As a gay co-parent, I really am quite incensed at Family First’s distorted news item on a recent situation that involves a heroin addict mother, and an eligible gay male couple that adopted her children because that mother was unable to take proper care of them.
(I am not referring to mainstream IV drug users who […]

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Opponents of same-sex marriage are predominantly fundamentalist Protestants and conservative Catholics, with some co-belligerency from conservative Mormons and some Orthodox Jews.
Whenever I talk to religious Conservative and Reform or secular Jews about this matter, I tend to find that they feel threatened by Christian Right initiatives against same-sex marriage. When they see denial of the […]

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In Canada’s Xtra, there’s an opinion piece on why Canadian LGBTs should oppose British Columbian provincial government intervention against Bountiful, a small Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FCLDS) community in that area. I disagree with this opinion.
It’s not as if same-sex marriage were under attack in Canada anymore. Moreover, it’s difficult to shoehorn […]

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David Wellington: Vampire Zero: New York: Three Rivers Press: 2008
Events have come full circle in the eventful life of Laura Caxton, lesbian cop and vampire hunter.
In order to assist her during the siege of Gettysburg (see 99 Coffins), her former mentor Jameson Arkeley was turned by aged vampire Justinia Malvern, and now she must hunt […]

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Meanwhile, there may end up eventually being a third President Bush, brother to the unlamented 43rd.
John (Jeb) Bush (55) used to be 43rd Governor of Florida (term limits then intervened). He seems to be far more of an ideologue than his brother, actively writing for the Heritage Foundation, Florida-based James Madison Institute and the Project […]

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In Australia, both sides of the multicultural divide are causing ructions right now. Abu Hamza is a self-styled Muslim “imam” resident in Melbourne who has just made abhorrent remarks about the alleged husbandly ‘right’ to engage in domestic violence and spousal rape.  Abu Hamza (Samir Mohtadi) has had no formal Islamic religious training but delivers […]

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PKKKARRRKKK!!!
Thump!!!
G***** W. B**h looked around him, startled at the sudden fall from on high, when he found that there was an African American lesbian solo mother in a wheelchair instead of the aged white Republican male that God should have been.
What had happened to him? And why had the unexpected divine figure quoted that bit in First Corinthians about new […]

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Yesterday, I wrote a Politics and Religion column on the new phenomenon of centrist US evangelicals. According to an organisation called “Faith in Public Life,” the time is right for a broadly based centrist organisation to end the ‘culture wars’ between the US Christian Right and its feminist, liberal, LGBT and other adversaries.
They’ve put together […]

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In British Columbia’s ongoing Bountiful case, there’s currently an unholy legal row brewing over whether or not the polygamous and possibly paedophile members of that community have the absolute ‘religious liberty’ to pursue polygynous ‘plural marriage.’
Surprisingly, the case appears to have divided Canadian feminists. Feminist antiviolence advocates support the British Columbian provincial government, which is […]

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Three of Sweden’s four Alliance political parties- the Moderates, Liberals and Centre Party- all favour the amendment of Sweden’s marriage law to end discrimination against same-sex couples wanting that option for relationship recognition. The Opposition Social Democrats also support the move, with only the Alliance member Christian Democrat Party said to be opposed.
Sweden was one […]

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