Gay marriage and abortion are ‘insidious challenge to society’ says Pope TIMESONLINE by Richard Owen, Fatima and Ruth Gledhill May 14, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI yesterday condemned gay marriage and abortion as “among the most insidious and dangerous challenges” to society. Speaking on a visit to Portugal, which is preparing to legalise same-sex partnerships, the […]
I guess this story is coming to a close. I’m going to miss it. It’s so much more fun that the one about the Gulf of Mexico turning into an oil bath or the latest on the incompetent Times Square bomber. Here’s how Rekers got busted. How George Alan Rekers and his rent boy got […]
Jason Leopold and emptywheel both have posts up that relate to Abu Zubaydah and the Plame leak. It was a long time ago – eight years. Joseph Wilson had been sent to Niger to nose around about the report that Iraq had either tried to buy, or bought, Uranium Ore on the QT in Niger. […]
NARTH Responds to the Recent Media Coverage of Dr. George Rekers "I am immediately resigning my membership in NARTH to allow myself the time necessary to fight the false media reports that have been made against me. With the assistance of a defamation attorney, I will fight these false reports because I have not engaged […]
More banks drawn into Wall Street probesREUTERS05/13/2010 WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Five U.S. banks and four European lenders are being investigated by U.S. authorities, as they widen their probe of the role of banks in past mortgage securities deals, according to news reports. The New York attorney general has begun an investigation into eight banks to […]
Pope: Church’s own sins to blame in sex scandal The Associated Press By BARRY HATTON May 11, 2010 LISBON, Portugal – In his most thorough admission of the church’s guilt in the clerical sex abuse scandal, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday the greatest persecution of the institution "is born from the sins within the church," […]
I’m not really ready to talk about the Gulf Oil Spill. It’s too tragic to editorialize about yet. I can say that the repetitive analogy with Hurricane Katrina seems off the mark. To me it is more like 9/11 – only we did it to ourselves. Krugman seems to me close to the center of […]
Liz Cheney: Obama’s ‘first instinct’ to Mirandize terrorists Raw Story By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl May 9, 2010 Authorities questioned the failed Times Square bomber for three to four hours before notifying him of his rights, but Liz Cheney seems to be ignoring that fact. The daughter of the former vice president told Fox […]
Californians Against Hate seek investigation of George Alan Rekers, associates SDGLN 05/06/2010 MIAMI BEACH – Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger has requested the Justice Department investigate George Alan Rekers, the rabidly anti-gay figure who vacationed in Europe with a male prostitute. Karger noted that Rekers is a founder of the Family Research Council (FRC) […]
1 Corinthians 6 … 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind. After all that Rekers business, I got to wondering where this Christian anti-homosexual business came from. Surprisingly, all but one reference […]