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Dear Christians who oppose “gay marriage” because it isn't "Biblical...

Dear Christians who oppose “gay marriage” because it isn't "Biblical marriage",There may be a lot of reasons that you're opposing “gay marriage”/marriage equality. But your alleged support of “Biblical...

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The Bible is not a scientific treatise on biology...

The Bible is not a scientific treatise on biology, reproduction, or anything elseIt seems an obvious statement, except, based on the number of times I hear Bible verses, cherry picked of course, thrown...

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The dangers to gun control efforts (and civil discourse) of heightened rhetoric

The gun control debate has been raging in earnest for some time now, ever since the massacre at Sandy Hook. There are some staggering statistics out there, like the fact that more Americans have died...

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Missouri GOP rep puts business owners under the gun

One would assume that the self-proclaimed party of personal liberty, freedom, and all that, the party that complains about onerous regulations strangling business, would respect a person’s wishes...

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Will Ron Johnson's “Victims of Government” campaign feature victims of his...

By now, you've no doubt heard that the background check bill was defeated, and – unsurprisingly – almost exclusively along party lines, with the self proclaimed “party of life” coming down on the side...

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"Cowering""Boston liberals"

Now I've talked before about the dangers of the extreme rhetoric we're seeing in the gun control debate, but here's a piece that really exemplifies what I'm talking about.I wonder how many Boston...

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"Guns aren't part of the problem, but sexual liberalism is!"

That's more or less the drift of yesterday's press release from the Family Research Council:If Congress wants to stop these tragedies, then it has to address the government's own hostility to the...

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Remember how you cheered

On the evening of April 19th, after the capture of Boston marathon bomber “suspect #2” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Bostonians took to the street to celebrate. Facebookers and tweeters filled the internet with...

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Zombie Obama targets at the NRA convention.

I’ve posted beforeabout the levels of vitriol that have crept into gun control rhetoric, and how potentially dangerous that can be. The principle extends beyond gun control to politics in general, but...

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Scandal Chasing (a look at the pettiness of politics in these great United...

Scandal chasing, or, perhaps, more appropriately titled, a look at the pettiness of politics in these great United States.Back during the election, a veritable eternity ago, or so it seems, the...

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Pro-life GOP is working hard to ensure that women have the same rights...as...

Now you might recall that the GOP has repeatedly taken brave stands against all manner of measures beneficial to women and the furtherance of gender equality in our nation. Equal pay for equal work is...

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Religious “education”, tax dollars, and why Scott Walker has it all wrong

What is the difference between an education and indoctrination? If you had to sum it up in a few words, or break it down to a single concept, what would you come up with?The ability to question. In a...

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The Trayvon Martin conversation that we need to have

The Huffington Post recently ran an article on “15 shocking 'stand your ground' cases,” in which “stand your ground” was considered a sufficient justification for everything from settling garbage bag...

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Attention African Americans: You Do Not Face Racism. You're Welcome, White...

One of (far too many) such responses to President Obama's speech that showed up on my various feeds. This one is particularly poignant with its masterful implication that the behavior of some members...

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God is not pro-life

Every time I discuss abortion, it's always the same...it always gets back to God, and how he ostensibly hates abortion. Nevermind that such belief has no business being legislated. To many folks, if...

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“Hate the sin, love the sinner” is a crock

To some people, that will be an obvious observation; and to others, a hideous lie. Still, it shows up so often that it needs saying. The concept of hating the sin but loving the sinner is a duplicitous...

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People don't like mining in WI near public land? Let's shut down the public...

Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin's pet idiot, strikes again.First noticed this one here:A new bill to allow the Gogebic Taconite iron mining company to bar the public from using public access land on an...

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"Traditional marriage" under fire...

I've detailed before why the concepts of Biblical and traditional marriage are nothing at all like people generally imagine. It turns out that that concept, contemporary heterosexual unions, that...

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Buddhist student harrassed, ridiculed, told to accept it, leave school or...

So here's a fascinating -- and by fascinating, I mean appalling -- case that the ACLU is filing on behalf of a local family, against a Louisiana school district and several officials/teachers. The...

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On the perpetuation of creationism in our country

So, as some of my readers will know, I was raised to believe in young earth creationism. We were homeschooled, and that was the "science" we were taught. Our textbooks (Abeka science) devoted huge...

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