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Our Sudan policy is sputtering

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Scott Gration is President Obama’s handpicked special envoy to Darfur and an Air Force General, so maybe that’s why he’s bombing.
Barron Young Smith at the New Republic is reporting that Gration is losing the trust of the resistance in…

Cayman Island Paradise, unless you’re gay

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

The Cayman Islands are a tourist hot spot, but not if you are homosexual.  Several British MPs are taking issue with the Islands new draft Constitution that deliberately leaves out protections for sexual orientation.  This follows several incidents beginning in…

Catholics more likely to support gay rights?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

A new report hailing from Columbia University underscores what many of us already knew: Catholics are more interested in which beer they’ll have tonight rather than which guy in the corner with that umbrella drink is going home to make…

Episcopal Church says yes to gay bishops and gay marriages.

Monday, July 20th, 2009

From the Washington Post via The Black Cardelias:
On the last day of the church’s triennial national convention in Anaheim, Calif., officials stopped short of creating liturgical rites to bless same-sex unions, but approved a compromise measure that allows bishops,…

Gay “kiss-in” in front of Mormon temple draws protests

Monday, July 20th, 2009

 
The strange and twisted story of the Mormon Church and the gay community continues to evolve this week after a mass “kiss-in” held last week outside a Mormon temple in protest of the recent arrest of a gay couple who…

Gay kiss in front of Mormon church irks police.

Monday, July 13th, 2009

 
Steve W. at Care2 posted earlier today alerting us that a gay couple who had a pass on each other cheek, were cited over the weekend and cuffed for the behavior.  Officially, the church says that it was not…

The grand abortion coalition

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

 
Notre Dame became the epicenter of the culture wars over abortion last month inviting President Obama to speak at its commencement ceremony.  In the speech, Obama talked about working together to solve the problem of abortion and making the…

Gay exorcism should be considered child abuse.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Outrage isn’t enough.  This week a video show what appears to be a gay exorcism at a church in Connecticutt showed up online after the Church posted it on their YouTube account.  What’s unbelievable about this story isn’t that it’s…

PBS says “no religious” programming on its network.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

It has been a rule since 1985 but has rarely been enforced at the PBS broadcast network.  There should be no sectarian religious coverage on any of its affiliates.  However, for many years several local affiliates have aired both Catholic…

Religious Handoff: Reverand Cutie embraces accepting Episcopalian Church

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Move over Roman Catholics, your celibacy requirements are resulting in a high profile flip flop this week.  Miami Reverand Alberto Cutie has been a boiling pot item of news for weeks since a tabloid magazine caught him and his now…