Tea Party Racists And The Lynching of President Obama
A substantial number of Americans have a virulent hatred for President Obama that focuses on the man as much as his policies. Driven to irrationality by the professional right in America, they will...
View ArticleDon't dismiss Right's ingrained Intolerance W Loughner's VIDEO
The Right prides itself on its narrow-minded intolerance. They believe their ideas are not only better than anyone else's, but they go too far by distorting ideas that don't conform to the Right's...
View Articlepope: education is evil
Pope: Sex education attack on religion "I cannot remain silent about another attack on the religious freedom of families in certain European countries which mandate obligatory participation in courses...
View ArticleNew Alabama Governor Disowns Citizens
essentially. The newly elected Republican Governor of Alabama , Robert Bentley, speaking on of all days MLK Day, and in of all places, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, has made...
View ArticleI'm Tired of being Beat Up Because I'm a Christian
I'm an Anglo-Catholic. Evelyn Waugh, in Brideshead Revisited had someone quote: "Stay away from the Anglo-Catholics; they are all Sodomites and speak in funny accents". I guess it's true....
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Newsletter Issue 288
Been slower than usual putting the newsletter together, but there is a lot of new stuff in the local pages, so please take a look if I cover your local area. AND, most importantly, Darwin Day and...
View ArticleJust for Once, Stop Talking, and Listen!
They tell me I can write. They tell me, in comment after comment that my Diaries are "beautiful, or powerful, or just damned good yarns. My problem is that I do write, and comment, quite a lot, and...
View ArticleThe American Dream: "Whose Dream Is It?"
Listening to the chatter across the airwaves it is often difficult to ascertain who is doing the dreaming, the rhetoric of fear and division often drowns out saner voices and we are lead down the road...
View ArticleGay suicide is due to kids "realizing what they're doing is immoral"
You need to watch this. From Liberty Council and Liberty University you must see this to believe this....homosexuality does not deserve to be protected from bullying, it is a trojan horse to get more...
View ArticleFight for Your Muslim Brother and Sister!
"A leading member of Congress stated bluntly: 'There are too many mosques in this country'. A former speaker of the House falsely claimed: 'America's experiencing an Islamist cultural political...
View ArticleYou’ve Got to be Carefully Taught
In this year’s sixth-grade tolerance education class here in rural red-state Nebraska, I took a bold new step: I invited a Muslim-American in to speak. His goal was not to give dawah but to educate....
View ArticleHating gays does not make us a hate group.
Kudos to the Southern Poverty Law Center in adding anti-gay groups to their list of hate groups. A recent issue of the SPLC’s magazine, Intelligent Report, claims that gays are now the most targeted...
View ArticleOn Privilege, Paternalism, and using the lack of privilege as a shield or...
This diary is prompted by all of the events of the past several days in regards to incivility, civility, etc and this wonderful blog entry by former Kossack abrauer,...
View ArticleBirtherism Et Al Is All Obama's Fault!
You have to love the right wing even when proved categorically wrong they cannot just hold up their hands and say"my bad". Now Republicans know that the birther movement is bad news for their hopes in...
View ArticleRick Santorum: Reformation
Author's Note: This article originally appeared in the June edition of Berkshire Jewish Voice Visit us at: www.pacmen.org, Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress. On May 5th, 2011, Fox News hosted the first...
View ArticleThis An Inspiration To Anyone Who Yearns For Truth
Our nation and our world is in a terrible state and I believe the root cause is religion. Please view the videos below if you subscribe to truth.
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Unlearning Intolerance – And Tolerance Too
By Michele M. Vella, MS, MA, Med., edited by Jim Luce United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) Principle 10 commits to inter-cultural dialogue, understanding and the unlearning of intolerance through...
View ArticleOn atheist bigotry
It's an interesting charge, and although I saw some believers charging skeptics with bigoted rhetoric yesterday, it is a common theme here. Common enough that I went looking for examples outside of...
View ArticleA rare point of disagreement with Jon Stewart
So last night, the Daily Show did a series of bits on the 'Culture War', and amongst the jokes Jon Stewart took a few minutes to take the side of Fox News against ... atheists. /boggle Although I...
View ArticleKentucky school busted for state sponsored religion
It's a simple case of a school administration that knows better, but chooses to 'honor tradition' or otherwise allow the majority to literally lord over whatever skeptical minority is too scared of...
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