Beliefnet: Critics push Obama to change faith-based hiring rules
Voice of America: Evangelical Leaders See Secularism as Greater Threat Than Islam
Pennlive: Protests calling for separation of church and state in Harrisburg city hall scheduled
Florida Independent: New film imagines a future in which African-American terrorists murder abortion providers
Minnesota Independent: Local, national Catholics to ramp up ‘language’ war on same-sex marriage
Love the Voice of America piece. It's just so difficult to decide who we hate more!
ReplyDeleteDonna -- I've lost count of how many scapegoats the Religious Right is using!
ReplyDeleteOn the language war on same-sex marriage, here's genius: "Pastor Sergio Choy of Ministerio Evangelistico Mundial Maranatha in Bloomington testified at the House Rules Committee. He said, “To redefine marriage is like trying to redefine water. Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, and marriage is made up of one man and one woman.”
ReplyDeleteH20 would be more like...what, Mormon polygamy only different, then? But, hey, it's church-based, so it's all good.
Nance -- Heh heh. Unlike the chemical composition of water, conceptions of marriage have been changing throughout history.
ReplyDeleteOne man and one woman? I thought the Religious Right's ideal marriage was one man, one woman, and a prostitute on call. I guess I was going by their frequent enough practice and not their ideal. Sorry about that.
ReplyDeletePaul -- An honest mistake! You were looking at their example. :)
ReplyDeleteThe anti-gays fail yet again in their attempt to sound scientific in their fight against equality. It takes two hydrogen and one oxygen to make water. So really the Catholic Church is arguing for polygamy, not "traditional" one man-one woman marriage. They should just stick to "God said so" despite the fact that it's lost so much ground. (And why should we listen to what a bunch of ostensibly celibate, unmarried, childless men have to say about marriage and family anyway?)
ReplyDeleteBuffy -- Aye. The argument comparing heterosexual marriage to water molecules doesn't really hold water, pun intended.
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