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OT TO LAUGH At the so-called “Christians” out there… Senate passes hate crimes bill that would extend protection to gays, lesbians… and the right-wingnuts say…
“‘Expanding hate crimes puts America in lock step with the stated agenda of homosexual activists who will turn next to the so-called Employment Non-Discrimination Act, followed by the repeal of the [...]

Roman Catholic Ecclesial Community takes up a collection to support a political campaign? EVERY Roman Catholic Parish in a diocese takes up a collection in support of a political campaign and no one, not even the IRS, cares? In fact, the Catholic Media reports it as if there is nothing wrong at all. [...]

NOTHER SIGN That we’ve returned to the 1930s: The NY Times is reporting that the Unions are “joining the fray” in the Health Care Debates. NOw that Fox and other Right-wing Voices are getting their bullies and thugs to act like this in public, the Unions are counteracting:
John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, [...]

URING Recent events, much has been made of the religion of the Newburgh, NY, men who plotted to do violence in the name of their religion.
Why is nothing being made of the religion of the terrorist to did, successfully, do violence in the name of his religion in Kansas? We know the religion – [...]

HE People at Focus on the Family remind us that calling people names, bullying, etc, is a bad thing: unless you’re torturing kids you perceive as gays or lesbians… It’s national “No Name Calling Week” in 7th Grades around the country. And as ReligionDispatches tells us:
Thousands of elementary and middle schools are celebrating [...]

HE BBC Asks if we’ve finally reached The end of the neocons?:
In many ways, the 2008 election represented a direct repudiation of the neocon style of foreign policy based on military-centred, unilateralist overreaching.
We were discussing this at work today. The overall effect of the Recent Mismanagement has been to create a US [...]

RESIDENT-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have officially invited the Lesbian and Gay Band Association to march in the Inaugural Parade.
The Presidential parade predictably pisses the anti-progressive Papists right off (which is not, really, the position of all Catholics, see following). They did one of their smear jobs in the article [...]

HERE IS ONLY One sin left, and a new Anglican denomination knows that sin is Teh Gay. Sure, Terry Mattingly wants you to imagine it’s about the tmatt trio (aka the Red Herring) and about Biblical Authority. He wrote a very predictable article on GetReligion. It’s a blog I no longer frequent, [...]

RANKIE SCHAEFFER is becoming the sort of writer that I fell in love with when it came to Orthodoxy: too conservative for the liberals, but too liberal for the conservatives. When he writes about Changing the Failed Strategy of the Religious Right Into a Winning Formula That Helps Heal Our Country: I nearly want [...]

F YOU THOUGHT The police regimes around the Democratic and Republican Conventions were bad, take a look at life in Helena, AK:
For much of the latter part of summer, police officers in Helena, Ark., shouldered military-style M-16 rifles equipped with laser sights and patrolled the streets of this little community of 15,000. White signs [...]