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HIS CAME Across the AP yesterday, pointed out to me by a friend on Twitter.
Russian Orthodox Church embraces gays.
“IS OUTRAGE!” says Fr Vasili, I’m sure: not lamenting the sudden embrace, but rather the misleading headline. Be sure to read the AP story: essentially gay is still bad, but we oppose persecution of gays. [...]

The Agonizing (yet Most Entertaining) Death Throes of America’s Bourgeois Christian Cults: Glory to God for All things.
“‘But the religious right failed. “
I don’t know a thing about the new Mayor’s politics. I tend to imagine she is at least as conservative as the usual dixiecrats ie: a full-on Republican in all but name. [...]

ETROPOLITAN PHILIP Says, Send me your money damn it and don’t ask any questions.. Yup, makes me wanna trust him. A lot.

HE PRIMARY Topic of conversation viz climate change should not be proof, fear or the lack of either. The elephant in the middle of the room is the accusation that we made a wrong turn with the industrial revolution, that we screwed ourselves with coal and the steam engine and, as a result, have [...]

ESPITE Several attempts in the media, blogosphere and among my own friends to portray this tragedy as otherwise politically motivated, Bill Sparkman was not killed by Anti-Gov’t actions, but rather by himself. Now, although there are many reasons to distrust even the Federal Census in this day of increasing loss of civil liberties to [...]

HE LEFT Is coming back to Reality-based cynicism in the area of Bushbama. IT’s nice and all, but no politician can provide meaningful hope if the hope is for meaningless, worldly ideas.
Advent continues… there is a real hope.

F COURSE This shows up in my in-box just as I’m going to work. Here’s a link. Comments later. The Antigay Highway: New Report Details Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy. “This report describes growing anti-gay movements in African churches as a ‘proxy war’ for US culture battles.”. [...]

HAT I Remember most from November of 1989 is the images of people standing on top of the wall. One of my fraternity brothers (I was in his dorm room) said, “We’re watching history. Everything is about to change.” He was right. Regardless of what we might think about Reagan or [...]

AM ONLY Guessing here, but I’d bet we’ll not hear about Jason Rodriguez‘ religion (which I’m racistly assuming to be Roman Catholicism). We won’t hear about Catholics being asked to distance themselves from Jason Rodriguez, nor will we hear that the Pope has been called to announce “This isn’t Catholic…”
OMG… and he’s “brown”. [...]

ODAY the European Court of Human Rights ordered the schools in Italy to remove crucifixes from the classrooms. Roman Catholic reaction (and, I’m sure, others…) has been a predictable whinge about “removing religion from the public sphere” and religious rights and what have you.
It is a huge historical irony that this should come [...]