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Further thoughts on Prop Hate

I’m tempted to say that I refuse to get married again unless/until all people have the right to get married to the person of their choice, regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation. After all, marriage should be for everyone …

The problem with maintaining the fiction of “marriage” and “civil unions” comes down [...]

Poetry Friday

A QUICK ONE BEFORE I GO

There comes a time in every man’s life when he thinks: I have never had a single original thought in my life including this one & therefore I shall eliminate all ideas from my poems which shall consist of cats, rice, rain baseball cards, fire escapes, hanging plants red [...]

Losing my religion; gaining my soul

I find it hard not to think that there is some sort of all encompassing power tying us all together. Just from a molecular standpoint, an atom that was once part of me could now be part of you, and there is an energy that ties all atoms together (or pushes them apart).

Now whether [...]

Far left of your FM dial

My father and I disagree on a lot of things, especially politically … but recently, I’ve come to discover that we agree on a few things as well.

When people ask me what my political beliefs are, I generally say that I’m on the far left of the FM dial … KZSC 88.1 FM, all [...]

In Flanders Fields

Op-Ed – A Holiday to End All Wars – NYTimes.com

TODAY is the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War, and it will be commemorated very differently on each side of the Atlantic and across the borders of Europe. It’s a reminder that not all “victors” experience wars in the same [...]

Prop 8 protests in SLC

Thousands protest LDS stance on same-sex marriage – Salt Lake Tribune

Opponents of a measure that banned gay marriage in California took their outrage to the spiritual hub of Mormonism on Friday.

More than 3,000 people swarmed downtown Salt Lake City to march past the LDS temple and church headquarters, protesting Mormon involvement in [...]

God & Politics: redux

A repost from March, prompted by various Twitter and other assertions that the United States was founded on “Christian principles” … nothing could be further from the truth.

The only part of became the United States that was founded on “Christian” principles was the original Plymouth colony in Massachusetts, by the Puritans who were escaping [...]

Gay Rights & Religious Liberty

Gay Rights, Religious Liberties: A Three-Act Story : NPR

Morning Edition, June 16, 2008 · As gay couples in California head to the courthouse starting Monday to get legally married, there are signs of a coming storm. Two titanic legal principles are crashing on the steps of the church, synagogue and mosque: equal treatment for [...]

Video Poetry (Religious Edition)

BAD RELIGION – AMERICAN JESUS

I don’t need to be a global citizen ‘Cuz I’m blessed by nationality I’m a member of a growing populace We enforce our popularity There are things that seem to pull us under and There are things that drag us down But there’s a power and a vital presence [...]

God & Politics

My mother sent me more mom-spam yesterday, this one being a purported re-write of the Preamble of the Constitution, accompanied by a series of articles. Some of the articles are basic pleas to common sense. But one in particular really got my goat.

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country’s [...]