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Report: Gay couples similar to straight spouses
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 1:24 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
Same-sex couples who identify as married are similar to straight spouses in terms of age and income, and nearly one-third of them are raising children, according to Census data released Monday that provides a demographic snapshot of gay families in America.
Gay couples as fit to adopt as heterosexuals: study
Seeded on Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:54 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Gay or straight, the sexual orientation of adoptive parents does not have an impact on the emotional development of their children, according to a new study.
Woman Fined for Homophobia in Poland
Seeded on Sat Aug 8, 2009 10:21 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
In a decision gay rights advocates call groundbreaking for Poland, a judge in the northwest of the country fined a woman for using homophobic slurs to describe her gay male neighbor, reports the BBC
The Case for Leaving Iraq — Now
Seeded on Sat Aug 8, 2009 10:15 AM EDT (TIME)
With the level of violence having been tamped down to a degree manageable by Iraqi forces, and with Iraq's sectarian and ethnic political divisions having become an apparently intractable feature of post-Saddam political life that no amount of U.S.
Why Juvenile Detention Makes Teens Worse
Seeded on Sat Aug 8, 2009 10:12 AM EDT (TIME)
Parents have always warned teenagers against falling in with the wrong crowd, those kids they consider bad influences. Now a new study of juvenile detention in Montreal adds to the evidence that Mom and Dad may have a point.
Gallup Poll: Americans Evenly Split on Abortion Between 'Pro-Life' and 'Pro-Choice'
Seeded on Sat Aug 8, 2009 10:04 AM EDT (US News & World Report)
In May, Gallup found that most Americans were identifying as pro-life for the first time since it began asking the question in 1995. The recent dip in pro-life support could be a response to the recent assassination of late-term abortion provider George Tiller
ACLU Questions Removal of Atheists' Bus Ads
Seeded on Fri Aug 7, 2009 10:03 AM EDT (The Des Moines Register)
The removal this week from transit buses of an advertisement promoting a Des Moines atheist group has gotten the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union.
ACLU Asks Florida Court To Protect The Rights Of Pregnant Women
Seeded on Thu Aug 6, 2009 10:05 AM EDT (Foster Folley News)
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Florida today filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the state's decision to force a pregnant woman to remain hospitalized against her will.
Right is Right ... Except for Lefties // How Handedness Shapes Our Judgments
Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 5:12 PM EDT (Newsweek)
Simply put, we associate the side of space where we're clumsier with bad, stupid, dishonest, unhappy and other negative qualities
Temptation Harder to Resist Than You Think, Study Suggests
Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 2:09 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
If you think you're generally good at resisting temptation, you're probably wrong, scientists now say.
Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids
Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 1:51 PM EDT (Live Science)
For people who are looking for ways to reduce their "carbon footprint," here's one radical idea that could have a big long-term impact, some scientists say: Have fewer kids.
Theft of flags from Marine's yard stuns neighbors
Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 9:50 AM EDT (Deseret News)
Sometime between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning, someone cut 14 flags off the poles they were hanging on and took them.
Why We Get Lost in Books
Seeded on Sat Aug 1, 2009 10:50 AM EDT (Live Science)
Part of the reason we get lost in these imaginary worlds might be because our brains effectively simulate the events of the book in the same way they process events in the real world, a new study suggests
President While Black
Seeded on Sat Aug 1, 2009 10:35 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Sometimes I depart from writing fake news when the real news is too ridiculous to top. This is one of those times.
Hawaii Warriors Coach: Don't Tell Anyone I Said "Faggot"
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:49 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Hawaii Warriors football coach Greg McMackin used the word "faggot" three times when discussing rival team Notre Dame at a media preview on Thursday, then turned around and asked the press not to use the word in quoting him because he didn't "want to…have every homosexual ticke …
Wash. gay partnership foes try to shield signers
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:43 AM EDT (The Seattle Times)
State officials won't resist a temporary restraining order that would block public release of petition signatures for a gay-partnership referendum.
Army Sec. Nominee McHugh has Troubling Church-State Record
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:19 AM EDT (Opposing Views)
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to question U.S. Rep. John M. McHugh about his views on religious liberty and the rights of religious minorities.
ACLU Says DHS Gave False Info At Abstinence Summit
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:58 AM EDT (WAPT Ch 16)
The American Civil Liberties Union said it wants the Department of Human Services held accountable for spending taxpayer dollars on an abstinence summit.
Modern Insanity: What Really Makes Us Crazy
Seeded on Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:24 PM EDT (Live Science)
Last month, researchers found that schizophrenics were more likely to have been subjected to influenza in the womb than healthy individuals. Other common experiences can also drive away our wits, long after we are out of diapers.
Atheist group wins battle to put ads on city buses
Seeded on Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:40 AM EDT (Fox 28)
An atheist group can post "You can be good without God" ads on Bloomington city buses.
U.K. Armed Forces Celebrates Diversity With Gay Serviceman in Soldier Magazine
Seeded on Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:16 PM EDT (Telegraph)
Nine years after it lifted its ban on homosexuality, the Armed Forces has celebrated its diversity by putting James Wharton, a gay serviceman, on the front cover of Soldier magazine.
Student cleared after refusing to stand for pledge to flag
Seeded on Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:49 PM EDT (Houma Today LA)
The Lafourche School Board has cleared the disciplinary record of a Thibodaux High student who was punished after he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance earlier this year.
Live Science: Strange! Humans Glow in Visible Light
Seeded on Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:03 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal.
A Hard-Line Sequel to the Case of the Pregnant Nine-Year Old Brazil Child & Catholic Excommunication
Seeded on Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:33 AM EDT (TIME)
In a tucked away "clarification" published on page 7 of a recent edition of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican produced a document that unequivocally confirmed automatic excommunication for anyone involved in an abortion — even in such a situation as dire as the Brazilian case.
Bite Me! Why the Ladies Love Vampires
Seeded on Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:24 AM EDT (Newsweek)
Unless you've been sleeping in a coffin for the last few months—and if you have, lucky you!—you'll know that the hottest genre around is the bloodletter, with vampire-based movies, fan clubs, and, of course, the ever-popular vampire-based paranormal romance literature all com …
Recent Votes
No Gay Rights. No pledge to the flagThere's a 10-year-old lad, a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary, who decided he wasn't going to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school anymore because there was no liberty or justice for all in America, as the pledge's rote recitation asserts.
Do you support the "Don't Ask, Don't Give" boycott of the DNC and the President?
The folks over at America Blog have started a boycott on contributions to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), including Organizing for America (OFA), the community organizing project of the DNC that is the successor organization to the 2008 Presidential campaign’s Obam …
Federal judge nixes SC license tag with cross
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can't issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase "I Believe."
- Conservatives Are Rewriting the Bible to Free It From "Liberal Bias"
Schlafly has a new project: rewriting the Bible to free it from liberal bias. The new translation will be free of "emasculated" and "dumbed-down" language as well as "liberal wordiness." So-called "later-inserted liberal passages" will be deleted entirely.
- How Gay Marriage Lost In Maine
Mainers, and national observers, have woken up this morning asking how the Yes on 1 coalition won this fight.
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American Spirit, I have come across only a few of your posts in the last couple weeks, but I do admire your spirit. And no doubt, on some issue we might disagree, but I do admire your logic. And I do think you might be wasting your energy and time responding to the posts that are made. (And, why indeed are they so concerned about MSNBC articles if they find them ridic? ulous?)
But then I think, no, I'm being reduced to being a naysayer. I think that most of the people who post these comments spend their main time criticizing everything. Would never even think about getting outside to watch a cloud, breathe the air, or help a neighbor. While you are being positive, challenging the old logic.
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