Looked at myself in the mirror today and still couldn't find the resemblance. Seriously. Didn't I get mistaken for a porn-obsessed sexual perv just a month back? When did I suddenly turn into a turbanned and mustachioed religious cleric?
Then again it was dark, I'd grown a beard and I was eating kosher food.
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This week, both the websites of CafePress.com and Zazzle.com decided to stop selling merchandise that featured the latest right-wing craze: the slogan “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8.
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Philippines Senate hopeful Danton Remoto photo by Ralph Camus, from Danton’s campaign blog
“I will definitely run as senator in 2010,” said Philippine LGBTQ rights advocate Danton Remoto Wednesday.
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Through its conversion therapy programs, Exodus International claims it can change homosexuals to heterosexuals if they want it bad enough.
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In a compelling letter to The New York Times, Michael E. Getnick, president of the New York State Bar Association, takes on constitutionally challenged state Sen.
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Gay Marriage in New YorkNew York TimesState Senator Rubén Díaz Sr. raises many points as to his preferences and religious beliefs in expressing his opposition to same-sex marriage.
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by David Link
This is the last straw for me. I took Americablog’s pledge.
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The Catholic Church's DC Archdiocese is threatening to stop all social services within the city should the marriage law go through without an exemption written into it that would give the Church the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
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Questions about religious freedoms in gay marriage bill remainWashington ExaminerProponents of dc's gay marriage bill say they have carefully carved an exemption to ensure deeply held religious beliefs are not shoved aside.
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Religious conservatives argued endlessly that the Matthew Shepard Act would infringe on religious freedoms because, if a pastor were to preach homophobia at the pulpit and a member of his parish went out and killed a queer, the murderer's religious beliefs would be used against him in court.
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Here’s a video I'm afraid we’ll be seeing more of – a young man from Massachusetts fired from his job for objecting to a coworker’s announcement that she was going to marry her same-sex partner.
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Cuteypie Pat Robertson, host of The 700 Club and respected conspiracy theorist, is no longer just a religious zealot, but a liar.
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Pat Robertson flat out lies to his audience on The 700 Club. Again. Via Crooks & Liars:
His basis for opposing the law, however, is completely detached from reality.
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Party-switching Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (D) makes an appeal to LGBT voters to help him cling to his seat with a piece up at Huff Post outlining his support for repeal of DADT and DOMA, as well as passage of ENDA and the enactment of hate crimes legislation into law.
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Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips spoke last night about the danger of “criminalising religious beliefs” at an event debating the conflict between LGBT equality and freedom of speech.
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A soccer club composed of Muslims refused to play a scheduled league game this week against a gay-oriented team from Paris, saying it would clash with its religious beliefs, the gay French site Tetu reports.
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What is International Blasphemy Day? The basics:
International Blasphemy Day is not just a day. It is a movement to dismantle the wall which exists between religion and criticism.
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Why is it so many people think “religious beliefs” should exempt them from any rule/law they don’t want to follow? Then they turn around and cry persecution when they find out they don’t have special rights just because of their lifestyle choices.
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In 1990, 8 percent of Americans reported that they had no religious beliefs. Twenty years later, that's 15 percent.
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Congressional hearings on ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act)are coming up this week and I have been working on a few talking points to beat back the negative ones we are sure to hear from the religious right.
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