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I've written before about the huge problem facing those who support Biblical literalism now that science and the genome studies have pretty much proven that Adam and Eve never existed as historical figures. And the line of dominoes that fall as a result is that if Adam and Eve did not exist, there was no fall and banishment from the Garden of Eden and no need for a Messiah. Stated differently, the entire story line of Christianity collapses. Faced with this potentially fatal blow to the house... Read Full Story
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Published to Chris Christie
As the New York Times is reporting, the New Jersey Assembly passed a marriage equality bill today thereby throwing a hot potato in the lap of the New Jersey's porcine governor, Chris Christie. Asa Salon piece sets out, Christie is now caught between appeasing the anti-gay Christofascist base of the Republican Party and not alienating the wider New Jersey electorate, the majority of which supports same sex marriage. First these details fr0m the Times article: The New Jersey Assembly on... Read Full Story
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In addition to being vitriolically anti-gay, the GOP base is also strongly racists - one might say even white supremacist - and anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic. Imagine the dismay that new figures on interracial marriage rates must be triggering within the shrinking tent of extremists. Indeed, 15% of all new marriages cross racial and ethnic lines - a trend that will only accelerate the younger generations' acceptance of diversity. It's yet another trend that makes me wonder what the GOP is... Read Full Story
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A new New York Times/CBS News poll has more bad news for the Republican Party even as it continues its political fellatio to the Christianist base of the Party: 65% support Barack Obama's inclusion of contraception in prescription drug coverage and a majority - 2/3 among Catholics - support some form of legal recognition of same sex couples. Obviously, someone in the GOP needs to come out of the bubble and notice that the wind of history is changing and that continued slavish obedience to... Read Full Story
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Published to Chris Christie
As Think Progress is reporting, Washington State Governor Christine Gregorie wrote a letter to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (the letter is pictured below) sharing her views on how she evolved on the issue of same sex marriage offering to discuss the issue. Christie, apparently afraid to buck the marching orders he has received from the Christianist elements if the GOP, has to date not even acknowledged receipt of the letter. Think Progress has this highlights: New Jersey Gov. Chris... Read Full Story
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Andrew Sullivan has written on why marriage equality should be a conservative goal - and I have done the same in a VEER Magazine column - because of the stability and benefits that flow not only to the couples involved, but also to their families and the larger community. Despite this, the GOP continues to pander like a tawdry whore to the Christianists . When has to wonder when the ultimate reckoning will come given the rapidly growing acceptance of same sex marriage by the younger... Read Full Story
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When he ran for governor back in 2009, Bob McDonnell claimed to have recanted the extremists views set out in the thesis he wrote while a student at Pat Robertson's CBN University. He masqueraded as a moderate conservative and now he finds himself in a position where he can either prove that (i) he has truly mellowed with age or (ii) his entire 2009 campaign was a lie. With talk that he may be Mitt Romney's VP choice, McDonnell clearly has a choice to make. Does he want to position himself to... Read Full Story
