Anybody else besides me find it ironic that these are the rules for students at Liberty University (Jerry Falwell’s school)?
Silent Majority Speaks Up
President Bush is, not surprisingly, speaking at the commencement of a Christian college in a few days. But what warms my heart, is this, as reported here: [Calvin College is] a liberal arts school that defines its mission as “developing the Christian mind,” and requires what its spokesman, Phil de Haan, calls “an allegiance of faith” from its faculty, and … Read More
“Traditional” Marriage
As reported here, an enterprising blogger sought to get a bead on what constitutes a “traditional” marriage. He unearthed a judicial opinion from Kansas from 1886 (and can you get any more “traditional” than Kansas in 1886?), in which the judge wrote: In my opinion, the union between E. C. Walker and Lillian Harman was no marriage, and they deserve … Read More
Puritanical Sexism
I don’t know what to say about this. It boggles the mind. Alysha Cosby, an Alabama high-school student, was banned from participating in her school’s graduation last night because she is pregnant. So she announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway. (I love it!) Cosby, her mother, and her aunt were then escorted out of the room … Read More
Red State Morality
Tennessee has a law on its books which makes it legal for a husband to rape his wife. In other words, Tennessee outlaws rape, but it carves an exception for spousal rape. In an attempt to enter the 21st century, some Tennessee legislators introduced a bill to make spousal rape illegal, just like any other kind of rape. Would you … Read More
They Have Girlfriends In Canada, I Bet
Three guys — proud virgins all — who couldn’t get laid on their best day. Three guys who are socially inept because they were homeschooled and don’t know how to talk to women, even if they got within the vicinity of one. These are the poster boys for the conservative youth movement on college campuses. Ezra puts the spotlight on … Read More
Takes One To Know One?
Directly below is a post about several on the homo-obsessed Religious Reich who won’t rest until Jesus’ work is done by eradicating and condemning to hell anyone with an alternate lifestyle. You may wonder, as I did, how these homophobes got to be so supposedly knowledgeable about perverted sex. Meet Neil Horsley, America’s leading anti-abortion webmaster, is the profane voice … Read More
Krazy Kristian Kook Roll Call
It’s a good thing that bloggers like Pam Spaulding take ventures into the dark side, so that I don’t have to. Below, she presents and comments on a few of the scarier wingbats. Please note that all of them seem to have a greater obsession with homosexuals than most homosexuals I know: Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth and … Read More
Long List of Tony Nominees
This looks like a really good year for the Tonys and Broadway in general. Some heavy-hitters and great shows. I’m especially happy for Hank Azaria, who I declined to cast as the lead when I directed "Chicago" in college. I guess he showed me! Best Play DemocracyAuthor: Michael FraynProducers: Boyett Ostar Productions, Nederlander Presentations, Inc., Jean Doumanian, Stephanie P. McClelland, … Read More
More Jesus Sightings
Thawing sludge appears in a Chicago underpass, and everybody flocked to see it because it was the Virgin Mary. And now, Jesus shows up in a woman’s womb. Well, the ultrasound of it. Actually, it looks like a full grown woman to me, but what do I know? Now, I know that God moves in strange and mysterious ways, but … Read More
Update On The Kansas Evolution Hearings
As most people know, the Kansas State Board of Education is having hearings to determine if evolution should be taught and/or if the "Intelligent Design" theory (which, by the way, isn’t science) should be taught. Everyone knows it is a bit of a sham, as the outcome as already been predetermined. What’s striking about it, however, is that those who … Read More
Give Me a C!
I’m 42, so writing about cheerleaders at my age has kind of an ookey feeling about it. But the door has been thrown open, as cheerleading as become the ookey topic du jour. For example, the State of Texas recently tackled that life-or-death problem of cheerleader booty-shaking. Rest easy, America — Texas is on the case. Call me crazy, but … Read More
Question Time
Sharon Hughes, a conservative columnist at Alan Keye’s Renew America site, asks some pretty dumb questions: Could it just be possible that teaching evolution as fact, that students come from animals and without purpose, be responsible in any way for the increase of crime and other social problems, such as rape, that we’re seeing amongst our youth today? No. For … Read More
Fourth Circuit to Establishment Clause: “Fuck You!”
Like in public meetings around the country, the Chesterfield County (Va.) Board of Supervisors begins its meetings with a religious invocation offered by local clergymen of various denominations. As you might expect, the invocation itself is non-denominational, but alway always always invokes a monotheistic supreme being. Cynthia Simpson, a member of a non-Judeo-Christian pantheistic religion — a religion with hundreds … Read More
Schism on the Right Widens
It’s nice to see people like Glenn Reynolds,George Will, Christopher Hitchens, Eugene Volokh, and even self-proclaimed “born-again Christians" speak out today and take principled stands against the excesses of social conservatism as thrust upon us by the holier-than-thou religious right. I like Hitchen’s quote best: The need of the hour is for some senior members of the party of Lincoln … Read More