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For those not in the know, ICANN is the organization which decides, among other things, Internet domain handles.  They’re the folks who literally gave us “dot-com”, and more recently “dot-org” and “dot-gov”, to name a few.  And now—as blogged about here—ICANN has approved the use of “.XXX” as a top-level domain.  Yup.  It’s for porn sites. The blogger at the … Read More

As reported here, an enterprising blogger sought to get a bead on what constitutes a “traditional” marriage.  He unearthed a judicial opinion from Kansas from 1886 (and can you get any more “traditional” than Kansas in 1886?), in which the judge wrote: In my opinion, the union between E. C. Walker and Lillian Harman was no marriage, and they deserve … Read More

I don’t know what to say about this.  It boggles the mind. Alysha Cosby, an Alabama high-school student, was banned from participating in her school’s graduation last night because she is pregnant. So she announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway. (I love it!) Cosby, her mother, and her aunt were then escorted out of the room … Read More

Tennessee has a law on its books which makes it legal for a husband to rape his wife.  In other words, Tennessee outlaws rape, but it carves an exception for spousal rape. In an attempt to enter the 21st century, some Tennessee legislators introduced a bill to make spousal rape illegal, just like any other kind of rape. Would you … Read More

Three guys — proud virgins all — who couldn’t get laid on their best day.  Three guys who are socially inept because they were homeschooled and don’t know how to talk to women, even if they got within the vicinity of one.  These are the poster boys for the conservative youth movement on college campuses.  Ezra puts the spotlight on … Read More

Directly below is a post about several on the homo-obsessed Religious Reich who won’t rest until Jesus’ work is done by eradicating and condemning to hell anyone with an alternate lifestyle. You may wonder, as I did, how these homophobes got to be so supposedly knowledgeable about perverted sex.  Meet Neil Horsley, America’s leading anti-abortion webmaster, is the profane voice … Read More

I’m 42, so writing about cheerleaders at my age has kind of an ookey feeling about it.  But the door has been thrown open, as cheerleading as become the ookey topic du jour.  For example, the State of Texas recently tackled that life-or-death problem of cheerleader booty-shaking.  Rest easy, America — Texas is on the case. Call me crazy, but … Read More

It’s nice to see people like Glenn Reynolds,George Will, Christopher Hitchens, Eugene Volokh, and even self-proclaimed “born-again Christians" speak out today and take principled stands against the excesses of social conservatism as thrust upon us by the holier-than-thou religious right.  I like Hitchen’s quote best: The need of the hour is for some senior members of the party of Lincoln … Read More

I am playing a role in a local production of "Footloose", a stage musical based on the 1980’s Kevin Bacon movie in which a teenager tries to "cut loose" with dance fever in an uptight small town—a town which has banned dancing as obscene.  It’s a silly movie, and a silly musical, because no place in America could be that … Read More

I’ll let Josh Marshall tell it: There’s a profoundly disturbing article out tonight from the AP about what appears to be a widespread climate of intolerance and even harassment of non-evangelical Christians at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. ‘Widespread’ is a vague word. And I’m only going on the basis of this one article — and … Read More

From Dobson’s Family Research Council’s webpage here comes this piece of utter stupidity: Chapter 6: Is There a Link between Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse? · A study of 229 convicted child molesters in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that “eighty-six percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.” (emphasis added) (W. D. Erickson, “Behavior Patterns of … Read More