Probably in a weak effort to defend the clearly ridiculous statements of Dallin Oaks that have led to a well-deserved uproar over the last week, the LDS Church linked to this report from The Heritage Foundation: The Price of Prop 8. While I don’t mean to make light of the…
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“I’m rubber and you’re glue!”
It has got to be the most popular rhetorical trick in the bag these days! It goes something like this: Someone criticizes you (accusing you of, say, “X”), but you don’t want to have to answer the charge. You don’t want to even have to think about whether the charge…
New Maine Marriage Polling Numbers
x-posted from Daily Kos by permission. Guest post by Jesse Connolly, campaign manager for the (Maine) No on 1 campaign. A new public poll from Democracy Corps was released yesterday, showing us with a slight lead in this race of 50% to 41%, a significant jump from kos’s numbers from…
Federal govt must investigate NOMs finances
Guest post by Danielle Truszkovsky. BEFORE WRITING THIS column, I sat and stared at my computer screen for what seemed like ages trying to figure out a way to make the topic of IRS regulations seem a bit more interesting. Lets face it, most people just dont want to read…
Skousen + Beck = Paranoid Fascism?
Salon.com is running a pretty fascinating article on the Cleon Skousen/Glenn Beck connection. It’s a pretty fascinating look into Mormon-laced, right-wing, ultra-nationalistic, paranoid, pro-theocracy, conspiracy theory, which also goes by the name “The Glenn Beck Program” on Fox News.
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Patriotic Politics Edition!
Apologies to those outside the U.S., but it seems like the health care debate has heated things up to to point where Outer Blogness has practically forgotten to talk about religion. While Holly is telling Senators about God’s will, Curtis lays out the case for health care reform, and Djinn…
Nature’s Values
Our revulsion at the cruelty of the Supreme Leaders henchmen is a powerful refutation of the postmodernist credo that anything goes. After the enlightenment discredited the authority of tradition and religion, the notion that reason or civilization could provide an ersatz God has also collapsed. The efforts of analytical philosophy…
New York Marriage Equality: Astroturfing – Courtesy of the Same Ten (Mormon) People
In her report on the New York “pro-marriage” rally, Mormon blogger (and Digital Network Army director) Angela Rockwood (aka Beetle Blogger) suggests that if you are a New Yorker, you’ll want to know about these sites: New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms New Yorkers Family Research Foundation For once, I agree…