Millstones and Glass Houses: the Catholic Church's Protection of Child Rapists Is Coming To Light

"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than for him to harm these little ones.

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Open Thread: Thanksgiving Leftover TV Dinner

Gonna pop up some favorites of mine; feel free to include others in comments...

WKRP's "Turkeys Away"- way too many great lines!

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving- there was just something funny about Woodstock eating turkey and getting the bigger part of the wishbone at the end!

Addams Family Values (h/t Jeremy at G-A-Y)

Whatcha got?

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NCR: Fifty Catholic Dioceses Donated To Repeal Maine Marriage Law

From National Catholic Reporter's Chuck Colbert comes an utterly damning breakdown of Portland Roman Catholic Diocese Bishop Richard J.

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Joseph Backholm answers the straw man's question

The anti-gay Family Policy Institute of Washington has posted a video called "BY PROHIBITING GAY MARRIAGE, AREN'T WE VIOLATING THE SEPERATION (sic) OF CHURCH AND STATE?".

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Phony moralists show true colors with anti-Adam Lambert group

crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

 This Adam Lambert controversy is ridiculous - that's my take on it.

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Report On Catholic Church In Ireland: Godly Perverts Protected At Expense Of Victims

Well. The Catholic Church spends oodles to defeat marriage equality in Maine, and yet there own record on child abuse.

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Q Of The Day: Would You Support ENDA if...?

The Advocate is asking the question "Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill?"

As of 9:30 AM PST Thanksgiving morning, this is the response:

The initial response from the non-scientific poll responders seems to be a big "No.

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Networks' reactions to Lambert kiss -- 1999 gay-kisser-on-live TV calls BS

I was waiting for evidence that the networks, particularly CBS with its blurring of Adam Lambert's on-screen kiss of his male bandmate during the post-Children's Hour performance on the American Music Awards.

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Double empty-header: Bachmann, Palin to speak at National Tea Party Convention

A real laff-fest for you...Rep. Michele "deranged" Bachmann (R-MN) as a featured guest along with Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin at the first National Tea Party Convention can conjure up a lot of jokes, but it's all true, including restricted press access to save them from themselves on camera.

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Alice's Restaurant Revisted

Blame Dawn in Maine for this video- we were just talking about Arlo a few minutes ago on the phone and I mentioned that the first time I ever heard "Alice's Restaurant" was on Thanksgiving Day 1987, as I was driving back from my relative's in Amherst MA to my apartment outside Boston.

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