declares that North Carolina doesn’t have to listen to what the federal government, or Constitution, says. Taking it another step, the bill says the state [...]
Republican Sweetheart Ben Carson’s Sorry If He Offended Anyone Over his Beasty, NAMBLA Word Choices
“Now perhaps the examples were not the best choice of words, and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone,” he added. “But the point that I was making was that no group of individuals, whoever they are, whatever their belief systems, gets to change traditional definitions. The reason I believe the way I do, I [...]
Claire McCaskill Makes Me Proud to have Been Born a Missourian
THIS IS a profound moment for my home state of Missouri. In most every way, Missouri is a backward state. I fled it in my 20s and have been amazed since then that the politicians haven’t been influenced by the changing times. There is a rabidly bigoted thread that runs through this state that is [...]
Biggest Loser: Reince Priebus, but Also the Christian Right?
“I know our party believes marriage is between one man and one woman.” – Reince Priebus THIS IS just pathetic. Lose on, Republicans. But yet, somebody deep in the bowels of the old boys’ club seem to be getting a clue. From Buzzfeed: Specifically, the word “Christian” does not appear once in the party’s 50,000-word [...]
History Channel Fail, Obama as Satan in “The Bible” Sparks Outrage
THE PHOTO above has gone viral, with the tweet from Glenn Beck asking a simple question: Anyone else think the Devil in #TheBible Sunday on HIstory Channel looks exactly like That Guy? Buzzfeed has more, including an original screen shot, with the History channel and everyone involved with the production weighing in defensively. The History [...]
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