Yearly Archives: 2013

Crude ideas are not the same thing as a “marketing failure”

Posted on December 20, 2013 by David

In widely reported remarks broadcast December 1 on Meet the Press, Cardinal Timothy Dolan explained why the Catholic Church’s opposition to marriage equality has become marginalized this way: “Well, I think maybe we’ve been out-marketed, sometimes. We’ve been caricatured as … Continue reading →

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Two days

Posted on December 20, 2013 by David

During the past 48 hours, we have learned that the Uganda legislature has passed what is one of the most draconian anti-civil rights bills targeting sexual minorities in the world – bookended between announcements that two more US states – … Continue reading →

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Some people will just never be happy.

Posted on December 18, 2013 by David

I wouldn’t have thought that the dissembling by the anti-marriage crowd could get worse when they had to admit that Utah’s polygamy law wasn’t really overturned after all, but it just did. The following arrived from Citizen Link: It’s what … Continue reading →

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Another day, another painfully dumb lie

Posted on December 17, 2013 by David

Because what else can they do, really? ACTIVIST JUDGE LEGALIZES POLYGAMY, JUST AS WE WARNED, screams the latest email from certified hate group “American Family Association” (mainly known at this time of year for their lucrative “war on Christmas” scam, … Continue reading →

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The trouble with Baskerville

Posted on September 17, 2013 by David

Trigger warning: Rape, domestic violence and child abuse denialism, victim-blaming. Critics of Stephen Baskerville’s astonishing Faith and Reason lecture at Patrick Henry College last Friday have no shortage of material to cite. The lecture was such a departure from even … Continue reading →

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The intellectual dishonesty behind the Elane Photography case

Posted on August 29, 2013 by David

After reading the New Mexico Supreme Court opinion in Elane Photography v. Willock, I’m now convinced that Vanessa Willock and Misti Collinsworth were prescient about the right wing strategy of redefining religious liberty, and absolutely correct to file their discrimination … Continue reading →

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Easter and Equality in Marriage

Posted on August 25, 2013 by David

The reflection What does Equality in Marriage have to do with Marriage Equality? was delivered Sunday, April 28 at St. James United Church of Christ by David Weintraub. Revelation 21:1-6 A New Heaven and a New Earth Then I saw … Continue reading →

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