How CNN’s Excuse for “Journalism” is Hurting the LGBTQ Community
Have you heard this “new” nonsense from Focus on the Family? Using the same old fear-mongering about “teaching children homophobia,” they have a new bullying campaign called “True Tolerance.” The gist of this program is that they oppose all bullying, but don’t think anything should ever be said about sexual orientation/homophobia. In other words, their [...]
The Prop 8 Decision: A Victory for Science and Education
Way back in January, I wrote a post about why atheists should care about the Prop 8 Trial, pointing out that science was on trial. I was not alone in pointing out that Perry v. Schwarzenegger is the Scopes Monkey Trial of our day, merely challenging psychology instead of biology. I think it is important [...]
The Prop 8 Decision: The Findings of Fact (Everything We Should Learn From This Trial)
I want to begin my coverage of the Prop 8 decision (Read it on Scribd) with the Findings of Fact. This is the series of 80 points Judge Walker used to organize the multitudes of information in the case. Note that these are not all the ideas that were presented in the case; these are [...]
If The Free Market Could Uphold Equality, We’d Already Have It
If the free market can supposedly account for prejudice, why is so much money being wasted defending discrimination?
So You Want To Be a Teabagger: Hiding Prejudice Behind Capitalism
Let’s imagine starting a new society, a whole new humanity. We’re playing SimEarth or Civilization here or something; just imagine it with me. We start it knowing everything we know now. We know there’s nothing to substantiate prejudice based on sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Those identities all present naturally and in [...]
