Reposted from the Shoulder To Shoulder Campaign ——– Among the many gifts with which humanity has been imbued, none are as worthy of our awe and gratitude as the seemingly boundless capacity with which man, woman and child can adapt… Read More ›
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The Persecuted Majority: A Letter to Governor Pence Regarding The Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Governor Pence, It is with an abundance of gratitude in my heart and relief in my bowels that I write to congratulate you on your decision to sign the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. I must say that all of… Read More ›
Standing Firm In The Face of Progress: Opposition To Same Sex Marriage in Alabama
To whom it may concern: The truth may not always be popular, but it will always remain the truth. Alabamans, perhaps more than any of the 49 other sovereign lands that comprise these United States of America, have possessed a… Read More ›
Unscientific Methods: Why Young Earth Creationists Spun Scriptural Straw Into Pseudoscientific Gold
The pyramids of Saqqara stand in front of the Nile River Valley like weary sentinels. They act as guardians, looking over a 6 mile wide strip of fecund earth hemmed in by seas of sand. This stretch of implausibly verdant… Read More ›
What Islam Can Teach Us About HIV Outreach
With the the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC coming up in less than three weeks, it is fitting that we should be looking to foreign nations for strategies with which to fight the HIV epidemic in this country. While… Read More ›
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Liberalism in the Catholic Church
Our understanding of religion is invariably linked to the spiritual environment we grew up in. My views on the validity and worth of other faiths is governed in large part by the attitudes passed down to me by clergy and… Read More ›
Same-Sex Marriage: Conservative Edition
On paper, Paul Singer sounds like every other obscenely wealthy conservative voice in the United States. His resume reads like ½ of the New York Times obituaries ever written: Born in metro NYC he received his J.D. From Harvard Law,… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 