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Comment on An Atheist Perspective: The Lesbians and The Catholic Preschool by Buffy

Buffy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:06:45 +0000

I’m with you. I have no pity for these women. They knew what they were getting into so they have no reason to cry about it now.

They want a good education for their child? There are plenty of non-religious options out there. They want to instill good morals in the child? They can do that without the arcane mythology and bigotry that religion brings along with it. There’s no rational reason for two lesbians to send a child to a Catholic school.

Comment on Protect Marriage: Whah, We Have To Work Sooooo Hard! by Buffy

Buffy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:29 +0000

it was shocking and upsetting to see those rules not applied equally to our opponents.
Funny how they, who fight so arduously to deny us equal treatment, are the first to kick and scream when they feel they aren’t getting it.

While this is good news for us, it clearly requires more work on our end to comb through potentially thousands of pages of memos, notes and emails in order to analyze and extract their impact on the case.

More like spin them into something they’re not.

please continue to pray for our attorneys and their staff and all who are involved in this epic battle to preserve traditional marriage.

More than half of those attorneys, staff and others are probably divorced or on their second (third..fourth) spouses. But they’re fighting hard to “protect” traditional marriage–not from adultery, divorce, or other real threats–but from people who want to get married.

Comment on Why the Prop 8 Decision Inhibits Equality by Vote for the Best Just Posts of 2009 « collecting tokens

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Comment on The Tea Party Could Not Be More Insecure In The Face Of Coffee by Buffy

Buffy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:42:41 +0000

Bullshit. The teabaggers have been very much organized from the top down, primarily by Faux Newz and related outlets. There’s nothing “grassroots” about them.
The tea party began and has flourished because those involved felt – rightly – that they had no voice in our country today, that they were being ignored or outright mocked by government and the media.
WTF? Theirs are the only voices we’ve been hearing for the past 8 years. Just because a so-called Dem has been elected president they think they have to throw tantrums for the next four years because they’re no longer running roughshod over the country?
I haven’t checked out the Coffee Party but if it’s already got the nutbags in a tizzy it’s doing something right.

Comment on The Texas State Board of Education Never Makes Sense To Me by Buffy

Buffy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:12:32 +0000

Facepalm.

Comment on Bill O’Reilly Defends Us(?); Catholic Church Still Sucks by Tom

Tom — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:56:21 +0000

I’ve never before watched Bill-O without getting angry at him. But I was cheering him on this time. Funny to see his points were the first things I thought too: divorced heteros are fine?

Comment on Bill O’Reilly Defends Us(?); Catholic Church Still Sucks by Sacey

Sacey — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:51:28 +0000

This actually made me tear up a little. Thank you for sharing.

Comment on Consortium Responds to Virginia AG About University Non-Discrimination Policies by Sam

Sam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:43:06 +0000

I heard about this a few days ago and was supremely disgusted by my new home-state. The worst part is that the AG already removed the protections from everything else in the state, and the Governor, who apparently helped initiate the inclusion of the language in the first place, is now on the AG’s side on the matter. This is a sure-fire way to make sure many of the best and brightest take their talents to Maryland where they are protected against this type of discrimination. I don’t know how to listen to this kind of news and not be totally disgusted by some of the people who ‘represent’ the public.

Comment on Why Is It “Disrespectful” and “Offensive” To Challenge Religious Beliefs? by ZackFord

ZackFord — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:06:43 +0000

I’m sorry, Shannon, but that’s absolute bullocks.

I don’t believe in time. I understand that time passes and I understand that we use human-made clocks to measure time based on the rate that the Earth rotates, which obviously reflects how humans most easily observe time (day<->night).

It’s much the same as the way that man created religion to try to answer questions that are unanswerable and to use those “answers” to control people and amass power.

Comment on Why Is It “Disrespectful” and “Offensive” To Challenge Religious Beliefs? by Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:38:13 +0000

The study to which you are referring is merely a meta-analysis, which is a synthesis of research or a literature review. The authors of this meta-analysis did no statistical calculations of their own but used data points from other research studies to support their hypothesis. If you really want to be heard by the people you oppose you cannot simply deny their reality. I use the term reality loosely as I understand that you do not see the world in the way those with religious beliefs do. Start from a common ground. In what ways does your thinking border on belief? You believe in time, yet it does not exist. When you see the clock and it reads three, do you not believe it’s three o’clock. It’s only a man made phenomenon to control the environment.