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A church in Tennessee has officially started a boycott of Walmart because they sell stuff to negroes. I mean colored folk. I mean gay people.

I wrote a couple weeks ago about Sen. Sam Brownback holding up the nomination of a judge from West Michigan because she once attended a commitment ceremony for two lesbians. That judge, Janet Neff, has replied to Brownback's questions about the event but he still won't release the hold on her…

Jim Chen, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, has a powerful essay comparing prohibitions on interracial marriage to prohibitions on gay marriage. I'll post a long excerpt below the fold: Among life's challenges, none is more difficult to undertake, and none is more rewarding when…

One thing has become very clear: you can always count on Kevin McCullough to bring the crazy when it comes to gay rights (and pretty much anything else). Take a gander at this column responding to the New Jersey gay marriage ruling. Despite all that their angry-mob front groups argue in front of…

Another example of a barbaric belief that the whole world must condemn and fight against. An Australian Imam, after a series of gang rapes by Muslim men in that country, has come out and blamed the women for it (yes, this link is to the Worldnutdaily, but the same thing has been reported, with…

Agape Press reports: Dobson is also convinced that a specific objective is lurking behind Wednesday's decision. "Nothing less than the future of the American family hangs in the balance if we allow one-man, one-woman marriage to be redefined out of existence," he says in a press release. "And make…

Wow. I'm not sure what to think about this. It's too easy to take the easy cheap shot on this, but it still gives me the creeps, mostly because of the connection to Frederick Douglass. And I just can't imagine why anyone would want to live in a place like this. Donald Rumsfeld's summer home on…

The Jerusalem gay pride march that I've written so much about is scheduled now for November 10th. This site reports that several different groups of anti-gay Jews and Muslims are planning to protest and disrupt the event: The haredi sector is organizing mass protests to sabotage the gay pride…

One of the law professors on the ReligionLaw listserv posted a link to a journal article on SSRN by George Dent of Case Western Reserve University. The article, entitled Civil Rights for Whom? Gay Rights Versus Religious Freedom, reminded me of Dorothy Parker's famous one line book review - "This…

My friends at Downsize DC are working hard to reverse the anti-gambling bill and to insure that no bill is ever passed in the same manner again. They've started an email campaign to get the bill rescinded, which you can help with by clicking here. They're also fighting to pass the Read the Bills…

Some say it could. The Las Vegas Sun reports that conservative scholar Charles Murray is warning the Republican party about the political damage the bill is going to do to them: That's the prognosis of poker-playing scholar Charles Murray, who warned in a recent newspaper opinion piece of the…

This is very cool, the video for Somewhere Down the Crazy River, by Robbie Robertson. This was a minor hit for him from a rare solo project. Click here.

My first thought when the New Jersey gay marriage ruling came down was, "Oh boy. This should be fun to watch as the religious right responds." The Thomas More Law Center has responded with a News Alert (I'm on their mailing list). And it includes this delightfully ironic quote: Patrick T. Gillen,…

Okay, this is absolutely hilarious. Matt Bowman, writing on the ADF blog about the New Jersey ruling, says this: Homosexual activists are already exploiting this holding to confuse the public and portray themselves as victims, lamenting that the court "reject[ed] gay marriage." If this is what…

After the Supreme Court denied cert in the Sea Scouts case, I knew it was only a matter of time before Hans Zeiger, the Worldnutdaily's boy wonder, would chime in with outrage and illogical arguments. And so he has. The Sea Scouts case, for those who don't recall, involved the question of whether…

I think the Thomas More Law Center must be feeling neglected after all the attention I've given to the ADF recently, and they're out to get their place of honor back. And if they keep saying things like this, they'll get plenty of it. I'm just going to quote the first part of the article: A…

I know I've spent a fair amount of time lately criticizing Justice Scalia about things he has said in his recent appearances, but there's one thing he said that is being attacked on this blog that I think he should be defended about. Will Bunch, owner of the Attytood blog, says that Scalia holds…

The ADF immediately put out a press release after yesterday's ruling on gay marriage from the New Jersey Supreme Court. It was a very strange statement. The title declares, NJ high court hands loss to marriage opponents. Then they spend most of the press release complaining about how bad the ruling…

The Worldnutdaily must have realized that they're not providing me with quite enough entertainment lately. They've now added Chuck Norris as a regular columnist. This should be good. His first column is highly amusing. He addresses the growing popularity of various lists of Chuck Norris facts…

Here's a really good rant from Bill Maher about a Florida county that, for some bizarre reason, decided it was important to institute mandatory drug testing for library volunteers.

The New Jersey Supreme Court just came down with a ruling in a gay marriage case that is similar to what Vermont did a few years ago. They are requiring that all of the benefits and protections of marriage be given to gay couples, but allowing it to be called something different. Here's the key…

In watching the Bush administration fall all over themselves in the last few days over "stay the course" - Bush said they'd never said that, then video is shown of him saying that a few dozens times, then Rumsfeld jumped in - it occurs to me that we need a new cabinet-level position: a Secretary of…

Okay, I know I took David Noebel to task yesterday for saying that after decriminalizing sodomy, the gays got all uppity and started demanding other things. But after seeing this article from Agape Press, I'm beginning to come around. Would you believe that those damn gays think they actually have…

I decided to take a look and see if Justice Scalia had ever addressed the ruling of Loving v Virginia. It turns out, apparently, that he thinks the case was decided correctly, even while embracing the exact same argument made in that case by the state of Virginia. In his dissent in Lawrence, he…

Yahoo News reports: Arshad Misbahi of the Manchester Central Mosque confirmed his views in a conversation to John Casson, a local psychotherapist... "I asked him what would be the British Muslim view? He repeated that in an Islamic state these punishments were justified. They might result in the…

Gil Dodgen at Dembski's blog has a post about ID and "god of the gap" arguments, drawing on quotes from Del Ratzsch in this interview. I think Dodgen's comments make little sense. In the interview, Ratzsch argues that god of the gaps arguments are not necessarily wrong. Dodgen quotes part of that,…

Radley Balko's latest column at Fox News focuses on Frist's ridiculous attempt to ban online gambling. He deftly punctures every one of the false reasons offered in support of the legislation and points out the rank hypocrisy behind the bill.

I haven't given out one of these in a while, but I came across this column from the Worldview Weekend site and it just cries out for a Robert O'Brien Trophy (formerly the Idiot of the Month Award) for the author. This is simply one of the most inane examples of ignorance on display that you will…

This post at House Blend reports on a tactic being used by the Republican Party in Alabama leading up to the November elections. The head of the Alabama Republican Party, whose real name - I'm not making this up - is Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh, has recorded an audio clip being used in automated…

Via Radley Balko, take a look at this review of a new PBS documentary in the New York Times and this article in the Washington Post. Remember those reports from military planners saying that Rumsfeld threatened to fire anyone who talked about the need to plan for a post-war occupation of Iraq? Well…