MY RECENT POSTS
- Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood
and defunding Abstinence Only
October 19, 2011 09:35AM - Iowa's 1 year gay-marriage
anniversary: Shawn + Maureen
April 01, 2010 10:42AM - Conversation with Pastor
Garner on his Glenn Beck
pushback
March 22, 2010 12:38PM - Coffee Party or Coffee Klatch?
Kickin' it off on Bleecker
March 15, 2010 09:06AM - Save Taylor's Maid-Rite: The
Plea
March 11, 2010 08:17PM
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October 19, 2011 12:12PM - “God Lorraine tell me
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Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood and defunding Abstinence Only
It is being reported that Live Action’s Lila Rose is planning the next step in her ongoing effort to defund Planned Parenthood: take away their sex-ed money. Rose is lamenting the fact that Planned Parenthood got federal money to implement evidenced based comprehensive sex/… Read full post »
Vintage Shawn and Maureen, 1992
This Friday, April 2 my friends Shawn and Maureen – two upstanding Iowa lesbians – will be tying the knot. Saturday, April 3 happens to be the one-year anniversary of the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruling the ban on same-sex marr
Pastor Ron Garner in his Long Island church © Dan Wilby Photography 2010
It was sunny and 70 degrees when I pulled into the municipal parking lot out back of Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church (WMCC) in Wantagh, Long Island. Spring had arrived in New York; the
Saturday, March 13, was a crappy, wet day in New York City. The rain not only fell from the sky, but also seemed to fall up from the asphalt, attacking me from all sides. There were mangled umbrella skeletons blown across Lafayette Street, just around the corner from
Save Taylor's Maid-Rite: The Plea
Celebrities in Africa: are we grossed out or grateful?
In 1984, I had pink hair, wore tight rolled jeans, owned stock in Aqua Net and worshiped at the altar of Duran Duran. When Bob Geldof coordinated and released "Do They K
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An ancient but awesome pic of Rep. George Miller
H.R. 911, the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act could be key to shutting down unregulated, unaccredited and abusive Christian boarding schools in the United States.
This legislation actually makes
… Read full post »Child protection bill passes House, some Republicans balk
What congressman wouldn't vote for a bill called the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act (HR 4247)? None of course, right? But handful of Republicans not only voted "nay" but stood up on the House floor and provided predictable reasons as to why:
- State's/
No Meaningful Conviction: Update on Jack Patterson
"Sorry we didn't get a meaningful conviction," is how my conversation with Blount County, Alabama District Attorney Tommy Rountree ended this morning.
We had been discussing the child abuse case against Jack Patterson, founder of Christian boarding school Reclamation Ranch, that I have be
… Read full post »CA anti-gay politician charged w/DUI after leaving gay bar
Huffington Post - along with many other sources - is reporting that rabid anti-gay California State Senator Roy Ashburn was arrested early Wednesday morning for DUI after leaving a gay bar.
Nothing more to add as they really will be their own downfall.
Tea Party offers classes on Constitution. No, seriously.
Suicide Tourist
Craig Ewert, suicide tourist
“There are people who will look at this and say: ‘No. Suicide is wrong. God has forbidden it. You cannot play God and take your own life.’” Craig Ewert anticipates some of the objections to the act he’s preparing to carry out.… Read full post »
It was only a matter of time. Arkansas Lieutenant Governor/former Clinton Administration employee/Rhodes Scholar Bill Halter announced today his primary challenge to conserva-dem Blanche Lincoln. The primary election will take place on May 18th.
A host of progressive grou… Read full post »
French commercial depicting forms of psychological violence
A New York Times article today is reporting that France's National Assembly approved Thursday night a proposal to add "psychological violence" to a law intended to help victims of physical violence and abuse.
Charissa Coulter, left and Laura Silsby in Haiti
"We haven't found anything that could suggest wrongdoing on the part of the Americans." Judge Bernard Sainvil, Haiti
Reuters is reporting that Haitian Judge Bernard Sanvil has decided to free Laura Silsby and Charissa Coulter, the last o… Read full post »
Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas says that disabled children are God's punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy. He offered up th/… Read full post »
Dr. Jack Patterson, founder of the Christian boarding school, Reclamation Ranch, goes on trial for aggravated child abuse March 10 in Blount County Alabama. The trial comes two years after a 17-year-old male resident came forward with charges of severe abuse, torture and beating.
Priest's shoplifting advocacy a rightful indictment of us
"My advice, as a Christian priest is to shoplift"
- Rev. Tim Jones (Daily Mail)
Harper's Magazine ran a reprint of a December 2009 sermon by Rev. Tim Jones, Church of St. Lawrence, York, England in this month's edition under the title of Desperation Theology.
Actress with Down Syndrome slams Palin good
Andrea… Read full post »
Stegall at the mic, Culberth looking on
Caleb Stegall, Jefferson County, Kansas District Attorney, has been retained to represent former detained Baptist missionary Drew Culberth.
Stegall says that Mr. Culberth will be making an appearance on the Today Show soon,/… Read full post »
8 Baptists home, Silsby, Coulter & questions remain in Haiti
That is the truth of the… Read full post »
Laura Silsby, left and Charissa Coulter
Haitian judge Bernard Saint-Vil said eight of the Baptist missionaries would be allowed to return home without posting bail if they agreed to return to Haiti for any more questions in the pending investigation.
Unfortunately for ring… Read full post »
CBS exposes Christian adoption fraud & Puello on the lam
CBS Investigates
It seems that the international attention to Laura Silsby and the other 9 Idaho missionaries is bringing other potentially fraudulent Christian adoption services to light.
CBS reported last night of a case in Ethiopia involving an adoption service called
Jorge Puello, a man providing legal advice to the detained Idaho missionaries… Read full post »
Glenn Beck & David Barton host Lie-a-palooza 2010
I would never typically write about Glenn Beck. He is repugnant, but is an entertainer that will be the cause of his own tearful, tea-bagging downfall. My tune has changed a bit in the last 48 hours as Mr. Beck now joins forces with David Barton, a politically connected right-wing… Read full post »
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