You'll often hear from conservatives that marriage "hasn't changed" for centuries or millenia. Not true. Take a look at this Wikipedia summary of some of the many changes occurring only in the United States only over the past 200 years.
I ran across this interesting post recently on Deltoid concerning a list of (supposedly) 650 "scientists" who deny Global Warming is real (or at least, that it's our fault in any way). Inhofe, of course, is Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, champion of one of the brightest red states in…
No one else here has yet mentioned this foo-fah-rah that emerged in the Washington state capitol in Olympia, and is spreading to others. Several governors have allowed Nativity scenes to be erected in their Capitol rotundas. In Washington state, the regional atheists got permission to put up an adjacent sign…
Here's Andrew Sullivan discussing alleged religious leader Rick Warren's strange position regarding George W. Bush's policy regarding Torture. To Sullivan's comment I say "Amen."
At Daylight Atheism, Ebonmuse discusses the disconnect between the Catholic Church and lay Catholics: To judge by some recent news articles, the Catholic church, which at least used to stand for good education, has become infected with the same anti-intellectual disease that pervades so many sects of evangelical Protestantism. What…